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My hard disk suddenly active at 100% in Task Manager
I was trying to install something on my computer with the installation source being disk D, but I noticed a slow installation process, so I went to Task Manager and I see the disk drive D running at ...
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Windows boot loader corrupt on encrypted Windows 10
Good evening. I am looking for assistance in decrypting a HDD encrypted with Drivecrypt Plus Pack (or DCPP). In preparation for formatting, I uninstalled Drivecrypt from Windows without first removing ...
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How can I find the correct disk number of the hard drive installed in the computer?
I installed a new Kingston nvme m.2 ssd to my hp 15da2014TX laptop. My old drive is an HDD. Both drives are 1TB.
I want to clear the Kingston drive but, I am afraid to do it because I can't ...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
I've recently bought a new SSD and successfully cloned the old HDD and all it's partition to the SSD resulting in a C: and D: drive.
I've added a new boot entry with bcdedit by copying over the ...
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Wipe unallocated disk space in Windows and clean or rename file in directory structures
I want a way to clean free space in Windows once I delete the data, so that:
The files are no longer recoverable by any disk recovery tools
The file names are no longer visible in any disk recovery ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10
On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore.
I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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How to disable NTFS ownership enforcement on Win10 for Admins?
Classic story - moved a portable USB HDD to a new Win10 machine. All folders on it are marked as "Owned by the previous user", and therefore it hit me with the "You need permission to ...
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Dynamic disk shows as "Error" - offline
I'm having problems with an external FireWire disk. It worked last time I connected it, but now it doesn't. I have tried an alternative cable.
Disk Management looks like this:
None of the Disk ...
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If a hard drive is dying, is it a bad idea to use a backup created by its (Windows 10) OS?
I believe my hard drive (let's call it C1) is dying: chkdsk /f on my C drive freezes/locks the process at a certain %. A few months ago I ran this process successfully and it found and fixed errors. ...
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Windows Explorer detected wrong drive total space
Note: This is not a duplicate of:
Windows explorer displaying wrong free space
Windows Server 2008 r2 reports wrong hard drive free space
Windows 10 reporting wrong hard disk free space
Drive Space ...
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Why does system image backup of C drive fail in Windows 10 Pro?
I regularly take backup of my computer by creating system image of the C drive. I do so by going to Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore and clicking the "Create a system image&...
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windows 10 disk all of a sudden has no data and having I/O errors
A drive i have been using for several years all of a sudden is not showing to have any data
trying to click the drive shows error
D:\ is not accessible.
The request could not be performed because of ...
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Copying user folder from a crashed Windows 11 laptop
I had a Windows 11 laptop that crashed. I had some very important files in my user-folder. So I left the laptop to an Italian computer shop and they removed the internal SSD hard drive and copied the ...
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Win 10 CHKDSK /F /R /X skipping to login
Tried to run CHKDSK /F /R /X this morning, unfortunately, after restarting to begin the process I get the press any button to skip part (I don't press anything) and it moves onto repairing C drive, ...
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSOD after cloning a drive, but only when the old drive is still connected
I've used Clonezilla to copy my Windows installation to a new drive. I have done a disk-to-disk copy, from the old SATA SSD to the new NVMe SSD. Upon removing the old drive, the new drive boots just ...
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How to replace dual boot HDD with SSD?
I have a Dell Inspiron 5567 that came with mechanical HDD of 1 TB that has Dual boot (W10 and MX Linux) for which I want to change to a SSD (they told me that is faster, I don't know in which ...
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Could I format my C: Drive by mistake?
Could you accidentally reformat a C: drive using file explorer? Would it be remotely possible?
I'm just wondering if this can happen - is it possible to accidentally click the format button on "...
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Unable to copy any file to external HDD
I have WD My Passport 4TB External Hard Drive. When I try to copy any file to WD HDD, it gives me error: "Cant read from the source file or disk". But I can copy any file in HDD to my laptop....
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Reallocated sectors number went down?
So far from what I've read online reallocated sector count can't go down, at all. And yet, my hard drive that recently reported 24 bad sectors seems to decrease it?
Firstly, hard drive via S.M.A.R.T. ...
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How to fix the Data error (cyclic redundancy check) on a smartphone?
I regularly transfer data from my (Android) smartphone to my (Windows 10) PC / NAS. For that I simply connect th ePC and the smartphone via USB and cut&paste the files to the PC or directly to the ...
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Cannot read uncached files from SSD
I have an NVMe SSD drive for games and some files.
Sometimes the drive just stops giving previously unread files - any files I used today are still there and games continue running until they have to ...
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Lost all permissions to hard drive in windows 10
I had to share my laptop with someone, so I tried to change the access permissions of my storage drive, while windows is on my SSD. But somehow I lost all permissions to my drive.
After trying all ...
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Making an existing Windows 10 partition bootable
I have a PC which previously ran a W10 dual boot setup. The drive which had my first windows installation died, and now I can't boot into the second drive, although as far as I know it has a complete ...
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I have a Windows 10 Laptop, It doesn't boot up when I enable the HDD
I have a Windows 10 laptop and I just upgraded it to use a SSD by replacing the old HDD with the new SSD and cloning the Windows with MiniTool.
It was just working fine until I started having random ...
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Why does windows keep accessing a harddisk irrelevant to the task at hand?
This is more about curiosity rather than practical advice. I have an old dying SATA HDD, has some bad clusters and can't be fixed. I plugged it into my computer to copy some data off it, all went well,...
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What may be causing C Drive storage increases of more than 20GB overnight?
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Windows 10 user here. As the title says, somehow overnight my C drive has been populated with 20GB of data overnight. The situation happened recently, and is something new, as it has not ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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Can't restore Windows 10 home image into a new HP laptop
I am using clonezilla for some months now to restore Windows 10 Home images to our production laptops (HP 15-bs190nd).
Recently we bought some new laptops (HP 250 G8) and I am trying to restore the ...
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CHKDSK - Drive unusable after the scan
Drive is unusable after the CHKDSK scan. Any idea how I can fix this? It shows that the device is a raw device. I want to recover data and then format the drive.
File record segment 1432 is unreadable....
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Windows partition won’t boot despite being detected everywhere else
I recently removed a dual-booted OS from my computer. However, Windows won’t boot with the IO1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED error. Notes:
the recovery partition boots fine
DISKPART outputs:
there are no ...
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