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    windows 10 ssd

    hi i bought a computer second hand and wanted to reinstall windows on the ssd but it seems to be locked with trusted installer cannot wipe the drive tried everything i can think of boot in usb disk manager etc etc files just reappear every-time im getting to the point of a heavy hammer
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    Hyper-V Virtual Machine - Boot Errors

    Greetings, I have finally got a VM to boot to a 'SecureRescueCD' in order to repair my Western Digital MyCloud 6TB drive. I have the 6TB plugged into a USB port, and recognized within Disk Manager. As part of the procedure, I have taken the Drive 'Offline' If I boot the VM without the 6TB...
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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...
  4. 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?
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    4Tb Ssd Hdd

    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...
  6. Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager

    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...
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    Windows 10 Boot Manager Not Found after secondary drive replaced

    I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung SSD drive several months ago. I have a second drive in my system which is my data drive. I've had no issues for several months. Yesterday I decided to replace my secondary drive with a bigger drive. When I powered up my computer I get a...
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    Installing extra SSD, help needed

    I am trying to add another SSD to my PC, but it shows up in Disk Manager as 'Unallocated' without a drive letter, and there is no option to initialize the disk available. Instead, Windows gives me the option to convert it to an MBR or a Dynamic disk, and if I chose either it is simply replaced...
  9. Windows 8 Remove windows 10

    Hey guys, I'm gonna explain what got me here first. I installed windows 10 on my machine a while ago on my 500Gb drive. Recently I added a 1Tb drive to my PC and decided to move to windows 8.1 because W10 became too heavy for my system after the 2019 update. I mounted the W8.1 ISO and began the...
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    Windows 10 Cannot boot with 2nd HD plugged in. POST Windows 10 re-install

    Hello, Summary of problem: After re-installing Windows 10 on my SSD, I have to have my 2nd HDD unplugged to get it to boot to windows. As a test step, I did configure the HDD SATA port for hot swap mode. This does allow me to boot the computer with only the SSD plugged in and once it boots, I...
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    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...
  12. Windows 10 How to remove unallocated partition in Windows

    I have a laptop that I installed an ssd(had to swap the hdd and merge the ssd over) however whenever I do a cold boot I have to go into the bios in order to boot. I'm assuming my issue lies with how many partitions I have and their order. I saw that I have an unallocated partition and Cannot...
  13. Windows 10 hdd assigned another letter, pc not working

    Hi. So i connected an old hdd to my pc, which changed my hdd drive letter to E instead of D. I could not open some folders in the old hdd because of permission issues. Then i tried to get admin privileges but it wouldn't let me. It started freezing and turned out as a error when i tried to...
  14. Windows 10 Need help with, Disk Manager?

    Hi I'm trying to get the drive (Disk 1) back to one simple basic disk. It shows as 2 drive D:\s now for some reason, I have no idea why it appears this way. I have eliminated that other partitions that were on the drive but it won't let me format of delete the D:\ partition. How do I get the...
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    Windows 7 cant uncheck 2nd hd in creating system image-- 2nd drive is not a boot drive

    I have 2 hard drives one is my drive C with windows and a 2nd hard drive drive F where I put all my game, steam, origin ect. I was always able to create a system image of drive C and uncheck drive F All of a sudden now when I try to create a system image of drive c I cant uncheck drive F...
  16. Windows 8 Can anyone tell me why my D:\ drives show as 2 drives?

    Hi I'm not really having a problem, but I don't understand why my D:\ drive shows as 2 drives in Disk Manager. I got this way when I tried to move space from what was my Windows 8 C:\ drive to the D:\ partition. If you click Properties you get the same information for either one, which show it...
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    Windows 7 Drive shows up in Computer Management Not My Computer

    I have a Dell Inspirion E1705 laptop. It powers on but nothing on the screen and no keyboard response. Its old so all I want to do is get some files off the drive. Not worried about fixing the laptop. I took the drive out and plugged into my desktop as a second drive. It doesn't show up in...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 backup does not complete

    I have just installed a 250GB ssd for my OS, progs and a relatively small My Documents. I'm storing Pictures and Videos data on a 1TB internal disk and I have redirected My Videos and My Pictures to that drive. I'm backing up to an external 1 TB disk, but backup doesn't complete. Properties...
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    Windows 8 cant fix hard drive (win8 only)

    i put win win8 only because i can only do things on win8 i have desktop with win7 but i cant access it very well/not at all. so i am having problems accessing my toshiba canvio 1tb 3.0 usb drive i have lots of info hopefully someone can help. chkdsk shows an error (696e647863686b2e 1234) with...
  20. Windows 8 Ok, you can make a system image in Windows 8.

    Hi I have our friends computer all set up and ready to go. One of the things that came about during this process is, I learned that you can make a real disk image in Windows 8 without using a third party software program. Something I didn't think was possible, and you don't have to jump...