recovery partition

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...

On my laptop Asus HDD is Disk0. I have installed Windows on SSD but Recovery Partition is on HDD (Disk0), also EFI System Partition. My laptop has only one SATA port so I cannot change to other port SATA. In BIOS settings in SATA configuration I have only two options, AHCI and Intel RST Premium...

Upon preforming a disk cleanup I believe I accidentally erased data on 2 recovery partitions. I assume one is for 7 and one for 10. I took a look at the hard drives recovery partitions and there is 100% free space. If one is for 7, I can live without it. However I would like to have one for 10...

Fixing a neighbors pc who's husband reciently passed. Currently it reboots a second or 2 after the blue windows logo appears. Alternates between attempting auto repair and no text. So now I can not even get into the refresh option and she has no install media besides the restore partition. I...

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...

Hello there Windows fans.... Apologies if this post already exists, please feel free to delete and refer me. I have a laptop that came with Windows 10 preinstalled. I would like to install Windows 7 but keeping 10 maybe for a later date. Can anyone suggests the best and safest way to do this...

Hello,, My uncle asked me to help him with his HP Pavilion laptop that was upgraded to Windows 10 (presuming he had Windows 7 before but don't really know). Although Windows 10 is working just fine and he has 80 -90% of his hard drive space still free, he is now getting disk space full...

Hello, i have hp/compaq dc7800 pc and win7 ultimate 32bit. I try to go to advandced boot options (hitting f8 at startup), but i only get keyboard error. (42 301 keyboard error) In windows it works ok. I have tested this pc with 4 keyboards and results are all same. Other win7 computer boots ok...

I have an Acer Aspire Switch 10 tablet/mini-laptop that came pre-loaded with Win8. I received the upgrade to Windows10 update months ago and finally removed it because it seemed my "reservation" languished forever. Now I'm sort of ready to upgrade, after 6 months or so of using WX on another...

I did a recovery of windows 10 which used space on my D drive from which I created a USB of the pre Nov2015 upgrade. this D drive is full and I wish to recreate a new recovery USB but the D drive is full How do I delete the previous version from the D drive prior to creating a new recovery...

I am helping a friend. Right now I am not at his place and have not all information in front of me, sorry for that. At some later time I will continue there, but now I am collecting all help and information I can get. It goes about this: The download of W10 completes, Preparing for Install...

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...

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...

The laptop is an Asus R500A with Windows 8 (not 8.1) that I just purchased from a guy on Kijiji. I got the thing home and did the recovery on it, all went as it should have and I was able to boot straight to the desktop where I went about performing the usual new Windows OS tasks; updates and...

I've got an Asus T200 with a 32gb eMMC, 64GB sd card and a 500 GB hdd. My problem lies basically with the eMMC storage for which Windows seems to have conflicting data. The storage comes with approx 21GB assigned to drive C and 8GB assigned to a recovery partition. Computer Management and...

I have read most of this thread & really, tried to keep tabs on it as it continues to have additions. W/out bothering w/ whether an original Key is lost or replaced, whether an original Recovery partition is lost or replaced when a production OS is overwritten by a beta OS, I'm going to suggest...

I'm getting a new Lenovo G510 (or possibly Z500) in a few days, and was trying to decide how to manage the operating systems I'm going to install. What I would like to do is: Primary Partition - Ubuntu or Mint (Most Frequently Used) Primary Partition - Storage Extended Partition 2 logical...

How create a repair rescue disk Windows 8 to restore Registry ONLY? ''Have a new HP Envy 15t-J100. Has a Recovery Partition. I created a Boot USB stick. Fine I recall with other Windows versions & and such you could create a repair/rescue CD that basically allowed you to restore your settings...

I have recently bought a Samsung ativ book 9 lite. Generally I'm happy with it but not at all with the bad usage of the disk space it has. It is supposed to have 128GB but: 1) It has a recover partition which takes up to 18GB (I think I should remove this one, what do you think of this?). 2)...

Hello I bought my laptop and desktop together and they are similar. because a Dell tech deleted the recovery partition on my desktop when I got it, it is not there but the laptop's is still there. I have moved from Win 7 which was the OS when they were new to 8 then 8.1. My question is this...