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  1. Z

    NVME partition, loss of speed and life span.

    Hi guys, Does partitioning an NVME with extra D:\ partition cause loss of speed and life span? On google the answers were not straight to the point. I am worried mostly about loss of speed! Someone mentioned the D: partition will be in essence a virtual drive, thus the loss of speed. Can you...
  2. Loukan

    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...
  3. P

    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...
  4. S

    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...
  5. HaxJoker

    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...
  6. P

    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...
  7. J

    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...
  8. R

    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...
  9. C

    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?
  10. P

    Windows 10 Boot from USB flash drive only with FAT32 and no multi-boot support?

    I have a (new) Acer Swift notebook which does not allow to switch/enable Legacy BIOS mode. So I can only disable "Secure Boot" and use UEFI. However my bootable, GPT and NTFS formatted USB flash drive is NOT recognized or even bootable. It works on other computers. I read that FAT32 should be...
  11. ARNK

    EXT HDD Show "Online" but are "Offline" After Clone (Can't Format)

    I'm on Windows 10 Home, using USB 3.0 EXT HDD (one Glyph & one Fantom) The Problem: I attempted to clone each drive using Macrium Reflect as I've done many times before to back up information. Something's up because both drives seem to be bricked. At the moment that is. If you look disk.jpg...
  12. P

    Windows 10 disc o shows partition2

    Could you please tell me why disc 0 shows as partition(2) and if it should be fixed, how to do so? I do have an image I can recover if necessary. Thank you
  13. T

    Windows 10 Deleted a partition when i set up recovery drive

    Hi! I am in a shit siutation: I wanted to create a recovery drive. I plugged in an external drive with an M and an N Partition. Once i started the wizard, it told me to use either the M or the N drive. I took M, since on N there was the backup of quite a lot of pictures. Then the process to...
  14. B

    how can i divide hards in win server 2008?

    i want format my pc and install win server 2008 but the case have 4 hards any hard 300 GB ,so how can i divide them and create drive c and drive d
  15. A

    Windows 7 Can't delete "free space" partition!

    I used "AOMEI partition assistant" to shrink a partition, during this "Memory Dump" appeared, when I restarted the PC I found that this partition became locked, I deleted it, and it became free space... 1 - When I try to create a partition in that free space: -It says "not enough space"... 2...
  16. jkstone1013

    Windows 10 Migrated disks, boot not working

    Hi All, I migrated my OS/image from a stock HDD to a new SSD. I can boot from the SSD completely fine when the HDD is not connected but when it is connected I get a boot error. I can boot from the SSD using the boot options in the BIOS (Dell) but the boot priority is still set to Windows Boot...
  17. Wisdom Seeker

    Windows 7 What to do with ever-expanding updates Win 7?

    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?
  18. abrogard

    Windows 10 Has Macrium Made Things Worse?

    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...
  19. kvara

    Unix/Windows can't boot (perpetual OS boot)

    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...
  20. J

    Windows 10 Upgrading SSD

    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...
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