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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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Windows 10 not recognizing my second NVME drive
I recently installed a second NVME SSD drive and can't get Windows to recognize it. My setup looks like this:
System: AsRock X470 Taichi, Ryzen 5 2600X CPU
C: - 250 GB Samsung 970
EVO (M2_1 slot)
D: ...
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Windows 10 Pro randomly created another copy of C drive. What's going on?
I recently just noticed something strange. My C drive has somehow duplicated itself as the B drive.
Has anyone encountered this? How do I get rid of the B drive?
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How to add a filesystem to a drive without formatting it? [duplicate]
My hard drive suddenly appeared entirely unallocated in partition manager. I tried asigning a drive letter to it and seeing if it would recognise the old file system, but it did not. Instead it asked ...
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How To recreate bootloader to UEFI?
My hard drive is malfunctioning and not being recognized by my computer. However, i can use testdisk and get to the data on the drive and copy it, so i know data is in tact.
I took it to a computer ...
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Windows on a SSD recognized on one computer but not on another
A friend of mine asked me to install Windows on his new SSD. I use a dual boot system, with Ubuntu and Windows 10. I made a bootable flash USB of W10 so I could install it on his SSD, connected to my ...
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Change boot system from Legacy > UEFI and set hard disk from MBT > GPT
There are many questions I need someone can help me answer it. Let me explain first... Longtime ago, my laptop only have 1 HDD and 1 CD-Drive. I have been using around 3 years, and my hard disk is ...
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I cloned my old boot drive to a new SSD and deleted a partition. Now I cannot boot from either drive
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I cloned the contents of my old (boot/OS) SSD to a new SSD. I then attempted (and failed) to edit the contents of the new SSD, and this has made me unable to boot from either drive.
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External HD defrag stuck at 0% consolidated - due to discrepancy?
I have an Acer laptop running windows 10.
I have tried multiple times to defragment my external Hard Drive (Seagate) but every time it gets stuck 0% consolidated.
I have run CHKDSK and I am posting ...
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Dual boot: Windows 10 locks non-mounted drive
I have a dual boot setup of Windows 10 and MX-Linux. Windows and linux are running on separate partitions of my SSD and on top of that I have an extra HDD formatted as NTFS for backup and stuff.
I ...
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Bitlocker does not detect my removable Hard-Drive, I cannot access it without restarting my computer
I have a problem concerning BitLocker and an external Hard-Drive.
(I am on Windows 10 and my hard drive is a WD Elements model.)
Sometimes, for a random reason my computer likes to forget that my ...
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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Windows 10 desktop no longer booting after hard disk swap
I have a work desktop, a Dell Vostro, which initially worked fine except for long periods of freezing after being awoken from sleep.
I consulted and was told it was a hard disk issue. I received a ...
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Dell Latitude 3190 BIOS doesn't list hard drive
Had Ubuntu on it and I got rid of it. Now the BIOS doesn't list the hard drive even though I installed Windows 10 by USB drive.
I can search the drive from the BIOS, but I can't find the path for the ...
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?
I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every ...
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Windows 10 - park drives until manually unparked
Is there any way in Windows 10, either natively or using aftermarket software, to command your hard drives to park and prevent them from unparking until you issue another command?
I've tried using ...
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No "driver" tab in my hard drive's properties
In order to disable a hard drive without physically unplugging it, one can go to the "driver" tab in the hard drive properties and click "disable device" button.
Except my hard ...
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HDD in DVD drive caddy seems to fall asleep?
I just installed an HDD caddy in place of my laptop's optical disc drive and it has been working fine with transfer speeds, etc, but I have placed my source code projects into it and something strange ...
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How to recreate hardware mirror RAID with bigger drives?
I had a RAID 1 mirrored array composed of 2 x 500GB HDDs connected to my Gigabyte Z590 motherboard.
I was running out of space, so I cloned one of the drives with Clonezilla to a 1TB drive.
On that ...
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What happens when a file in the D: drive that is larger than the free space in the C: drive is deleted?
So imagine there is 100MB of free space in the C: drive, where the recycle bin is held. If I want to delete a file that is 1GB located in the D: drive, what happens? Is the recycle bin like any other ...
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Installing Windows on Second Storage
I have a problem when I try to install windows on my second hard disk.
I'm using a pc portable and Actually Ubuntu 22.04.2 on my first hard disk but I have also Ubuntu on my second hard disk.
To ...
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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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Dual Boot on different SSD, I want my 2 HDDs to be assigned to different 2 OS each when I boot one OS
I am trying to create two environments. I want both OS to be Windows 10. One OS on one SSD and a second on another SSD.
One SSD will be for Games and the other for Work. I have two HDDs. I want to ...
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How do I completely reset a laptop, changing the main drive in the process?
I have a used laptop, and I wanting to do a factory reset, but also change the main drive.
The main drive right now is C:, with 256GB, and the one I want to switch to is D: with 1TB.
How do I reset ...
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Is BitLocker safe to use on SSDs and can't we unlock the drive on other Operating Systems? [closed]
I am already using BitLocker and have already encrypted my PC SSD and HDD and even thinking of encrypting all my external drives with BitLocker. But today I read this article from DiskCryptor and I ...
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Will Windows Defender full scan adversely affect a failing hard disc?
A monthly anti-malware full scan was run on this pc using Windows Defender (-aka- Windows Security) as routine, but not this month.
Will running a full scan from Windows Defender adversely affect the ...
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Bitlocker disabled but asking for encrypting
Every time I insert a USB drive in my work PC, I get Before you can save files on this drive, you need to encrypt it using Bitlocker.
Various online resources point about turning off Bitlocker which ...
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poor performance win10 and howto improve it
I have an HP laptop 4GB with intel core M5Y10c 0.80GHz 1.00GHz and windows 10 x64
The performance is really poor and also the UI is slow and unreliable.
I've tried to disable useless characteristics ...
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Windows 10 automatic repair after swapping drives during hibernation
I went to sleep and when I woke up. My PC looked off so I swapped Drive A for drive B and pressed the power button.
It went into automatic repair mode and won't get past it.
Turns out that drive A was ...
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What is the best option when Windows 10 pops up a "scan drive for errors" message?
On my machine, the Windows 10 notification center began popping up a "scan drive for errors" message. I'd include a screenshot for context, but my reputation isn't high enough.
I clicked it,...
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How to log all file access in Windows before login?
I am trying to troubleshoot/fix a 30 minute boot time (i.e., the time between power being applied
and the login screen appearing). All diagnostics (CPU, HDD, RAM) seem fine, so I simply suspect
a bug ...
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External Drive with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10
External SSD with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10, the mbamagent.exe (bitlocker) is preventing the device from being stopped. This also happens with other USB hard drives without ...
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How can I change Windows 10 drive letter assignments outside a full load of the OS?
I have the following disks:
C: SSD, disk 1, boot disk
D: HDD, disk 3, partition 1
E: HDD, disk 3, partition 2
F:, G:, H:, I: HDD, disk 2, partitions 1-4
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HDD visible in BIOS and WD Dashboard, but not in Win10 Disk Manager
I have two WD Blue and two WD Red drives. All were working perfectly fine on my Win10 PC up until I have reinstalled the system. Now I only see two WD Red drives.
When I connect these (Blue) drives ...
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Computer hardware
I have question related SSD. My laptop is HDD, Window 10 . I need to download a IDE which is not working in my laptop and it is continually hanging, when I asked my teacher he said this IDE will work ...
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Disk usage spikes to 100% on windows
I recently bought a new laptop. Its Acer Nitro 5 with Intel Core i5-11400H @2.70GHz, GeForce GTX 1650, 16GB RAM and 700 GB SSD.
I manually installed windows on it by myself and used Microsoft ...
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Windows 10 digital activation on few devices
My problem is as follows...
I have a computer with three disks, on each disk is installed windows 10. I intend to upgrade the hardware by replacing the motherboard and processor. Each windows is ...
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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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windows 10 cut off electricity then local disk D can t be accessed
It happened that the electricity was cut off and my laptop went off as it was not on battery. The problem I had afterwards is that the local disk D cannot be accessed D : \ "is not accessible. ...
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Windows 10 doesnt boot after install
I've run into a problem!
My computer is running somwhat old, but it was upgraded about 2015-2017 with diffrent parts. Today its running a MSI Mag Z390M Mortar motherboard with an intel i7 4790K and ...
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Drive letters are not available in "Change Drive Letter and Paths"
My semi-permanent USB drive died, so I copied all the files to a replacement. Now I would like to assign the new drive the same drive letter as the old, so I don't have to change the path in every ...
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