system drive

I need to do a clean reinstall Windows 11 Pro on my workstation PC. I usually disconnect all SSD/HDs except for the OS drive which is formatted and overwritten during a clean install. In this case, the PC has 4 NVMe drives - one of these will be the OS drive. The other 3 drives I want to...

A few days ago, my computer started to freeze during regular use. The screen, mouse, and keyboard freeze, and the red led (in my case) that blinks rapidly when there is disk activity stays lit continuously. The only way to stop this behavior is to shut down the computer by using the power...

I have a Sandisk SSD that has Ubuntu loaded on it. I built a pc and loaded Windows 7 and both hard drives work. The SSD drive shows up in device manager and bios setup. Clicking on my computer the SSD drive does not show up. I look at the ssd using device manager and it gives me the option to...

So here's the story: I have a 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVMe, about 40% full on the motherboard as a C:\ system drive. Works as quick as the board/CPU/RAM (ASUS 970 gaming aura, FX8350, 16GB) will let it. It's only PCIe 2. It's still quite quick. 1.4GB/s read, 1.1 write (seq) from Crystal Mark Also...

Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

Hi, I have a Dell M4800 on which I have Bitlocker enabled with TPM on the system disk. Everything worked fine, I could unlock the encrypted drive with the pin code I had set and log in with administrator privileges to my domain account. I decided for some time ago to remove the computer from...

I reinstalled window 7 on a computer that was having issues. I deleted the existing Windows partition/drive and ran the install to that Drive (c). After getting everything reinstalled I was going to image the C Drive. It appears to be linked to another large drive (3tb). That drive didnt show up...

I had this machine wouldn't start, wouldn't repair, wouldn't reinstall, nothing... had a thread about it.. Well I took the drive out of that machine - we're talking Win10 - and stuck it in another machine as the system drive just to see what would happen, would it run or mainly would it cause...

The free space in my drive keeps shrinking though I haven't installed any new legal software in it. Is this a Vista OS problem, or is this some sort of malware or virus engineered to scrape data fragments off my system drive? What are the fixes for the above two scenarios?

I've got Windows 10 Pro 64bit installed on my system and the hard drive is showing me over 60GB of used space. When I open the C drive and unhide all folders and do a Properties, it shows just over 20GB of used space on my system drive. I'm trying to figure out where 40GB of files are hiding...

Hello, I just installed Windows 10 on one of mine disks. Install process ends fine but after that I found out that on other disk are not data, but there is old version of system disk! There are completely copied system disk data. I dont need that old version of OS but I need data which was there...

Apologies if I am duplicating an issue here. Just recently I bought a new copy of Windows 10 64 bit and a Toshiba Q300 480g SSD. I removed the old HDD (which was still running XP), connected the SSD and tried to install Windows 10. No luck at all - it did not identify the SSD drive and...

I just reformatted my system drive and reinstalled Windows 8.1 yesterday. The only software I've installed so far is Chrome and Steam (just the Steam app, no games). But for some reason I'm using up 80 GB of space on my system drive. Windows can't possibly be using that much space, right? I...

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...

64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...

Hello, i've got free space about 150 gb and I want add it to my C: Drive wich is my local disk. How can I do this?

I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

Hello, I had a working 64gigs SSD + 160gigs (friends) HDD. Today, my new 1TB HDD arrived, so I switches the HDDs, but after I wanted to boot, weird thing happened. no partition Grub Rescue >> and something like that... Okay I tried some things I found on net, but then I just reinstalled my...

Hi, My 1Tb non-system disk has been giving trouble recently, so I bought a 2Tb replacement, fitted it, Robocopied the files I wanted over, took the old drive out and rebooted. What happened was a Windows 7 OS recovery was attempted and failed. I couldn't boot the computer. I installed...