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  1. Windows 8 Windows 8 "Storage Space" Adding Hard drives without space problems

    For The Windows 8 "Storage Space" Pools, am I correct that choosing the "Simple/Resiliency" type of Pool will allow me to add more disks in the future when I buy them without any issues. I know that if you choose any of the "parity" types to create the Pool, you run the risk of having problems...
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    Windows 7 chkdsk results

    Hello, I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...
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    Windows 10 Best Upgrade Methods for HP Stream Notebook with Limited Disk Space

    I have a hp stream note book w/ 21.3 gb capacity; i tried to upgrade to 10 (I have 8.1) but I didn't have enough disk space in drive c. What it the best way to upgrade? Portable hard drive, flash drive, or another method? I have 4.35 gb available in c.
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    Windows 8 imaging w8.1

    Hi, The total used is 222GB of 1terrabite HD. If I Image this HD will it go into a 500gb HD?
  5. Windows 7 HD Disk Management

    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?
  6. Windows 10 Delete the Hyper-V VM before Installing Win 10?

    I have been running the preview as a virtual machine on my daily driver (Win 8.1). Should I delete the virtual machine and uninstall Hyper-V Manager before the upgrade? My fear is I will orphan or not be able to find the space allocated to the virtual machine and loose valuable drive space...
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    Windows 7 Windows folder is 40GB

    I was having space problems on my SSD so I checked what is taking up so much space with SpaceMonger and it turns out my Windows folder is 40GB big. How normal is this and how could I get it smaller? I have only had this new SSD with windows for a year. :/
  8. Windows 10 Back to DriverStore again?

    Hi I'm still questioning why the driver store folder is so large. On my computer it's 25 Gigabytes of the total 36.9 Gigabytes of my Windows install. While I still have enough free space, I wonder why some people can have such small Windows installations. Obviously they don't have this folder...
  9. Windows 10 Still fighting the installation size...

    Hi Here's the new version. After doing a clean install my C:\ drive is using 55 Gigabytes of the 100 available. I've eliminated Hiberfil.sys, removed Recovery Image, and moved the Pagefile to another drive. The thing that really puzzles me is how much space it used for System Volume...
  10. Windows 10 Win some Loose some with clean install?

    Hi I've got my computer all up and running again with everything installed and for the most part working. It's running very well, but there is a down side. Cortana has stopped talking again. I can clearly see that she is sending the speech signal to my Sound Blaster Card, but unlike last time...
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    Windows 7 Free Space

    Hello, i've got free space about 150 gb and I want add it to my C: Drive wich is my local disk. How can I do this?
  12. Windows 10 How big are your Windows 10 installations?

    Hi I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do. I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc. I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition. It uses 63 Gb of that. Only 10 of those are...
  13. Fix for Installation Issues Due to Available Disk Space for Windows 10 Build 10041 and 10049

    Some users cannot install most recent Windows 10 Builds due to limited disk space. This fix should clear up most of them. read more Continue reading...
  14. Windows 10 Windows 10 TP 10049 long install?

    Hi I just finished installing 10049 and it took 4.5 hours from the point when it rebooted and started to install. I read that some people were having problems with it taking a while, but most of the information seemed to indicate that it was caused by not having enough free disk space. I made...
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    Windows Vista System Volume Information - Hard drive full of files

    Hey folks. I've tried to find a solution to this problem elsewhere but have still found no satisfactory solution. My C drive is 500 Gb, of which 457 are available to use. The folders I have on the C drive total less than 200 Gb, but the drive shows only 40.4 Gb free. When using Tree Size it...
  16. Windows Vista Hard drive automatically filling up

    on vista, started this morning after restart. I delete some files but within minutes it is back to zero. Cannot even uninstall program when this low. I've defragged and cleaned temp and unnecessary files. Any other suggestions
  17. Windows 10 Unable to Re-install Windows 10

    I originally had Windows 10 installed in Oracle Virtual Box on my Gateway Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium, 4GB RAM, Intel i5 Processor 2.2GHz, 300 GB Hard Drive. I was unable to update one of the recent builds as I was getting an error that I did not have enough disk space. I could not see any...
  18. Windows 7 Microsoft Software recovery site

    Lost your Windows 7 install disk but still have the activation key then Microsoft have launched a website which allows you to download the iso: ref: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-software-recovery-windows-7 Unfortunately the link below still doesn't seem active. Link Removed
  19. Windows 8 Windows folder takes 38GB but all folders inside it take only 19GB (show hidden folders enabled).

    I made my C partition 100GB thinking that i wouldn't need more than that for my windows and users folder, but it turns out that most of the time i am struggling to keep the 10% needed for the windows to function properly. Now while my User folder takes 18GB which is reasonable my Windows folder...
  20. Windows 8 Reallocation of disk space TO the c:drive.

    I wanted to take space from my other volume I recently created volume. HP ENVY 600G memory. Having some serious problems, but this will help of I could get some space moved over.