partitions

Hi. I just installed Win8.1 on a second partition on my Toshiba Satellite. Now it seems my computer cannot find the wifi adapter on win8.1. I also cannot boot win10 any more for some reason. I think that it is not a hardware issue because, the wifi worked on Win10 right before I installed the...

On my 64bit Win 7 system I have two partitions: C: (with the "core" Win7 system) D: (with almost all other stuff) When I start the following command: chkdsk D: /F /V /R /X >C:\chkdskout.log everything works fine. However when I enter the opposite command chkdsk C: /F /V /R /X...

Hi guys, I have a laptop given by my employer. It has WIndows 8.1 and UEFI. I disabled UEFI and I installed Linux. With UEFI disabled I can boot Linux but I don't have an entry in the boot menu for Windows. If I try to enable UEFI then the message from BIOS is that there is no operating system...

The other day, I attempted to make a Windows 8 Recovery USB using my external hard drive and the Media Creation tool. I specifically made a new partition for this process, as I had two other partitions on it with data. Making sure that the partition that was empty was selected, I successfully...

Hello! I didn't found any other section to post this and I'm running windows 10 on my PC so.. I'm wondering if is this possible! For example 1 partition with windows 10, another one with linux. I start my computer and both systems will run, windows 10 as default system and with a simple...

So I've been looking everywhere for this and in the end I still can't find rock-solid info. So I've just installed Windows 10 Pro in UEFI mode with Secure Boot enable and now I've got 4 partitions: Normally, I would just "ghost" my C partition and be done with it with Legacy boot but now with...

I successfully upgraded Win 8.1 to Windows 10 via Windows Update. I also created an install DVD using the Media Creation Tool. Sometime soon I would like to do a clean install using this DVD, so I can get rid of a lot of junk on my PC and start out new. I assumed I would just put the DVD in my...

Just noticed that since upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, I have 2 recovery partitions. Does Windows 10 automatically create a new recovery partition? If I create a Recovery USB Drive, will it be Windows 10 or Windows 8.1? I can't do anything with either of these partitions via Disk...

This all started several months ago. My laptop was stuck in processing updates for hours, even when I had got off work. I turned it off by holding down the power button, the I turned it back on. After booting up, it continued to process updates. I turned off again the same way I did the first...

I currently have Windoes 8.1 installed. I want to add Windows XP and be able to choose between the two at boot up. How should I go about installing Windows XP?

I have just created an image backup for my windows8.1 computer,but when I try to open the image file I am told the Disk Image is not initialized,contains partitions that are not recognized or contains volumes that have not been assigned drive letters and I should use Disk Management snap-in to...

I am trying to create w8.1 Installation Media using File History. I used the Inst.Media Tool, I clicked "open DVD burner" it said Error & ejected the new DVD+R 4.7GB, also tried 2 more. This "DVD Drive (I:\)ESD -ISO" with 9 files in it appeared at the bottom of Win Explorer. What is it, my DVD...

A new app has appeared similar to CPU-Z and GPU-Z: ref and download: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/ssd-z-download.html Here is a screen shot of my SSD:

I had read the numerous post regarding this problem and have tried all of the recommended steps to resolve it. I am starting a new thread with my farbar scan tool results in hope that someone will be able to assist me in resolving this issue. Here are the specs of the machine i am dealing with...

My Windows 8.1 laptop has 4 recovery partitions. Which I think are way too many. I want to delete them and merge the space with other drives. What are they for and why do i need 4? Can I delete them all? Or perhaps keep just one if it is necessary?

I have these 4 recovery partitions and I have no idea what they are for. Can I get rid of them if they are not necessary? And how do I do it, if it is safe to delete them?

hello to all! i am trying to help someone who commented on one of my YouTube videos on how to install Ubuntu. I have a step which involves shrinking a partition to make room for Ubuntu, and he has over 50GB of free space, yet can only take away 3000MB... if anyone could help that would be great...

Desktop machine Acer Aspire M5700 Windows Vista Home Prem. 32b. The original partitions by OEM were re-partitioned and thus caused the problem that eRecovery, the Alt+F10 keys and eRecovery DVD's, can't recover the system back to out of factory status. Symptom: The recovery process restarts...

HI, I used last year my new TOSHIBA vb63700-A 500GB external HD to Backup the 6 partitions PC using " Paragon Backup and Recovery 2014 Free ". Today tried to familiarise myself with it again, opened Paragon, clicked on Restore & Add an existing archive, went to Toshiba HD and found the two...

Hello. I opened CMD and ran diskpart. I found 4 hidden drives I did not know about. One of these partitions I am not able to open because I do not have permission to access it. The other three say they have content stored in them. For example, 200MB free of 500MB. I open these partitions...