hard drive

So, I’m running windows 7 32 bit on my work pc and some new policies come down from corp. headquarters that all the pc’s hard drives need to be encrypted with kapersky and the have to be updated every month with windows updates else the pc will be booted from the network. So, I reboot by pc one...

I'm hoping someone in this community can help me with a hard drive problem. Recently, I replaced my old laptop (it ran a Linux/Ubuntu OS). Before getting rid of it, I removed the laptop's hard drive with the intent to repurpose it into a portable hard drive. I then encased it within a plug...

Hello so I have a 30gb SSD C drive and a 1tb hard drive as my D drive. I want to install Office on my D drive and I can't start the setup because it keeps trying to install on the C drive. How can I change this? I don't wanna mess up my registry so what can I do?

i want to take my old sticky notes from an old hard drive and ideas how i can do that ?

i had an old hard drive that inside him i had movies, pic, ect that i want them i connected the hard drive in another pc any ideas where my fails can be ? when i used my pc that files was on desktop

Hello, I sorry if this is in the wrong section but im having trouble with my hard drive. I run a TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB hard drive. It seems to be working fine a lot of the time. But I've been experiencing that I cant play games such as Don't starve together while playing with somebody or...

My hard drive is getting full. Is there a way to see all at once which folders are the largest? I know I can open the properties for each one, but I remember years ago before Windows there was a utility called "Keep Track" that showed all the folders and their sizes all at once. That would be...

Recently noticed my C: drive had almost maxed out (47 GB free of 457 GB). Knowing this wasn't right I did a quick total of all the files which came out at about 250 GB. I then went back and carefully checked each folder and file and still came up with 250GB. Then I downloaded an analytical...

I've been getting BSOD crashes increasingly for the past couple of months, it started out as a couple times a month, and now its multiple times a day. Mostly UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION and CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED. I don't know if this is relevant, but i replaced my hard drive a couple months back...

I have 64 gig microsd card with 16 gb of songs on it. Is this going to take a longer time, than if they were on a hard drive?

How can I recover 15 GB of C: partition ssd space that WinDirStat shows as "unknown" and I cannot access? I know this "unknown" 15 GB is real because Windows File Explorer shows there is an unexplained shortage of disk space. Its 15 GB or perhaps more. I don't have a problem accounting for the...

Hello all, After trying to follow the instructions to upgrade from a 32 os to a 64 os, I tried opening one of my hard drives and get this black reboot screen. I have tried to install from gpt, mbr, with flash drive connected, and hard resetting the computer. Does anyone know how to fix...

Hi my name is Ricardo and I recently bought my computer with w10 and everything but as 1 month ago my pc started to slow down and I researched several possible solutions and I ended up finding out that it could be a windows bug, so far I have not found nothing that would solve it. I try to do...

A while back I started a thread concerning my Toshiba laptop. One day it worked fine. Next day it wouldn’t even turn on, using either AC or battery. Even the light on the front, showing connection to AC, remained unlit. Yep, she was completely dead. So, I went and bought a new HP laptop but kept...

evening all , I recently bought a new harddrive , I tried to convert using this method as it said the conversion rate was rapid taking only seconds . I must have done it wrong because my drive still shows 1.99TB and 2.93MB can someone please tell me how to complete the conversion . thank you .

I just installed windows 10 pro on my hard-drive , using the keep folders and apps option . Before that I got your windows license will expire soon , I went ahead thinking this install will fix that . I got all my apps but no folders , my drive shows 227GB free of 1.99TB so something is there...

Does a virus affect other components besides the hard drive, such as memory etc?

I have a Dell XPS-17 L702X laptop running Windows 10 Pro x64. I upgraded my 500GB internal secondary drive to a 1TB drive. I did not do a quick format of this new 1TB but rather did the full, longer format. The new, upgraded 1TB secondary drive was made active and assigned the drive letter D...

So, i posted once about this a while back. But jow i am returning to it. So it took 23 monutes to boot 2 days ago. Hp pavilion (updated drivers) 1tb 5400 rpm drive 12gb ram Amd quad core cpu Win 10 (originally 8.1 came on it) I ran a procmon with boot log enabled. Once it booted, it is so far...

I learnt some time ago that you could delete the information that builds up in the software distribution folder and that has kept me going but a few months ago I noticed windows was holding onto data somewhere else after an update for a few weeks then it would just disappear. With the last...