Windows 10: i upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 my all drives were gone except for c drive and it...

i upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 my all drives were gone except for c drive and it became of 900 gb all my data is gone

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Windows 10 upgrade rant..

The free space shouldn't prevent you from upgrading to built 1607. I manually upgraded my own laptop which had only 9gigs free space left on the system drive.

I unzipped the Windows 10 Pro anniversary edition ISO on my D drive, and started the upgrade process from there. At one point the installer complained about not having enough free space on the main drive, i just had to point it to the D drive to proceed to the next step. Now the rollback installation is stored there and doesn't clog up the C drive anymore.

In your case you could insert a large sdcard to act as the required rollback drive, i'm pretty sure it would do the trick.

Oh and by the way, if you want to further compress your System files:

• do a search Command Prompt, right-click it, and select Run as administrator.
• Type COMPACT.EXE /CompactOS:always and hit Enter.

You'll will gain anything from 2 to 4 gigs free space after it's done.

 

Windows 7 Professional keeps dropping the DVD/CD drive

Working with a fresh install (2nd attempt) of Windows 7 Professional on new hardware. The motherboard is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P. Running 4G of RAM and an Intel Q9400 Quad Core CPU. The DVD/CD optical drive is a Pioneer DVR-218L.

Here's the problem - after two fresh installs, Windows 7 drops the DVD/CD drive and I get the following error in Device Manager (The device cannot start {code 10}). After the install, the drive works for a period of time, then stops working and I get the error code.

The driver appears to be a standard Windows driver (CD-ROM driver).

I've tried uninstalling the drive and re-installing it in Device Manager but it does not work - I continue to get the device error.

I've also swapped out the DVD/CD drive to insure it's not a bad unit. Same problem with both drives.

What do you suggest for next steps?? Could it be an issue with the motherboard?? A driver problem?

I visited the Pioneer web site - could not find any help or additional Windows 7 drivers.

What now??

 

Vista/Windows 7 on same drive?

Lol it's not exactly like that. I'm lolling because it really is funny and weird on the computer but you can access any OS any time.

So I made a partition on my C: drive using Vista disk management, and named the partition G:
Installed 7, and it works fine.....

When I'm in Vista, it's normal ie my Vista drive is drive C and my 7 partition is drive G.

When I'm booting using Windows 7, my G drive (the one with 7) appears as drive C.... and my Vista drive which is usually C appears as drive B. *Laugh :laugh:

Other than this letter confusion, everything works fine. *Toast :toast:

Here is VISTA:




And here is WINDOWS 7: