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    Windows 10 Re-install windows 10

    I tried to install windows 10 on my hard drive ( i had to wipe everything ) .I used my dvd as normal , i got i could not load on that for one reason or another and left it . this morning i tried a usb to see if it would load , it started to install . The trouble is it has firefox as the option ...
  2. Windows 10 Windows 10 Boot Issue: SSD Shows as Unallocated Space - Possible Causes and Solutions

    Hello everyone, I have a PC with Windows 10, from my sister, that her son somehow messed up, so it cannot boot anymore. It just boots into the BIOS, where I plays around with various options, but with no success. There are 2 HDs inside. A small 128 GB ssd where windows resides And a big 1 TB...
  3. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20197 Bringing Disk Management into Settings We mentioned we had more Settings work on the way, and here’s the next one – as of today’s build you’ll...
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    Windows XP Cannot change drive letter of system reserved partition??

    Hi, I finally got xp installed to my laptop, however, I have run into a problem. The software I want to install is designed to only be installed to the C:\ partition, it will not let me choose another drive to install to and I cannot install to C:\ becauase there is not enough space to install...
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    E Drive Suddenly Dissapeared

    Hi, When I woke up this morning I turned on my computer and it had an error message, unfortunately I didn't look at this error message and continued to start up (computer updated, see attached for list of updates). When I loaded up I noticed many different programs weren't accessible anymore...
  6. Windows 10 Moving windows boot manager to another HDD (MBR Legacy Boot)

    Hi everyone, I have two HDDs one is 640GB & the other is 320GB(Both MBR using Legacy boot). The 640GB HDD has Windows 7(in D)& Windows 10(in C) installed but the boot manager is located in the 320GB HDD. I want to move the boot manager to the 640GB HDD. My Partitions look like this...
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    Windows 10 Can I use a windows file backup to boot Windows again?

    HI, Recently I took the 2.5" SSD off from my Windows notebook, formatted it and installed MACOSX to use it on. a Mac temporarily. Some time later I bought a NVMe M.2 SSD to upgrade the MAC and a M.2 SSD to upgrade the Windows notebook. As the Windows notebook accepts two 2.5" SATA SSDs, I...
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    Windows 7 Windows not genuine after cloning partioned drive letters incorrect

    After trying to clone my hard drive my new hard drive had a bootmgr missing error, that’s now irrelevant As I have reinstalled windows on that one , I have now tried to reuse my original hard drive And it goes to the login screen I enter my password it say preparing desktop. Screen is all blue...
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    Windows 10 Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode options not possible to invoke

    Hi! Few days ago I tried to use Hyper-V instead of VMware and many things I'm learning yet. After first virtual machine start I could see dialog enhanced session mode settings with resolution and others - at that moment I didn't knew that it is important and I checked for use it always. Later...
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    Windows 10 Sandbox startup error

    Hi! This night I tried to start Sandbox and it returned error message: Testovacie prostredie (sandbox) pre Windows = Testing environment (sandbox) for Windows --------------------------- Testovacie prostredie (sandbox) pre Windows sa nepodarilo spustiť. = Testing environment (sandbox) for...
  11. Windows 10 help cant merge c:\ partitions

    trying to move my C:\ drive to a new SSD, tried easeus clone but pc wont boot from ssd after clone, used easybcd 2.3 to fix boot sector on ssd, didnt work, tried bcdboot C:\Windows /s E: in shell/admin said boot files copied, ssd will boot to a recovery screen with error cant load...
  12. Windows 10 make a usb recovery drive

    Tried to make a usb recovery drive and got error 0x80070005ox90018
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    Formatting harddrive

    Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected
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    Windows 10 I have a problem with several partitions on my C: drive

    I had a issues when I was downloading Windows 10 lot core to my raspberry pi 3 B+.I used a software called "Install Windows 10 Lot Core Dashboard" and it took part of my c: drive and made a UDF partition. I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to remove it. But now i am left with my C...
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    Windows 10 Disk Management Icon

    Which file contains the icon for diskmgmt.msc?
  16. Windows 10 Windows 10 keeps installing bootloader on a seperate hard drive! Why?

    Below in my screenshot I have marked the W10 installation, W10 bootloader, and Linux install. For some reason, every time I install W10 it decides to install the bootloader on a seperate drive. When I boot into the linux drive grub shows W10 but I am unable to boot into it. I am able to boot...
  17. Windows 10 Unallocated disk space

    Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...
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    Windows 8 How can I change SSD Disk1 to SSD Disk0

    On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...
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    Windows 7 Why is there stuff inside SysVolInfo folder without previous SRP creation?

    Much to my surprise I found some folders (e.g. D:\System Volume Information\{d8216247-eb56-11e9-87e1-005056c00008}{3809876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-05046e6cc752} ....and 7 more similar folders inside the "System Volume Information" folder on my partition D: This partition does not contain a running...
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    Windows 10 cannot format external hard drive

    I have new 8tb external hard drive need use data recovery . I used Rufus to install windows to go. Rufus set maximum size to 2tb. now I want to format the drive back to 8tb. When use Windows format, it can get 2tb. how to solve this issue?