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Error message: "Windows backup failed to create the shared protection point on the source volumes (0x8078006B). The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System and Application event log for more information." I was attempting to create an image of my notebook computer's hard drive on my...

This morning I created a backup boot on a verbatim drive. When it finished it said the following: CopySingleFile failed c:\boot\macrium\\WinREFiles\media\Boot\boot.sdi One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device Should I redo this with the same drive and format before...

SOLVED THANK YOU have tried several ways to fix this and can't. I am very limited with knowledge about computers. I am at the point where i am ready to download win 10 on a usb drive to load in the computer. Don;t know how I will do that since it will not boot. The computer I am...

I have 7 on my laptop but I want to upgrade too 10. I have done this on this laptop before with 7,8 and 10. Alwats worked. I do my install with a USB I hsvr no cd drive on my acer ultra-book so I have to use a USB.. Normally I would use rufus and put 10 on the usb, turn off my laptop, boot up...

I managed to retrieve my HP external drive from being a recovery drive. I finally got through to Dell tech support and they took files off. As an aside, I knew if I could format it it would erase everything and I could use it again. The Dell person did just that but I couldn't - I right clicked...

I have a couple of USB Flash Drives which contain different bootable systems. When I plugin the USB falsh drives into the USB ports of my mainboard, boot my computer and let BootManager show up then they all appears as "Sandisk Cruzer" So it is difficult to distinguish between them. Is...

Hi, Platform is AMD RX-421 CPU with 4GB DRAM. Our customer build Windows PE 32-bit image in USB drive, next boot AMD platform by this WinPE USB drive. However they get BSOD error when calling shutdown command. (WinPE command : wpeutil shutdown). If we test shutdown command in Windows PE 64-bit...

Good morning! My name is Tamara. I just joined this Forum because I figured it would be a lot of help to me since I am in the process of taking my A+ certification. So I won't bore you with the boring details! But hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Now, I don't know...

Assume I run a program from USB flash drive or network drive. It is not installed on the local Win 7 computer but it works. Hence when I go to menu START--->Control Panel--->Programs--->Default programs this program is NOT listed there as a possible application. So it cannot be defined as a...

I see a lot of info on creating a bootable USB installation disk . What I am interested in , is a bootable USB of actual Win 7 . In case of hard disk boot troubles , I could use this to get in at least . Seem to recall , years ago seeing such a thing . Anyone ? Thanks .

I have a Dell PC which has accounts for all members of the family - W10 Myself as admin others as users I don’t use it … as I have my own PC. Daughter advised me Anti-virus about to expire – went to install new license and W10 does not accept (or I have forgot) my password. Is there a way of...

I tried to copy my itune music to a usb drive. I had 70gb of music, now I have only 39gb of music. Can some one tell me how or can found this music on my computer.

I'm on a Windows 10 high end laptop. I have the C drive and also D, E and G drives. G drive is a USB 2TB Seagate. Is it possible for me to install a Linux distribution on the G drive (or the D drive) and run this instead of the Windows 10 installation?

Just joined. New one for me:: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" but its not a file problem, it's the USB drive. Tried to change permissions - Administrator has a Red X in permissions. Ch'd to 'Everyone', etc .. doesnt matter. this is weird. Suspect latest...

My laptop is now running low on memory and it is really slowing down especially its boot time. Im following this process on reinstalling Windows 10 via USB flash drive in my laptop. But here's the problem. I had this current version of windows 10 as a free upgrade and I had no serial key...

Hey everyone! I have an issue. I used to have a USB drive for Windows 10 by MSi and got destroyed (corrupted). I need your help here. Issue: to create a NEW USB installer of Windows 10 using MSi's 5 ISO files on my D:\ drive and create one installation USB drive Files in question: recovery_dvd...

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?

I shared two drives on my PC so I could play my media on my Raspberry Pi KODI box and one drive opens an Explorer window every 20 minutes on my PC. One drive I shared was F: which is a partition on an internal SATA drive, it never opens a window. The other was J: an external USB drive. The...

Hey guys, it has been a while since I posted. I was having some terrible issues with my Windows 10 install. I had some terrible issues with updates breaking my activation. I would go from 14393.1066 to 15063.0 or 15063.250 and my activation would tell me it either couldn't reach the activation...

I have a small utility which uses the MS C++ Redistributable library msvcr100.dll It works successfully on Windows 7. Now I put the program and all accompaning files (including msvcr100.dll) on an USB flash drive. When I plugin that USB flash drive into another computer with Win10 and try to...