disk management

Greetings, I have a Samsung 4TB SSD Drive. It is shown as 2TB allocated and 2 TB unallocated (free). I want a single drive/partition of 3.9TB. I have looked at disk manager, but cannot see how to add the majority of the "free" partition to the 1.9TB allocated?? I have also viewed diskpart...

I have had this issue for awhile am I cannot find a permanent solution. I have an external drive that I use across computers for samples and I can never get it to stay at the same letter (R:), forcing me to change it in the disk manager each time it happens. It can stay on the drive letter for...

So basically I think I ducked something up with my ssd. I basically dual booted ubuntu for a while and for some reason when I deleted ubuntu It fully deleted. Now I have 2 partitions on my D drive (1 which is windows 1 which was ubuntu) and the ubuntu one sometimes . I need to fully delete...

Hi, I've just bought a 2 TB WD Blue Solid State Drive for my Acer Windows 10 Pro 64-bit desktop PC. It shows up in disk management but not in windows explorer. Also, when I go to dotprompt/ diskpart/list volume it doesn't show up. All the advice seems to be about getting it to show up in disk...

Hello everyone. Hope you are doing ok. I have an Asus Laptop X407UB with 4 Intel® Core™ i3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHz processors, 12 GB RAM and 1 TB of disk storage. Today, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Windows 10, but, since I installed Ubuntu to my computer, my Windows doesn't even...

Goodmorning, I had 3 drives on my pc (1 ssd-m2, 1 hdd, 1ssd) and because i need to switch data from one pc to another i bought a docking station. Right now i put my internal HDD and SSD (2/3) in it and if i tried to boot windows without the docking station on, i receive this error ( Reboot...

I've installed an extra 500GB SSD to my server that will only be used as the disc for a single VM; it won't be utilised for cache, appdata, or anything else. Is it better to set it up as a cache pool device and use it to store only one vdisk file? I'm hoping to receive the greatest possible...

I am running a Dell XPS 8930 with 21H1 version of windows pro, 4mhz processor, 16 gig memory on an ethernet lan. I haven't noticed any problems with the system, but I entered the Settings - System - Storage window yesterday and it said that my C: drive was 1.6 TB. Now, while that sounds good...

Hi, Can anyone explain why do I have several smaller partitions in my computer? I asked computer shop to add a new SSD and install operating system on it. When I came home I noticed there were multiple small partitions that are about 100mb. That Disk(G) that you see on the image is my...

Hello. I have an old hard drive that's not showing up in Win10. I've connected it to my laptop using a SATA to USB adapter, and it shows up in Disk Management, but not in Windows File Explorer. This HD has Windows Vista on it, but I'm just wanting to access the data/files. It was new in 2008...

Hello, I am used to using Gnome Disks for Linux, that allows me to take a partition, and create an image file of that, and later I can Restore the partition image from the file to the same disk, or to a different disk. I have spent 1-2 hours on Windows research, and I cannot find any application...

Hi everyone. I touched on this once before but now have found that several applications can't be opened from the right click menu brought up from the start button. Things like PowerShell, Device Manager and Disk Management. I waited a while because I hoped that an update would fix it, and it...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20279 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build is largely the same as Build 20277, but we wanted to test our ability to quickly follow-up a flight with another flight. Windows Insiders who...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting today, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20257 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Other updates for Insiders Announcing Your Phone multi-apps experience – interact with multiple Android mobile apps at the same time on your Windows 10 PC The...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20251 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Updates for developers The Windows SDK is now flighting continuously with the Dev Channel. Whenever a new OS build is flighted to the Dev Channel, the...

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 ...

I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380 I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB. I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result. I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...

Hi, As I have been getting on well with my installation of Linux Ubtuntu 20.04 on a SSD I installed it to a few months back, I decided to delete the partition I was using it from on a HDD and extend the partition for saved data to utilised the entire HDD. However rather than simply extend the...

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...