partitions

I bought a Toshiba c55t-a5222 last year. I have only used this laptop five or six times. One day my tablet synced up with my laptop and now the laptop doesn't work properly. I am trying to recover my hard drive but it says it cant find the recovery partition. When I look in Disk Management I...

I brought assus notebook s551lb installed on it windows 8.1 I had to resizing my partitions so I copied , partition called recovery to my flash memmory then I formatted my hard and repartition it and now I don't know how to restore this recovery from flash memmory please can you advice how...

I asked this question here and i was suggested to ask on a windows forum. I want to uninstall Ubuntu, so i need to delete its partition. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management in Windows: So can you tell me please which are the Ubuntu partitions? edit: They answered me that the Ubuntu...

I have a Windows 8.1 Asus UX303LA laptop up-to-date on all updates. If I do a shift + restart, it goes to a "Choose Options" screen that includes "Continue", "Use a Device", Troubleshoot" and "Turn Off". If I select "Troubleshoot", the options are, "UEFI Firmware" and "Startup Settings". There...

Hi Everyone. I just downloaded and installed the new EaseUS TODO backup software on my computer. From the time I started downloading the software to the time I had a completed backup and a bootable repair disk was less then an hour. This software is really easy to use. During the install...

I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop that came with Windows 8 x64 O.E.M. and has been upgraded to 8.1 x64 to 8.1 Pro x64 over the weekend.Can I do a clean install of 8.1 Pro with the product key that Microsoft give's me with the 8.1 Pro upgrade. I already have 8.1 Pro on a usb flash drive that...

a friend dropped off a dell 3521 for me to install windows8.1 on. for some reason windows8 has disappeared and the Hdd is locked of so i cant install 8.1 on any partition. i took the Hdd drive out to get access to it and i cant even do that,its protected. i put windows8 on a usb stick and all...

I have 2 partitions on my SSD. One that has windows on it (the one on the right), and one that is empty (in the middle). Previously, the empty one was for my mac, and I deleted it. How can I merge it with my primary partition ? http://i.imgur.com/sxHHYQ3.png

Okay, so I've used the Windows 8.1 setup utility to get the installation files, I have an 8.1 Pro key. I was previously using Windows 7, and already backed up my data and all that jazz. Anyways, so when I have the files I select the "install from media" option and select a 16gb flash drive that...

Ok here's the thing, I wanted to install zorin (OS) dual-booted with windows 8. I accidently in the process deleted a lot of partitions that should have been deleted. I want to reinstall windows but I cannot get past the screen that says "a required partition is missing." I have tried all of...

Hi, I deleted my hibernation partition and have been having occasional troubles when restarting and turning off my laptop. Also, blue screen of death errors such as NTFS-FILE-SYSTEM and MEMORY-MANAGEMENT are regularly restarting my laptop. Chkdsk says it found errors but could not fix them...

I have recently bought a "Dell Latitude D620" Laptop PC with an 80 GB hard disk capacity. But now I want to repartition it's hard drive so that it would go according to my needs/requirements. Here's what I've planned: I will be making two partitions, one for the OS (I will be replacing the...

Okay now I have an issue with windows, namely secureboot and UEFI. This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine. As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot. So I gave him Ubuntu...

Hello people, I have a Windows XP Computer. I only have 20 GB of space, but my hard drive is bigger than that. It is 111 GB. I want to use the 91 GB left of space so I can store more stuff. Can you please tell me how to use Disk Management becuase I am not that good at partitions. Thanks in...

W7 and w8 are both installed but in different partition. The w8 doesn't detect my LAN. No light on NIC. tried downloading driver from msi website. Disabling enabling didn't work too. Changed duplex to 100mbps full still nothing. Disabled fast start nothing. But no problem on w7. Any thoughts?

Hello. I have windows 7 ultimate 32 I got problem when i downloaded Spyhunter and after i did what it asked me and restarted my pc. My computer came to a place call "grub>" . Every time i reboot my pc i came. To the same place. After some serching i did something real STUPID. when i came to...

After upgrading(?) to Windows 8.1, I now have more partitions on my hard drive. Can anyone tell me which ones are needed? The upgrade has caused other problems, mainly that I can't use my Microsoft Office Click-to-Run USB. I have a Gateway DX 4870 that came with Windows 8, and a Gateway...

So I'm going to install a fresh Windows 8 on my new Acer Aspire V5 laptop. When I come to the drive/partition window it asks "Where do you want to install Windows?". The following partitions already exist: 1: Recovery | Type Recovery 2: ESP | Type System 3: (no name) | Type MSR (Reserved) 4...

I have bought an acer aspire E1-571 notebook. it came with windows 8 single language installed. but I have compatibility issues with a lot of my devices. I would like to install windows 7 on the shrunk partition I have created but with it being a GTP partition win 7 wont install. I want to keep...

So, for the longest time I have had windows 7 and linux on my laptop. I decided i will just stick with windows, so i can single boot and so i have more HDD space (something all my games is about to take up on my current C: drive). When I installed linux (PCLOS if your curious) it added some...