partition issues

I have two identical 2TB SSDs. Disk 0 contains the OS and some data, and Disk 1 is all unallocated space. I want Disk 1 to be a mirror of Disk 0. When I right-click on Disk 0 and choose Add Mirror, it recognizes Disk 1 as the likely partner, warns me of the conversion to dynamic disks, and then...

Hi, I went to made a new virtual box on a drive which was recently convertde to go from several partitions to just one, and although I can read files I cannot delete them or indeed write a new file to the drive. Not sure how this has come about. How can I get it back to normal? The username of...

Hello! I made the big mistake (head low) of installing Ubuntu 18.04 on my Surface Pro 4 with a complete disk wipe. I tried to reinstall Windows 10 from a bootable USB but it failed because the disk does not have a NTFS formatted partiton and the formatting option was greyed out. Should I do...

1 Asker : We now have Windows Server 2019. For some reason, not all workstations connect to it. I'm writing this now on one tablet, which will see the File History and Client Backup disks on the server. The other tablet only sees (opens) those discs when I click on the disc, not without the...

I have had an SSD failing on me so I opted to upgrade to win10 also if I was going to lose my OS (I couldn't clove the drive). I have made a win10 installation on a different HHD and apparently (I didn't understand it then) the boot manager was still in the old SSD for replacement drive...

Hi - I am very proud that I was able to remove failed drive and replace it with a new one. I am not a tekkie person. This is for Dell 2305 all in one system. Anyway, I ran the system recovery disks that I made when I purchased the system 5 years ago. Everything was getting installed - system was...

Hello there, I have an HP 15-G013CL that I am trying to do a clean install of Windows 7 (64-bit) on. A little background to the cause of the error: I first tried to do a clean install of Windows 7 (32-bit). This led me to an error that I received before Windows even started up. The error said...

hi Microsoft forum Normally I've no problem in create a system backup image and restore it back to formal state. However, after a while say a few weeks or a few months when I feel like to restore windows again, it fails. I don't know what happens here, the image restore tool simply says...

Win 7 Home Premium. I was doing dual boot with Win 7 and Win 10 TP. I decided to remove the dual boot. So, I went to disk management and removed the volume where Win 10 was. The trouble is, the partition should be marked as unallocated. Instead it is marked as free space. Now, I right clicked...

I have successfully created a rescue disc from outside of windows (with a boot disk) but cannot get past a 0x80070057 error code from the recovery app "create rescue disc" button from within control panel. My question is: for the rescue disk to be created from the control panel app, which...

Well, I've been working on this for a couple of days now, and I've researched this issue like crazy, but nothing I've found covers my situation, so I'm looking for some advanced help, please. I'm trying to perform a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from the original retail DVD...

Hello everyone, I was trying to use win32diskmanager to put Debian on a single partition of my 2tb external hdd. I formatted one of the partitions, and started win32 to put the linux files on that partition. It crashes at 6%, and now the whole hard drive (other partitions are gone) says it...

Kind of screen glitch that appears before windows 8 lock screen appears at start /restart and a notable delay in starting/restarting time than with my 1st win8 install. I think this appeared after I installed my windows 7 back ( dont ask me why..)( a clean install) and installed my win8 back...

Hello, i was the Auslogics Disk Defrag Tool to defrag my Partition, and then i went to check a backup folder, i was trying to change the icon of the folder, i dont know what went wrong The Folder just disappeared !! while it was still showing at the defrag app its working on that folder. i...

Hello guys Hope you can help me with this, because I really need to get my Server 2003 running, as that is working platform (need it for my job). I had three operating systems in my computer: Ubunt, Win XP and Win Server 2003. Grub was the booting program, that offers you go to Windows...

I have dual boot, win 7 and win Xp. Every time i use Win XP, my restore points on win7 are missing. I changed the drive letter on win 7 partition in win Xp with diskmgmt.msc, but still is the same problem. What to do?

Hello, I'm new to this forum and I hope I will not break rules in my first post. Some days ago I got a problem with my laptop. As first, my laptop crashed on the floor, while Windows 7 was running. But nothing happend, only started to run slowly. Some programs were not responding and I decided...

Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...

Lets start by saying I currently want my other half dead. Really painfully dead. My MereMale decided to play with the access control/Security tabs (Windows 7) within my neatly partitioned and organised drives. He says it was to stop the kids from stuffing things up, oh the irony. Anyways he...

Hi, I'm having a problem not being able to access 2 out of 3 partitions in an external HD. Samsung HD753LJ (USB) 700GB Partition 1: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 2: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 3: 300 GB / NTFS I once had a dual-boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7 Professional...