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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...- IanHHH
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- bios boot entry boot manager bootloader configuration drive drive letter dual boot efi hard drive identify partition systemroot troubleshooting volume windows 10 windows 11 windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Software
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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...- TommyG
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- asus cloning drivers graphics card hard drive installation nic product key replacement software support troubleshooting upgrade usb windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Hephaistos
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- ccleaner clean install configuration data recovery disk cleanup disk space drive initialization error resolution file management game files gaming setup hard drive hardware ssd steam storage troubleshooting windows 10 windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- fireman0174
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- beginner hard drive installation oem disk performance issues reformat toshiba upgrade windows 10 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- PMI
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- cloning configuration data transfer hard drive internet network issues settings troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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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...- FireMarshalBill69
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- data recovery e drive external drive file size file system folder deletion folders hard drive mysterious
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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.- docweathers
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- ai assistant data management disk space file management hard drive numerical sequence reclaim space storage windows 11 work folders
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- digiman2372
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- compaq computer issues factory reset gaming hard drive lagging performance troubleshooting virus windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- ddharper
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- amd processor bsod compatibility dual boot error hard drive hardware installation memory microsoft motherboard nvidia nvme partition performance reboot system crash troubleshooting upgrade windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- Axel Slingerland
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- classic theme customization hard drive image files lock screen search issues theme creation user interface wallpaper windows 10
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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 ) .- NettleWarbler
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- data recovery disk management file recovery hard drive initialization storage issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- NettleWarbler
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- antivirus avast avira blue screen disk management hard drive installation issues online access restart system repair
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- rob444
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- data disk management folders game pass hard drive microsoft store ownership regedit windows apps
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Galateia
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- drive letter error hard drive intel lightroom memory issues software compatibility system type version 22h2 windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- ctdigger
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- electronics hard drive installation laptop recovery ssd support toshiba upgrade windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- robasd
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- boot drive boot issues clone tool disk management dual boot hard drive migration storage system partition windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- kevinoliveira7x
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- bsod critical process died hard drive help memory management solutions windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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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...- nibaru
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- acrobat autoroute backup caddy data extraction data recovery external drive file access file transfer hard drive maintenance pc performance raid slow pc troubleshooting tuneup valuable files z400 z600
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- CarolJenkins
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- amazon reviews best buy reviews hard drive reliability smart test storage user experience wd black wd blue windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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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- mp420
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- cestino errore hard drive messaggio problemas
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- Forum: Windows Software