hard drive

  1. BootManager Messed up

    I have three drives two with win 11 and one with win 10. One of the drives is older and two are newer which were installed after the older drive. I cannot seem to change the bootmanager. Wwwindows was installed on each drive independently but when I put them together the boot manager on drive c...
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    Windows 10 installation

    I have an ASUS laptop with a crippled hard drive. I was planning on cloning the hard drive to a new hard drive and then removing and replacing the hard drives. The problem is that I cannot install any new applications to the hard drive and so my plan to install the software on the existing hard...
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    Windows 10 Fresh Windows - Excluding Folder?

    Hello Steam or I have messed up my SSD Drive. I have steam installed on 2 drives and after installing a new game, steam put it on the wrong drive somehow. After moving a folder using cut&paste suddenly i have no disc space left. The original Folder that was moved from C to C is gone, but i have...
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    Old TOSHIBA with Windows 10

    I have an old TOSHIBA laptop that hasn't been used in 5 or more years. It came with Windows 7. A HUGE mistake I made was to upgrade to Windows 10, in spite of warnings that the machine really can't handle the upgrade. Boy, the warnings were right. The computer became super-slow, I guess because...
  5. Windows 10 Internet working in old drive but not in cloned drive.

    Hi Computer experts. I cloned my hard disk and was working fine but somehow some setting were changed and no internet message start appearing in every network. When I boot and use the old drive, internet is fine. Is there any file, that I can copy from the old drive and past to new drive and the...
  6. Mysterious folder with only three dots for name!

    There is a folder on the root of my external drive with three dots as the name which suddenly appeared mysteriously on my external drive this morning. This folder is on the root of my external drive, E:. I don't want t delete it unless I know its contents. I tried to move it and it said it was...
  7. on Windows 11, What are JOB folders that have a long numerical sequence after them?

    on my hard drive, I have three JOB files that have long numerical sequences after them. Each takes up 64 gigabytes on my hard drive. how do I reclaim that space? I have consulted AI and got nothing useful.
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    Computer still lagging badly after facotry reset. Not a virus afterall?

    Hello everyone, my computer has been lagging notably for the last year or so. I can no longer play games online because it lags too much. I thought it could be a virus so I performed a factory reset with no luck at all. I also hear it making noises like it is struggling sometimes, not the...
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    Windows 11 BSOD when installing

    I have a 2 year old computer that is running Windows 10. I made a new partition to dual boot Windows 11 about a year ago, installed Win11, tried it for a few days, and removed it because it was extremely slow. I figured I would give it another try a few weeks ago. It would install, and put...
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    Where is the Windows 10 Lock Screen Image File (The Cave)

    Not the place... The image file on the Hard Drive. When I look for how to change the Lock Screen image, what I get is information for how to change the Desktop Wallpaper. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't make a clearer distinction between them as these are two entirely different things...
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    Need Help: Hard Drive Requesting Initialization in Disk Management During File Recovery

    I'v been trying to recover files from this other hard drive , now when i click on disk management . It is showing as wanting initialising ( its usually not showing at all ) .
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    New Hard - drive

    My New Hard - drive , keeps restarting with a blue screen this computer must restart . At least 4 times i have had trying computer repair , and i still can't get online anymore . I tried to download a free anti - virus i think the make was avast or avira . I tried installing it after a few...
  13. Can't get rid of a folder and its data

    As title says. The folder is placed on my secondary hard drive and it comes from an old PC of mine. The problem is that the folder was owned by my other PC's local account. I fixed that by adding myself as owner and I still can't remove the folder. I've even downloaded a regedit file that adds...
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    Program (Lightroom) doesn't recognize hard drive anymore after change of drive letter

    Hi, I recently changed two drive letters and now Lightroom CC (Vers 12.2) doesn't recognize the hard drive's path anymore. Well, I remember there was a warning that some programs might not work anymore after changing the drive letter. As I never had a problem with it in the past, I ignored the...
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    Windows 10 new ssd 2TB hard drive

    I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, C55-A5172. Had win 8.1 but electronically updated to win 10. the hdd died so I replaced it with a ssd 2TB ranxiana model S101. I have physically installed the new drive into the laptop. I do not know how to recover my win 10 to load back on to the drive...
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    Windows 11 Moving the Boot partition

    I know that as long as the system partition and boot partition are on the same drive, I can use a clone-tool to migrate Windows 11 to another hard drive with simple clicks. As I had some problems with Windows 11 (c-disk), I installed another version of Windows 11 on another drive (d-disk). It...
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    Windows 10 Critical Process Died - BSOD

    Hello forum. I'm having a blue screen called "CRITICAL PROCESS DIED". My cat somehow crashed my PC it froze and I restarted it. Then it started giving this screen. It restarted itself afterwards and was unable to diagnose the problem. I can't repair boot, "sfc /scannow" and "chkdsk" commands...
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    Windows 7 Z600 data recovery

    My Z600 PC has now slowed down. I suspect through lack of maintenance. I downloaded tune up software, but it stops halfway through. I have quite a large movie collection on the internal hard drives, (Set up in raid 5) (c drive and d drive) I Tried to add a new external HDD with a view of cutting...
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    Windows 11 hard drives help

    I been in the market for new drives for my win10 system and I have always had WD blue drives but I been eyeing WD black drives. But the reviews of the reliability are mixed on amazon and best buy reviews. I have one older model of the WD black and I going to install it and test it with smart and...
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    problema con il cestino, sull' hard disk

    problema con il cestino, sull'hard disk mi esce sempre questo messaggio faccio si oppure no ma esce sempre cosa devo fare