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• 2 weeks ago

  Do I need Ad-Aware if I use AVG9?

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• 3 weeks ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

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  Why is my usb backup so slow?

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• 1 week ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

  Thanks, I understand what you’re saying. I upgraded from winxp and did a clean install onto one of my 3 hard drives, not the C: drive. So I left winxp alone on the C: drive and put win7 on I: drive. Now it dual boots to either, but I’ve set win7 up so that it boots directly into 7 by setting it as the default o/s and 0 seconds to choose. I don’t really want to muck around with my win7 partition as it’s all set up with all of my apps. Is there not any way that I can safely remove this boot loader or move the mbr to I: drive?
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• 1 week ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

  I’ve not tried booting from the install disk. I can give that a try but also keep in mind that since I’ve installed win7 there was a boot loader installed so that I can boot to either winxp or win7. I think this is where my problem lies. I want to get rid of the c:winxp partition but the boot loader and/or the mbr won’t let me. If I boot with the win7 installation disk the only thing it will let me do is to install windows 7? no? What I tried and perhaps I was not very clear here, was to boot with the Acronis rescue disk and with disk director deleted the c: partition and re-sized the D: partition. This is where the problem started. After that my system would not boot. I had to reverse the process and re-install the c: partition/winxp system.
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• 1 week ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

  I have tried your suggestions and have removed the C: drive and resized the D: drive only to render my system non-bootable. I had to resize the D: drive and restore the C: drive in order to get it to boot again. There must be something on the C: drive that my system needs in order to boot. I’m not a techie, but maybe it’s the “master boot record”? I do appreciate all of the helpful comments, but at this point if you do not have a technical background and have not performed this procedure before, please refrain from adding your comments. So right now I’m back where I started.
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• 2 weeks ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

  I’ve tried using easeus partition manager but the same thing happens. It will only allow me to resize or copy. All of the other options are once again ‘greyed’ out. This is getting very frustrating.
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• 2 weeks ago

  Do I need a C: drive?

  Thanks very much for your advice. Now that I’m ready to do this, when I go to disk management there doesn’t seem to be an option for format or delete or erase this C: partition. Those are ‘greyed’ out. The only options I have are “open”, “explore’, “change drive letters”, “shrink”, “properties” and “help”. This C: partition is also listed as “system, active, primary partition”. What to do?
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