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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...- SteveSkal
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- activation clean install command prompt configuration disk cleanup disk management drive issues drive letter eject drive file system installation iso office 2019 phantom drive storage tech support troubleshooting usb virtual drive windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Copying symlinks to another win10 PC with another drive-letter and folder structure
Hi, I'm using two win10 PCs (a Pro and a Home). I just built some symlinks in different folders to a target folder mp4 files. Now I have some time to copy these symlinks to my Notebook without having to build all of the symlinks again. That means that the target, which is visible on any of the...- delaflota
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- drive letter file access file copy file management folders mklink symlinks target folder windows 10 windows recovery
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- Neemobeer
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- active partition bcdboot bios boot boot manager command prompt diskpart drive letter formatting legacy mbr os installation partition primary partition repair system reserved troubleshooting tutorial usb installation windows
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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How can I control Drive letters assignments
I tried all kinds of formulas to phrase the search in Google but I couldn't get too close... Hence I am here now... Link Removed So I have about a dozen drives in my win 10 system. And sometimes I need to swap them to get clones or images or what not. The problem I have is even when I put...- cemster
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- disk cloning drive configuration drive letter drive management drive order file system letter swapping mapped drives permanent assignment storage issues windows 10 workflow workstation
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 How to Merge SSD Partitions and Expand OS Without Reinstalling Windows
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...- JohnGis
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- 500gb backup data recovery disk management drive letter file system hardware hardware upgrade os migration partition ssd storage system restore troubleshooting upgrade windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- essbase
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- 3tb computer issues configuration disk management drive issues drive letter drive management guidance help imaging installation large drive partition regular partition reinstall storage system drive troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- NerferMC
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- 32-bit 64-bit bugs drive letter error resolution file system installation issues iso media creation tool parameter error reinstall rufus usb issues windows 10 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- CBM
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- acronis active partition backup computer management d drive dell disk disk 0 disk management drive letter formatting hard drive ntfs partition secondary drive storage upgrade volume windows 10 xps
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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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...- Peterr
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- backup disk imaging drive letter free version image viewing macrium reflect recovery tech support user help xml
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- Predjee
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- connection ddns drive letter explorer external access file sharing firewall ip address mapped drives nas network ports router ssl static ip troubleshooting webdav windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Roger Ewing
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- c drive confusion data protection disk management drive configuration drive letter drive pool file system hard drive home setup parity setup raid storage storage pool system drive tech tips user support windows 10 windows boot
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Changed drive letter. Broken programs.
So i changed the drive letter from "E:" to "D:" on my second drive. Obviously some programs broke and when i select "open with", even if i go to location and select it; it doesn't work. Obvious solution is to fix in "Registry" With my previous SSD; "D:" was the default letter. I changed SSD and...- ztplru
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- broken programs drive letter drivve letter
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Move c:\users to d:\users
I found a thread on this subject from sometimes back but there was no good solution so I want to ask this again. I upgraded my computer with a much faster but much smaller SSD drive. There is way to move c:\Users\user_name to another drives but that's not a good way todo because you have to do...- rtan
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- c drive configuration d drive drive letter file management folder redirection multi-user portable users ssd storage tech support upgrade user folder windows 10 windows 11 windows community windows migration
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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?- izzyinstl
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- 3tb data loss disk management disk space drive letter file system hard drive partition storage windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Resolving Issues with Uninitialized Disk Image Backup on Windows 8.1
I have just created an image backup for my windows8.1 computer,but when I try to open the image file I am told the Disk Image is not initialized,contains partitions that are not recognized or contains volumes that have not been assigned drive letters and I should use Disk Management snap-in to...- rik
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- backup disk image disk management drive letter error initialization partition usability volume windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 WIN 7 will not connect to 8.1 in network mapping
I have this problem only with win 8.1 for several years and not with win 7 and XP. When I try to connect win 7 with win 8.1 I always get that there is a so called spelling error in the drive and the computer name. That is ridiculous and a lie.! HOW CAN I SOLVE THAT PROBLEM!! I HATE WIN 8.1. You...- jhmac77
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- compatibility computer name connection drive letter error feedback file sharing long-term mapping network network issues networking solutions security updates spelling error system error troubleshooting update issues windows 7 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- MikeHawthorne
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- disk management disk space drive issues drive letter dynamic disk formatting partition storage windows 10 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 image software:recognizition of partitions
How does an image software like Macrium Reflect recognize the partitions on the destination disk at restore? Is it by drive letter, label,size or location?- Scharminkel
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- disk recovery drive label drive letter imaging software location macrium reflect partition recognition size
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Disk (C:) and (D:) help!
I just installed Windows 8.1 and when I went to look at My Computer (This PC) it says I only have Local Disk (C: ) and DVD RW Drive (E: ). How come I don't have (D: )? And if anyone knows what do I need to do while re-installing my windows to get it?- crysum
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- disk management drive letter dvd drive installation local disk my computer reinstall storage issues troubleshooting windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE -> Cant select "Change drive letter and paths"
I tried to change the drive letter because it wont appear, but it didnt work. I have tried the CMD method with the volumes but the volume did not show up. All I know is that its a G-Technology hard drive. I tried formatting it to NTFS but that wont work. Basically I tried everything and nothing...- Prestigebumps1
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- cmd disk management drive issues drive letter external drive formatting g-technology hard drive ntfs volume management
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support