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Some idiot tech at msft fudged up my PC over an issue I was having. I couldn't boot to my desktop after that. So I inserted my installation disk to install a fresh new copy. For some reason I got an error saying, "we couldn't create a new partition. Error: 0xe6774cc0." To correct this, I entered...

I have a fixed-size partition C for my Windows 7 (I've given it almost 100 GBs and I don't download anything or leave it on C. I have Linux installed as well) and It's coming closer and close to being full. I'd like to hear your suggestions/advice on how you guys deal with this issue/problem?

My win10 machine wouldn't boot. I tried system restore but it failed. Three or four restore points to go back to and none of them succeeded. I ran Kyhi's usb and found macrium on it. I thought I had a macrium image so I ran it. The Macrium image wouldn't restore. 'read failed 22 invalid...

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 guys, I need some help. My laptop currently can’t boot any system. I will describe the order of actions which provoked the problem: 1. Win 10 installation 2. Drivers installation with Lenovo support web site 3. It was necessary to completely format the disk (ssd), there was only a USB...

Hi guys, I've have successful removed a dual boot and booting ok win10 after rebuild mbr and removing linux partitions. However, I have 4 partitions at this moment and I would like to know if I can delete some without causing any issues to win10. Thanks in advanced. Sent from my Nexus 6P...

I had a SSD installed in my computer with the OS on it. This SSD became to small so I bought a 500Gb SSD. I made a backup of the SSD with the OS en put that at the new SSD. But now there are two partitions at this SSD, one with same capicity as the old one and an empty one with a different...

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...

I reinstalled window 7 on a computer that was having issues. I deleted the existing Windows partition/drive and ran the install to that Drive (c). After getting everything reinstalled I was going to image the C Drive. It appears to be linked to another large drive (3tb). That drive didnt show up...

What can I do? My win10 installation seems to have died this morning. I can't rescue it, repair it, go to a restore point or put an image on - nothing works. So I tried to install a new Win10 but got a message that it couldn't be installed because that chosen disk and partition (the very one...

Hey when I was installing windows 8.1 I accidentally deleted windows system partition.Now I am facing problems like when the PC wakes from sleep state it hangs and struck at the login screen and I cannot do anything and should force restart the PC with hard keys. Information: Before had 360MB...

I need help, I have W10 installed Update 1709 and have not had any problems with updates until 1803 came out the update from Hell. It has downloaded 32 times and every time it failed. I contacted Microsoft Desk and they told me that I needed to do a clean install. I went and backed up...

Hello everyone, I've come across a weird problem that I'd like to share with you: under certain circumstances, Diskpart and some other programs don't report the correct capacity of a hard disk. The disk in question is a new 4 TB, or 3.64 TiB (3726 GiB), Seagate BarraCuda, initalized as a GPT...

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...

I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...

SO I used Kali Linux live usb, and I thought live usb would not erase windows but it did. I need help and any solution by which I can use Kali Linux as a live usb and not getting Windows wiped out. Thanks!

Hi! i want to make an iso image file from my Vista system but only the operating system + drivers, i don't want any of my programs files and personnel files! i tested a few softwares but the only choice i have is the complete "C" drive! How i can do that? i want a copy for trying my Vista...

Hi all, I just upgraded from Windows 10 32bits to 64. I used an external hard drive for that and of course, I didn't think about it, everything is gone. Some of it wasn't backed up, so I'd like to get the data back if possible, it'd mean the world to me. My little bit of hope is that my hard...

Assume I bought or got a desktop/notebook with a pre-installed Windows 10 system. The hard disk is either MBR or GPT based and contains the typical partition scheme with Windows Recovery partition, Efi System partition, Microsoft reserved and Windows 10 main partition. Now I want to...

Computer: Motherboard: Asus Prime B250 Plus CPU: Intel i3 7100 I formatted a hard disk and am trying to install Windows 7 64 bit into the first partition. When I try to install it freezes where it says: "loading windows" From my research I think it is a problem with usb3 drivers. When I plug...