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Change Drive Letters – Assign a New Drive Letter

March 8, 2011

In Windows you can change drive letters on a drive, a partition, or a volume, as long as it is not holding your system boot files. In this tutorial I will show you how to change drive letters on a hard drive by accessing Disk management. For example you might have two hard drives installed [...]

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Format Windows – How to delete a partition on a hard drive

June 2, 2010

When you format a computer it is always best to start fresh. If it is a new computer then you will have to create a partition, however if it already has windows on the hard drive, you will have to delete it. To delete the previous copy of windows you will need to delete the [...]

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Delete, Merge, Create, and Rename a Hard Drive Partition Without Formatting Windows

June 1, 2010

When you format your computer you are asked if you want to create partitions on your hard drive. I definitely recommend having your hard drive at least halved and made into two partitions for starters. This is not unreasonable as most hard drives in computers now days are getting rather large. Therefore you can afford [...]

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Change a partition or hard drive letter in Windows XP

June 1, 2010

Although the drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, every other letter in the alphabet is available to be assigned to the hard drives or partitions in a computer. The main hard drive, by default, is always C drive. When you add more hard drives, partitions, or cd drives, Windows Xp [...]

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What is the difference between a partition and a hard drive?

May 28, 2010

People often get confused when it comes to distinguishing between a partition and a hard drive because on the actual computer, viewing them through the Windows Operating system, they look exactly the same. You might have one hard drive that is partitioned into four sections, however in my computer it will appear as four hard [...]

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How to Shrink a Partition on Your Hard Drive

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If you have your hard drive partitioned and want to change the size of the partitions or the amount of partitions you have on your computer, you can. It is still going to wipe your data but if you backup your files to the main partition just while you are shrinking the other partition then [...]

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How to label a new hard drive or partition and assign a drive letter?

May 28, 2010

When you have installed a new hard drive, in order for your computer to recognize it you may need to label the drive by assigning a drive letter to it. So for example if you have installed a second hard drive into your computer, it may need to be labeled so it can be used [...]

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How to Format a Computer With Windows

May 28, 2010

You can save yourself a huge amount of money if you learn how to format a computer yourself and it isn’t that hard, it just has to be done right. About 25 years ago I had just bought a new computer and within one month I had called the computer technician to fix my computer. [...]

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NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM Not Found or Missing Error Message

May 26, 2010

If you get an error message that says the NTLDR is missing during boot up there can be a number of causes. People automatically think this is a terrible error that cannot be fixed. Sometimes this is true, however most times it can be solved. If you are not good at technical stuff you can [...]

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