Questions tagged [disk-management]
The Windows disk partitioning and management utility; can be used to assign drive letters and create, delete, format, and resize partitions.
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How to retrieve a partition accidently turned into green "Free space"?
I accidently ran some commands -couldn't specify which, but I assume I did something using 'mountvol' that was recommended online-. After that I found partition 'D' turned into "Free space" (...
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Unable to merge all partitions (including the Recovery partition) in my Old Laptop hard drive turned external drive
I have the hard drive of my laptop that was replaced with a SSD so I wanted to use it as an external storage space by combining them all into one. There were 3 partitions previously that I formatted ...
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Getting a new disk to be included in the partition of a pre-existing disk on Windows 11
I am looking to buy a new M.2 Samsung SSD for my laptop that already has an M.2 Samsung SSD in it. My current SSD is 500GB while I intend to buy a 1TB one for the new SSD. I plan to use both SSDs ...
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Cannot access device / WD Portable Game Drive 5.0 TB USB
I've tried two cables and using two different computers to access my WD Portable 5.0 TB portable game drive that has a USB interface. Dmesg seems ok with line
[ 4586.948425] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming ...
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New external SSD acting up, no eject option
I just got myself an ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure USB-C Adapter and put an unused NVMe 1.3 into it (512GB).
When I tried to eject it in the file explorer, there was no eject option, though the format ...
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External HDD detected but not working
I took out an HDD from my old laptop which was working fine and never had any issues. I bought a casing for it and started using it as an external HDD. After a few months, I plugged in the HDD as an ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?
In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
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Expand C drive to another empty disk? [duplicate]
Can I convert my disks to dynamic. Then add the free unallocated space from disk 0 to extend C drive volume?
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Is it possible to extent my C: drive in this case? [duplicate]
How to move the recovery parition and D: drive to make it possibile to unallocated space to extent to C:. the unallocated space will be e: after deleting it.
My case :
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System Partition & Boot Partition on Different Drives
My setup is windows 10 installed on a SSD, and then 2 other hard drives. I attempted to convert the SSD to GPT(I think that is correct) for windows 11 installation. I got the error message "The ...
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Entire hard drive disappears randomly on Windows 10
I have an MSI laptop (GL75 9SE) with an NVMe SSD disk (Partition C) and an additional 1 TB hard drive (Partition D).
I have Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Build 19045.2251 with the last updates
In the last few ...
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How can I move space from drive C to drives farther away?
I have drive C, D, and E.
My E is full and my C has a lot of empty space.
However, no matter how much I shrink C, the unallocated space won't be available to E.
The unallocated space remains in ...
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Why is the external hard drive not opened by Windows 10?
I have a wd external hard drive that is recognized by windows in device manager but not showing in windows explorer.
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Can I create a RAID 1 array with a drive that already has data?
I am moving an IDE drive from a customer's old desktop into his new one. I want backup the old drive (drive 1) to a new drive (drive 2) before moving it to the new computer. Afterwards, I want to ...
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My USB kind of shows up on Windows 10 [duplicate]
I have an old USB I plugged into my computer, but it doesn't show up in file explorer. I tried running CHKDSK on it but it said Cannot open volume for direct access. I tried using FORMAT but it also ...
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