disk partitioning

The concept of Reserved Storage in Windows, introduced with Windows 10 version 1903, has quietly become both a blessing and a frustration point for PC users over the past several years. Its goal is simple: carve out a dedicated segment of disk space—typically around 7GB—to ensure Windows updates...

I have a desktop PC with a 1 TB SSD, an Intel i7 processor, and 32 GB of DDR4 memory, running Windows 11 Pro.The hard drive had two partitions, C and D. After successfully reinstalling Windows 11 from a USB drive, the PC worked normally again. However, only one partition, C, was left on the...

Hello I have a question I am looking for a script to create a recovery partition to put in an autounattend file

Drive management on your PC sits at the crossroads of terror and tedium, and somehow, both destinations demand road tolls payable in hair loss and existential woe. Whether you’re merging partitions after a spontaneous “let’s dual-boot Linux” experiment or resurrecting a mysteriously vanished...

Disk partitioning sounds like what you'd do in a classified government operation, but it’s actually a little less hush-hush — it's a cornerstone of digital hygiene for your drives. Whether you’re an average Windows punter looking to squeeze out more space for gaming or a power user setting up a...

After re-installing my OS I noticed that I had lost a massive amount space. It automatically set up a c drive with approximately 100 gigs of space and an additional d drive with only 9 or 10 gigs of space. I looked in the disk management settings console and noticed multiple entries with a disk...

Hi, I am struggling with this installation and looking for help from somebody that already did it. I am using Lenovo ThinkCentre with my TV as primary "Internet" computer. Because I have almoust empty 1 TB Nvme drive I had the idea that I will shrink my boot volume (the only one on disk) and...

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...

I am helping a friend. Right now I am not at his place and have not all information in front of me, sorry for that. At some later time I will continue there, but now I am collecting all help and information I can get. It goes about this: The download of W10 completes, Preparing for Install...

I had to clean install yesterday and rightfully so, i lost all of my date from drive (D). Now, i would like to know how to recover any of this data after formatting? (How do i make my internal HDD become a slave and therefore readable and able to recover data?)

I hope somebody can help...... I want to buy a modest laptop but with Windows 7 Ultimate. (I am a one-man business, keep my business on my laptop and take it away on business every week and want good security: I have read that Bitlocker will give me that.) The problem seems to be that most big...

Link Removed Paragon Software is known to make backup and restore products for home and business users, as well as software designed to partition and alter hard drives. When you buy a copy of Paragon software, you have traditionally always been able to create a recovery disc that uses the WinPE...

This is a 1TB HD with Win 7 pre-installed on a 100GB partition (C:) and a remaining 809GB or 811GB depending on what I use to look at it on a second partition (D:). I would like to partition the remaining 811GB (D:) however I ran into a confusing snag. Even though Windows shows only 2...

[SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...

There is single drive in my laptop i.e. C drive and suppose I shrinked that drive through disk management and made two partaion (C drive and D drive) Now, if i have to format the C drive to install new windows , will the D drive remains or it will also be deleted?

I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...

Here is my case on this particular problem. This is quite long so apologies ahead of time. This computer had windows xp on it for quite some time and I decided it was time to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate. When I did the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to override xp altogether, or create...

I have a brand new hard disk on which I would like to install Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition). Unlike many whose posts I've read I actually want to install the OS to a drive other than C, let's say drive L, and I need some help in order to accomplish this. Up through Windows XP the following...

Im trying to install windows 7 64bit on my 160gb SATA HDD but gets an error saying....WINDOWS IS UNABLE TO INSTALL TO THE SELECTED LOCATION. ERROR: 0X80300024 i can install windows xp just fine. any help will be appreciated,thanx...

Greetings, Yesterday a sudden disk crash got me new 512GB drive and I decided to use the mishap to play with GPT partition tables. In addition to the different Windows versions, I use different flavors of BSD a lot and on my systems I often feel a little bit limited by the number of bootable...