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Last night my pc was fine, until I booted it up this morning, after the windows logo it brings me to chkdsk (drive C, system partition), ran it and it took hours to complete, there are so much unreadable file error, minor name or what it is, after it finished my pc reboots itself, back into the...

At first the power went out and the computer wouldn't boot, and kept trying to repair it but couldn't. Eventually booted it in safe mode and it froze after a minute or two, requiring a hard reset. When I restarted it, it was able to normal boot but continued to freeze after a few minutes and...

I have 3 computers on my LAN, C1 C2 and C3. All 3 are on the same work group. I have just added a second HDD to C3. I have formatted this drive as drive “G” and have set it to be shared, with full permissions set. I can access this drive and its folders from C3. I can also access public...

I have a seagate 3tb hdd that i got about a year ago and have noticed that i can only use 1.27tb of it. After some investigation i learned about partitions but i can not extend the volume to use the rest, when i try to i get the error:"only the first 2tb are usable on large mbr" can anybody help me?

I just found a huge Windows 10 flaw and it has impact on File History, too. All us previous Windows users that login with a Microsoft Account have all noticed how Windows 10 names our user accounts after our Microsoft Account. I just noticed this flaw in File History. In previous Windows...

I just ran checkdisk in Windows 10 Pro x64 version 1511 10586.122 it goes to 15% sit's there for about 10-15 minutes, then my pc restarts and the screen say's it's 100% done. Has anyone else noticed this ? P.S. Times are on a 256GB. ssd, a hdd will take longer.

I'm having issue's in Windows 10 Pro x64 making system images. I've got Windows & Programs on a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB ssd. I created a folder in C:\Program Files(x86)\ named Games. I setup Disk Management to use this folder in Windows to store my Games on a Intel 530 Series 480GB ss I have. My...

hello, In an effort to renew my wifes desktop, I bought a SSD and installed Win10 on it. Everything is fine. Her factory HDD still has her factory winxp on it. I created a 25Gig partition and moved music etc to the storage partition of the winxp hdd. How do I remove winxp ? so just to...

windows 7 error by Ognjen posted Feb 8, 2016 at 8:48 PM My problem is that i have installed Windows xp on my second hdd(that im not using now),and i alredy haved windows 7 installed on my first hdd witch i use now(i connected my second hdd to my pc,installed xp and disconnected it).I cannot...

Hello Windows Forum. When i boot my pc and log into windows I'm able to use it as normal, but after 10 - 15 minutes its freezes and I'm not able to do anything, I have to press my restart button to use it again. After the restart there is no more freezes. It only happens after a full shutdown...

I just built my own computer and I'm having problems. I installed Windows and then it said that it had to restart and it did but then it just went back to the screen that tells you to boot from a media device. I was having numerous problems with my ssd and its happened so many times. I used a...

Hi. So i connected an old hdd to my pc, which changed my hdd drive letter to E instead of D. I could not open some folders in the old hdd because of permission issues. Then i tried to get admin privileges but it wouldn't let me. It started freezing and turned out as a error when i tried to...

Picked up a 500GB Samsung evo SSD Does anyone know if the Cd that comes with it is required for the install? I have been hearing that there are specific drivers on the cd that are needed to operate the SSD. Is that true? I also want to use the paragon program to just transfer my OS instead of...

Hi All, I have purchased a new laptop with Windows 10 already factory installed by manufacturer. It came with HDD drive which I would like to replace with SSD to run apps faster. I came to several sites where they explain how to do that with several steps. I am thinking of creating a bootable...

I would like some input on drive configuration but, of course, these would not generally be Windows-specific questions. Does anyone have a favorite hardware community where I could post such a question as that below? I am looking at disk performance in my current system and trying to determine...

Got a new Kingston SSD for using as system drive. Previously got system on HDD, Windows 8.1 updated from a Win 8 license. I have 1 SSD (the Kingston) and another 3 HDDs. I used Windows 8 Boot DVD with license. The problem is as following: - got Windows on SSD drive with all HDD disconected after...

Hi everyone, I plan upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But, there is one small problem. Nearly three years ago I noticed my computer does not launch Windows. It showed an error with "Your computer was unable to start". Okay, after few minutes of startup repair my computer finally made it into...

Yeah, so I want to completely start over because my new PC is being laggy and crap. So I selected the 'Reset' option, to completely remove everything. The option like I was 'recycling' rather than keeping the PC. Just wanted to erase everything from the hard drive. Took about 2 hours, as there...

I had an old IDE HDD attached. after i removed that installation worked. Thanks!

Hey my ssd became dead. i bought a new one and reinstalled windows. On my HDD though are all my programms installed. Can i somehow not reinstall all of them? cause for example i can execute audacity from the other drive. Is that buggy, or can i just add connections to the desktop and keep it...