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Apologies if I am duplicating an issue here. Just recently I bought a new copy of Windows 10 64 bit and a Toshiba Q300 480g SSD. I removed the old HDD (which was still running XP), connected the SSD and tried to install Windows 10. No luck at all - it did not identify the SSD drive and...

Hi, I have an SSD which currently has Linux installed on it, and is, I believe, formatted to ext4. I'd like to use this SSD in another computer and clone Windows 7 to it. Do I need to wipe and reformat the SSD, or can I just use it as it is? Thanks.

Hi guys , I am trying to convert the Freespace and Size to GB format using the script command : WMIC LOGICALDISK GET Name,Size,Freespace /format:value FreeSpace=61612036096 Name=C: Size=87780155392 The result I desire is something like : FreeSpace=61GB Name=C: Size=87GB Can anyone help...

For the past couple of weeks I have been having problems with my laptop, which I initially thought was a virus, and after reinstalling Windows 7 on many, many occasions, it just will not update. I have read, and tried many of the suggested solutions from many various websites, but it just won't...

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...

If a person with a OEM computer uses the system recovery partition to restore their operating system is a Windows.old file generated? As I understand this, using the recovery partition formats the partition. So I'm guessing that a Window.old file would not be created?

cannot find dvd/cd formatting in windows 10 does it do it

I'm having weird problems with a small SSD drive, F: (120GB). C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk f: The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Server management shows F: drive as healthy status, yet I was unable to create a text file in that drive in...

This Video about how to create a new partition in Windows 7 without formatting hard disk. In Windows 7, Create A Partition Using shrink volume. With this Feature you can separate new partition without formatting your hard disk. For More Details: Daily Blog

I use Frontpage 2003. REcently it decided to start adding format symbols to my design page. How do I get red of them?

i get as far as the windows splash screen and then the screen goes blank and just says "vga no signal". It boots up fine in safe mode. So far I have unplugged all usb devices from pc and formatted hard drive. When i formatted it booted up fine the first time. I updated windows then rebooted...

Hi everyone, I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10 from Windows 7 and created a usb drive for that. Since I wanted to do a clean install I backed up all my data. When I booted up from the usb drive everything goes fine. I can/could go to the setup menu and set everything up. I think I...

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I am in the process of a clean install and could do with some help asap please! I'm trying a clean install of Windows 7, having upgraded to Windows 10, but experience some annoying bugs. Anyway, I bought a new PC without an operating system, then an OEM...

Ugghhh... I have a headache. I am trying a clean install of Windows 7, having upgraded to Windows 10, but experience some annoying bugs. Anyway, I bought a new PC without an operating system, then an OEM copy of Windows 7 :-/ So, after attempting this clean install, I got to the stage after...

Installed W10 via USB. Formatted SSD, VERY clean install. Fine and dandy for a few months... and then for the last 2 months increasing BSODs and general oddities and annoyances. File attached as instructed. BSOD message is ALWAYS "Memory". Thanks for any help. I'd rather now buy brand new...

Hi everyone, I am happy to join the forums :) I would like to format my ACER desktop, which has a WIN8 on it. Afterwards, I'd have to reinstall the WIN8, and I assume that I'd need the License Key to reinstall it, right? I have 2 questions please, 1. Could I use the same license key? 2. is...

Hello, I just had my laptop reformatted. Few days later, my cursor kept on jumping around so I updated my drivers. Few days after that, I receive a message whenever I turn on my laptop and it says that my hard drive is failing or something like that. Then today I got a blue screen while I'm in...

Greetings. I've got a PC with XP just formatted and clean, and happens that most of times I try to shutt it down or reboot, at the last second when it must get off, it appears a BSOD and auto reboots. That started to happen before the format. With Blue Screen Viewer I can see the error and it...

I have removed all the partitions on my hard drive(which was probably stupid) so that i could start from scratch. The problem i have is that when i try and use the windows 7 installation disk i get a message saying that my hard drive needs a partition. I have a created a ntfs partition with...

Hi all, I've just used HP Recovery from boot up (F11) to begin a reinstallation of windows 7 on an HP Pavillion dv7. The Recovery process began, and went through formatting the disc to 100%, but after re-booting, all I get is a completely black screen. Nothing at all appears on the...