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  1. slmbr

    What is this warning sign over the drive icon?

  2. IanHHH

    BootManager Messed up

    I have three drives two with win 11 and one with win 10. One of the drives is older and two are newer which were installed after the older drive. I cannot seem to change the bootmanager. Wwwindows was installed on each drive independently but when I put them together the boot manager on drive c...
  3. G

    Program (Lightroom) doesn't recognize hard drive anymore after change of drive letter

    Hi, I recently changed two drive letters and now Lightroom CC (Vers 12.2) doesn't recognize the hard drive's path anymore. Well, I remember there was a warning that some programs might not work anymore after changing the drive letter. As I never had a problem with it in the past, I ignored the...
  4. M

    Windows 10 boot manager not where it should be.

    Hello please help I'm trying to run the mbr2gpt command and conversion so I can enable my secure storage option so I can move to win 11. When looking at the log for why the action failed to validate it tells me that BCD for boot volume cant be opened. Also my boot manager is somehow one disk 1...
  5. thevisi0nary

    Windows 10 Cannot get External Drive to retain same letter permanently (R:)

    I have had this issue for awhile am I cannot find a permanent solution. I have an external drive that I use across computers for samples and I can never get it to stay at the same letter (R:), forcing me to change it in the disk manager each time it happens. It can stay on the drive letter for...
  6. M

    Windows 10 Changing C: drive letter of installed Windows problem

    Hello! I want to change Windows drive letter C:\ to another (in my case W:\). We all know that it is not possible by easy way, but some tutorials I found, but three times installed Windows 10 Pro it failed. Here's what I was following: Start Regedt32.exe as admin Enter...
  7. A

    Windows XP Cannot change drive letter of system reserved partition??

    Hi, I finally got xp installed to my laptop, however, I have run into a problem. The software I want to install is designed to only be installed to the C:\ partition, it will not let me choose another drive to install to and I cannot install to C:\ becauase there is not enough space to install...
  8. B

    Windows 7 Windows not genuine after cloning partioned drive letters incorrect

    After trying to clone my hard drive my new hard drive had a bootmgr missing error, that’s now irrelevant As I have reinstalled windows on that one , I have now tried to reuse my original hard drive And it goes to the login screen I enter my password it say preparing desktop. Screen is all blue...
  9. M

    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...
  10. O

    Windows 10 Help needed with making new system disk on new SSD

    I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...
  11. M

    Windows 10 v.1803 iso Mount Failure

    Dear Gurus: I have a HPElite8300sff with a DVD burner and HPEliteBook840 without a DVD burner. Both are running Windows 10 64bit, v.1803. I was able to install Adobe CS with valid 10- user license, with a good ISO file. Now. I want to install the ISO on a Dell, Windows 10 64bit v.1803...
  12. S

    Windows 10 Phantom F Drive??

    I have a brand new clean install of Windows 10 Pro, I had recently installed Office 2019 from an ISO which was downloaded to the download folder, I installed from it's current location and all went well, activated product etc. Next time I went into "My PC" I saw my C drive (SSD), my D drive...
  13. Neemobeer

    Windows 10 Manually Rebuilding a Windows Boot Partition (MBR)

    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...
  14. J

    Windows 10 Upgrading SSD

    I had a SSD installed in my computer with the OS on it. This SSD became to small so I bought a 500Gb SSD. I made a backup of the SSD with the OS en put that at the new SSD. But now there are two partitions at this SSD, one with same capicity as the old one and an empty one with a different...
  15. E

    Windows 7 Mistake when reinstalling Win 7 - seem to have set 2 drive to System?

    I reinstalled window 7 on a computer that was having issues. I deleted the existing Windows partition/drive and ran the install to that Drive (c). After getting everything reinstalled I was going to image the C Drive. It appears to be linked to another large drive (3tb). That drive didnt show up...
  16. NerferMC

    Windows 8 Media creation tool "The parameter is incorrect"

    Hi! I have another PC that needs reinstall because of bunch of bugs with Windows 10, Now, I need Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit ISO but the media creation tool keep saying "The Parameter is incorrect" I cannot use the USB option on media creation tool because the USB were used by rufus and may not work...
  17. CBM

    Computer Management-Upgraded Internal Secondary Hard Drive

    I have a Dell XPS-17 L702X laptop running Windows 10 Pro x64. I upgraded my 500GB internal secondary drive to a 1TB drive. I did not do a quick format of this new 1TB but rather did the full, longer format. The new, upgraded 1TB secondary drive was made active and assigned the drive letter D...
  18. P

    Windows 10 Macrium reflect free

    I tried to browse an image but after checking the box and getting a drive letter it did nothing like it used to. I have deleted all the XML files so that coud be the cause but it never use to be. Can you help as I cannot contact macrium as I have the free version? So 2 issues, browsing an image...
  19. P

    Windows 10 Windows & webdav protocol.

    Situation: NAS connected to network. NAS is reachable trough intern and extern networks. Firewall has it webdavs ports open (5005 / 5006) Router forwards the ports to the NAS his static IP. HOW can i connect to this network externally WITHOUT the use of third party programs? When i go to...
  20. R

    Windows 10 Confused - Want to set up storage space - All look like 1 drive

    An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...
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