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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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How do we check the hard disk health on a Surface Pro 3?
I am running Windows 10 on the Surface Pro 3. I would like to check the health of the hard disk, because some WinSxS files have become corrupted. How does one do this?
I have read Tool to test HDD ...
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What are PBR_DRV and WINRE_DRV drives for?
What are these drives and what are they used for? I'm looking into upgrading my motherboard and don't know if I'll need all of those drives then.
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Running Windows disk defragmentation on boot in Windows 10
My PC shows that the system reserved and the windows partitions are fragmented above 10%. I kept the defrag option running within Windows but there is no impact on the fragmentation percentage.
I ...
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Samsung PRO 950 SSD recognized as SATA instead of PCIe in Windows 10
I have a new ASUS G752VL-DH71 laptop and I installed a SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 SSD in it. The hard drive is totally usable in Windows (as drive G:) but there are three issues:
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After installing Windows 7, CHKDSK has ruined my Windows 10 HDD
Pretty much the title.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate the other day, after getting bored with Windows 10. I installed Win 7 on a 465 GB HDD, while Win 10 was on a 232 GB HDD, label D:\ .
After ...
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Is my hard disk about to fail? (Tests seem inconsistent)
I have a secondary hard drive in my Windows 10 machine which has not been given any problems until it suddenly disconnected today. After a shutdown and restart, everything appears to be working and ...
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Storage Spaces 'offline due to critical write failures; add drives'
I am getting an error in Windows 10 Storage Spaces and the Virtual Volume has been taken offline. The error is Error Offline due to critical write failures; add drives.
If i look at the Physical ...
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Can't put offline disk 0 on windows 10
I'm trying to boot and run the physical installation of Debian in Virtualbox on Windows 10. Since virtualbox gives to me this error :
I thought to put offline the disk 0 where debian is installed but ...
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Western Digital HDD Active Time 100 percent
Needs some advice with someone that has some experience with this.
I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB External Hard Drive about 2 months old that is not performing well, what I have noticed is ...
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Remove Main Partition (C:) and make other Parition (D:) the main
Basically I installed windows 8 and windows 10 on the same HDD. I created a partition on the HDD for each. I started with windows 8 on C: and then created a partition (D:) and installed windows 10 on ...
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Extracting (or copying) files to a compressed NTFS folder makes Windows report the disk is full when it's not
I've been trying to extract a series of compressed files - total ~50GiB (uncompressed) - to a hard disk with about 55GiB of free space.
Because this is a slow hard drive and with limited capacity, ...
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SMART Error for HDD, cannot mount drive
My primary HDD on my main PC seems to have failed. After a power outage a few days ago, when turning on the PC, I get two beeps from my BIOS and a message saying that a S.M.A.R.T. error on the drive ...
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Hard drive full, but files / folders don't add up to used drive space [duplicate]
My harddrive is full, but according to the size of all my folders, I should have more than half of my drive left over.
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Moving from HDD to SSD - facing some issues (GPT protective partition)
I am trying to move my pc from old HDD into new SSD
I put the new SSD in , installed windows 10
Then I connected the old HDD into the new windows so I can move the data from the old drive.
using USB 3 ...
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