volume management

Fundamental question on best practice to allocate space for multiple shares (RAID6 array with 72 TB usable): 1) Initialize as one large volume and set up separate folder shares on this large volume? 2) Chop the 72 TB into smaller volumes - possibly aligning shares with volumes. I initially...

My computer fails to load the operation system when switching it on. On a black screen the error message shows: Invalid partition table When attempting to launch the opsystem from a Windows .ISO DVD any options offered on the screen fail to work out, the single viable option is to use CMD ...

I recently bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad E15 with the cheapest HDD available. I swapped it for a SATA SSD that I already had, formatted, and did a clean install of Windows 10 onto it. Then, I decided that I wanted to add an NVMe SSD and put Windows on that drive instead to take advantage of the...

I'm on Windows 10 Home, using USB 3.0 EXT HDD (one Glyph & one Fantom) The Problem: I attempted to clone each drive using Macrium Reflect as I've done many times before to back up information. Something's up because both drives seem to be bricked. At the moment that is. If you look disk.jpg...

My Toshiba has had windows 10 replacing win 7 And my C: volume is running out of space ie[39 gb ][only 3gb free] This is how I purchased it I have tried to add space from an f:volume in disk management with no result only 34 gb free space which I can not add to c: My system is left to right...

Hi, I have some network shares connected to my client from my server and I want to use File History on my server but I know that's not possible and that's a same it should bee great to run on it. (I'm running Windows Server 2016) What I understand is that then I should use Shadow Copy but...

I am using CreateFile to open a snapshot volume, and ReadFile to read from it. On one system I had an attempt to read 1 mb fail with a CRC error. As I understand it, the drive should be doing its own bad sector mapping, but apparently it's not. I know that NTFS has bad sector handling, does...

The other day, I attempted to make a Windows 8 Recovery USB using my external hard drive and the Media Creation tool. I specifically made a new partition for this process, as I had two other partitions on it with data. Making sure that the partition that was empty was selected, I successfully...

My HDD has 4 partitions. System reserved C: for OS D: for data E: for storage I want to make another partition so I shrunk E and went to create the new partition. I rcvd this message: The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). If you convert the...

I wanted to take space from my other volume I recently created volume. HP ENVY 600G memory. Having some serious problems, but this will help of I could get some space moved over.

Win 7 Home Premium. I was doing dual boot with Win 7 and Win 10 TP. I decided to remove the dual boot. So, I went to disk management and removed the volume where Win 10 was. The trouble is, the partition should be marked as unallocated. Instead it is marked as free space. Now, I right clicked...

I tried to change the drive letter because it wont appear, but it didnt work. I have tried the CMD method with the volumes but the volume did not show up. All I know is that its a G-Technology hard drive. I tried formatting it to NTFS but that wont work. Basically I tried everything and nothing...

Win 7, Home Premium, 64 Every time I reboot my machine I get a volsnap Event 25 error: "The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being...

So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...

Hello Forum, It's not a hardware issue, so I'm posting it here. Seems I'm not the first one but it seems to be a recurring issue which is slightly different for everyone. I cannot access external HDDs connected via USB. The Device Manager shows a device. Under "Properties, Volume, polulate"...

Hello windows7forums community, i reacantly took a EQUIINET Cachepilot (Basic Version) Link Removed due to 404 Error and tryed to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate for a media center pc. When i boot (I have removed all of the partitions and volumes shown in windows disk manager) anyway when i...

There were two PCs - one with Win8 64bit ConsumerPreview(1 HDD 120GB) and one with WinXP 32bit (1 HDD 750GB). I've tried to put both HDDs in same PC but failed. When bootdevice is HDD with WinXP everything is OK, just one more 'volume' appears. But when i set bootdevice to other HDD with Win8...

I have a new computer build where I have Win 7 Pro 64-bit installed on a SSD. Then I have a pair of 1TB drives that I setup as mirroring drives in Disc Management. I proceeded to setup my windows backup to the mirrored drive, but it is giving me the warning: When restoring a system...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot cancel a running shrink operation on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you try to shrink a volume. More...

Hi there, I have the home premium edition of windows 7 and a have some little questions regarding disk management. First of all what will the option delete partition under the a free space will do as it is already empty ( no data is present in it ) Also, what is the difference between a free...