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going to install windows 10 for the first time once complete, will install office and some other applications. pull down any/all updates as needed at that point I want to make an image of the hard drive I have heard that Windows 10 comes with the ability to do this, store to an external drive...

I shared two drives on my PC so I could play my media on my Raspberry Pi KODI box and one drive opens an Explorer window every 20 minutes on my PC. One drive I shared was F: which is a partition on an internal SATA drive, it never opens a window. The other was J: an external USB drive. The...

Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...

Hi, This is my first post hoping to find a solution from some Windows guru. My question affects all versions of Windows, which presumably support GPT partitions. I have a USB stick that I partitioned using GPT scheme. I have about 4 or 5 partitions, one of them is an ESP so that I can boot...

Hi all, I've got a 2TB hdd that I want to remove from the current machine, but I've noticed that there is a System Reserved partition on it. If I remove the HDD, the system will boot up normally? Or I'll have problems?

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I'm trying to install win10 to a new SSD on an intel NUC5i5RYK. I created a GPT partition table containing two equal size partitions using GPARTED (Knoppix). Then I booted to a win10 install DVD (usb device) using the default bios settings. Windows setup shows the two primary partitions...

Hi, I don't think this is a HW issue, reather a software issue I guess but I still want to ask you guys to make sure. I did connect my USB 3 drive to my laptop, then I did go to Computer Manager -> Disk Managment to first delete a partition and then extend the volume to have all of the disk...

Hi, In my Hd, c:, I have the following folders $winre_backup_partition.marker, windows.old, windows, $windows-WS, $windows-BT. Can u please tell me which version of windows are they and how to use. Cannot recall when Microsoft created and for which Windows. ie Windows 7, windows 8, or windows...

I installed a 120gb SSD drive into my computer. When I cloned it it made 2 partitions and left some space unallocated. I would like to combine these if possible. f: is the active partition. But the windows system is on c: See the picture of my disk management screen

Hello, I don't unerstand something. I want to have Windows 10 on 2 different SSD. So I hooked up another SSD to my PC and installed Windows 10 on that other SSD too. I booted to the other SSD by changing the boot sequence in the the BIOS, which worked fine. But then when I switched my boot...

After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...

Since new my Samsung R540 laptop has had two partitions, C for programs and D for data. I decided to replace the (slow) HDD with a SSD, and in the cloning process somehow everything was put into one partition. Is there any advantage in having separate partitions for programs and data?

I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a 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...

This image describes it well My question is, this will probably break something, so what steps should I take to fix things up after I delete and move stuff around like that?

I am trying to go back to win 7 ult from win 10. My computer is a HP 8200 sff (refurb) with: i5 3.2GHZ processor 8G RAM 1 TB HDD The problem is getting rid of the win 10 partitions. Most disk wiping utilities either don't have partition editing capabilities or are not set up for the win 10...

Hello everyone! I own a Asus Zenbook UX31A that came originaly with Windows 7, that was updated to Windows 10. It has an SSD with a recovery partition and I never messed with the partition table. The laptop is becoming slower so I decided to reset to factory settings (wich I already did a few...

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...

Hello I'd like to save an image of Windows 8 onto a second partition using Clonezilla, and have a couple of questions before proceeding: 1. Why does W8 create two partitions (350MB and 147.3GB) instead of just one? 2. When running fdisk in Linux, why does it display so many /dev/ramX...