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  1. Windows 8 Conflicting Storage Info

    I've got an Asus T200 with a 32gb eMMC, 64GB sd card and a 500 GB hdd. My problem lies basically with the eMMC storage for which Windows seems to have conflicting data. The storage comes with approx 21GB assigned to drive C and 8GB assigned to a recovery partition. Computer Management and...
  2. 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...
  3. Windows 7 System Protection max usage setting wont save

    When i change the 'max usage' setting in 'System Protection' to 5% from 50% then press 'Apply' and 'OK', and when i come back later i see that it has changed itself back to 50% again. Why wont it save the settings?
  4. Windows 8 Trying to recover windows 8.1 but have 4 recovery partitions

    I bought a Toshiba c55t-a5222 last year. I have only used this laptop five or six times. One day my tablet synced up with my laptop and now the laptop doesn't work properly. I am trying to recover my hard drive but it says it cant find the recovery partition. When I look in Disk Management I...
  5. Windows 8 Question about Disk Management?

    Hi Yesterday I was getting tight on space for my Windows 10 software etc, this is not the drive that Windows 10 is installed on. It's a separate partition on the same drive that Windows 8 is installed on. I decided to shrink my G:\ drive which is the Windows 8 partition, and move the space to...
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    Windows 8 Problems with new Windows 8 Box and Installation

    Good Morning and hello to all, I have recently purchased an Asus with the following specs: Windows 8 x64 build 9200 Asus X102BA 1.0 SER and cHASSIS :DANocx509191425 Boot Mode UEFI with successful Secure Boot Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200) Install Language: English (United Kingdom)...
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    Windows XP Why is Explorer lying about content of System Volume Information on my USB drive?

    I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...
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    Windows 7 Expanding D drive

    Hi all Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I would like to *safely *expand *by magic or something a D drive.. (* obligatiory) I'm using something that is eating space on D, and we've already configured the server that there'a nothing left to give from C. I need to run some processes...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - System Images use up to 30% of Backup Disk?

    I have created and stored a system image using the Windows 7 imaging capability and successfully restored a disk several times. They state that older images will be deleted once you use 30% of the backup disk space. Has anyone seen that 30% figure in practice? I have never seen more than one...
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    Windows 7 Folder options feature fills C drive

    When I turn on the feature, "Always search file names and contents" my C drive completely fills all available disk space after doing a search. What's going on and how do I remedy this?
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    Windows 7 Win 7 HE - Help and Support; View/Help tab; F1 not working. Advice?

    Good day, all I'm new here, and this is my 1st post. What brings me here, is that the Start menu's Help and Support is not functioning. The same can be said, when I attempt to use the toolbar's Help/View Help. The F1 key is useless, as well. I can't figure out what happened to the...
  12. Windows 7 How to Manage Growing Backup Files on D Drive: Can I Delete Them?

    Hello, i have this problem since i bought my laptop, my C disk is ok, but D is full of backup files, which space is growing and now it takes about 140GB. here is some photos with files in that disc. http://i.imgur.com/OYlQ9lP.png http://i.imgur.com/5gVyKBJ.png http://i.imgur.com/ySel6ke.png...
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    Windows 8 C Drive uses most space for windows folder

    Hi to All, Actually my C drive on VMware and we have only one drive for work. C drive size is 80 GB and windows folder using 25 GB of it so could not able to work. Every time for build facing an issue out of memory. Also i increased VM size by using this still faing an issue. set...
  14. Windows 7 no disk space and paging file issue when there is plenty of space

    Our computer has an 80g hard drive with 3 GB installed ram. It is claiming we are out of space and cannot perform any new installations and many other tasks. We deleted our photos and videos, a few less-used programs, ran anti-virus and malware program, used disk cleanup and file directory...
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    Windows 7 C Drive keeps filling up on it's own. Please help.

    So about 4 days ago I noticed that my c drive had lost a few gigs, no big deal, but two days later suddenly my drive was in the red. I'm down to about 33gigs right now and it keeps dropping. I've run scans with Avira, Malwarebytes and Spybot but nothing has helped. Is it a virus or is it just...
  16. Windows 8 Big update problem, black screens, update loop, login issues

    Hi, Yesterday my pc crashed and it had to restart, when it restarted it began doing a update which I have been "later-ing" and it said preparing to configure windows, then configuring windows And it would start at 50% then go and stop at 58%, then say preparing to configure windows! and it...
  17. Windows 8 How to make folder text blue like system folders.

    Hello, and welcome to my first tutorial! Today, I am going to explain how to make folder text blue like "Panther" in your Windows folder. Note that you cannot make folders blue directly from the desktop. Note that this was tested on Windows 8 only. Note that the view type is set to "Details"...
  18. Windows 7 10GB occupied by air :\

    Hello ! I have a really wired problem. If I right-click->properties LocalDiskC it says 48GB used. If I open LocalDiskC and select everything than right-click->properties them I get 38GB size on disk. Can someone please tell me what are the rest 10GB occupied by ? Screenshot: Link Removed...
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    Windows 8 Black Screen After System Restore

    I have a hp envy running Windows 8.1. I recently ran a system restore, and ever since it has run the hp logo, then gone to a black screen and stayed there. Things I've tried: Boot in safe mode: No change. Startup Repair: Said it couldn't fix it, but I can't get to the log file to find out why...
  20. Windows 7 system restore

    went,t to open system restore ,no restore points, when i tried to create one i get this error,not enough space on disk i have it set at 12g.max,will up load pic,also checked out some fixs from forum thanks for any help you can give me on this.