hard drive

I have my Windows 10 Pro computer to connected to cable modem via Ethernet. I am not using Wi-Fi, just Ethernet only. I discovered two folders that I have not seen before. I deleted the folders and tried to turn off file sharing. I clinked to save changes and looked at the file explorer and...

Hello. So, I have this 2 TB HDD and up until about a week ago Windows 10 stopped detecting it. I connected it to my laptop also running Windows 10 and reformatted it to FAT32. Was that the ring thing to do or should I have formatted it to NTSF? Windows 10 (this computer) still can't detect the...

I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a drive...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

Situation: Secondary HDD contains previous installation's Windows folder which my current Win10 account cannot delete even as admin. Solution: I'm assuming that I'd need to first take ownership then change the permissions to give full control. However this is an old hard drive, and since my...

*I am not sure if this is the right spot for this* Hello. I have a laptop with an SSD and a hard drive. I already have windows 10 installed on the ssd and I want windows XP on there as well. First of all, how much space does windows XP need? I have about 100gb of space on the ssd for XP. Is...

Good Evening, New to forum. Outta the blue (no pun intended), laptop encounters BSoD. Quick aside on features: HP Elitebook 6930p, runs on Windows Vista. Older computer, purchased in '09, I imagine the driver has since been updated but not confident. Disclaimer: Not computer literate but can...

Hi, and thanks in advance for your help... I have been trying (without any success) to access 2 external harddrives and a USB key on Windows 7, the 3 with FAT32 format. (for the fun I also formatted one in ExFat to try, didn't work) The access is denied each time (the 3 devices work perfectly...

I'm trying to make an image of my HDD in my Toshiba L55 laptop. I have a 1TB external drive connected. When the dialogue box asks what type of media I'm using, I select the proper answer (external hard drive). After doing that, the button I'm supposed to select in order to start the process is...

i have found that the problem was on my hdd in my previeus post i told i stucked on the load screen i unplugged my hdd Windows 10 doesn't open it didn´t happen anymore and when i did plug in my hdd back i format it but then the computer was stuck and i was again stuck at the load screen what´s...

I've got Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed on my system and the hard drive is showing me over 60GB of used space. When I open the C drive and unhide all folders and do a Properties, it shows just over 20GB of used space on my system drive. I'm trying to figure out where 40GB of files are hiding...

Hi, i am using a windows 10 laptop, i had recently been messing around with different sata drivers for my series 7 hard drive controller, i dont know if its linked but my laptop recently has been crashing anytime i restart or shut down the laptop, it will go to a sort of bsod screen which looks...

Ok, here's my situation. I have two (2) HP dc7900 desktops. One has Windows 10 Home, and the other Windows 10 Pro. I have a new Crucial MX300 SSD hard drive I want to install in the desktop with Win 10 Pro, but, I want to install Windows 7 Home (going back to using Win 7 Home) on this...

I purchased a custom built desktop on ebay that included Windows 7. The package did not include the the Windows 7 software disc as it was already installed. I upgraded to Windows 10 and then decided to go back to Windows 7. After I went back to 7, my pc indicates that Windows 7 is not genuine...

I reinstalled windows 10 today. I connected my Toshiba external hard drive afterwards and although it shows up in the File Explorer, the usage information is not displayed and I cannot access the data inside. I plugged in two of my other external drives and it worked fine. I plugged the Toshiba...

I have downloaded some movies to a thumb drive the last couple months and notice my hard drive space is decreasing quickly even though the download is going to an exterior flash drive. Is there a temporary memory place somewhere on my hard drive storing this data? I want to delete it if so.

I need some help!! After I connected my portable HDD to a smart TV I lost access to the HDD when I tried to connected it to my laptop again. "F: is not accessible, access is denied" (funny ringtones) When I connected back to the smart tv I can read all the folders and files on the HDD. It looks...

My HP dc7900 desktop came with Win 7 Home. It was upgraded up to Win 10 in 2015. It has all the latest updates, etc. It has a few... (be honest many) problems almost every day to contend with. I think the hard drive may be the problem. It has a Seagate Barracuda 7200-9 160 GB HP WGBU...

My brother brought a computer here that has older Windows version on it and I am not sure which version it is and he said it doesn't boot up and one of the hard drives went out how to start Windows when I put a new hard drive in the computer

My Brother brought a computer home and said the hard drive went bad but I am not exactly sure which Windows is on it and how do move Windows from the bad hard drive to the new hard drive