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Since I started using Windows (about 14 years ago), I've always encountered numerous problems that prevented my computer from booting. I believe you may have experienced these issues too. To address this, many developers have created modified bootable Windows systems that allow users to recover...

Hello, after adding disks to a clustered ThinkAgile node, we have the disks in a "lost communication" state. We tried several solutions without success below are the steps we tried First, create an array of the disks that are failing or failed. $disk = get-physicaldisk | where-object...

In Linux GParted, I may remove or add partition flags on GPT disk. How do I manage all of the same flags in Windows? Low hanging fruit, I already have several softwares can change partition type ID, I am not asking about that. Please only reply if you have personally done it. Thanks.

I would like to install on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024. BIOS boot order has Disk 1 on top. I have rebuilt the partition table of both disks. If I have disk 0 be empty, the it...

i purchased a pc from pc wo—d, they gave me a setup usb. I set it up, but continued to use my old pc.when I tried the new dell today, I have forgotten the password. I hit the reset button and it says I need a password reset disk. I am now completely stuck. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having an HP-laptop for a couple of years now, containing an m.2 (OS) and a separate SSD HDD. The m.2 is ofcourse containing the C: drive, it should be the first drive and therefore always was "Disk0". The HDD always was "Disk1". But I've cleaned up everything this week, by reverting back...

Hello all, I would like to seamlessly make use of a new disk (Disk 1) such that my `C` volume can make use of both Disk 0 and Disk 1. Disk 0 is faster than Disk 1. So, I assume I would still like to only boot off of that. How can I do this? - Do I want to convert Disk 0 into a Dynamic Disk...

Hi there! Basically I was searching for certain file and by typing the filename I notice some deleted files appearing in the indexed search results, I open the file location and it's F:\$RECYCLE.BIN, to my surprise several folders and files that I've deleted from the desktop Recycle Bin some...

I was hoping to solve this problem by myself, but I seem to have hit a dead end. I need to partition the disk to install a Linux Distro on it. Obviously, this is not the first time that I do this, but the problem I'm experiencing today is the first time that happened to me. Basically, I can't...

Hi, Just wondering what steps we could do to replace a failing hard drive in a HCI node. Can anybody help me with some instructions or point to somewhere i could find the answer ? HCI is made of three HPE DL380 servers and using Hyper V. The nodes dont have any tools installed to exactly find...

I cannot open a handle to any of my storage devices. HANDLE h = CreateFile(L"\\\\.\\PhysicalDisk0", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_READ_ACCESS | FILE_WRITE_ACCESS, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0); I also tried copying the full path from WinObj: \GLOBAL??\PhysicalDrive0 and...

Hello everyone. Hope you are doing ok. I have an Asus Laptop X407UB with 4 Intel® Core™ i3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHz processors, 12 GB RAM and 1 TB of disk storage. Today, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Windows 10, but, since I installed Ubuntu to my computer, my Windows doesn't even...

Hello! I just wander id there is some software to find corrupted files existing in a disk (any disk-not system)- I want to get rid of them. Searching one by one is a pain :( Thank you

I keep getting Disk Busy error from my Link Removed Can anyone shed any light on this? Thank you in advance.

I have a laptop which has windows 10 home on it. I have a windows 7 ultimate disk which when installed on a PC gave me Windows 10 Pro. I'm wondering if it's possible to upgrade my laptop to Windows 10 Pro from my windows 7 ultimate disk without a complete new install?

Hello. Why do the same disks appear in the Windows Explorer twice and how do I fix this? See the picture. Fjelljegeren

Hi, A couple weeks ago my storagespace array began dropping offline intermittently. It seems to happen during file transfers, but I haven't been able to pin it down. The disk comes back online without any problems when I bring it up. I'm not really sure where to start troubleshooting this.

I was trying to fix a disk issue on my computer by limiting how much disk it could use, which led it just not really work properly so I restarted my computer... Now my computer can’t login to my account, it says “the user profile service service failed the sign-in” and I gave up and just wanted...

Hi! I and my friend, my father have the same problem. We have high average response time on the disks, but just the updated windows 10 is the same in our pcs. So yeah, same problem on my intel laptop, on my intel main pc and on my old amd pc too. In my main pc and laptop i have ssd. The ssds...

Is there a way to search for files by their size on disk? EG - on OneDrive files can be 'Available Online only', 'Available' or 'Always Available' If they are 'Online Only' you can see the file, but it is not physically on the local disk. When you look at file properties, it shows the files...