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Windows Explorer says internal HDD is read-only, everything else says it's not, how to fix?
I've been searching a few days for answers but I didn't see anyone else with this particular problem.
I have an internal 4TB WD Blue SATA drive purchased in 2018. I moved this drive to a new build in ...
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Video game taking up 4TB of disk space
For context, I do own a 4TB HDD but this game is stored on my 512GB SSD and was running smoothly up until recently. Now my HDD is showing as almost full even though I am still able to store large ...
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Cloning windows to another partition in a different ssd drive [duplicate]
My windows 10 is installed on "Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB" and after checking crystaldiskinfo, it's health is at 1% with 38 tb written. since it's on such a low health I'm planning to clone ...
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Output disparity on Chkdsk and Drive Properties
I recently noticed that one of my drives is having issues and I suspect it may be failing. Apps on this drive are slow to load (sometimes wont load at all and freeze), and any game that is on this ...
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Which hard disk is reporting bad blocks? [duplicate]
System: Dell Precision 3660 tower with primary drive 512 GB SSD and two 4TB HDD drives configured in Intel software RAID 1.
ONLY on reboot, the system dumps about 30 identical error messages into the ...
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Allocate free disk space to partition in dual boot (Fedora & Windows)
My setup is the following: dual-boot system with Fedora 40 (Linux) and Windows 10 operating systems.
I have several unollacted disk spaces when inspecting my hard drive in Fedora. The following ...
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PDF on File System mysteriously disappeared without a trace, Windows 10
On my computer, I have a few different drives, C:/ (where my OS is stored and runs, SSD), a X:/ (Where I store my games and other things that benefit well from an SSD), and a Z:/ (HDD, for documents ...
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SSD/HDD connected to windows10 via usb comes up as readonly but writable in linux
I've bought a new SSD (Acer SA100 480GB MAS0902+3D NAND SATA 2.5 inch). I want to clone my older HDD (running win10) to the SSD. I've also purchased a SATA to USB connector (Cablet 2.5 Inch SATA USB 3....
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
I lived 8 years with HDDs. Every time when there was a power outage, or for whatever reason I had to force-shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy-yet-dangerous restart ...
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Why am I getting an “Access Denied” error for an external hard drive folder?
I know this question has been asked before, but I've tried multiple solutions and none worked.
I am trying to access a folder [Local Disk] on my external hard drive, but it says Access Denied.
I made ...
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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk [duplicate]
I have bought a laptop with a 1 TB bitlocker encrypted drive and Windows 10 installed. I want o reduce the Windows C partition from under 1TB to ~200 GB. I was able to reduce it by ca 476 GB. Now it ...
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Switched SATA Hard Drive, Same Brand and Size, Now Showing As Wrong Drive/Blank
I had a Seagate 16TB hard drive connected to a SATA port on my Windows 10 computer. I will call this Drive A. I wanted to put in a different Seagate 16TB hard drive, Drive B, same brand, model size, ...
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HDD freezes Windows 10 when reading
My external hard drive (MAXTOR M3) run into issues lately.
At first I thought the MFT or boot sector got damaged somehow. Because the drive didn't show up at all, not even in the disk management. The ...
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Hidden disk usage in Windows 10
I have an exFAT-formatted disk which I put some hyper-V VMs on. One of the VHDs was dynamically sized so it would just eat up more disk space as it was being used. I was doing something in the VM that ...
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Windows explorer stuck at "items remaining: 0" when copying files
This is a simple issue that I haven't found a fix for months and Google searching is futile.
Sometimes if I copy/move/delete large folders containing many files (think tens of thousands) using Windows ...
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