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Also i want all OS drives to be converted to GPT. The C drive is annoying NTFS with win 7

Hello friends at Tom's Hardware I am attempting to use Recuva recovery software to a a hard drive that is seen by the BIOS and windows 7. But when I go to manage the computer the drive shows as unallocated disc space. My sad story is I bought a new hard drive, installed Windows 7 on it...

Thank you Terry. My new copy of Win7 will get here by 3/28 will follow this when it gets here Judy

Hello everyone, I have a dilemma. I lost my image discs :( and had to buy a new Win 7 sp1 dvd. I need to dual boot Win7 and Win 10. I need to partition(fine) and need to reinstall Windows 7 fresh but I need to know where to get all updates to install. I have software I NEED to use that won't...

Hello, I've just done a Windows 7 (Ultimate) install on an Acer Aspire 5532 Laptop. The internal wireless adapter is not recognized in Device Manager (No, it does not show up in "Other Devices with the yellow exclamation, it is NOT seen at all. The wired network adapter is recognized and...

Hey there awesome techies!! First, I'm an old standard desktop pc tech. Have built many desktops and love it! However, I've never touched much more than replacing a hard drive or battery on a laptop. Never much messed with the insides, so I have a dummy question. My friend has an Acer...

Sorry for the bump. Here are the further details of what I did to troubleshoot: . This drive works perfectly on my former computer. So, yes, it works very well on my other computer that had Windows XP professional on it. I simply swapped out the PC's from where the original PC was sitting...

Hello, I've searched the forums and have not found that anything addresses my issue. I have a Seagate 2 TB External Hard Drive * THIS LINK For USB Hard Drive*. I built a new computer, with an AsRock Z77, Extreme 6 motherboard. I installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, installed all drivers...

:pfff: I did that. :ange: Plus I came here for advice on how and followed it. No need to be rude

Hello all! Thanks for the wonderful help. I was able to get a dual boot menu. I loaded XP professional without the Win7 drive attached. I then used the EasyBCD 2.0 software and got the dual boot I wanted. Then it worked. I could boot to XP or Win7 So, :) the pc was upon my work table, I...

also, it does say I need to use 3rd party software to accomplish this. I would think there would be a microsoft way of doing this. I've just not used 3rd party software to install windows before. I am cautious in using third party software. I'm old school in that way I guess. Thanks again...

Hawkeye22 I did appreciate your post on that. I have an ASUS M2N32-SLI deluxe board. It has 8 SATA ports. I'm also concerned one of the ports may be bad (SATA1) but I am unsure how to determine that. my original XP drive was plugged into SATA 1 and the Win 7 drive was on SATA 2...