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Spanning volume disk usage
I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.
Will the first disk ...
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Windows 10 C: drive capacity smaller then C: partition size
I went through a whole process up to this point. I tried restoring from an image backup, but windows wouldn't boot from it. I booted into ubuntu from a usb stick and mucked about with the partitioning,...
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Can I move windows 10 from external hdd to internal ssd?
I want to install the old windows version on my laptop instead of the cracked version which is installed now, the old version is in the external hard drive and the cracked version on the internal ssd. ...
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Disable the low disk space popup warning in windows 10
How can I disable Windows 10's low disk space warning?
Background:
I have set up a RAM disk as a kind of swap file for Nvidia's Instant Replay (which writes about 1.5GB of video every five minutes). ...
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How can I create two partitions from the single drive C I currently have in my Windows without erasing files?
My computer came with only one hard disk drive: C. It has a capacity of 920 GB. And I have used 80 GB of it.
Now I want two drives in my computer: C and D. But I want 150 GB in the C drive and the ...
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Reinstalling a fresh Windows 7 on a SSD while its original HDD version was upgraded to Windows 10 [duplicate]
Many posts around that subject, but this case is a bit specific (I think) since it's not about a migration nor a cloning.
Initially Windows 7 on a 500GB HDD (OEM)
then upgrade to Windows 10 (offered ...
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How do I format an internal hard drive to exFAT in Windows 10?
I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. I want to format it to exFAT instead of NTFS so that it doesn't have to deal with permissions. The problem ...
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Disk Write Cache Feature and Limited RAM Usage with Windows 10 Pro - 256GB DDR4
I have a Windows 10 Professional workstation I use to simulate material flow in impressions. The FEA software I use creates large 50-100GB database files for each simulation I run. Copying these files ...
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Hard disk suddenly is extremely slow
Edit: New discovery! It seems there is something about idling that's getting to it. If I load a program immediately as after the OS is finished loading the speed is perfect and phenomenal, but if I ...
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Multiple recovery partitions in Windows 10
I have an hp pavilion 17 power laptop with windows 10 home pre-installed. Today when I was creating an extra partition for Ubuntu and when I looked at the disk management window I was surprised ...
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How can I migrate my Windows 10 OS from an HDD to an SSD?
I have Windows 10 installed and running on a hard disk drive. I would like to migrate it to a solid state drive that I've recently purchased.
By this I mean that I'd like to copy both the OS and all ...
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Cannot delete Steam, path leads to wrong disk
So I am trying to delete Steam. When I do so I get the error:
Windows cannot find 'C:\program Files (x86)\Steam\uninstall.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
The ...
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Load Dialog disk access slowdown on Windows 10
TL;DR my hard drive combination is causing load dialogs to take ~6 seconds to load, which is also confirmed via code, and I can't find any relief.
I had Windows 7 for a long time, ignoring 8 entirely....
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windows 10 hard disk usage 100 %, computer hangs
I own a Dell Latitude E7450 running Windows 10 on a 256GB SSD (SK Hynix SC210mSAA).
Several times a day (in fact sometimes several times an hour), the disk usage jumps to 100% for 1 or 2 minutes, but ...
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Windows showing up new unknown (Z:) drive
Recently, a new drive with letter Z showing up which cannot be opened to see what's inside. Here is the picture for better understanding.
How to fix it? Sometimes, restarting system fixes temporarily....
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