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Assume I have an external hard disk with one (backup) partition which is currently mounted as drive Q:\ Now I right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on my desktop, then select Properties--->Drive Q: and enable "Don't move files to the recycleBin. Remoive files immediately when deleted" Much to...

I am trying to shut down my old computer and transfer the files to my new computer. I have tried to use a USB transfer cable and also a flash drive to move the files. Anything inserted into any USB port does not show up in Windows Explorer, but if I go into an application such as Word or excel...

Is your Windows10 not working well? Is it suddenly all buggy? There might be a time where your mail app won't open because of bugs. Maybe your WindowsStore app won't open because of bugs. Maybe your WindowsOS is corrupted to the point that it's broken some of the programs you're using. Maybe you...

Hi, Windows is having trouble finding the image on my Western Digital My Passport Ultra external hard drive. It asks me to install a driver for it. Should the driver already be on my computer, or do I need to download one from WD web site to get this to work? I can see the external drive in...

Folks, My plan is to back up and store my entire system to an external hard drive. First problem,Windows 10 can't format drive. If i get t it to format,will it be an exact copy from my Drive C? Thanks

Hi I purchased 2 all in one msi pcs from big w late 2014. My sons was used straight away in box no issues. My daughter was too young at the time and I stored at risk of not testing. It was the display. Since setting up had no power cord, company said too bad. I brought one. However it has a...

How do I open/upload a MIG file from an external-drive with Microsoft 10?

I got a 5tb drive, and since I wanted it to be one large partition I used gpt. Windows recognized the disk, formatted it, and let me copy files. But when I restarted windows it froze on the "starting windows" screen. I figured out after some messing around that unplugging the drive lets windows...

Hi, I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I have used Windows Backup to back up my files to an external hard drive and create a system image. When I click on the backup folder on the external drive and then dig down to a particular file which I try to open, I get a message to say I have been...

I have a 9year old acer aspire 5515 that I would like to install a new hard drive in. My idea was to clone the current hard drive and install the clone to the new hard drive with either a CD rom or external drive I've never done this before and had a question. Could I save the cloned drive...

I am trying to make a backup to an external hard drive, but I get the following error when I try to select the hard drive, or any drive for that matter; "Backing up to this type of device is disabled by your system administrator" Is there a place I can change this setting?

I purchased that PNY Turbo 128GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive - P-FD128TBOP-GE from Staples for only $20. I then found out that a lot of people are having tons of issues but others report nothing, but it seems like this model is getting some bad press. To my issue: I plugged the FD into my customer...

I had some problems from one of my programs and decided to reload the image I had saved two weeks ago. When I tried to load the image (I have windows 10) I was told that the image was stored in bios (I assume legacy) and my computer is UEIF bios and it will not load the image. What am I suppose...

Hi guys, I have a friends vista pc that i suspect the hard drive has semi caped out on him, I can view it as an external on my mac, But when i go to create a disk image it takes 5 weeks, When i boot it up ''I've tried it in three different pc's'' It comes up with ''diskette 0 failed continue...

My Thinkpad crashed and luckily I had backed up 2 days before using Rescue and Recovery. All my files have been retrieved including the Lotus Notes archives etc....except for my contacts (address book) which are a file called names.nsf. I can go into R&R and when I retrieve an individual file, I...

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...

I had a catastrophic failure, just created a new Windows 7 Ultimate system with very little installed. I attached a disk drive from the previous system that has data on it (it wasn't damaged). All files are accessible but I CANNOT CHANGE THE ICONS ON ANY OF THE FOLDERS. I've done all of the...

I have a hp stream note book w/ 21.3 gb capacity; i tried to upgrade to 10 (I have 8.1) but I didn't have enough disk space in drive c. What it the best way to upgrade? Portable hard drive, flash drive, or another method? I have 4.35 gb available in c.

Hi. I have a Beelink Pocket P1 SoC (system on chip). I have upgraded from 8.1 to 10 without too much trouble, but as the sytem has very limited space on C: (32GB to start, after programs and files I'm left with less than 5GB), I wish to know if I can purchase an external drive, somehow copy...

I am installing Windows 7 Home Premium on a 1 TB hard drive. It currently has Windows 7 Ultimate, but apparently it's not genuine so I have to do a new installation. My question is how do I move my music library (Windows Media Player and iTunes) and virtual-box to my external? I apologize if...