|
Harking back to a older question about partitions: I have a 20gb primary partition and the rest of my 500gb drive is expanded into a larger data partition. I want to use gparted to decrease my ~400 some odd gb one by about 30gb then transfer that to my 20gb partition. It seems easy enough to shave the smaller one down, but Im warry about how to combine that to my existing 20gb C:/ partition. Since my D: partition has crap on it, im pretty sure it might royally gently caress it up if i take that data from the start point, but Im not sure if its wise to add it from the end of the larger partition. If its a huge issue I could just back up my whole data partition and kill everything, but i'd rather not.
|
#
¿
May 19, 2009 20:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 2, 2024 21:40 |
|
|
So here is where im at:  Click here for the full 1222x766 image. I've got the free space to extend into but the extend option is grayed out? I tried using gparted, but it also won't allow me to expand C: into that unallocated space either. Not really sure what I can do and I need that space. :/ On the plus side I have to say win 7 runs pretty great, aside from random scary moments that result in just seeing a blank black screen with a mouse cursor.
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2009 07:54
|
|
|
fishmech posted:Hiren's Boot CD has a version of PartitionMagic that runs off CD in DOS which the CD will start your computer in: http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd This didn't really work. I booted it up and it threw a slew of device driver errors around, then locked up my keyboard input. Im kinda at my wits end here, nothing I've tried can extend my primary partition into the free space on my extended partition. I even tried moving my page file over to the D: partition as some places have said you can't extend a primary partition if it has a page file on it. Still open to any ideas. 
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2009 20:18
|
|
|
Yeah I use imgburn and its just fine, cdburnerxp didn't see my drive using 64 bit.fishmech posted:Sounds like you burned a corrupted image or the image got corrupted in the burn process. I think its alright it just started doing that when I tried to load partition magic. Anyway I think I found an answer which is you can't extend the primary partition into unallocated space of the extended partition apparently. I guess all I can do is nuke my data partition then unallocate it and extend from there, then remake it.
|
|
#
¿
May 20, 2009 20:41
|
|
|
kapinga posted:Can you shrink the extended partition? I haven't tried, but its worth a shot before you remove your data. Yeah, I have 30gb of 'free space' on my extended and I used gparted to move it left so its sequentially beside my primary, but the options greyed out. gparted couldn't extend it either it sees the primary and extended partitions as two seperate things. edit: and to further answer that I can shrink and extend with the extended partitions free space too, so I guess the only option is to kill it and start over. :/ hobb fucked around with this message at 21:02 on May 20, 2009 |
|
#
¿
May 20, 2009 20:54
|
|
|
Nah that doesn't work. I've tried all 3 vista compatiblity settings to install those drivers for my G11 and it keeps giving the popup about not being compatible with this OS. edit: re: logitech gamepanel install thing..
|
|
#
¿
May 21, 2009 04:44
|
|
|
BaronVanAwesome posted:Compatability mode + run as admin + (make sure you have the right vista drivers, x64 or x86) and it should work. It has for me and a couple others in the thread with the issue That did it, thanks. Arsten posted:If you are trying to extend the primary partition into an extended partition, it will never work. An extended partition is a container for more partitions. Traditionally, you could only have four primary partitions. An extended partition through the partition information to another part of the drive so you could have as many as you desired. You will need to resize the extended partition down so that the free space isn't allocated to the extended partition itself. The problem I guess is everything I've read said you can't do this without totally nuking the extended and starting over. I've puttered around with gparted and can't find anyway to otherwise get the free space unallocated from the extended partition. hobb fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 21, 2009 |
|
#
¿
May 21, 2009 19:07
|
|
|
Before I start piling my stuff back on here, I just want to make sure its okay that my 'extended' partition reformatted as a primary for whatever reason. Click here for the full 1276x788 image. Since nothings actually on there yet it's not a problem to use something else to maybe turn it back into extended. I have no plans to actually seperate that into anymore partitions if thats the only caveat between them.
|
|
#
¿
May 22, 2009 01:02
|
|
|
kri kri posted:Speaking of this, my monitor always resets itself to 59 hertz. How can I fix this so it stays at 60? I wonder if this is just a weird typo. I have a different monitor and nvidia graphics card and it also gets stuck on 59hz.
|
|
#
¿
May 22, 2009 19:19
|
|
|
So I randomly got a weird error tonight. I'm on a site that requires java and it says I don't actually have the java plugin installed.. strange cause I do and it was working fine before. So I try to reinstall it and the installer gives an error 1723: Missing DLL or some poo poo. It gives the same error when I try to uninstall it as well. I have no idea why java would randomly break like this. I haven't actually messed with anything prior to it doing this.  edit: alright I used the windows installer cleanup util to remove java that way, now I get this when i click yes:   edit^2: nm I fixed it, I missed a registry entry, after deleting that it reinstalled alright. hobb fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 23, 2009 |
|
#
¿
May 23, 2009 08:16
|
|
|
Baggins posted:I'm running Avast! without any issues so far. Avira Antivir also seems to be puttering along fine.
|
|
#
¿
May 23, 2009 19:11
|
|
|
Hamelin posted:Well, it wasn't working for anything for me before, not even the java tester on the java website. It does now. I had this problem as well with java not working in firefox. I didn't know about that fix so I just moved over any netscape related plugins from the java /bin/ folder over to firefox/plugins/ and that seemed to have also fixed it.
|
|
#
¿
May 27, 2009 20:27
|
|
|
Does anyone have problems with the flat panel scaling options with a nvidia graphics card? When I try to tic any of the other radio buttons listed, after I hit apply it always reverts back to use my displays built-in scaling. I'm using the 185.85 drivers and a 7950 GX2.
|
|
#
¿
May 28, 2009 01:27
|
|
|
My WD5000AAKS 500GB 16MB cache 7200rpm drive gets a 5.9, So I dunno. I don't really hold any appreciable stock in what 'experience index' really entails anyways.
|
|
#
¿
May 29, 2009 10:19
|
|
|
Anyone know if 7137 fixes the 59hz thing, or the scaling radio button selections not sticking?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 2, 2009 01:20
|
|
|
NIGARS posted:I'm loving Windows 7 so far but hardware support is irritating me. I have two nice sound cards at my disposal, an X-Fi XtremeGamer and a Chaintech AV-710 and both of them are buggy and crashy, halving frame rates in games with their huge CPU usage. I'll give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt with the X-Fi seeing I'm using an nForce4 chipset which is known to have issues with it, but there's no reason for the Chaintech card to not work. Neither the Windows Update drivers or the latest Via Vinyl Vista-64 drivers are much good. I'm going to have to stick a lovely old CMedia card in there next and if that doesn't work I loving give up. I refuse to use motherboard sound. That seems weird. I'm using a X-Fi extremegamer fatal1ty, and it seems fine with I believe the win 7 beta driver from creative. Scared the poo poo out of me to use a beta driver from them, since their fully released stuff could be considered as much, but it seems alright. One thing that did bug me was theres no headphone preset in the windows 7 sound control panel, so I have that set to stereo and set to headphones in the creative audio control panel. However I don't have a nForce board either.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 2, 2009 10:41
|
|
|
The Wonder Weapon posted:Thanks on the audio stuff, about the voip and such. The OP has the general differences, but I don't think ultimate has anything compelling your average user would miss with even home premium. I do think pro would be more worth it though since its apparently the 'lowest' version to support the XP mode virtual machine thing.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2009 03:40
|
|
|
I was on the fence about UAC's usefulness compared to my brash confidence of 'i don't get viruses  ', Then virut raped my XP install like a thai hooker, and I have to say I welcome my new install of win 7's barrage of UAC prompts..
|
|
#
¿
Jun 8, 2009 17:57
|
|
|
I have a question that might have been answered from back when Vista first came out, but since I skipped that and went to win 7 from XP.. I noticed that aero forces vsync to on for the accelerated desktop stuff. This however seems to extend to games played in windowed, even though I have vsync set to 'force off' in the nvidia control panel. The only way Ive found to disable the desktop vsync is to uncheck, 'use desktop composition' but that also disables glass and maybe some other aero peformance enhancements I'm unaware of. My question is can you disable the aero vsync, but keep glass and all the fancy effects? It's not a big deal to uncheck that setting in performance options, but I'd rather have to cut that step out if it can just be disabled another way.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 8, 2009 08:29
|
|
|
I dunno how close to  this is, but is there any point to installng the RTM? I'm assuming the RC keys won't work with it.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 13, 2009 13:32
|
|
|
Ive been wanting to upgrade to a 72xx build myself, but I read that the rc keys aren't compatible with a few of them. If thats not the case I'll actually considering doing it sometime as Ive had some niggling issues with the rc thats not enough to warrant uninstalling it, but they do bug me.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2009 05:51
|
|
|
That was one of my favorite weird nerd sperge things to do with new versions of windows. I kind of liked messing around with the undercarrages of like.. windows 2000 when I first changed over to it from 98. Even 95 - 98 had some extra crap to fiddle with. Win 7 is just surprisingly self automated and theres really not a lot of fluff to tinker with as much as before. However I do like not having to gently caress around with random driver packages after installs, or using hack methods to install simple things like SATA drivers that I had to do on a XP reinstall. I think all of my stuff save for my X-Fi was supported with the out-of-box drivers. I do get a weird black screen with just a cursor on a fresh install with the RC. I don't think the stock microsoft nvidia drivers play nicely with my 7950 GX2, but then again I've had a bunch of weird problems with this card (cards?) in XP too.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 15, 2009 07:45
|
|
|
Meroin posted:I sort of like how Win7 formats explorer windows differently for Music/Pictures/Documents by, for example, listing Artist and Album columns for Music and filesize for Documents. However, I'd be thrilled if I could change the defaults for each archetype because, for music at least, filesize and length are much more important to me than Album and Track Name (I already know those because of the folder I opened and the file name). I think it works that way already. If you hit apply all in a folder full of mp3s it'll apply that style to all folders with mp3's. Maybe. Ive never actually tried it.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 23, 2009 07:59
|
|
|
If your using a 'flexijack' for it, make sure the radio button in the creative control panel is set to mic/line in, is all I can think of right now.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2009 07:52
|
|
|
To those of you running the RTM, does it restore fixed aspect gaming of nvidia cards, that was mysteriously broken again in the RC? It worked fine in Vista, but they backtracked a bit and it stopped working in the RC apparently. I'm just wondering if they got around to fixing it, that might actually get me to install it.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 25, 2009 23:00
|
|
|
redeyes posted:Just load the Vista drivers that worked for you. Should fix the issue. Nah its definitely something with the RC, cause the same exact version that will work in Vista doesn't in 7100. I was mostly just wondering if anyone else noticed this and if it worked normally in the RTM. If not it's not a huge deal I don't do a lot of fullscreen gaming that can't otherwise be cobbled to work widescreen.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 27, 2009 18:15
|
|
|
Does anyone know if 'windows media player network sharing service' is used for anything if I never use windows media player? This service keeps popping up in my list and will randomly shoot my cpu usage up to ~40% usage for a second every few minutes or so. I eventually just set it to disabled because I would stop it and it would just restart itself a few minutes later. It's rather annoying.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 1, 2009 19:37
|
|
|
GreenNight posted:I still like Windows 2000. win2000 was pretty rad I thought, then again I can recall reading an article that said it was suppose to do away with needing to reboot on driver installs, and here I am 10 years later, and I've yet to install anything that hasn't made me reboot. Not that its a huge issue, I just think it was a weird thing to boast about in a review. Back on topic, I hope after I'm done moving house in a week I'll have money to grab this and replace the RC version. Been running the RC since it came out and have had 0 issues with it, so I'd say I'm definitely sold.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 22, 2009 21:05
|
|
|
Zarithas posted:I've got an ATI 4870 and a Sound Blaster X-fi XtremeGamer sound card. I've got 2 questions: I have the xtremegamer fatal1ty and whatever creatives win7 x-fi drivers are have been working just fine since I installed the RC back in june or whenever.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 25, 2009 03:53
|
|
|
Yaos posted:They broke image scaling and the mouse cursor randomly grows in size on some people's computers. I think scaling issues might be purely win 7's fault, since its broken for me on a nvidia card as well. But this same exact driver version in vista allows scaling to work perfectly fine. I never got scaling to work in XP either, so I don't know if they just broke it again in 7 or what.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 25, 2009 23:28
|
|
|
Tivac posted:Yes & it drives me more than a little insane as well. It seems like for a lot of .exe's at least for me, they default to 'open in windows media center' for that dialogue. I'm not sure how it grabs icons but its certainly messed up. I think maybe it can only use icons from programs set in the 'default programs' menu.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 31, 2009 00:37
|
|
|
Grawl posted:In the end I just formatted the complete hard drive, and made that a new partition (300GB for Windows 7, it must be happy). Yeah I had the same exact issue when I was installing 7, and ended up totally reformatting as well. The problem is regardless of what program you use, you can't merge a primary partition and a extended partition. Which is what you had going on there. Annoying as gently caress really.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 13, 2009 16:30
|
|
|
Hung Yuri posted:Is nvidia being stupid lately? My monitor's max refresh at 1920x1200 is 60hz, but I can only set it to 59hz and whenever I try to set it, it resets to 59hz. The 59hz thing and broken scaling has been around since at least the RC as far as I'm aware, and I don't know of anyway to fix it. Someone once mentioned to try different driver versions, but its definitely win 7 doing it, I can have it working fine in vista, and use the same exact driver in 7 and it will be broken. Must be some kind of recessive gene in windows versions, it was broken in XP, worked in vista, now its broken in 7 again, and I doubt they'll ever fix it.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 19, 2009 02:28
|
|
|
I get the black screen o death every fresh install. I just figured it was something to do with my graphics card drivers that come WITH windows being not good. I just fire up safemode, which seems to be fine, and then install downloaded drivers and its all good after that. I think some of the early beta versions of win 7 drivers used to do it too. Nvidia geforce 7950 gx2 is the card. edit: I'm still using the RC, AND I recall reporting this more than once, AND its hilarious that its still in the finished version.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2009 17:45
|
|
|
Horseface posted:I just upgraded to 7, reinstalled my nvidia drivers, blah blah blah...only now when I go into the nvidia control panel the digital vibrance slider is greyed out and untouchable. Without that tweak my system looks like dull petrified poo poo so I'd really like to fix it. Any ideas? Are you using the latest drivers? I have a 7950 gx2 and I could use that slider a driver version back or so, but I noticed its unselectable in the most recent ones. It's just something I've gotten used to really, nvidia seems to break poo poo every other driver release a lot these days.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2009 19:56
|
|
|
Xanin posted:Is there any way to enable autologon? Everything I search for basically tells me to disable the password. I'm positive on my last installation (my hard drive failed so had to install again) I was logging in automatically. Conversely this will also work: http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Tip-Auto-Login-Your-Windows-7-User-Account/
|
|
#
¿
Dec 18, 2009 21:39
|
|
|
EVR custom in MPC-HC actually crashes constantly for me, so I have to use whatever I used to use before which I think is VMR9 renderless. Regular EVR also crashes, but not as much.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 23, 2009 23:56
|
|
|
I'd actually like and use the games explorer if pinning it didn't just pin the app to windows explorers jumplist. Having it be its own icon and having a fully useable jumplist of recently played games, like what steam does now, would let me replace my 'shortcut to a folder of games shortcuts' link on my taskbar that I've been using for the same functionality for the past 9 or 10 years.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 26, 2009 16:42
|
|
|
Zorilla posted:I didn't see this answered in the last page. I think you have to name the image folder.jpg to get Explorer to display the icon with your desired single image inside the folder instead of a heterogeneous set of files. I have no idea if this works consistently two or more folder levels up though. Since I've been having similar issues with the libraries music folders' album views, I'm wondering if there's any specific requirements for folder.jpg files. I have a 'folder.jpg' in everyone of my album folders, but their all obviously random file sizes, some big, some small, yet only a handful of my albums art is displayed in the libraries views. No real idea whats up I've tried re-adding the music folders and refreshing and nothing seems to make them show up.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 16, 2010 21:42
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 2, 2024 21:40 |
|
|
raezr posted:So you're making folder.jpgs yourself? This can possibly be a bad idea since Windows considers it to be a system file and will overwrite them if it feels like it. I keep my album art embedded (mainly so it displays on my iPod) and if I just open Media Player then it generates the folder.jpgs and thumbnail automatically, which works most of the time (except for a couple of times like the example I posted about earlier). If you want to make them yourself I think Windows' automatically generated ones are 200x200 jpegs, so I guess that's the "standard." Must be something in the way windows 7 renders/uses the folder.jpg's then, since I've been doing this since windows XP and only when using the librarys views is when I've noticed this problem. As far as I can tell they render fine with just large folder icons in the base music folder if I browse to it.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 17, 2010 00:42
|
|