hard drive

I just purchased an HP laptop with a 128 GB M.2 SSD Hard Drive. Besides the original setup and adding some basic programs, I've done very little in a week. But my C: Drive has already used 42% (only 69GB free) A further disk analysis shows that, of the total used, Windows has used 30%...

I just cloned my old SSHD onto an SSD and now when I try boot my PC with the SSD it keeps saying my password is incorrect. It boots up fine all the way to the login screen (I can see my old wallpaper and everything looks normal) but I just cant seem to log in, I even tried changing my password...

I have 2 identical hard drives set up as a "storage space" in a redundant mode. Since the last forced crap windows update or so, when I try to copy a file of any size to the space, it says the drive is full. Windows explorer, system, terracopy, ubuntu subsystem, partition magic and western...

How can make a hard drive that allows me to install both 64-bit and 32-bit windows into any machine if I plug it into. I don't mean a USB stick, or external hard drive, I mean an actual hard drive. This is my only option right now. I tried the media creation tool but it only allows me to use...

Hello, I've been messing with my computer (Laptop) for a few hours now trying to get it to work and it just won't. It got hit on the far right of the touchpad, shut off, and now will not boot. I figured maybe it was my hard drive just having boot problems so I created a windows 8 bootable USB...

The Windows 8 Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 machine says 'Default Boot Device Missing or boot failed. Insert recovery media and hit any key', when we boot. I've followed these instructions, with no luck: Link Removed The machine cannot recognize the hard drive. Can I create a bootable usb drive, boot...

After leaving the computer idle for some time, like overnight, I find the computer apparently awake (sleep light not on), with the hard drive light irregularly but dimly flashing, and no way to access it. Neither mouse clicks nor any key on the keyboard does anything, nor is there any apparent...

Hi all, I have 2 drives, an SSD and a hard drive. Windows is installed on my SSD, but I moved my documents folder to my hard drive in order to save space on my SSD. This worked fine, but my hard drive is showing problems and I wanted to move my documents back to my SSD in preparation for when I...

I am running Win 10 using a 3.5" Hot Swappable HD caddy. I am interested in graduating to a SSD HD. Is it necessary to disconnect my existing caddy in order to install the adapter? Or can I affix the adapter to the SSD drive, and merely insert it into my existing caddy? TIA

I have a Dell desktop and I am currently running Windows 7 and I would like to install Ubuntu on separate hard drive in same computer. My question is, when I install Ubuntu, do I keep Win 7 hard drive plugged in or do I remove it. Thanks Zavier

Upon preforming a disk cleanup I believe I accidentally erased data on 2 recovery partitions. I assume one is for 7 and one for 10. I took a look at the hard drives recovery partitions and there is 100% free space. If one is for 7, I can live without it. However I would like to have one for 10...

When i tried to load my new harddrive this morning , it was on ages with the windows 10 logo flashing on and off . Before the computer turned itself off . I'm on the old drive at the moment . When i go into settings both drives are listed ,also in Disk Management both drives are shown . ( i...

Adding a second HDD to my PC is causing a blue screen on boot. I hope someone can help me with this. I have a spare HDD from a recently upgraded laptop lying around and want to install it in my desktop in addition to the 1 SSD I have in there currently. The problem is once I connect the drive...

Hello All, I was advised earlier that I may have to format my hard drive and I may just do that. In January, I made the mistake of letting a scammer control my computer and I think he may have installed something to mess up my maintenance programs. The longest running program is...

When i try to install Windows 10 Pro on a 8GB hard-drive , i get the following message .It says; Compatibility report: The computer started using the windows installation media. Remove the installation media and restart your computer so that windows starts normally. Then, insert the installation...

my second hard drive have a problem somethink happend and i cant see my files when i go to users desktop is empty i tryied to run cmd as an administrator and type atrrib -r -h -s e:\. /s /d and said access denied and solutions ?

I'm using a windows 10 ISO on a flash drive for install. Do I need to go into BIOS and change boot priority.

I have a Dell Latitude E6410 that needed the hard drive replaced. During the Win 7 installation process , it hangs when the Win Logo is displayed for the first time , after a few seconds the entire screen turns white. I first tried different drives and Software medias. On a whim i stuck in a Win...

i want format my pc and install win server 2008 but the case have 4 hards any hard 300 GB ,so how can i divide them and create drive c and drive d

I have pictures scattered in my hard drive. How can I gather all pictures into one area and then save all images to my external drive? Or if I cannot gather into one area, then save all pics with one click from my mouse to an external drive. thanks