storage space

In a world where updating software is as routine as brushing your teeth, little issues can turn into big headaches, especially when it comes to operating systems as vital as Windows 11. Recently, Microsoft has acknowledged a particularly puzzling bug that’s been affecting some users after they...

Hello guys. I have a server running windows 2012 R2 backup services. The server has a Hyper-V with 3 VMs on it.(C drive) The E Drive has 2 VM's. I want to do a bare metal backup with a externa HD with 3.7TB size available. My drives size are: C: 1.8TB available 150GB E: 650GB available 270GB...

Hi, I finally got xp installed to my laptop, however, I have run into a problem. The software I want to install is designed to only be installed to the C:\ partition, it will not let me choose another drive to install to and I cannot install to C:\ becauase there is not enough space to install...

Running Outlook 2016 under Windows 10. Everything was running smoothly when all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago, we started getting the error message "554 5.2.2 mailbox full" and we could not send any messages. We discovered that although the system implied that the recipient had the full...

I have 2 identical hard drives set up as a "storage space" in a redundant mode. Since the last forced crap windows update or so, when I try to copy a file of any size to the space, it says the drive is full. Windows explorer, system, terracopy, ubuntu subsystem, partition magic and western...

Hi folks. Been Googling quite a bit and cannot find the practical differences between using two external USB drives as RAID 1 OR as a mirrored Storage Space. Can anyone tell me which is preferred and why? Thanks! ~Bob

I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows. I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before. When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive...

Im trying to create a windows 10 boot drive on a 128gb usb or 1tb external drive. I get to the creating windows media part at 30% and everytime it says not enough space. I have reformated both drives so there is more than enough space. What am i doing wrong?

Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...

Hi, All. I'm trying to free up space so I can update from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 10. I have installed DupeGuru and have been able to get rid of a bunch of stuff. However, I have literally thousands of dupe .ci, .wid, and .dir files. Is there any way to delete them? If so, I need...

For The Windows 8 "Storage Space" Pools, am I correct that choosing the "Simple/Resiliency" type of Pool will allow me to add more disks in the future when I buy them without any issues. I know that if you choose any of the "parity" types to create the Pool, you run the risk of having problems...

Good morning. Back in 2009 I purchased a dell laptop with XP. I upgraded it to 7home premium. Now being almost 9 years old there is almost no space at all left,even after using duplicate fingers and such. So I copied its entire contents to a external hard drive and am planning to wipe out...

I have VMWare workstation on windows 7 with a virtual machine windows 8. The windows 8 vdmk file was 41GByte.I did a disk cleanup and then the vdmk file was 28Gbyte but the System volume Information folder on windows 7 growed from 152MB to 9,2Gbyte because of one big file inside it.I don't know...

Hello Is it a good idea to check off device drivers and also Windows upgrade log files in "disc cleanup"? Each has a couple hundred MB's. Thank you

Hi, So my dad got a "trusted" co-worker who is a computer guy to build our home computer for us while I was away (for a price). For the most part he has been helpful. However, he seems to have fractured the HD into some peculiar partitions arranged as follows: DISK 0: 465GB (mostly empty)...

hello, i installed win 7 a year or so as an upgrade from vista and since then the HD is way smaller. I wanted to know if and how i can find if it kept the vista data or made a backup of it and its hidden. Or how can i see hidden areas of a HD? I have a toshiba pc and i remember fiddleing around...

ok... i have a toshiba qosmio G50. windows 7 ultimate 32 bit..... for weeks now i have been posting on forums for help on re installing my windows office .... in the end i was advised to do a clean install. so, this morning after backing up everything i began ..... let me just say , on my comp...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 connected to a new Seagate external hard drive. The Inspiron has 280GB of which 85 are free. The Seagate has 465GB with 445GB free. Several times I have attempted to back up the Inspiron and so far have been unsuccessful. The message I get is: Your last backup...

Hi there. I have an Asus G50VT-X1 I bought off of craigslist with a clean install of win 7 enterprise 64bit. Ive hadd it for about a month. It wont let me create a system restore point AT ALL which concerns me. It says i have insufficient storage space and I have run the applicable vssadmin...