diskpart

Hi, I've just bought a 2 TB WD Blue Solid State Drive for my Acer Windows 10 Pro 64-bit desktop PC. It shows up in disk management but not in windows explorer. Also, when I go to dotprompt/ diskpart/list volume it doesn't show up. All the advice seems to be about getting it to show up in disk...

Hello, I encountered a problem with my computer, where the screen froze and then the system shut down and greeted me with an error code in the Logfile when I turned it back on. The Logfile was (Logfile: F:\ Recovery\ WindowsRE\ Winre.wim\ System32\ Logfiles\ Srt\SrtTrail.txt). I have not tried a...

Hello, I had windows7 in my laptop.I tried to install windows 10 with USB flash drive, When I selected drive to install windows it said windows can't be installed on this drive. Later I have deleted the partition 1 under disk 0,but still didn't give me a solution got the same error. Then I have...

Over the last week or so I have been trying out external USB Blu-ray drives from different manufacturers. After a time they stopped working. None of them worked. Uninstall. Install. Load drivers...nothing. Then I noticed a drive listed under portable devices (device manager) that really didn't...

Hi, everyone. Trying to fix this issue already 2nd day and I realize that I need more help. My windows 7 was installed on Samsung SSD. I recently got Crucial SSD and decided to install Windows 10 as second OS. Before installation I decided to change my Windows 7 disk from MBR to GPT using...

I'm on Windows 10 Home, using USB 3.0 EXT HDD (one Glyph & one Fantom) The Problem: I attempted to clone each drive using Macrium Reflect as I've done many times before to back up information. Something's up because both drives seem to be bricked. At the moment that is. If you look disk.jpg...

In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...

Some idiot tech at msft fudged up my PC over an issue I was having. I couldn't boot to my desktop after that. So I inserted my installation disk to install a fresh new copy. For some reason I got an error saying, "we couldn't create a new partition. Error: 0xe6774cc0." To correct this, I entered...

Hi guys, I need some help. My laptop currently can’t boot any system. I will describe the order of actions which provoked the problem: 1. Win 10 installation 2. Drivers installation with Lenovo support web site 3. It was necessary to completely format the disk (ssd), there was only a USB...

So i am not new to uefi and have created bootable media in the past, so i need to download windows 10 32 bit, and no matter what i use i cannot get it to boot, i am using the tool to download the iso and even tried using it to create the usb, and it fails when making the usb bootable i think...

Hello everyone, I've come across a weird problem that I'd like to share with you: under certain circumstances, Diskpart and some other programs don't report the correct capacity of a hard disk. The disk in question is a new 4 TB, or 3.64 TiB (3726 GiB), Seagate BarraCuda, initalized as a GPT...

Hi, Have an Asus P8Z77-V PRO/THUNDERBOLT. I created another ntfs partition on my ssd C: drive. It is is to install Linux Lubuntu. My idea for a 2nd OS is purely for rescue purposes so i can access internet from lubuntu and try to fix windows or reinstall it without having a dedicated usb with...

Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...

This guide will cover creating a bootable USB drive to be used to install Windows. This will work with Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Plug in your USB drive to be used to create your bootable install disc (make sure it is at least 4GBs to accommodate your Windows install data Open an...

Recently read that newer DiskPart (ie Win 7) will work with Flash Drives (while XP will Not). Am wondering if anyone has been able to run a newer version on XP? If yes, please describe what you did. Thanks Ken

I want to install windows 8.1 on a new SSD, but I want the SSD to MBR instead of GPT. Before installation I changed the disk to MBR using diskpart (through the shift+f10 cmd function) However windows automaticly changes the disk to GPT during installation. How can I install windows 8.1 using MBR?

This all started several months ago. My laptop was stuck in processing updates for hours, even when I had got off work. I turned it off by holding down the power button, the I turned it back on. After booting up, it continued to process updates. I turned off again the same way I did the first...

64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...