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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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