storage issues

If you’ve ever had that sinking feeling of checking your hard drive only to find it's mysteriously busier than a New York subway at rush hour, you’re not alone. The recent wave of Windows 11 24H2 users are collectively scratching their heads over a “reporting error” that has led to substantial...

Microsoft is back in the spotlight, but this time it's not for a new feature or a spectacular performance; rather, it's for an unsettling quirk in Windows 11 that led users to believe that the latest update—Version 24H2—was surreptitiously "stealing" storage space. This perceived theft was...

Ah, Windows 11, the modern operating system that's supposed to streamline your digital life but seems intent on making things... interesting. The recent release of the Windows 11 24H2 update has brought a delightful surprise for users: a hefty 8.6GB junk file labeled as “Windows Update Cleanup.”...

With the October 2024 rollout of Windows 11's latest feature update, 24H2, users are discovering an unwelcome surprise: a staggering 8.63 GB of undeletable data, disguised as "Windows Update Cleanup," is hogging valuable storage space on their devices. As users have been attempting to reclaim...

Exciting times, Windows users! Just when you thought you could count on the latest updates for your operating system to enhance your experience, enter the Windows 11 24H2 update—a release that’s turning into a storage-stealing monster. Launched over a week ago, this new update has users...

Recent announcements from Microsoft have stirred significant discussions among Windows enthusiasts. According to the company, the Recall AI feature in Windows 11 is not an optional addition but a mandated part of the operating system. This decision has raised various concerns regarding privacy...

I had my old C: HHD drive replaced by an SSD, and moved to D: A new copy of Windows 10 was installed by the computer shop. Although I never used my D: drive since then, Windows 10 reads it upon waking from sleep for a few minutes - even when the drive was disabled and the drive letter removed as...

Hello everyone, I have a problem with NVME hard drives, 3 of them by now. I work with Windows 11 Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz and I have done the data transfer with EaseUS Partition Wizard Pro. The NVME's are installed as follows: 1 x directly on the mainboard (MACHINIST...

I have been trying to install Windows 10 on my new computer from a DVD I purchased with my old decommissioned computer. I have a DVD reader attached via USB. WIth the disk in the drive, when I turn on the system, it boots to the DVD and Windows commences to install. At the 2nd step of coping...

I would like to install on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024. BIOS boot order has Disk 1 on top. I have rebuilt the partition table of both disks. If I have disk 0 be empty, the it...

Greetings, I have finally got a VM to boot to a 'SecureRescueCD' in order to repair my Western Digital MyCloud 6TB drive. I have the 6TB plugged into a USB port, and recognized within Disk Manager. As part of the procedure, I have taken the Drive 'Offline' If I boot the VM without the 6TB...

Hello all, I accidentally deleted about 700-1000 image files from my Screenshots folder. I tried using this command with the windows file recovery app - winfr C: D: /regular /n Screenshots\ But its not working. It is returning many many files, but the ones that were deleted yesterday are not...

Hi All Been trying to do a dual boot with windows 11 & 10 on my c drive. It didnt work, windows 10 failing to create a boot setup and i`m left with lots of small 100MB partitions on my c drive. Any idea which i can remove, i`m trying to extend my C to use that unallocated 487gb of space. THanks...

I'v been trying to recover files from this other hard drive , now when i click on disk management . It is showing as wanting initialising ( its usually not showing at all ) .

I've been trying to remove File protection from a file from a USB and then delete it for a little while now I Tried. Removing disk attributes from the USB Starting up in SafeMode Delete The File From Command Prompt. Still Can Not Delete the File. If anyone knows how to help me out...

As I have asked some other people, they have told me that I need to remove its allocation on disk manager and then reLink Removedallocate it for it to work. I have tried moving, copying, pasting, deleting, creating, or doing anything on my MicroSD card. Can anyone help me with this?

I am trying to transfer about 7GB of data (photos) to an external hdd that holds 400GB. As per some instructions on the web I formatted the drive to NTFS and exFat nevertheless I still can't make this transfer.

Windows Server 2016: Why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it, I couldn’t figure out why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it as per the screenshots below

After re-installing my OS I noticed that I had lost a massive amount space. It automatically set up a c drive with approximately 100 gigs of space and an additional d drive with only 9 or 10 gigs of space. I looked in the disk management settings console and noticed multiple entries with a disk...

So basically I think I ducked something up with my ssd. I basically dual booted ubuntu for a while and for some reason when I deleted ubuntu It fully deleted. Now I have 2 partitions on my D drive (1 which is windows 1 which was ubuntu) and the ubuntu one sometimes . I need to fully delete...