formatting

  1. omerzr

    Windows 10 Help with formatting

    Hey everyone. I am new to this forum. First, I want to say that I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, so if that's the case, sorry in advance. The story: I have bought a laptop about 4 years ago, and with it, I got Windows 8 installed built-in (With no CD). My laptop is Lenovo Yoga 3...
  2. M

    Formatting harddrive

    Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected
  3. N

    Make 2T external HD show in w.explorer

    Hi, Just bought on line a small 2T external HD & as is not shown I cannot Format it. Tried various programs like eases-us etc hoping they have something to make it show in w.explorer with no success. It specifies formatting in Fat32. My 1T PC HD is in NTFS & so is my other 1T External one...
  4. C

    Windows 10 cannot format external hard drive

    I have new 8tb external hard drive need use data recovery . I used Rufus to install windows to go. Rufus set maximum size to 2tb. now I want to format the drive back to 8tb. When use Windows format, it can get 2tb. how to solve this issue?
  5. P

    One Note, Windows 10, MS office home and student 2019, - OCR

    I cannot seem to be able to use One Note to perform OCR . I tried OCR Free and it is OK but requires a lot of time to edit and format. I watch YouTube videos but each is different and none work for me. Could you please help me with this as I need to scan a document and use OCR with it. I read...
  6. Luqman

    Windows 10 Not formatting d drive while installation turned out to be a mess

    I transfered important data to drive d hoping that I wouldn't have to format the d drive but during the installation, I couldn't download it in the other partion and message appeared "windows cannot be installed to the disk the selected disk is of the gpt partition style". Looked for the...
  7. habeebkambrath

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Invalid Product Key problem

    Windows 7 Invalid Product Key problem after formatting 3,4 times,before working fine ,how to solve?
  8. d3crypt0

    Windows 8 Remove windows 10

    Hey guys, I'm gonna explain what got me here first. I installed windows 10 on my machine a while ago on my 500Gb drive. Recently I added a 1Tb drive to my PC and decided to move to windows 8.1 because W10 became too heavy for my system after the 2019 update. I mounted the W8.1 ISO and began the...
  9. ARNK

    EXT HDD Show "Online" but are "Offline" After Clone (Can't Format)

    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...
  10. C

    Windows 7 'Dirty' SD Card

    Hello, Windows 7 refuses to let me save/delete etc files on my Android tablet's SD card, claiming the file system is 'dirty'. The last time this happened I followed the prompts to correct it and ended up with a bricked SD card which was unuseable/unformatable and had to be discarded...
  11. A

    Windows 10 Add An Option For Closing Window After Formatting!

    I mean I can't be the only one who has faced this issue that the format window does not auto-close after the format is complete. I mean I have ended up formatting a flash drive 3 times in a row because I don't know if I clicked on format or not. (At least add an option for closing the window...
  12. P

    internal drive too external one

    After I assemble an internal drive within the external enclosure with the cables are ready, do I create a simple volume, or just format or do both? I am hoping to salvage my other relatively new HDD into a portable HDD to contain photos etc. I would also like to image to this 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. P

    Windows 10 Autounattend.xml that cleans 3 partitions while leaving the remaining 1 intact.

    I am an amateur with the autounattend.xml. I have been able to successfully follow tutorials and create installs on multiple partition formatted hard drives. So the question, How do I setup the autounattend to clean 3 of the partitions created while leaving one partition intact, i.e. all the...
  15. B

    how can i divide hards in win server 2008?

    i want format my pc and install win server 2008 but the case have 4 hards any hard 300 GB ,so how can i divide them and create drive c and drive d
  16. Bejli

    Windows 10 installing windows 10

    So i got new laptop wich came with a pre installed ubuntu. It had many issues and i wasn't able to fix them with ubuntu's latest update so i decided to stick with windows. It's been a while since i last used a computer to format an os, so i got lost with the steps. What do i need exactly to put...
  17. awskop

    Need Help formatting Linux HDD Using Windows Computer

    I'm hoping someone in this community can help me with a hard drive problem. Recently, I replaced my old laptop (it ran a Linux/Ubuntu OS). Before getting rid of it, I removed the laptop's hard drive with the intent to repurpose it into a portable hard drive. I then encased it within a plug...
  18. mchlmuia

    Windows 10 Help! My Folders are Hidden After a Possible Virus Infection

    Hi everyone, my pc recently got infected with what I think is a virus and all folders in my drives including drive C(windows installed) have been HIDDEN. When I click on any of my drives the folder is empty. The only way I can access my files/folders is keying in the folder directory in the...
  19. R

    Windows 10 Windows Bug on Hard Drive

    Hi my name is Ricardo and I recently bought my computer with w10 and everything but as 1 month ago my pc started to slow down and I researched several possible solutions and I ended up finding out that it could be a windows bug, so far I have not found nothing that would solve it. I try to do...
  20. K

    Windows 10 Pros and cons of Windows updates

    I have adopted a fairly old IT philosophy of 'If its not broken, don't fix it' when it comes to Windows 10. After all, the only 'valuable' stuff on your computer are documents and emails which you spent time on - if these are 'lost' there is a cost to recover this data. So - for the past...
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