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Transferring programs from your C drive to your D drive is a critical need for many Windows users, especially as storage requirements continue to rise for applications and data files. This process can significantly optimize storage management and enhance system performance. This article unpacks...
Using Windows 10 on both PC and laptop each with a logical D: drive. I can ping each other as they are both on the same Ethernet connection. I can also see the contents of the PC's D: drive from the laptop. However, I am unable to see the contents of the laptop's D: drive from the PC. I do see...
HP Omen with built-in 500Gb C Drive.
Windows 11
I want to expand the C;Drive to the D Drive
The attached photo is a depiction of the Disk Management.
The other attached photo is the Disk layout from AOMEI.
I purchased the upgrade with the hope that it would allow the partition to the right of...
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video folder and videos inside d drive were not opening because of permissions.
if pc owner did not give control of his pc to anyone, where did permissions on the video folder come from. I used the internet to change permissions for this folder. permissions changed successfully . but opening...
I have a little problem.
If I install windows 10 and not choose to wipe my drive,will it put everything in my D drive in my C drive Windows.old folder?
VMWare Guest running Windows Server 2016 fully patched as of 2019Sept24
Backing up from the cml fails with the msg "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax incorrect."
I have two local drive C and D. I'm trying to backup to Drive D.
Syntax: wbadmin start systemstatebackup...
I transfered important data to drive d hoping that I wouldn't have to format the d drive but during the installation, I couldn't download it in the other partion and message appeared "windows cannot be installed to the disk the selected disk is of the gpt partition style". Looked for the...
When I put a audio CD in D or L external drive I have to bring up the files and click on one of them to get it started before I can it to play. When I put the CD in drive D it Brings up the icon to either Copy or play. I double click on the icon to play it does not do anything. If I click...
Hello so I have a 30gb SSD C drive and a 1tb hard drive as my D drive. I want to install Office on my D drive and I can't start the setup because it keeps trying to install on the C drive. How can I change this? I don't wanna mess up my registry so what can I do?
I don't really want to do this, but it seems my 290x-TriX could really use some DX12 love at this point in it's life cycle.
So, as far as gaming is related: Have you noticed any difference between Windows 7 and 10? Any have any issues with Steam library needing to be re-downloaded? (Steam...
After put bit-locker key gets the Automatic recovery screen.
Even not able to detect C drive D drive from Advance recovery command prompt.
Can someone help here to resolve this issue?
I have a Dell XPS-17 L702X laptop running Windows 10 Pro x64. I upgraded my 500GB internal secondary drive to a 1TB drive. I did not do a quick format of this new 1TB but rather did the full, longer format. The new, upgraded 1TB secondary drive was made active and assigned the drive letter D...
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I want to provide a lot of space for a Linux Mint distribution to run on the windows pc, having first set up a dual boot system. I had a D: drive with 800MB of space not being used. I deleted the D: drive and that space became "Unallocated". Following the instructions, I should be able to click...
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Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing".
Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...
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I'm scared of partitioning D: drive to install Linux.
My most important files are backed up in the cloud but have loads of stuff i don't want to loose.
The process went fine for my C: drive which already had windows 7 in it.
Should i expect a similar scenario for my D: drive?
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I was trying to move my Music, Videos and Pictures folders to the D: drive instead of keeping it on the C: (SSD) drive.
Unfortunately when doing so I created this monstrosity and I can not seem to undo this mess:
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How do I fix said issue to remove those D:/ links and actually move...
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I have a Samsung N110 with a windows 7 starter version, old I know!
I'm trying to download the Bluestacks app player, however when it's installing, it stops, and there's an error message saying it needs at least 2GB of space
This is on the C disk, which currently has 79GB free, I tried...
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Samsung RV 515. Purchased 2011.
OS win 7 home premium 64. sp 1 is on disk.
I reinstalled os 2 weeks ago. I could not before and can not after use system restore or create disk image.
Hopefully I can upload the screenshots.
Also I'm having trouble updating. I downloaded win...
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