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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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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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Option to extend volume on windows 10 disk management greyed out for no reason
Alright, I was trying to use this external 4TB HDD as a live disk for Linux, it worked but now I have to reformat it. However Disk Management, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided to grey out the ...
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External HDD freezes computer and does not show up in Disk Management
I have a Seagate 1TB external hard drive. I was doing a full reformat of the drive the other day and unfortunately, my pc crashed while it was at 94%.
After a reboot, my pc was completely stuck and ...
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How to resize (enlarge) C: partition in Windows 8.1 | MiniTool, Paragon, and Disk Management all failed
ISSUE SUMMARY
I can't resize the Windows 8.1 system partition to utilize unallocated drive space.
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I have an HP Pavilion 17 running Windows 8.1 which came with a 750GB hard drive. I ...
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Why I can't format 500 GB drive as FAT32 under Windows 7? [duplicate]
What can cause Windows 7 to prevent me from formatting 500 GB (actually 465 GB) external USB disk as FAT32? No matter, what I did (Windows Explorer, Disk Management), the only options I was presented ...
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windows 8 on external drive: how to make a volume bootable?
I want to install Windows 8 Release preview on an external drive.
When I selected a partition from my external HD, it displayed
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support ...
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How can I unmark an external hard drive partition as being active?
I accidentally marked my external hard drive partition as active in disk management. I meant to change the drive letter but hit the wrong button. Whoops. What are the consequences of having done that ...
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