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Windows 10: Can I safely remove WINRE or RECOVERY partitions?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:
Thus, I ...
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Installed a new SSD, Windows still boots from the old one
I recently got a new 1TB SSD for my computer (a Lenovo ThinkPad P70). My plan is to have this disk as the main Windows 10 boot drive, and keep the old one (500GB) as a secondary drive.
I didn't want ...
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"Computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk" when trying to install Windows 10
I have a laptop that originally came with Windows 10; the hard drive is now completely empty, and using Gparted, it's been formatted as a single, empty NTFS partition with an msdos partition table. ...
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Can't extend partition to use free space
On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions
How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?
The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the ...
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Installing Windows 10 (same product key) on a separate drive in case primary drive fails (multi-boot)
Current Setup:
My machine has four hard drives:
A 237GB SSD C: drive (almost full, nearly 4 years old) with Windows 10. I've got the original Windows 8 installation CD.
Storage Space (Z: drive), ...
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my windows 10 pc got really slow although CPU and memory usage is fine. what else can I do?
since two weeks my windows 10 pc got really slow, and I have no idea why. I can still do everything, but everything takes much longer to a degree that I'm struggling to get my school work done. ...
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Internal hard drives showing as removable in Windows 10
My internal drives are showing for some reason as removable in windows (one is SSD and the other is an HDD) in Windows 10 Pro.
I read somewhere this can affect performance.
Why is this? Is this ...
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Disk usage at 100% during startup
Every time I start my computer, I have to wait 15 - 20 minutes just for it to actually be usable because disk usage is stuck at 100% and causing high lag. I have no idea why, and I tried a few ...
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How to make my old hard drive non-bootable?
Frequently my BIOS for some reason tries to boot to my old hard drive instead of my new SSD. This is starting to get very annoying have to switch hard drive priorities every time I restart my computer....
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Windows 10 is showing an OEM Partition with a logical drive letter in Explorer [duplicate]
Recently in Windows Explorer, a "Local Disk (F:)" Drive appeared and shows 34.2MB free of 449MB, but when I double click on it, Explorer shows no files on this drive. I don't have any idea what this ...
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?
I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
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Hard disk drive is visible via USB 3.0 but not via SATA
I have connected and initialized(as GPT) a new 3.5 3TB hard disk drive via USB 3.0 (using this Orient UHD-523 adapter with external power supply), moved my data from two old 1TB hard disk drives into ...
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Did Windows 10 just add a partition to my hard drive?
I have two computers running Windows 10. Just today, I noticed that both of them have an additional volume with a drive letter assigned to them (one of them named "Local Disk (G:)" with 68.9 free of ...
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External hard disk detection issue
what exactly happened:
I have a Seagate 1 TB external hard disk.It was working fine till now.The problem started when I plugged it in my android phone and then back in my pc then simply it does not ...
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Laptop with broken HDD as a Secondary Monitor
My lenovo P400 ideapad, running win 8.1, crapped out a few months ago (registry error and I can't access my HDD) and I recently got a new laptop running win 10. Last time I tried fixing the computer, ...
