disk issues

So I got the computer I have, a Dell Inspiron 15, and it came with Windows 8. I wasn't a fan, but I kept it anyway. Then suddenly after 3 years of ownership, the thing forcibly updates itself to Windows 10. I downgraded it after trying the new Windows for a few days, even though it did not have...

I'm having weird problems with a small SSD drive, F: (120GB). C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk f: The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Server management shows F: drive as healthy status, yet I was unable to create a text file in that drive in...

Obviously the user can check the consistency of a FULL, whole NTFS hard disk by performing a "chkdsk" command and run in addition one of the well known tools (like MiniTool Partition Wizard) a surface test to check whether all sectors of a hard disk are ok. But what if I don't want to check the...

I have been logging a security audit error since Sep 2015, on my desktop Asus P9X79-E-WS (Xeon E5-1650 v2) running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601). Only recently - one week maybe - I have been experiencing my mouse hesitating and a beep when the mouse stops momentarily...

I have a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7102 Laptop that began operating very peculiar because the Windows 8.1 operating system s-l-o-w-e-d down. Click an Icon to initiate a web browser (or anything else) and go make a pot of coffee while you wait for for the icon to acknowledge you even clicked it...

I have removed all the partitions on my hard drive(which was probably stupid) so that i could start from scratch. The problem i have is that when i try and use the windows 7 installation disk i get a message saying that my hard drive needs a partition. I have a created a ntfs partition with...

Hi Okay so if my heading isn't clear, what my DVD drive is doing is it's managing to read the disk but is really noisy and slow. It sounds like the laser is moving back and forth constantly (as if two or more programs were trying to access different parts of the disk at the same time but it...

I have Windows 7 pro on my desktop PC and I didn't get the message to upgrade to Windows 10. My desktop is running slow and I need to do a fresh install but I don't have the disk . The disk was an upgrade for my system a few years back. I found the location on Microsoft website on how download...

Hello again, No matter which undelete programme I try, not one of them will ever find a deleted file. I copy a file to a directory on C: or D:, delete it and then empty the Recycle Bin. Whatever application I care to use, the file, which is very unlikely to have been overwritten, can not...

so i was installing windows 8 from my bootable usb,but when i was installing, i restarted my pc.. Now it shows "An operating system wasn't found try disconnecting any drivers that don't contain an operating system. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart"...i can still bring up the boot drivers by...

Hi there guys. I have Asus G750js laptop. Today when i started my laptop everything was fine. Then after sometime i restarted my laptop my second HD is not showing anymore take a look When i select MBR error appears The disk is not being displayed in Bios also. Is there any hope to bring...

Using the repair program on the installation disk , the ALL PROGRAMS list on the the Open display was placed on the hard drive in a program Windows.old. Tried to recover with no cuccess. Any ideas?

I have been running my window 7 laptop for a few months with no problems then one day I switched it on and to restore to factory settings , got this message............. The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed To install...

I can only burn about 73-74 minutes to a 80 min.cdr. Anything over that bumps it to cd no.2. Shouldn't I be able to burn up to 80 min. Occasionally I can burn up to 79 min and over, but after the disc finishes burning it won't play and it's listed as an unknown disc

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop, and I had been having trouble with my laptop.When I load up my laptop it stuck at preparing automatic repair, and this is really getting annoying. I was wondering if anyone could help me thanks :) Things I tried: Using window 8 disc to fix, it doesn't work...

My question is I have 3 hard disk and configured with raid 5 if one hard disk fails will data be continue to written on other two hard disk and. will user be able to access or retrieve old data until we put the new hard disk.

Hi All, Bit of help, as I am banging my head here! We've recently had a demand to use BitLocker to encrypt the one and only server we have. This is the file server, the DC, DHCP, DNS etc. Half way through encrypting the OS (Server 2008 R2) C: drive, it threw up an error message: This put...

When I went to start the computer today, it would start but before it could load I got a blue scree, this happened several times, finally I got to the screen that asks if you want to start windows normally, or repair, so I tried to choose repair, but couldn't access it. I put in the disc...

ok so for some reason my computer cant find this game when i try to play it. its Command&Conquer The First Decade. i HAVE played it on the my computer before so its not that it cant run it and when i look for it under the computer folder it shows up so im pretty sure the computer know the disk...