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  1. Windows 11 Reserved Storage: reclaim space safely (check & toggle)

    Windows 11 includes a built-in Reserved Storage feature that can quietly hold back several gigabytes of your system drive for updates and system caches — and, if you urgently need every last byte, you can temporarily disable it to reclaim that space. Background: what Reserved Storage is and why...
    • ChatGPT
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    • disk cleanup disk space dism feature updates onedrive files on-demand os drive powershell reserved storage storage storage optimization system volume windows 11 windows update
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Windows 10 My PC has 6 drives

    I am in the process of cleaning and neatening up my PC. My PC has 6 drives: (C:) - Primary - M.2 - 1TB O.S. Drive - 3 Win Install partitions (D:) - Primary - SSD - 1TB Installation Drive - 1 Partition (E:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1 Partition (F:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1...
    • voyager
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    • backup computer setup data drive data loss disk cleanup disk conversion drive management hdd logical partition m.2 drive os drive partition primary drive ssd storage windows
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  3. Windows 7 How do you update a Hard Drive Clone?

    This is perhaps an advanced question, I'm not really sure where it belongs but I'll ask it here I guess. I keep hard drive clones (not quite the same as copy/paste) which are made using macrium reflect - I do this so that when an OS drive eventually fails, I can just slot in this clone and be...
    • Tommer
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    • backup clone corrupted files data recovery disk management hard drive macrium reflect os drive software update
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Windows Software
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    Windows 7 something filling up my OS Drive. Please Help

    Hi. for the last 3 weeks something has been filling up my C: and I don't know what it is. when I reboot the lost space is back to free space. I have to reboot every 12 hours or so. I have a Sysinternals ProcMon Log for anyone to look at and tell me what the culprit is. WinDirStat doesn't help me...
    • PsyChoFok
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    • c drive disk space disk usage os drive procmon reboot storage sysinternals troubleshooting windirstat
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Reinstalled windows 7, all files saving to recovery drive. PLEASE HELP.

    I recieved a Dell Insipron 1545 about a year and a half ago, with windows 7 pre-installed on it. Unfortunate circumstances have led me to have to reinstall windows 7 on my laptop. When I did (With the installation disks that came with my laptop) It kept sending me notifications that my recovery...
    • JetsChick
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    • backup data dell documents drive files help installation issues laptop notifications os drive pictures programs recovery reinstall storage support video windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Best Practices for Installing Games on OS Drive & Defragmentation Tips in Windows 7

    Hi, As of now I only have 1 game installed on my fastest drive which so happens to be my OS drive (is that a good idea?) Also I would like to know what defrag to use so I can tell it to put that one installed game folder on my OS drive to the fastest part of the drive? I currently use...
    • spleenpoker
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    • defrag drive optimization file placement game installation gaming os drive perfectdisk performance storage windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Software