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Hello, I just got done setting up a windows 10 raid setup. Everything is good however I do have a question. What happens if my Main boot drive fails on me and. I put in a new hard drive with the windows on it, How can I recover my raid drives I created while in windows from the old windows...

Apparently, a windows.old folder was created last night at around 11pm (I had no idea). I noticed I have increased HDD activity, and I was wondering why's that. Then windows said my boot disk space is running low, so I went to 'My Computer' and noticed a large chunk of my second HDD space is...

Im trying to create a windows 10 boot drive on a 128gb usb or 1tb external drive. I get to the creating windows media part at 30% and everytime it says not enough space. I have reformated both drives so there is more than enough space. What am i doing wrong?

ok guys i'm a new user and i would like some help with mounting windows 7 to a usb flash drive... i am wiping my laptop and installing windows 7 and would like to use a flash drive to load the os to the laptop... i'm not sure if the usb drive would be called a boot drive... to put it simply, i...

Greetings everyone, I have an ASUS computer with an intel i7 Multicore processor, 16gb ram, and 3 internal drives installed (1 1tb HHD, a 2tb HDD, and a 128gb SSD). I also have 3 external drives available (1tb USB, a 750gb USB, and a 500gb USB). The 500gb USB drive is connected. I am currently...

I got a little curious and took a look at my Windows update history. Seems it tried to upgrade to Win 10 beginning 7/29. It has tried 5 times since with failures each time. Code 80240020. The help section just says to look for it again in available updates. It doesn't come up because it looks...

OK. I just built a new computer last month. Did the usuals. SSD for boot drive. 4TB worth of storage so little more than Win 7 on the boot drive. If the Win 10 upgrade hoses the boot drive it's no big deal to start again. Everything important is already on other drives. Now on to my stupid...

I've got this problem for a week n ow, and I really hate it that i can't boot my computer the normal way. Everything worked great in the beginning, but sometimes when i try to put my computer in sleep mode, it just turns off and never gets on. I have to remove the plug for a minute and plug it...

Hello, I've recently lost my boot drive to faulty wiring. Anyways, I got a new SSD and installed it, and put Windows 8 Pro on it, which I updated to 8.1 Pro. Anyways, the Serial Key for Windows 8.1 Pro that I bought isn't working anymore (presumably since I used it for this computer before my...

Hello I built my own computer and my friend has a spare windows 8 PRO key yet it doesnt really work because I have the windows 8.1 PRO version on my usb boot drive (I am also on a mac at the moment because my charger broke for my pc) so Im wondering anyone know where I could get a BOOTABLE...

I'm building a new rig and planning to install Windows 8.1 on an SSD as the boot drive. I'd like to move over my HDD with Windows 7 boot from my old machine to the new PC to use as a storage drive. Do I have to format the HDD in my old machine first or can I just install it to my new rig as is...

When I power up my machine, after BIOS the computer beeps with the 'no operating system found, press any key to continue.'. I press a key, and the machine boots no problem. This happens even with only the boot drive in the machine.. I've tried it with the drive in several different SATA plugs...

I had Win 7 Pro running on one SSD and something screwed up the registry in a minor way so that a few things didn't work right any more. I added another SSD and installed a second Win 7 Pro copy on it to run the two copies in a dual boot config while I got the second installation up to speed to...

I have an SSD in my computer and have it as the boot drive so that I can boot quickly. However when I went to change the directory location for all my folders (Document, Videos, Music...etc) the Pictures folder was some how changed in the D drive. I can't delete it and it acts as the D drive...

HP tells me I have to buy new win os to make ssd my boot drive. They claim current hdd is keyed to win 8.1 from factory. Something doesn't see right as other are managing to add ssd after the fact and getting the ssd to act as primary drive for booting. Appreciate any help as win 8 as all...

I have two hard drives: a SSD and a mechanical hard drive. I've set the mechanical as the boot drive in BiOS. However after starting the computer, I can't verify in Windows which drive is the boot drive . How can you tell?

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I am dual booting win8 and win7. I actually have win8 installed on its own hard drive and win 7 installed in its own hard drive. The win7 hard drive has been in use for the past 2 years and I have had Win8 running for about a week now. I purchased another hard drive for Win8 and left the old...

Hi, I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...

Performing a clean windows 7 install on a new ssd and want to set the old boot/c drive as inactive so I can use the old hdd for storage. Going to unplug the old hdd to do the install but I want to know how to (unplug the new ssd drive and re-plug in the old hdd drive) set the old hdd boot/c...