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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...- paulr1
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- boot setup c drive disk management dual boot efi partition storage issues unallocated space windows 10 windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- SavorySilicon
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- aomei bcd bsod clone disk management lazesoft mbr
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Need Help: Hard Drive Requesting Initialization in Disk Management During File Recovery
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 ) .- NettleWarbler
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- data recovery disk management file recovery hard drive initialization storage issues
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- NettleWarbler
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- antivirus avast avira blue screen disk management hard drive installation issues online access restart system repair
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Doubt in partition
Is there any way to partition or split a drive along with selective or specific files/folders?- Numberman
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- disk management drive file system files folders partition selective split storage windows
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- rob444
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- data disk management folders game pass hard drive microsoft store ownership regedit windows apps
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 No HD Boot
I have been trying for several days to get a just-installed W10 22H2 system to act right. The OS will only boot from BIOS "UEFI <disk> windows boot mgr". I have gone through 6 or 7 YT vids on trying to fix one thing or another. So I re-installed 22H2. For some reason, there's no reserved...- batrot
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- 22h2 asrock bios settings boot issues disk management error graphics card hardware installation partition quad core ram system reserved partition troubleshooting uefi windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- robvasi
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- aomei c drive d drive disk management hp omen partition storage upgrade windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- klabacita
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- backup backup issues cloud backup data recovery disk management error external drive hyper-v shadow copy storage system restore virtual machine vms windows server windows server 2012 r2
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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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...- robasd
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- boot drive boot issues clone tool disk management dual boot hard drive migration storage system partition windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Peterr
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- chromebooks compatibility computer basics corruption cross-platform data transfer disk management error handling exfat file system flash drive formatting linux macbook reformat storage tech support usb user guide windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 The SD card does not work in Windows 11.
As I have asked some other people, they have told me that I need to remove its allocation on disk manager and then reLink Removedallocate it for it to work. I have tried moving, copying, pasting, deleting, creating, or doing anything on my MicroSD card. Can anyone help me with this?- abdemiller23
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- allocation data recovery disk management external storage file system microsd sd card storage issues troubleshooting windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- poorvish
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- chkdsk command prompt data transfer disk check disk management diskpart file recovery hard drive hdd issues reboot secondary drive stuck process windows
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- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- Distorted Vision
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- 2019 server boot issues disk management gpt hdd mbr partition reagentc ssd storage system reserved windows server youtube video
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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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...- SEHRUM
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- 32-bit bios boot disk management error file copy files installation iso laptop loop medion recovery reinstall tech support troubleshooting usb windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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 .- NettleWarbler
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- aomei conversion data loss disk management gpt mbr partition assistant software utility windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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..- Peterr
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- backup clean install cloning data recovery disk management drive issues hard drive imaging system restore
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- bochane
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- device manager disk issues disk management external drive storage troubleshooting usb wd drive windows
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 boot manager not where it should be.
Hello please help I'm trying to run the mbr2gpt command and conversion so I can enable my secure storage option so I can move to win 11. When looking at the log for why the action failed to validate it tells me that BCD for boot volume cant be opened. Also my boot manager is somehow one disk 1...- MorganAnarhcy
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- bcd boot manager configuration conversion disk management diy build drive letter error hard drive intel i7 mbr2gpt motherboard novice os upgrade secure storage ssd storage troubleshooting windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 different between restore point and creating restore img
Hi what different between creating restore point and creating system img? I see both go back and bring back files - programs - settings any explain?- Olic11
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- backup data protection disk management file recovery programs recovery restore point settings system image windows
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support