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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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How to remove "phantom" drive letters?
I recently attached two GPT-formatted USB hard drives to my Win10 workstation. I had to update the BCD store on them so I used Diskpart to assign letters S: and T: to the EFI partitions on the drives....
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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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"Drive where Windows is installed is locked" and no USB devices are working
Problems:
No USB device works (including mice/keyboards)
Tried doing a Reset with the repair disk but I cannot ("Drive where Windows is installed is locked")
Can't boot into safe mode as for whatever ...
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USB 3.0 randomly disconnecting and reconnecting, not power config
So I have a Surface Pro 3 running Windows 10, and an external USB 3 HDD. If I plug in the HDD, a process will begin. First the drive will appear with the drive letter only, and be unreadable, but in ...
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Windows 10 Eating up Disk Space
I recently upgraded to Windows 10. It's been a pretty rocky road thus far. My current issue is Windows 10 keeps using up my SSD's disk space until it has none left and then complains I have no space ...
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How can I reinstall OEM windows 10 after replacing the hard drive?
I bought a new laptop, but it came with too little hard drive space. I've got a big SSD that I'd like to install, but my computer didn't come with a CD to reinstall Windows (it came with 7, but I ...
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100% disk usage on windows 10
I've a windows 10 copy running in my core i5 second gen laptop. Now there is this issue where the hard disk usage goes to 100% and the system doesn't respond for a few seconds to even few minutes. I'...
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Change one disc to AHCI
I have one SSD that I'd like to use in AHCI mode, and two discs in RAID mode. Right now all discs are in RAID - the SSD, and two HDDs. I would like to change only one of them to AHCI?
I found in the ...
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Laptop won't start, BIOS does not detect HDD, next steps?
My girlfreinds Lenovo laptop didn't start this morning. First I thought it might be a windows 10 problem, because the laptop asked for me to select between:
Windows Boot Manager
PCI LAN: EFI Network ...
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Harddrive disappearing intermittenly
Thanks in advance for helping
I am currently facing a problem with my hard drive that I had for over two years now. It is a WD green 3TB running on windows 7 as a secondary to a Samsung SSD that have ...
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Using SSD as boot drive and HDD as storage boot issues
Currently I have two installations of Windows 10 on my computer, one on my HDD that came with my laptop and another on an SSD to which I installed recently. My EFI System Partition and Recovery ...
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Remove a USB Drive from the "Safely remove hardware..." list? [duplicate]
I have Windows 10, and I'm trying to remove a 1TB USB hard drive from the "Safely remove hardware..." list.
Here is an image of "Property > Hardware" of the hard drive.
I want to remove "Eject ...
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Transfer Drive Space from D to C in windows 10 [closed]
I am using windows 10. My total memory is 500 Gb.
I have 50 Gb in C drive and remaining in D Drive. C Drive memory is getting full even though I have installed most of my software's in D Drive. ...
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Hard drive swap between Windows 10 desktops - Would Windows 10 remain authenticated?
At work, I use a Dell Optiplex 3010 that came with Windows 7 and has been upgraded to Windows 10. We have an older Windows XP system that runs a critical piece of equipment. This Optiplex will ...
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