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Installing extra SSD, help needed
I am trying to add another SSD to my PC, but it shows up in Disk Manager as 'Unallocated' without a drive letter, and there is no option to initialize the disk available. Instead, Windows gives me the option to convert it to an MBR or a Dynamic disk, and if I chose either it is simply replaced...- Minotaur
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- device manager disk management drive letter dynamic disk gpt installation mbr preowned ssd storage troubleshooting unallocated windows write protection
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 Unallocated disk space
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...- Rapaaja
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- c drive disk management disk space disk usage file explorer file system hard drive idle space maintenance partition reserved space storage storage expansion system drive unallocated user query windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Unallocated drive space - wont move into C: drive
I want to provide a lot of space for a Linux Mint distribution to run on the windows pc, having first set up a dual boot system. I had a D: drive with 800MB of space not being used. I deleted the D: drive and that space became "Unallocated". Following the instructions, I should be able to click...- davidlew
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- c drive d drive disk management disk space drive allocation dual boot file system installation linux installation linux mint partition reallocation storage unallocated virtual drive windows windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 How do I combine 2 partition into 1?
I installed a 120gb SSD drive into my computer. When I cloned it it made 2 partitions and left some space unallocated. I would like to combine these if possible. f: is the active partition. But the windows system is on c: See the picture of my disk management screen- billkater
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- active partition combine disk management partition ssd storage unallocated windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Recover Unallocated 250GB HDD After Windows 7 Reinstallation
backed up my files on a 250g HDD reinstalled win7 on 500g HDD During install, I ignored the 250 and partitioned the 500g HDD like I have done thousands of times before. Then choise one of the partitions on the 500G HDD to install wnin7. Install complete and win 7 is on the proper partition...- paulmars
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- backup computer management data recovery disk management file recovery hdd partition storage issues unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 How can I move unallocated space to the partition I want?
Hi I'm trying to start over on the creating a recovery capsule thing. I have turned the old one into unallocated space. I can add it to drive C:\ that's not a problem, but I'd like to add it too the D:\ partition and it does't give me the option to do that. Here's the image, check out disk...- MikeHawthorne
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- c drive d drive disk management formatting partition recovery resize storage unallocated windows
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Windows 7 Windows Start Up Failure: Boot Selection Fail
Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...- Majjin
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- antivir ata backup issues boot issues boot manager data corruption data recovery disk recovery error external drive hard drive installation disk raid seatools specs startup repair system crash unallocated virus windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Secondary, non-boot HDD...do I want MBR or GBT?
I recently purchased an SSD to use as my boot disc, and a 1TB HDD to use for my primary storage device. I installed my SSD, and installed Windows to it, installed my HDD, and set my BIOS up to boot from the SSD, with the HDD as a secondary drive. In device management, the HDD is is Unallocated...- Varlisk
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- bios disk management gpt hdd initialization mbr ssd storage unallocated windows
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 how to recover lost partition
i have 250 GB hdd in my computer ,but due to wrong usage of partition software i lost my hdd partition. For recover this i format my hard drive but not successful to recover my hdd partition .Now this time in "my computer" only shows the 125 GB partition . I tried to recover from the...- avinashrawat
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- data loss disk management formatting hard drive partition recovery storage issues unallocated volume creation windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 How do I resize a Windows 7 Boot Partition?
My first post on the Forum! I recently installed a 90GB Kingston Technology SSD and then created a shadow copy of my previous hard drive (which was 62.4GB), meaning that currently I only have access to this amount of space on the new hard drive. Can anyone confirm (or direct me to) a step by...- AKA1
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- boot drive guide hard drive kingston technology partition resize shadow copy ssd storage unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Urgent help needed....BSOD and Partitions showing unallocated space
Hey guys, figured I'd ask some experts if I can save this thing before I do a complete reinstall and lose everything. I was messing around with some software today trying to format an SD card to EXT4, and I ended up with a constant reboot loop and bsod. So I plugged the hard disk into another...- unsivil_audio
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- bsod data loss disk management error ext4 formatting hard drive partition reboot recovery recovery console sd card software tech support troubleshooting unallocated windows
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Can't delete unallocated partition on external hard drive
I created a new partition and formatted it into Fat32 so my PS3 could recognize it. Now I don't need it. I now have a 30 GB and a 100 MB partition, and I don't know how to get rid of them.- DoctorRobert
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- delete external drive fat32 hard drive partition ps3 storage unallocated
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Windows 7 SATA HD says not formatted in windows 7 or xp
Ok, i had a complete system running windows 7 and i just did a new build. I took my sata hd's out of the first build and used them in the new build. I had a 320g and a 1tb. I installed the 320g by itself and installed w7. Now i plugged in my 1tb drive with all of my personal files that i had...- AWILLIAMS64
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- active partition backup data recovery disk management file recovery formatting hard drive mbr partition personal files sata storage issues system build unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Desperate to solve partition deletion issue :(
If any Mods read this - can you just delete the post - no longer require help on it - thanks. =================== My system is a self built one with 3 SATA drives - 2 x 250 1 x 500 Gb. Win 7 is on one of the 250's while I have XP + 6 other partitions on the 500 Gb disk. My problem arose...- TKR99
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- acronis data loss delete disk director disk management free tools installation issues partition programs recovery registry resize restore sata software unallocated undelete utilities windows 7
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 7 delete primary partition
I creatrd a partition using Spotmau Partition Genius for backup until I could get an external hard drive. When I click the partition in the program ti says "Unallocated". I can't do anything with the partition and it is not visible in Windows. I would like to know how to delete it and create a...- yoshirocks
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- backup delete disk management external drive logical partition partition primary partition spotmau genius unallocated windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 secondary hard drive not showing in my computer
Hey basicaly im a noob when it comes to win 7 not had a need to use windows for a while but recently had the urge to game on my pc again I have a 250gb hard drive which i have windows 7 and ubuntu installed onto and a 1tb and a 1.5tb hard drive formated in ntfs(from when i ran mainly xp)...- watersa8
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- disk management gaming hard drive ntfs storage troubleshooting ubuntu unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 harddrive space taken up by nothing
Alright, I've searched these forums and a number of others and haven't found a solution to my exact problem. Basically what is happening to me is my C Drive where Windows 7 is installed is only saying I have 28gb's of harddrive space left (on a 100gb partition) yet when I've run treeview it...- SeriouslyPunked
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- antivirus ccleaner chkdsk clean install disk cleanup disk usage file system hard drive malware partition recycle bin restore point space storage system issues tech support troubleshooting unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Partition not showing after installing Windows 7
Hi Guys, I had a test version of windows 7 installed on my Sata drive which had 3 partitions on it (c:40gb, d:40gb, e:220). This worked fine. I decided that i liked Windows 7 so i wanted to re-install it on a permanent basis so i went through the installation, formatted C: ONLY and installed...- dabooj
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- computer issues data loss disk management drive letter file recovery formatting installation partition sata drive tech support unallocated windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Recovering Data from Unallocated Drive After Windows 7 Installation: Need Help!
OK, guys here is the deal, One hour ago I had a windows XP and 2 partitions. "C, and the one I had the windows on "D". When installing 7, it obviously decided to name the drive C. So now I got drive C and an unallocated 120gb drive, that requires formating in order to be used. What can i do...- mailobg
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- data recovery disk management file access formatting music collection partition storage issues unallocated windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Invalid Partition Table
Basically while I was running Windows 7 I wanted to clone my 149GB Hard Drive to a 500GB partition on my 1TB HardDrive, with Ubuntu taking up the other 500GB. I coulnd'nt clone using Windows tools because I always had an error of some sort. I then tried cloning using various Ubuntu tools on the...- Tjcrazy
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- backup bcdedit bootloader bootrec cloning data recovery dd command disk management diskpart file system gparted hard drive i/o error live cd partition recovery ubuntu unallocated windows 7
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Hardware