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Losing a precious document, photo, or a whole folder of work on a Windows 8 PC is never a small annoyance — it’s a sudden problem that demands clear, confident action and the right tools. For many Windows 8 users the practical question is straightforward: which recovery tools give the best...

When your new SSD isn’t showing up in Windows 10 or Windows 11, the experience can feel both frustrating and perplexing. Despite the ease with which modern hardware is usually detected and recognized, it’s surprisingly common for both veteran PC builders and new users to encounter a missing...

There comes a moment in every PC gamer's life where brute force, flashy specs, and a library bulging with half-finished Steam purchases simply aren't enough. The uninitiated might think all it takes to be a master of the PC universe is a monster GPU, an RGB-drenched battlestation, and an...

Formatting a hard drive is a fundamental task that comes into play when setting up a new storage device or preparing an existing one for reallocation. Whether you’re installing Windows 11 or 10, formatting sets up the disk to store files in a format that the operating system can utilize. This...

I have macrium in my pc and on an nexternal drive. When I installed Paragon B+R and created but image it wiped the external drive of everything. I have another external drive and when I add photos, music and images there is no issue. Why did Paragon wipe the drive? Is it b/c it formats the...

Hello, I had windows7 in my laptop.I tried to install windows 10 with USB flash drive, When I selected drive to install windows it said windows can't be installed on this drive. Later I have deleted the partition 1 under disk 0,but still didn't give me a solution got the same error. Then I have...

My computer was running Windows 10. Here are my specs: 2 x 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB Internal SSD 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR, 8GB GDDR5X 1 x Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz 1 x ASRock Z270...

I managed to retrieve my HP external drive from being a recovery drive. I finally got through to Dell tech support and they took files off. As an aside, I knew if I could format it it would erase everything and I could use it again. The Dell person did just that but I couldn't - I right clicked...

Hi I got a new computer and I'm giving my old one to my nephew. I cleaned it all out formatted the drives and reinstalled Windows 10 pro. The problem is first I had a lot of problems getting the install to run. When I get to the point where I select the drive to install it on I get the...

Guys, I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 17-7778 that currently has Windows 10 installed. This laptop does not have a CD-ROM drive and it only has (2) USB ports. I'm having trouble getting Windows 7 intalled, here are the things I have done to boot to CD or USB 1. Disabled...

I got a 5tb drive, and since I wanted it to be one large partition I used gpt. Windows recognized the disk, formatted it, and let me copy files. But when I restarted windows it froze on the "starting windows" screen. I figured out after some messing around that unplugging the drive lets windows...

I’m trying to fix my elderly mother-in-law’s Lenovo desktop that will not boot. It’s got Win 8.1 w/Bing and is about 13 months old. (Please skip to last paragraph if you don’t want to read all the background story) Long story short, this is what happened. It was running fine until yesterday...

For some time now run a dual boot pc for some time now with Win 7 and Win 10 tech preview. I have upgraded to Win 10. So now what I want to do is uninstall the tech preview and the boot menu. I could just format the tech preview drive but would that leave my boot up clean with just the Win 10...

I have transferred 6.5GB data of movies,songs,official files to my desktop through pendrive. Later I have formatted the pendrive. By Mistake I pressed(hold) and CTRL+Z(undo) on my desktop,the entire data was erased. How to get my data back Please help me out.

I have two 1TB HDD"s combined into one for my D:\ totaling 1.81 TB. I have 88GB free space left. What would happen if I uncombined this drive or would it allow me to at all? I can deal with a few problems like it not knowing where a program is. I just don't want the drives to crash and need...

Hi all, My apologies if this is a repeated question; I am at my limit with computing today and have been scrolling through forums to find people with similar issues as I have. I had installed Windows 10 TP from Windows 8.1, and after realising what a mistake that was, I tried to revert back...

Hi I'm trying to get the drive (Disk 1) back to one simple basic disk. It shows as 2 drive D:\s now for some reason, I have no idea why it appears this way. I have eliminated that other partitions that were on the drive but it won't let me format of delete the D:\ partition. How do I get the...

Hey guys, not so sure if this is the correct section to post it in. But my HDD broke not long ago, it had windows 7 on. My friend gave me a HDD he isn't using anymore and it fits well into my laptop. The HDD he gave me has vista on it. I started up my laptop with my windows 7 CD and it came...

A few weeks ago I tried out an Ubuntu installation, just to see if it met my requirements. I have all I need on Win7 but being the adventurous type and already having tried and dismissed Win8 I thought I'd try Ubuntu. My machine has 4 hard drives and one of them had shown up as not available and...

I have a WD 500GB drive. I installed W7 - cloned from a 2TB drive that has 4 partitions (100MB, 78.03GB, 363.20GB, 1.39TB(logical)) with the first 3 partitions. I then extended the last partition with disk manager to 387.63 which was all the unallocated space left. So the 500GB drive = 100MB...