disk management

Hi, I have window 7 and right now I having some serious issues with my computer. The main issue is that I cannot see my D: in My Computer. Background: Some hours ago I had three drives C, D, & E. I distrIibuted the space of E: into C & D using a partition software. But now I cann't see the D...

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...

So, when I ordered my computer I saw that I'd have 1TB of storage. I see that the default area where things are installed (C:\) only consists of 149 GB total, while the Data (D:\) drive has a total of 780 GB. I'd like to move some files over there, but I'm not sure what I should do. I would also...

Hi, I'm currently using a Lenovo Y510P laptop, which I bought with an OEM installed, but I've removed it and clean installed Windows 10 with a recovery media I made with Microsoft's tool Anyways.. in the process, I've noticed my laptop has a lot of, probably some unneccesary partitions left by...

I have found with Disk Investigator scores of urls and passwords on my disk that windows7 has somehow put in the clear on my C drive. I have tried using HxD to overwrite the passwords, but windows7 gives me an 'Access denied' message when I try to save the changes. This write is supposedly...

I did a recovery of windows 10 which used space on my D drive from which I created a USB of the pre Nov2015 upgrade. this D drive is full and I wish to recreate a new recovery USB but the D drive is full How do I delete the previous version from the D drive prior to creating a new recovery...

sorry my english is not 100% I have installed win 10 on a separate hard disk as a test , no big problems. I use separate disks for separate OS-systems ,always at the start of an install of a new OS i uncouple the other disks untill the install is complete then i connect the other disk again. Now...

Assume I have a rather new external (Toshiba) 3TB USB harddisk. During the last days I experienced a data loss because one of the data blocks on the hard disk seems to get damaged. I run a surface test with one of these hardidsk management tools like Minitool Partition Wizard. It shows...

Windows 10 created a drive "E" for data, that is completely full, but I have not put anything on it. I am getting warnings that this data drive is out of space. Prior to Windows 10 installation, my 1TB data hard drive was unplugged. That drive was drive "E." When Windows 10 installed, it...

How can I delete a "local disk" on my hard disk drive that I never use or need? I plan on replacing my SATA drive with an SSD and want it a single disk prior to the transfer.

Hey, so recently I wanted to play some older games that did not work on any windows 7+ so I wanted to install windows vista as a multiboot system, now I saw that there was this warning: Warning You must install the older operating system first, and then install the more recent operating...

My friend is getting a second ssd with higher capacity and I'd like to install windows 10 on it (he's on win7) If I recall correctly the install process automatically installs on the same drive and doesn't ask you which drive you want to install on. So is my only option to install win10 on a...

hi,my question is if i really need acronis or something like that to backup image for win10pro or are the tools of windows enough for that? thanks

I have an ASUS B85M-E motherboard installed in my system. I just upgraded from Win 7 Ultimate to WX Pro. I have migrated the OS to my 128gb SSD drive labeled Drive S: How do I make Drive S: the default drive replacing Drive C:? My goal is to have my SSD have only the OS files on board with the...

I just upgraded to Win 10 on my Surface Pro 3. I had two problems one of which has been solved. The one that is solved was that my Samsung SDXC card was not recognized. It didn't appear in Device Manager or in Computer Management > Disk Management. I "fixed" the problem by re-installing Windows...

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Hi I've already added this to as a note in some other posts, but I'm finally doing the reinstall of all my versions of Windows, working my way back up to Windows 10. So far I installed a new SSD to run W10 from, moved the connections around to get it on Disk 0, and got everything to show up in...

My PC showing some wierd error "this folder is empty" for C , D and F drives. My PC ran into this problem when the OS was Windows 8.1 and I recently updated to windows 10 still the issue is haunting . Please help me out , below I have attached screen shots of the issue.

I have 1 hard disk 3TB.... disk0 shows C 1784.55GB and F 263.45GB disk1 shows E 746.39 How can I make F show as different disk? Currently there is nothing on F also this adds up to : 2794.39 not 3 TB should I lose this much?

I successfully upgraded Win 8.1 to Windows 10 via Windows Update. I also created an install DVD using the Media Creation Tool. Sometime soon I would like to do a clean install using this DVD, so I can get rid of a lot of junk on my PC and start out new. I assumed I would just put the DVD in my...