disk management

  1. J

    Windows 10 Parity vs RAID 5

    I see a RAID 5 option in the disk manager in my Windows 10 pro 64bit os but it's greyed out , but I also see if could do a Parity RAID in storage space which it will allow me to do. So I'm curious why RAID 5 is greyed out and is there an advantage to getting RAID 5 to work vs Parity, which I...
  2. R

    Windows 10 Installing Windows 10 from ISO file on a Ubuntu

    Hey guys, So I have Ubuntu on my PC, I tried it and I don't like it. My PC was originally windows. I downloaded the ISO file, so how can I install it and replace Ubuntu?
  3. C

    Windows 10 I need some help with a hard drive

    I am not sure how you post to do this here but the main hard drive is going bad in my computer that has Windows 10 how do you replace a hard drive and keep Windows 10 on the computer
  4. P

    Windows 7 chkdsk faster on defragmented hard disks?

    If I run chkdsk on a defragmented hard disk partition: Is this faster than on an undefragmented partition? Peter
  5. I

    Windows 10 Boot record messed up.

    This Dell XPS 8700 started out at Windows 8.1. Before I even started using it, I used Paragon's Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 to move the C: partition to an SSD and be able to boot to it. Prior to doing that I shrunk down the original C: to basically match the SSD size and created another data partition...
  6. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Saved by EaseUS TODO backup.

    Hi Today my computer suddenly froze up, I was in the process of deleting some files in file manager, not anything unusual at all. Unfortunately it wouldn't respond to Crtl, Alt, Delete, so after trying everything I could I did a hard shutdown. When it rebooted it said that the boot sector was...
  7. W

    Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager on wrong drive

    Hi all, I have been trying to remove this hard drive as there are no longer any files on it. But it appears that some part of the boot process happens on this drive? Once I remove the drive windows fails to boot up. How do I move the boot manager off the I drive and on to the c drive? Link...
  8. gianniscfa

    Windows 8 How delete a partition?

    Hello, i have windows 8 64bit.. i have 1 partition D 186gb.. my HDD is 500gb.. i want to merge the D partition but i cant, i have try with all programms for partitions but this not fix my problem.. please help me, i dont have space..
  9. abrogard

    Windows 7 How To Uninstall Botched Win7 Install on XP machine?

    I have an old XP machine. An Acer Aspire. I put Win7 Ultimate on it but it hasn't taken. Always gives me an error message and asks for the install disk again - which was a USB stick - but when i provide it nothing changes. So I need to get it off and start again. I have 3 physical disks...
  10. L

    Windows 7 Unknown Partition Question

    It seems that when I got my computer, it had one partition. Then I dug into administrative settings and discovered that I really had four. One was Windows 7 (C:\), which I labeled, one was HP_TOOLS (P:\) and contains a "backup of the bios", one was SYSTEM_ (V:\) which contains a copy of various...
  11. E

    Windows 7 Creating a virtual CD drive

    I have tried to create a virtual CD drive using the Microsoft VCdControlTool. I copied the VCdRom.sys file to System32\drivers as specified, but when I run VCdControlTool, and click on Driver Control, I get the message "Cannot Open SCM:Access is denied. If I run it as Administrator, it shows the...
  12. A

    Windows 8 Operating system not found + Files still there...

    I am using Windows 8.1. After getting stuck on a Windows update screen I turned off the computer via the power button. Long story short, when booting my laptop I get the message 'Operating System Not Found'. However, I bought a USB HDD Enclosure and plugged it into another computer. All my...
  13. A

    Windows 7 Deleting files permanently removes them instead of moving to Recycle Bin

    Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...
  14. holdum333

    Windows 10 Why Should You Create a System Image!

    Hi If you aren't creating back up images of your OS, you should read this that I copied from a web page. I like sharing these things, but I never know where to post them. If this is a appropriate thread and needs to be moved, please do so! This is so important for users to know about! Thank you...
  15. R

    Windows 10 Help expanding the C drive

    Hello, My C drive is almost full, 6 GB left now. I tried using EaseUS application to expand, but no use. I think because I have 2 different Disks. Disk 1 is the C drive which is almost full, and Disk 2 is my D drive, it has 300GB left, I want to take some from D drive to my C drive. Anyone...
  16. G

    Windows 7 "Access is denied" to second HDD

    I have 3 computers on my LAN, C1 C2 and C3. All 3 are on the same work group. I have just added a second HDD to C3. I have formatted this drive as drive “G” and have set it to be shared, with full permissions set. I can access this drive and its folders from C3. I can also access public...
  17. C

    Windows 7 Hard Drive Partition Problems

    I have a seagate 3tb hdd that i got about a year ago and have noticed that i can only use 1.27tb of it. After some investigation i learned about partitions but i can not extend the volume to use the rest, when i try to i get the error:"only the first 2tb are usable on large mbr" can anybody help me?
  18. brkkab

    Windows 10 System Image help needed

    I'm having issue's in Windows 10 Pro x64 making system images. I've got Windows & Programs on a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB ssd. I created a folder in C:\Program Files(x86)\ named Games. I setup Disk Management to use this folder in Windows to store my Games on a Intel 530 Series 480GB ss I have. My...
  19. P

    Windows 7 Check for ONE File (!) if NTFS structure + hard disk sectors ok?

    Obviously the user can check the consistency of a FULL, whole NTFS hard disk by performing a "chkdsk" command and run in addition one of the well known tools (like MiniTool Partition Wizard) a surface test to check whether all sectors of a hard disk are ok. But what if I don't want to check the...
  20. P

    Windows 7 write "chkdsk" output at boot time to logfile on other partition?

    On my 64bit Win 7 system I have two partitions: C: (with the "core" Win7 system) D: (with almost all other stuff) When I start the following command: chkdsk D: /F /V /R /X >C:\chkdskout.log everything works fine. However when I enter the opposite command chkdsk C: /F /V /R /X...
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