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    Windows 7 CHKDSK is frustrating

    Whats up guys, since I wasn't able to copy files off of my external drive anymore, I decided to run chkdsk which hopefully will fix the problem. It has been running since 11 hours now and is still at stage 1 and 0 % which is frustrating especially, after a quick calculation, that it will be...
  2. Coop

    External Hard Drive refusing to eject.

    I keep getting this warning. I use a 1TB Seagate external hard drive. It occasionally ejects just fine, but mostly it keeps giving me this warning, even after I've long closed out all other programs. I use a custom built computer with an EVGA GTX 960 graphics card, an Intel Quad-Core i7 CPU...
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    How to Remove Program Ribbons from Photos on PC After Downloading from Drive

    I sent a photo to Drive from my phone to the pc and downloaded it, but when I open it it always has the programs ribbons etc around it. How can I just get a clear photo? I am not having any luck cropping out the ribbons etc.
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    Windows 7 Creating a virtual CD drive

    I have tried to create a virtual CD drive using the Microsoft VCdControlTool. I copied the VCdRom.sys file to System32\drivers as specified, but when I run VCdControlTool, and click on Driver Control, I get the message "Cannot Open SCM:Access is denied. If I run it as Administrator, it shows the...
  5. J

    Windows 10 Need help with drives

    Hi everyone, My PC has two different hard drives inside of it and I have run out of disk space on my 1st one. I was wondering if there was a way that I could combine the two, or if there was a simple way that I could move some of my files over to the other one. Below is a screenshot of the two...
  6. jerichoi224

    Windows 10 How to Combine Partitions and Understand EFI on Lenovo Y510P After Windows 10 Install

    Hi, I'm currently using a Lenovo Y510P laptop, which I bought with an OEM installed, but I've removed it and clean installed Windows 10 with a recovery media I made with Microsoft's tool Anyways.. in the process, I've noticed my laptop has a lot of, probably some unneccesary partitions left by...
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    Windows 7 I need help

    So I erased my whole drive windows and all, by mistake. Now I don't have a windows disk, and I have no idea what to do. Assistance please?
  8. News

    MS15-122 - Important: Security Update for Kerberos to Address Security Feature Bypass...

    Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (November 10, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a security feature bypass in Microsoft Windows. An attacker could bypass Kerberos authentication on a target machine and decrypt drives protected by BitLocker. The...
  9. Clanofwolves

    Windows 7 How can I delete a "local disk"?

    How can I delete a "local disk" on my hard disk drive that I never use or need? I plan on replacing my SATA drive with an SSD and want it a single disk prior to the transfer.
  10. RodBarnes

    General hardware forum

    I would like some input on drive configuration but, of course, these would not generally be Windows-specific questions. Does anyone have a favorite hardware community where I could post such a question as that below? I am looking at disk performance in my current system and trying to determine...
  11. skysimonephoto

    Windows 10 Windows Explorer will not read drives or files, and constantly says "Working on it"

    This is the worst operating system ever and I am so frustrated! I don't want to revert... I just want it to work. Regardless of whether I want to view a file on the c drive, or look at an external drive.. when I try to open File Explorer to view ANYTHING, it just says 'working on it' and looks...
  12. EdAWood

    Windows 10 Changing Default Boot Drive

    I have an ASUS B85M-E motherboard installed in my system. I just upgraded from Win 7 Ultimate to WX Pro. I have migrated the OS to my 128gb SSD drive labeled Drive S: How do I make Drive S: the default drive replacing Drive C:? My goal is to have my SSD have only the OS files on board with the...
  13. prathapsv

    Windows 10 Drives showing this folder is empty error

    My PC showing some wierd error "this folder is empty" for C , D and F drives. My PC ran into this problem when the OS was Windows 8.1 and I recently updated to windows 10 still the issue is haunting . Please help me out , below I have attached screen shots of the issue.
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    Windows 10 How to Remove Duplicate Phone Entry After Windows 10 Update

    Hi, not sure if anyone can help with this here but I have a small issue. I just updated to Windows 10 and everything went great, but there is just one small issue, my phone seems to be duplicated in "Devices and Drives". It's just a minor annoyance really, but I was wondering why it has...
  15. Barna

    Windows 7 How could i relocate system reserved partition from one hdd to another?

    Hello, I'd like to ask for help. I installed windows on my 1TB drive, but it automatically put the system reserved partition on my 320GB drive. Is it possible to relocate that to my 1TB drive, and if so, how complicated would that be, and how would I go about doing that? Thanks in advance, Barna
  16. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Getting ready for the real Windows 10?

    Hi Well one of these days it looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get ready to install the real Windows 10. I don't have any other OS on my system at this time, so as I understand it, I'll have to reinstall Windows 8 from my Windows 8 disk, (I have a real Microsoft windows 8...
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    Windows 8 Unidentifiable Drive/Partition Created by Malware?

    Lately, my computer had been running slower than usual and ads from various websites/companies had been popping up while I was using my browser. I determined this was caused by malware and set to work deleting the files manually (deleting all extra add-ons and temp files, unhiding my files and...
  18. bochane

    Windows 10 restart after boot needed

    When I boot and login, I initially get connected to my home network. But then I see that the network connection is dropped. The only way out is rebooting and then surprisingly every things goes flawlessly, I see my 2 network drives Z: and Y: and I get connected to internet. Does it ring a bell...
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    Windows 7 Unable to see Drives in File Browser.

    Hi all, Something recently messed up on my machine, and I can't see the drive in File browser windows from Windbg. I am seeing this, from application called "Windbg" which is the most common debugger on Windows platform. I can't see drives, I am supposed to see something like this(from...
  20. digitaldavers

    Windows 7 Where's my drives (partition)

    Awhile ago I had a booting issue. Finally got to a point where my PC would boot, but noticed I totally 'lost' 1 of 3 1TB SATA drives I have installed PLUS a partition on my C drive is gone. About 1 week or two ago there were several updates to install. After rebooting my drive and partition...
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