hard drive

Hi I am installing win 10 into the laptop which had win 8 on, win 8 run reasonably well, however win 10 onto a new hdd is taking over two hours, this is ludicrously long.

Hi, When I woke up this morning I turned on my computer and it had an error message, unfortunately I didn't look at this error message and continued to start up (computer updated, see attached for list of updates). When I loaded up I noticed many different programs weren't accessible anymore...

Hi, I have been given a windows laptop: intel pentium Compaq Presario A900 Notebook, 32 bit. It is running windows vista, but I specifically want windows xp for a program that I have that will only work on windows xp and no other operating system. I am not interested in using it for anything...

I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung SSD drive several months ago. I have a second drive in my system which is my data drive. I've had no issues for several months. Yesterday I decided to replace my secondary drive with a bigger drive. When I powered up my computer I get a...

Hello, I have a laptop joined to a domain (windows 10). I'm part of Administrators group but not Domain Admins. Such laptop has a 2.5'' mechanical hard drive (500 GB) encrypted by bitlocker and it's quite slow. It has 3 partitions: the first is Windows RE, the second is system reserved about 500...

Hello I am wanting to move my hard drive with win 10 home retail to a new machine . Is there a way to do that or do i have to buy yet another copy of windows 10 ? Thanks for any info in advance.

Dear Anyone. OK, so this is one of those questions where I'm going to feel a total plonker for not spotting the answer myself, so there's no need to point that fact out to me! Hard drive with 2 versions of XP on it. One version won't install my software - a VST synth - it comes up with...

In the past MS has been very nice about letting me move my win7 drive from computer to computer as I've upgraded machines. (had to reauthorize but that's not a biggie) Now I have win7 on my main machine balanced nicely with a lot of apps. I do not want to upgrade this. Nor do I want to stop...

When im trying to install the 2020-03 cumulative update it will throw me this error, i tried everything from dism to defraging the hard drive but its still giving me that error message, it will jump from 20% to 70% for 10 minutes and then 100% and it will stay there for 5 minutes before throwing...

I have 2 HDs: 1. 512 GB M.2 SSD NGFF 2280 SATA (don't know brand name) 2. 2 TB Seagate BarraCuda 2.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 128MB Cache for PC Laptop (ST2000LM015) I originally got the 2 TB HD as a backup for my photos, documents, and downloads from my 512 GB main HD. Now I use OneDrive as...

Hi there, I'm setting up an HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 for a simple small office file share and host a Filemaker Database. There is 4 HD slots and I have 4 x 1TB drives. I can setup all four in a RAID 10 array which gives performance and redundancy but only gives me 1 volume. Should I be...

An attempt was made to reset Windows while keeping the personal User files intact. The reset did not finish and the PC won't boot up. I took out the hard drive to test it and check what files were on it after that Reset did not work. This is what I've found. Any help with what to delete or...

My friend passed away recently and his wife knows there are lots of pictures on his windows 10 computer. Unfortunately he password protected it It has a sata hard drive. I don't have any other sata drives and my computer doesn't have a socket for sata to allow me to plug it into mine as a...

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Why is this so hard. I've been looking at web pages that walk you through but nothing works. Any suggestions. All I need is to boot externally so I can initialize a hard drive

Hello, I having read on line about bricking hard drives with the puis setting have any other had any problems? I changed 9841 to 9879 and didn't have any problems was using a WD hard drive which by default puis is not enabled. thanks iosman

I'm not see a list of hard drives and partitions to choose from. This error usually occurs when installing Windows 7 or a standard NVME hard drive. The reason is that Windows 7 was born quite a long time, while some new machines need newer SATA drivers. What can I do?

Below in my screenshot I have marked the W10 installation, W10 bootloader, and Linux install. For some reason, every time I install W10 it decides to install the bootloader on a seperate drive. When I boot into the linux drive grub shows W10 but I am unable to boot into it. I am able to boot...

Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...

After my mom corrupted the hard drive of my computer I had to factory reset my laptop. Since then I can't use it. I can't open apps, I can't create a windows linked account because I can't get past the services part of windows setup without getting a blue screen. I've looked everywhere and tried...