disk management

  1. Windows 10 Uefi multiboot has boot manager on every drive

    I have installed windows 10 on three different drives and windows 11 on one drive. To install windows on each I had to remove the other drives from the PC. However this has created a bootloader on each drive and my system is now totally confused. I select the drive on sata port one as the main...
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    Windows 11 Windows 11 Update fails after Linux install

    Hey everyone. So I was playing around with some linux distros installed on the same disk (I know, I know, not ideal, but I only have on SSD on my laptop) and now Windows update fails, and I think it's because of the changes the linux installations made to the bootloader, since major Windows...
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    How to Zero Out a Disk Using Larger Block Sizes?

    Hello, my goal is to replace all bytes on a disk with 0s with a single pass. I have done this many times, but yesterday, I read that I can do it faster with a larger block size 4096. My understanding is, if I use Diskpart or other terminal program to format the entire disk slowly, it will...
  4. Multiple EFI partitions on c drive

    Hi All Been trying to do a dual boot with windows 11 & 10 on my c drive. It didnt work, windows 10 failing to create a boot setup and i`m left with lots of small 100MB partitions on my c drive. Any idea which i can remove, i`m trying to extend my C to use that unallocated 487gb of space. THanks...
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    Disk Clone results in BSOD

    Disk Clone MBR Disk fails. Ventoy MBR USB > Aomei Partition Assistant Pro 9.15 WinPE ISO Legacy BIOS HP i5 x64 Desktop 2013 Source HDD 500GB 2013 Target SSD 2.5" 1TB Sandisk 2023 USB 2.0 ports Booted Ventoy in Legacy BIOS mode, launched Aomei Partition Assistant WinPE ISO successfully. Confirmed...
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    Initialise Disk

    I'v been trying to recover files from this other hard drive , now when i click on disk management . It is showing as wanting initialising ( its usually not showing at all ) .
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    New Hard - drive

    My New Hard - drive , keeps restarting with a blue screen this computer must restart . At least 4 times i have had trying computer repair , and i still can't get online anymore . I tried to download a free anti - virus i think the make was avast or avira . I tried installing it after a few...
  8. Windows 10 Doubt in partition

    Is there any way to partition or split a drive along with selective or specific files/folders?
  9. Can't get rid of a folder and its data

    As title says. The folder is placed on my secondary hard drive and it comes from an old PC of mine. The problem is that the folder was owned by my other PC's local account. I fixed that by adding myself as owner and I still can't remove the folder. I've even downloaded a regedit file that adds...
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    Windows 11 Expand C:Drive to D:Drive

    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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    windows server backup issues with shadow copy space

    Hello guys. I have a server running windows 2012 R2 backup services. The server has a Hyper-V with 3 VMs on it.(C drive) The E Drive has 2 VM's. I want to do a bare metal backup with a externa HD with 3.7TB size available. My drives size are: C: 1.8TB available 150GB E: 650GB available 270GB...
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    Windows 11 Moving the Boot partition

    I know that as long as the system partition and boot partition are on the same drive, I can use a clone-tool to migrate Windows 11 to another hard drive with simple clicks. As I had some problems with Windows 11 (c-disk), I installed another version of Windows 11 on another drive (d-disk). It...
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    Windows 11 flash drive format

    I do not understand formatting with different operating systems. An example would be using a flash drive in my computer running windows 11 and formatting it at the default which is fat 32. Then I insert in either a Chromebook or a MacBook or Linux each having different operating systems. When my...
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    Check Disk for secondary Drive Stuck at stage 3

    Hey guys, I connected my Old Laptops 500GB HDD to my gaming pc to use it as a secondary drive, I ran the clean all command on the diskpart in cmd and then used disk management to allocate memory for windows and everything went fine, I rebooted my system and the disk check started happening from...
  15. VIDEO How to clone NVMe SSD to new or larger NVMe SSD (Easy Step by Step Tutorial)

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  16. VIDEO Windows 2019 Server: Move System Reserved Partition

    Windows 2019 Server setup keeps creating the System Reserved on one of the 5Tb HDDs instead of the SSD. I tried following this YouTube video but it Windows doesn't boot after I complete command: reagentc /info after 8 mins 57s Is this video applicable to Windows 2019 Server. The issue I...
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    Windows 7 W. XP installation error in the middle - how can I remove W7 from disk on key (USB STICK)

    HI! I tried to install Windows XP 2005 (from an original recovery disc) on an old Laptop (Medion MD 41300, 32 BIT) but it failed due to the fact that it didn't copy a few files (messages while installing). Now I am stuck in between (endless loop). XP tries to boot, but is messaging in between...
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    Windows 10 Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss

    Convert MBR to GPT without Data Loss ,using AOMEI Partition Assistant . Is it that easy ? . Has anyone used AOMEI Partition Assistant , is it instant do you have to restart .
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    Windows 11 images and cloning

    I have been imaging my system to avoid having to install. It comes in handy as long as the drive is healthy. Should I keep a clone also in case of drive failure or is it better to clean install when the drive fails..
  20. External WD 1TB USB Drive not useable

    I used it (not recently), a WD-10EAVS 1TB External, on Windows before, I tested the USB port with different non WD disks, all fine, I tested the disk itself on the same USB port with Seatools for Windows and it passes all and every test, It shows up in Disk Management, status OK, 1 Primary...