hard disk

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a new pc but only accepts to select the installation disk path when windows will be installed only of the sata drives that are connected to the motherboard but not the drives on the sata card i have. I'm using DVD of windows 10 and i have booted to it to...

Obviously the user can check the consistency of a FULL, whole NTFS hard disk by performing a "chkdsk" command and run in addition one of the well known tools (like MiniTool Partition Wizard) a surface test to check whether all sectors of a hard disk are ok. But what if I don't want to check the...

So, when I ordered my computer I saw that I'd have 1TB of storage. I see that the default area where things are installed (C:\) only consists of 149 GB total, while the Data (D:\) drive has a total of 780 GB. I'd like to move some files over there, but I'm not sure what I should do. I would also...

I have the ASUS ROG G750JM, since I have upgraded to Windows 10, I keep getting this BSOD, I had two 1TB hdd in this laptop, and everytime I get this BSOD, the second hard disk disappears and the computer slows down substantially. I am not sure what is happening here. Attached is the dump...

Hi! My computer bsods since I got it. A friend of mine built it. I did not tell him my problem, but if it persists I think I'll tell him. If you can help me solve the following problems by myself, I'll be glad, since he's a selfish and he'll, of course, want money because he didn't built my PC...

I have a hard drive with Windows 10 on it that came off of a broken computer and I am trying to boot it on a Windows 8.1 pc. How can I go about doing this?

sorry my english is not 100% I have installed win 10 on a separate hard disk as a test , no big problems. I use separate disks for separate OS-systems ,always at the start of an install of a new OS i uncouple the other disks untill the install is complete then i connect the other disk again. Now...

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.

Assume I remove a hard disk from computer/notebook and put in a bootable DVD (with WinPE or Ubuntu) into DVD drive (or USB flash drive into USB flash port). Can I start the whole computer in this scenario? Or is a working hard disk required even if I boot the (Win 7 /Ubuntu) OS from DVD/USB...

I have recently replaced the hdd on my laptop with a 1TB disk I did a clean installation of Windows 10 and then installed Norton Security Software for protection purposes . After that I tried to shrink the single partition (which is shown to contain around 30 GB) to 200 GB so that I could set...

親愛的大家， 我不能升級到Win 7 to Win 10 as my hard disk controller. Who can help me to solve above problem? Thanks.

I have an ASUS vivobook S500Ca which came preinstalled with Windows 8 Home Premium in Oct 2013. I had made a USB for the purpose of reinstalling it at any point. Name on this USB is 'Recovery'. It has around 13 GB size with 6 .swm files of around 2GB each. So it happened and my hard disk...

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?

My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files. There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in. So I need a way to shift all...

Hello everyone, I was using my Acer Aspire laptop and suddenly I got a pop up message telling me that Windows detected a hard disk problem (and I keep having this message like every 20 min). The HDD was working just fine and still works good, but I just get that message. I also checked the...

I have an ISO file of windows 10. can i install it directly from hard-disk, without mount it. I have no CD/DVD Drive on my Desktop. I don't know how to do that or who can help me. Please help. Baset

Hello everyone, I just got a new 3TB hard disk and I can't install Windows 7 64 bit on it. I have added the disk to another computer and I converted it to GPT (GUID). Now it has two partitions: 400 GB and 2,400 GB. (when I try to install Windows it also says it has a 128MB partition of type MSR...

Today for the first time i got the BSOD. My pc is desktop running windows 7 64-bit. I have Norton v11 antivirus protection and google chrome web browser. 80GB hard disk, MSI motherboard, 1GB RAM, (If you need further info please ask me) I unable to read the Blue screen as it appears for 2...

I have three internal and one external hard disks in my Dell Studio XPS 435T/9000 running Windows 8.1,. No problems until yesterday when I had to reboot the system. I received a message that the machine cannot find the operating system. I disconnected one drive at time and the problem was caused...

Hi everybody, I use my computer for video editing which is a heavy computational task and can take hours to complete. What power options should be selected for this kind of a task? As far as I understand, sleeping and hibernation should be disabled completely. But what about Hard Disk and...