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Windows 10 Windows 10 Boot Issue: SSD Shows as Unallocated Space - Possible Causes and Solutions
Hello everyone, I have a PC with Windows 10, from my sister, that her son somehow messed up, so it cannot boot anymore. It just boots into the BIOS, where I plays around with various options, but with no success. There are 2 HDs inside. A small 128 GB ssd where windows resides And a big 1 TB...- Loukan
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- bios boot issues data access data recovery disk issues disk management drive issues file recovery hard drive live usb partition pc repair ssd storage issues system restore tech support troubleshooting unallocated space windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Cannot change drive letter of system reserved partition??
Hi, I finally got xp installed to my laptop, however, I have run into a problem. The software I want to install is designed to only be installed to the C:\ partition, it will not let me choose another drive to install to and I cannot install to C:\ becauase there is not enough space to install...- anotherwindowsuser
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- bootloader computer management disk management drive letter installation issues partition storage system reserved windows 8 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Which partition should I delete?
I tried using Ubuntu with a dual boot on my lower end system and found out I'm too stupid for it. I need to remove the partition it's in, but I'm not sure which one it is.- wurzt
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- delete dual boot partition recovery storage system ubuntu
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Boot Manager Not Found after secondary drive replaced
I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung SSD drive several months ago. I have a second drive in my system which is my data drive. I've had no issues for several months. Yesterday I decided to replace my secondary drive with a bigger drive. When I powered up my computer I get a...- Pool player
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- bcdboot boot issues boot manager data drive disk management efi partition guid hard drive hidden partition installation issues partition recovery partition ssd startup system repair system restore troubleshooting windows 10 windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Move from SATA HD to NMVE
Hello, I have a laptop joined to a domain (windows 10). I'm part of Administrators group but not Domain Admins. Such laptop has a 2.5'' mechanical hard drive (500 GB) encrypted by bitlocker and it's quite slow. It has 3 partitions: the first is Windows RE, the second is system reserved about 500...- stellarhitchhiker
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- bitlocker encryption hard drive laptop migration nmve partition sata storage windows 10
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Moving windows boot manager to another HDD (MBR Legacy Boot)
Hi everyone, I have two HDDs one is 640GB & the other is 320GB(Both MBR using Legacy boot). The 640GB HDD has Windows 7(in D)& Windows 10(in C) installed but the boot manager is located in the 320GB HDD. I want to move the boot manager to the 640GB HDD. My Partitions look like this...- HaxJoker
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- boot manager configuration disk management easybcd hdd legacy boot mbr partition windows 10 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Can I use a windows file backup to boot Windows again?
HI, Recently I took the 2.5" SSD off from my Windows notebook, formatted it and installed MACOSX to use it on. a Mac temporarily. Some time later I bought a NVMe M.2 SSD to upgrade the MAC and a M.2 SSD to upgrade the Windows notebook. As the Windows notebook accepts two 2.5" SATA SSDs, I...- papaformigas
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- 2.5 inch ssd boot issues data recovery disk management file structure macos nvme ssd partition ssd upgrade storage system restore windows backup windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Windows not genuine after cloning partioned drive letters incorrect
After trying to clone my hard drive my new hard drive had a bootmgr missing error, that’s now irrelevant As I have reinstalled windows on that one , I have now tried to reuse my original hard drive And it goes to the login screen I enter my password it say preparing desktop. Screen is all blue...- Blkemp
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- access bootmgr cloning data recovery desktop disk management drive drive letter error genuine help partition password reinstall support system restore troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows recovery can not initiate
Hello, I haven’t used my laptop for long time and when opened the os won’t boot up and tried to repair it says can’t be repaired. I used dell recovery tool to get a iso file and made a bootable usb stick. When tried to install Iget the efi system is formatted to ntfs format please format to...- Jaya Adithya Phanidhar
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- boot computer dell efi error fat32 formatting installation iso laptop ntfs partition recovery repair ssd troubleshooting update usb windows
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 help cant merge c:\ partitions
trying to move my C:\ drive to a new SSD, tried easeus clone but pc wont boot from ssd after clone, used easybcd 2.3 to fix boot sector on ssd, didnt work, tried bcdboot C:\Windows /s E: in shell/admin said boot files copied, ssd will boot to a recovery screen with error cant load...- roxx1968
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- bcdboot boot issues boot sector clone disk management easeus error file system migration partition recovery ssd storage upgrade system repair system32 tech support troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Dual Boot Windows 7 & Linux boot issues
Hello, I have some experience setting up Windows Linux Dual boot, but unfortunately yesterday I ran into a problem. The grub menu does not have Windows 7 on it, and I don't know how to get it on there. I installed a new version of Linux onto an old laptop. The laptop does not have UEFI, it has...- SavorySilicon
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- application bios boot issues bootloader client support dual boot elementaryos grub intel laptop lenovo linux oem os installation partition ram recovery startup repair uefi windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 I have a problem with several partitions on my C: drive
I had a issues when I was downloading Windows 10 lot core to my raspberry pi 3 B+.I used a software called "Install Windows 10 Lot Core Dashboard" and it took part of my c: drive and made a UDF partition. I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to remove it. But now i am left with my C...- Randy2747
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- c drive dashboard disk management partition raspberry pi recovery storage issues tech support udf partition windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Cannot Reinstall Windows 10 On a Non-NTFS Formatted Disk
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...- MikeyWiteman
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- bootable usb disk formatting ntfs partition reinstall surface pro tech support ubuntu windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Error installing Win when not recognizing the hard drive
I'm not see a list of hard drives and partitions to choose from. This error usually occurs when installing Windows 7 or a standard NVME hard drive. The reason is that Windows 7 was born quite a long time, while some new machines need newer SATA drivers. What can I do?- cookietran
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- error hard drive installation nvme partition sata drive system compatibility troubleshooting upgrade windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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A Few Issues
Ok I am new to building computers. I set mine up about 2 months ago and unfortunately I didn't partition the drive(480GB SSD) like I should have. Is there anyway to do that now without losing all the content I currently have leaving 1 partition with my games and videos and such and a 2nd...- MagicDrop
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- benchmark building computer external drive optimization partition performance ssd storage windows 10
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 Unallocated disk space
Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...- Rapaaja
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- c drive disk management disk space disk usage file explorer file system hard drive idle space maintenance partition reserved space storage storage expansion system drive unallocated user query windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 I can't partition my hard disk
Hi everyone, I'm using a Dell XPS 15 9570 and I'm trying to partition my C: drive but I'm facing an issue with storage. Even though I have more than 90GB free, every time I try to partition the disk I'm given only 2GB to work with. I've cleared up temporary files and scanned for viruses but...- thelennyjohnson
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- dell hard drive partition
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 cannot format external hard drive
I have new 8tb external hard drive need use data recovery . I used Rufus to install windows to go. Rufus set maximum size to 2tb. now I want to format the drive back to 8tb. When use Windows format, it can get 2tb. how to solve this issue?- citrix
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- 8tb drive data recovery disk management drive size external drive formatting partition rufus storage issues windows format
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 storage space "full" when trying to copy files
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...- grandkodiak
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- data lifeguard file explorer fixes file transfer free space hard drive partition redundant mode storage windows 10 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Not all workstations can access the server.
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...- Rapaaja
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- authentication client backup connection issues device security enterprise solutions file history file sharing network settings partition server maintenance support troubleshooting update issues user rights windows 10 windows server windows server 2016 windows server 2019 workstation
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Help and Support