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How to shrink Windows 10 partition when shrink size is 0
I have more than 500GB free on my C: drive but Windows Disk management says that the shrink size is 0. I followed all the steps here, here, here and here but none of these solutions worked:
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Performance Issues With HDD C Drive
I have been experiencing performance drains problems with my HDD that is running windows. When my disk usage is high for that particular drive, most apps stop responding and my cursor will freeze. ...
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Running Windows 10: Can't delete a 700 MB file; tried everything
I have tried every technique I have found, including using Eraser, and nothing has worked. In the latest attempt I changed to the directory containing the file in Command Prompt, running as an ...
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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.
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Can I fix Reallocated Sectors Count and Current Pending Sector Count?
I have problem(Caution) with Reallocated Sectors Count and Current Pending Sector Count. I detected this problem after running CrystalDiskInfo, knowing that Iam using hp laptop running windows10. Any ...
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Windows 10 - Task Manager Says Disk Is At 100% Usage
OS: Windows 10 (Pre-Installed)
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 500GB free
Processor: i5
Disk Type: Hard Drive
I have had Windows 10 for over a year now and it has been fine (a part from corruption about 6 ...
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Spanning volume disk usage [duplicate]
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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After Windows 10 installation, I get sent back to the "Install now" screen
I am trying to do a clean installation of Windows 10 from scratch for a PC build that has an Intel Desktop Board DH67CL (motherboard). The processor is an i5 with a built-in graphics card.
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Windows 10 Storage Spaces 2-Way Mirror Low Capacity Warning at 70%
I am not sure if this warning is a reason for concern or a reason to add more drives as suggested:
I have this setup as a 2-way mirror, so that both drives should hold identical data. Both of them ...
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Hidden disk usage in Windows 10
I have an exFAT-formatted disk which I put some hyper-V VMs on. One of the VHDs was dynamically sized so it would just eat up more disk space as it was being used. I was doing something in the VM that ...
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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk [duplicate]
I have bought a laptop with a 1 TB bitlocker encrypted drive and Windows 10 installed. I want o reduce the Windows C partition from under 1TB to ~200 GB. I was able to reduce it by ca 476 GB. Now it ...
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How can I solve this DiskID conflict amongst my external disks?
I ran a game I hadn't ran in some time, and it popped up with a firewall rule request. I thought it was odd as I knew one should have already been present.
I examined the rule and the path to the ...
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Recovering corrupted windows folders
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My PC (Win 10) was very slow yesterday to the point where I couldn't shut it down normally, so I forced it. Then after opening it again, it waited a very long time on the login ...
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Cannot Reinstall Visual Studio Code After New PC Move [duplicate]
let me outline that there are 2 PCs in this problem; 1 old pc and 1 new pc. The old PC had visual studio code installed on a secondary drive.
Later, I moved the main drive to the 1 new pc. I then ...
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Windows 10 - Unable to access Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) via installation media
Recently, my PC with a Gigabyte motherboard and a 1 month old WD Blue HDD, ran into the following issue:
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The problem is that I'm not able to access the Windows 10 ...
