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  1. voyager

    Windows 10 My PC has 6 drives

    I am in the process of cleaning and neatening up my PC. My PC has 6 drives: (C:) - Primary - M.2 - 1TB O.S. Drive - 3 Win Install partitions (D:) - Primary - SSD - 1TB Installation Drive - 1 Partition (E:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1 Partition (F:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1...
    • voyager
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    • backup data drives data loss disk cleanup drive conversion drive management hdd logical partitions m.2 drive os drive partitioning pc setup primary drive ssd storage storage solutions windows
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  2. Brendan McCourt

    Windows 10 'Apps and Features' taking up 890+ GB in my hard drive. Added up the space all my games are taking up and it only adds up to around 500 GB.

    My PC has a 2TB hard drive, and I currently only have 866GB free. When I go into Settings and go to storage, it shows that my 'Apps and Features' take up around 890GB, which seems extremely high. All the other categories seem fine, only taking up around 20GB. I went into Steam/Uplay/Origin and...
    • Brendan McCourt
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    • apps disk usage features gaming hard drive pc maintenance space management storage troubleshooting windows settings
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  3. irishrocks

    Encrypted files on Server

    I have a few hyper v servers 2012,2016 that have files encrypted on them from a few minutes over night on Dec 17th and Dec 18th. There was no ransom file and I have found no ransomware and don't believe it has happened since and have already restored the files. These servers are in a...
    • irishrocks
    • Thread
    • configuration data recovery encrypted files file restoration hyper v ransomware servers storage windows server
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Server Forums
  4. F

    Windows 10 SSD Disk Busy

    I keep getting Disk Busy error from my Link Removed Can anyone shed any light on this? Thank you in advance.
  5. Z

    NVME partition, loss of speed and life span.

    Hi guys, Does partitioning an NVME with extra D:\ partition cause loss of speed and life span? On google the answers were not straight to the point. I am worried mostly about loss of speed! Someone mentioned the D: partition will be in essence a virtual drive, thus the loss of speed. Can you...
    • ztplru
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    • efi partition hard drive life span nvme partitioning performance recovery partition speed loss storage virtual drive
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Software
  6. T

    Windows 7 Dramatic difference between hard disk transferrate "sequential" vs. "random" access?

    I have connected my computer through USB 3.0 cable with an external (backup) hard disk (Hitachi HDS724040ALE640, SATA III, 7200rpm, 4TB, NTFS formatted, empty). The USB controller in external case box and the USB port on mainboard are USB 3.0 compatible. When I benchmark now the transfer rate...
    • tobwen
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    • access speed benchmarking crystaldiskmark data transfer defragmentation driver settings external hard drive hard disk hitachi performance random access sata iii sequential access storage storage devices transfer rate usage patterns usb 3.0 windows settings write cache
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  7. News

    Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20277 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting today, we are giving Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel the option to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch. These builds will be offered as...
    • News
    • Thread
    • build 20277 dev channel development disk management error codes feedback fe_release fixes flight hub insider preview insider program known issues pinned sites rs_prerelease sdk storage taskbar update process windows 10 windows update
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
  8. News

    Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20270 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Other updates for Insiders File Skill in Cortana You can now use Cortana on your PCs to translate their thoughts into direct actions to open and find files...
    • News
    • Thread
    • build 20270 cortana dev channel file search fixes improvements insider preview known issues onedrive performance printers sdk storage taskbar touch keyboard updates user experience windows 10 windows insider
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
  9. B

    Windows 10 Cleaning out Downloads Files?

    My downloads file is growing. Any rules on deleting everything in the file? Does deleting a download also delete the program once it is installed?
    • busybee
    • Thread
    • cleanup delete downloads file management installation pc maintenance programs storage
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  10. O

    Windows 10 Sd card troubleshooting

    I’m trying to get my computer to find an sd card, but everything I’ve tried hasn’t worked. The sd card is plugged into my computer. Is there anything I can do?
  11. News

    Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20257

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20257 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Other updates for Insiders Announcing Your Phone multi-apps experience – interact with multiple Android mobile apps at the same time on your Windows 10 PC The...
    • News
    • Thread
    • android apps bug fixes build 20257 developer disk management feedback improvement insider preview known issues multi-apps notifications performance samsung settings storage taskbar updates user experience windows 10 your phone
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
  12. News

    Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20251

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20251 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Updates for developers The Windows SDK is now flighting continuously with the Dev Channel. Whenever a new OS build is flighted to the Dev Channel, the...
    • News
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    • build 20251 dev channel disk management dpc watchdog error reports fixes flight hub insider preview known issues miracast notifications powershell settings storage taskbar updates webcast windows 10 windows sdk
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
  13. T

    Recommended cluster vs. sector size for 6TB hard disk? Diff? Optimize random access speed

    Whats the recommended cluster and sector size for 4TB or 6TB hard disk (formatted with NTFS)? It should be optimized for random access speed. Whats the difference between cluster and sector size at all? And which one has more impact on the random access speed? Toby
    • tobwen
    • Thread
    • cluster size disk formatting file system hard disk ntfs optimization performance random access sector size storage
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  14. olat

    Windows 10 Windows Explorer crashes (and restarts) after waking up from sleep every time

    Hello! Windows Explorer crashes on my desktop every time I wake the PC from sleep. It starts up again after 2-3 seconds, but some of my taskbar icons disappear (like FX Sound Enhancer, AMD Adrenaline etc.). I am not sure if this started happening after an update or not, but as far as I can...
    • olat
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    • amd ryzen audio enhancer chkdsk error report graphics pc performance pc specs sfc scan sleep issue software update ssd storage system crash system restore taskbar icons troubleshooting user support video drivers windows 10 windows explorer
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  15. Chrispy

    Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager

    I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380 I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB. I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result. I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...
    • Chrispy
    • Thread
    • aomei backupper astrophotography bios settings boot manager cloning dell xps disk manager drive bootable easeus nvme drive ssd upgrade storage upgrade process windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  16. Comp Repair Tech

    ISO image onto 4.7(4.38)Gb DVD

    I am trying to figure out how to burn my ISO image for "Windows 10 Enterprise free trial" to my DVD. I have to use a 4.7(4.38)Gb disk and this windows edition below. The ISO image ends up as a file size of 4.5Gb and will not fit on the disk. Can somebody help me to figure this out because this...
    • Comp Repair Tech
    • Thread
    • blank dvd burning compression data transfer disk limitations disk space dvd dvd burning software enterprise file size iso image media single layer storage technical support trial version windows 10 windows installation
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Software
  17. A

    File permissions changed by themselves?

    Hi, I went to made a new virtual box on a drive which was recently convertde to go from several partitions to just one, and although I can read files I cannot delete them or indeed write a new file to the drive. Not sure how this has come about. How can I get it back to normal? The username of...
    • anotherwindowsuser
    • Thread
    • data loss drive management file permissions gparted linux partition issues read write access storage user access virtual box
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Linux Forums
  18. A

    Understanding GParted's Cancel Function During HDD Partition Resizing

    Hi, As I have been getting on well with my installation of Linux Ubtuntu 20.04 on a SSD I installed it to a few months back, I decided to delete the partition I was using it from on a HDD and extend the partition for saved data to utilised the entire HDD. However rather than simply extend the...
    • anotherwindowsuser
    • Thread
    • backup cancel computer data datarecovery diskmanagement filesystem gparted hdd installation linux partition ssd storage support technicalissue ubuntu userexperience
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Linux Forums
  19. A

    The cost of SSD

    Has the costs of SSD gone up? I bought one last year, 100gb or so £35, when I went to buy one in April I spent he same amount of money but was totoally surprised to see it arrive as a 30GB drive. I double checked what I had bought and it turned out I had indeed ordered a 30GB SSD, upon looking...
  20. A

    Ubuntu USB driver with persistance storage

    Hi, Does anyone know if I installed ubuntu 20.04 onto a usb device with the above intention, can I install a virtual box and use win xp in that? It wold need to run a usb device used to plug into the car for mechanical diagnostic purposes. Link Removed
    • anotherwindowsuser
    • Thread
    • diagnostics driver linux persistence storage ubuntu usb virtualbox virtualization windows xp
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Linux Forums
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