disk formatting

I am trying to transfer about 7GB of data (photos) to an external hdd that holds 400GB. As per some instructions on the web I formatted the drive to NTFS and exFat nevertheless I still can't make this transfer.

I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...

Whats the recommended cluster and sector size for 4TB or 6TB hard disk (formatted with NTFS)? It should be optimized for random access speed. Whats the difference between cluster and sector size at all? And which one has more impact on the random access speed? Toby

Hello everyone, the USB port on my external harddrive broke, so I bought a SATA adapter. Now, when I plug it in, it tells me that I have to format my harddrive in order to use it. I can't do this obviously because all my important data is on there. I tried restarting my computer, using different...

Hello! I made the big mistake (head low) of installing Ubuntu 18.04 on my Surface Pro 4 with a complete disk wipe. I tried to reinstall Windows 10 from a bootable USB but it failed because the disk does not have a NTFS formatted partiton and the formatting option was greyed out. Should I do...

This morning I created a backup boot on a verbatim drive. When it finished it said the following: CopySingleFile failed c:\boot\macrium\\WinREFiles\media\Boot\boot.sdi One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device Should I redo this with the same drive and format before...

going to install windows 10 for the first time once complete, will install office and some other applications. pull down any/all updates as needed at that point I want to make an image of the hard drive I have heard that Windows 10 comes with the ability to do this, store to an external drive...

The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the...

I've been searching through endless threads to find an answer to a bitlocker issue I'm having, and not having any luck. I had backed up my computer a few months ago (system image), and just restored it. I do this every few months. After I reinstall the old image, I do all of my updates, then...

Hello everyone! I've recently run into the following problem: I create system images of my Windows 7 installation on a regular basis. A few days ago, my hard drive failed beyod repair, so I went ahead and bought a new one, assuming that I could then proceed to simply restore the most recent...

Lenovo Y580 with a blu-ray reader/dvd burner. Running Windows 8.1. Read DVD's fine just doesn't want to burn them. I can't add data to a dvd, backup a movie, format a dvd. When trying to format a dvd I get the error, after the drive runs for awhile, "Cannot complete format". Thanks.

I have got a 3TB hard disc which contains a 750 GB GPT partition. It is not my first main hard disk but an external USB hard disk. My first main hard disk based on MBR. With a tool like Easeus Partition Manager I deleted the existing GPT partition on the new external USB hard disk and turned...

Hello, So this is a bit of an interesting situation that is a tad long and I think it is best to start from the beginning. It started when I received this error when running with my Seagate HDD: Link Removed I got a new 1TB WD Black and used Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate on to my new...

Hello friends I just installed 2x4 TB disk from HGST. When I first connected them I only saw 1.6 TB per disk and I had to install a third party driver from HGST first. After driver installation I could see the whole 4 TB per disk. Since I wanted mirrored drives I went on and converted them to...

I got a new Lenovo i5 laptop with W8 preinstalled (no accompanying dvd) I a few days I have been experiencing several problems. 1) I couldn't partition the 1Tgb disk to 150 GB (only OS), using automatic utilities coming with the laptop. All I achieved was to get two partitions of 500...

I'm doing a fresh install on windows 7, instead of a disk it's on a thumb drive I have a 500 GB Partition I want to install windows to I went through setup and formatted the disk when I try to continue with the installation and get this error. "Windows was unable to setup a new system...

I have had a problem with my cd accepting different types of cd's. I purchased some 4x 4.7gb cd-rw disk that I was assured would work on my newer model HP laptop. I had trouble getting a new cd's to format at first, but somehow got one to format and select data. Now my cd works fine with the...

Consider the following scenario. 1. You insert a new DVD-RW disk, or insert a used one and erase the contents on a computer that is running Windows 7. 2. You format the disk to "Live File System". 3. Once the wizard completes, you repeatedly write and... More...

Hi! First I would kindly ask forum admins to transfer my topic to more suitable subfolder, I really don't know here to post my problem. Thanks. Now to the problem. I have Asus N55SF laptop, with Windows 7 SP1 64 bit. Also, I have 2 external hard drives. One with USB 3.0, and one USB 2.0...

Hi.. I've been trying to format a RW cd throught the usual right click format option in my DVD/CD- RW (E): drive but I notice both format options (quick format & create and MS-DOS startup disk)are greyed out _unlike what used to be accessable in my previous WinXP OS. the command dose run for...