disk management

  1. Z

    Windows 7 Create "System Reserved" partition on second D: drive.

    Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing". Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...
  2. Z

    Windows 7 Trivial question as i'm scared of partitioning D: drive.

    I'm scared of partitioning D: drive to install Linux. My most important files are backed up in the cloud but have loads of stuff i don't want to loose. The process went fine for my C: drive which already had windows 7 in it. Should i expect a similar scenario for my D: drive?
  3. trombo

    Windows 10 Merging volumes to enlarge c: volume

    My Toshiba has had windows 10 replacing win 7 And my C: volume is running out of space ie[39 gb ][only 3gb free] This is how I purchased it I have tried to add space from an f:volume in disk management with no result only 34 gb free space which I can not add to c: My system is left to right...
  4. S

    Windows 10 secondary hard drive

    hey guys just purchased a Acer all in one running Windows 10. it's got a 120gb ssd and 1tb hard drive. now here's the problem I can't see the 1tb in my computer but I can see it in bios and device manager. how do I fix this so I can use the 1tb as storage? Thanks Sent from my SM-G930F...
  5. C

    Install bitlocker before TPM chip?

    Hi, I currently don't have TPM chip on my server, but I'm planing to install it - I can only get v1.2 but it's good I guess. I want to install bitlocker now on my server and only encrypt my external and internal drives, not the system drive due to the lack of TPM as I need to boot it without...
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    Windows 7 Macrium Backups

    I am new to the whole Macrium process but have managed to run the software and now have 4 backups. Knowing how dumb this question is, I am going to ask anyway - I can go ahead and manually delete the first one, correct? No need to keep 4 - 3 should do it. Also, Macrium did an update today. Do I...
  7. Deanna H

    Windows 7 Running out of Space

    I just now noticed it says under Hard Disk OS(C:) 169GB free of 684 GB. I have no clue how much free space I have left, is 168 GB not very much space? Also is there any way to free up. I did delete all my Downloaded videos, I know they were taking alot of space, that is when it said 169GB...
  8. S

    Windows 10 Windows.old folder, weird?

    Apparently, a windows.old folder was created last night at around 11pm (I had no idea). I noticed I have increased HDD activity, and I was wondering why's that. Then windows said my boot disk space is running low, so I went to 'My Computer' and noticed a large chunk of my second HDD space is...
  9. L

    Windows 10 USB with GUID partitions

    Hi, This is my first post hoping to find a solution from some Windows guru. My question affects all versions of Windows, which presumably support GPT partitions. I have a USB stick that I partitioned using GPT scheme. I have about 4 or 5 partitions, one of them is an ESP so that I can boot...
  10. G

    Windows 8.1 CRC error reading volume.

    I am using CreateFile to open a snapshot volume, and ReadFile to read from it. On one system I had an attempt to read 1 mb fail with a CRC error. As I understand it, the drive should be doing its own bad sector mapping, but apparently it's not. I know that NTFS has bad sector handling, does...
  11. News

    How to disable 8.3 file name creation on NTFS partitions

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    Default cluster size for NTFS, FAT, and exFAT

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  13. C

    Windows 10 BSOD When Extending USB Drive Volume: Possible Macrium Reflect Issue?

    Hi, I don't think this is a HW issue, reather a software issue I guess but I still want to ask you guys to make sure. I did connect my USB 3 drive to my laptop, then I did go to Computer Manager -> Disk Managment to first delete a partition and then extend the volume to have all of the disk...
  14. B

    Windows 7 How do I combine 2 partition into 1?

    I installed a 120gb SSD drive into my computer. When I cloned it it made 2 partitions and left some space unallocated. I would like to combine these if possible. f: is the active partition. But the windows system is on c: See the picture of my disk management screen
  15. H

    Windows Vista Shrinking system drive free space in Vista OS, service pack 2

    The free space in my drive keeps shrinking though I haven't installed any new legal software in it. Is this a Vista OS problem, or is this some sort of malware or virus engineered to scrape data fragments off my system drive? What are the fixes for the above two scenarios?
  16. Legna

    Aggravated.. External HDD not detected.

    Hello. So, I have this 2 TB HDD and up until about a week ago Windows 10 stopped detecting it. I connected it to my laptop also running Windows 10 and reformatted it to FAT32. Was that the ring thing to do or should I have formatted it to NTSF? Windows 10 (this computer) still can't detect the...
  17. abrogard

    Windows XP Can I Use Win10 to Partition an XP Sys Disk?

    I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a drive...
  18. blksith0

    Windows 10 Converting secondary partition to main primary one

    This image describes it well My question is, this will probably break something, so what steps should I take to fix things up after I delete and move stuff around like that?
  19. K

    Windows 7 Error code 0x80070057

    Hello there, I have an HP 15-G013CL that I am trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 (64-bit) on. A little background to the cause of the error: I first tried to do a clean install of Windows 7 (32-bit). This led me to an error that I received before Windows even started up. The error said...
  20. L

    Windows 7 Disk Management (diskpart.mmc) Problems

    Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...
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