Extra factory image on external hard drive

[tuscanva]

Since upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 on HP desktop, I find one of my external drive to be now labled "Factory Image" even though Drive D is also labled "Factory Image". What should I do?:shock: The system is running fine, but I get a message that my Windows bachups "failed'.

 

[mjf]

Can you run disk management and post a screenshot of your OS and external disks.
Use the windows snipping tool and the little paperclip on the seven forums toolbar.

 

[tuscanva]

View attachment screenshot of your OS and external disks.docx

 

[theog]

Both Disk0 & Disk1 have OS's install.
Both from a HP PC.


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

Screenshot tools.
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...ed-method-uploading-posting-screen-shots.html
How to Use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums
Snipping Tool - Windows 7 features - Microsoft Windows
Use Snipping Tool to capture screen shots
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9717-screenshot-paint.html

 

[tuscanva]

this is correct. But why do I have an external drive (disk 1/ drive F) dedicated to "factory image"? Is it necessary or redundant? I do not know how this happened. Does Windows defoult to an additional disk under some circumstances?

 

[tuscanva]

this is correct. But why do I have an external drive (disk 1/ drive F) dedicated to "factory image"? Is it necessary or redundant? I do not know how this happened. Does Windows defoult to an additional disk under some circumstances?

 

[theog]

Your external drive is most likely a self-made, which has not been cleaned of DATA.
Like this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...your-own-external-hard-drive.html#post1177933

To clean you could:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2668-partition-volume-delete.html?ltr=P
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2674-partition-volume-create-new.html?ltr=P

 

[tuscanva]

Please excuse my ignorance, but is the D drive(0 disk) adequate for factory image? Do I need the Factory Image on the F drive as well? If not I would plan to reformat it. My concern is whether or not the Factory Image on the external drive is needed.

 

[theog]

The Factory Image on F: is from the HP/Compaq PC the HD drive was on.

 

[tuscanva]

I'm not sure I understand. The F Drive is an external drive. I have 4 external hard drive. D is a partition on the internal hard drive. Is factory image on F drive necessary?

 

[theog]

Where did you get Disk1 from?

 

[tuscanva]

I purchased it can't remember ffrom who. It is a Samsung HD5011J

 

[theog]

As the DATA is not yours, I would clean the HD drive.

 

[whs]

Did you ever make a Windows7 system image. If yes, it probably picked that drive because it was the most obvious.

Open the drive and see what files are on it. Post them here.

 

[tuscanva]

I cannot open contents of Drive L but I will JPG properties of both Drive L and HP-R which are both on Disk 1. They will eith clipped on this or the next post.

 

[mjf]

Disk 0 has an OS but Disk 1 probably used to have an OS but doesn't any longer.
I'd guess that Disk 1 was an old HP OS disk.
If Disk 1 was purchased new then some operation has been performed on it. Did you do anything to it? eg. attempt a clone?

 

[tuscanva]

I'm not sure. Some time back when I was operating VISTA I recall installing a backup application "BounceBack Ultimate" which did require a dedicated disk. After a couple of disasters, I removed the application and Disk1 may be the remnant. Otherwise, I can only attribute it to my upgrade to Windows 7.

 

[whs]

Whatever is on L, you can probably delete. On R, you seem to have an image. But what about F where you had the problem.

 

[tuscanva]

I'm not sure. What I think happened is this. To identify which of my external drives was disk 1 I temporarily disconnected one of the external drives then reconnected it. Apparently the disk manager reassigned drive letters and What was drive F now is drive R. F drive no longer shows up under "my computer"

 

[whs]

Understand. As I said, delete the "L" stuff. The files on "R" must have come about from imaging. Only you would know when that happened and whether you want to keep it. You can always delete it and create a new image - if that's what you want.

But if you go into imaging, I would highly recommend you use free Macrium or free Paragon in lieu of Win7 imaging. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I