hard drive

Hi, when I make a recovery drive on usb on my desktop it is 16GB in size. When I make a recovery drive on usb for a Lenovo laptop the drive is only 524MB in size. Both are for the same latest version of Windows 10 and I clicked copy system files in both cases. How would the Lenovo recovery of...

My PC has a 2TB hard drive, and I currently only have 866GB free. When I go into Settings and go to storage, it shows that my 'Apps and Features' take up around 890GB, which seems extremely high. All the other categories seem fine, only taking up around 20GB. I went into Steam/Uplay/Origin and...

Hi guys, Does partitioning an NVME with extra D:\ partition cause loss of speed and life span? On google the answers were not straight to the point. I am worried mostly about loss of speed! Someone mentioned the D: partition will be in essence a virtual drive, thus the loss of speed. Can you...

I have connected my computer through USB 3.0 cable with an external (backup) hard disk (Hitachi HDS724040ALE640, SATA III, 7200rpm, 4TB, NTFS formatted, empty). The USB controller in external case box and the USB port on mainboard are USB 3.0 compatible. When I benchmark now the transfer rate...

Hello, I had windows7 in my laptop.I tried to install windows 10 with USB flash drive, When I selected drive to install windows it said windows can't be installed on this drive. Later I have deleted the partition 1 under disk 0,but still didn't give me a solution got the same error. Then I have...

Hi Everyone. My computer was running fine yesterday and this morning when I booted it up, I got the dreaded message "No Operating System Found Disconnect your hard drives." I shut down and the same thing happened again, three times in total. The really weird thing was the "Disconnect the hard...

With much of your to-do list now online, you expect your browser to be fast and reliable every day. Your browser is the tool you rely on to get things done. Online productivity now depends on how fast your browser is, so that to-do list can disappear. So, don’t you hate it when your browser...

Whats the recommended cluster and sector size for 4TB or 6TB hard disk (formatted with NTFS)? It should be optimized for random access speed. Whats the difference between cluster and sector size at all? And which one has more impact on the random access speed? Toby

Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...

Hey guys, My PC croaked on me what has been 3 years ago now. I tried moving my hard drive to a different computer and that's when I discovered Windows 10 is very particular about what computer it's on with the licensing. Gone are the days apparently of just moving a hard drive to a new...

I tried to install windows 10 on my hard drive ( i had to wipe everything ) .I used my dvd as normal , i got i could not load on that for one reason or another and left it . this morning i tried a usb to see if it would load , it started to install . The trouble is it has firefox as the option ...

The folder icons that were yellow are now white on in File Explorer of hard drive. They are yellow when viewing the File Explorer of a USB drive. How do I get the yellow ones back??

The folder icons that were yellow are now white on my hard drive. They are yellow when viewing the contents of a USB drive. How do I get the yellow ones back??

I have a laptop which has only 1 user account - I can't remember the password to log on and after doing all windows 10 options to recover password and gain access it hasn't worked. I want to remove that user account and be able to log on to the laptop without having to reinstall windows fully as...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of some sort of hard disk issues (or possibly a virus? ... However, McAfee didn't alert me to any virus problems). I tried lots of fixes (including using a bootable recovery USB that I had created in the past. For some reason, however, that...

I have a VAIO core i5 laptop that died, seemingly of hard disk trouble. After trying lots of fixes (including using my bootable USB, which just wouldn't work), I finally managed to get the computer to initiate recovery via 'VAIO Assist' and to do some hard disk repair, and then it seemed to work...

I've noticed that most apps launch slower than usual. Is this a sign of a degrading hard drive? Thanks. Toshiba laptop, Windows 10 Pro

Hi, I shrank the windows 10 partition on my laptop which was using a new as in unused, but 10 year old hdd, it showed these errors, quite a lot, saying "Failed to rad disk, error 2453 LBA6495272 The software I used was called MiniTool Partition Wizard Is this a dud disk then? windows 10 finds...

Hello everyone, I have a PC with Windows 10, from my sister, that her son somehow messed up, so it cannot boot anymore. It just boots into the BIOS, where I plays around with various options, but with no success. There are 2 HDs inside. A small 128 GB ssd where windows resides And a big 1 TB...

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.