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Windows 10 100% Disk Usage after Startup [duplicate]
After startup for 5 minutes, my system is very slow. The Task Manager shows that the disk usage is at 100%.
(Later this number is around 2-4 %, but sometimes for 1-2 minutes goes up again at 100%.)
I ...
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WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive
I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help identify how much space each file was taking up. ...
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How can I clone a Windows 10 disk onto a larger disk?
I have bought a larger SSD for my Windows 10 machine and an external USB enclosure and now I would like to transfer the content of the Windows 10 system disk onto the new SSD and eventually replace ...
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System and compressed memory and system interrupts takes 40% of the cpu
I searched a lot about this online and couldn't find a solution, I turned off fast startup as many answers have suggested. But it didn't work ,
The problem happened after I connected a secondary hard ...
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How to expand the Windows partition when the Recovery one is in the way?
My partitions on my primary disk look like this:
I would like to expand C: with the Unallocated space but the 946 MB Recovery partition is in the way.
Is there a way to swap the Recovery partition ...
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How do I know that a drive that is not labelled 'recovery' is actually the recovery drive?
I have a Blade Pro (2017). It currently has the following disks:
C - 226 GB SSD
D - 1.8 TB HDD
E - 499 MB HDD ("local disk")
The "Local Disk (E:)" is a bit of a mystery to me: it appears empty even ...
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How to clone a Windows 10 dell onto an SSD
I've recently bought a Dell Inspiron 3650, and would like to clone the disk onto a samsung SSD I have bought for it, in order to speed up boot times etc.
Samsung provide a clone tool called "Samsung ...
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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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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)
When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.
There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but ...
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Is "compress OS Drive" worth it on SSD?
My SSD is running out of disk space, and I see that "Compress your OS drive" is suggested as a means to save some disk space.
My questions:
I'm not sure whether there are any performance penalty ...
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How to write a bootable ISO Windows installation disk to a disk partition (and not USB flash drive)?
I have already read How to write bootable iso to a partition? and How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?, but here it's a bit different:
I'd like to put the Windows 10 (or 7) bootable ISO ...
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How to prevent a secondary HDD from spinning down?
First off I did try the power options setting and it's on 'Never' but that did nothing. The drive still spins down after 15-20 seconds of not being used. I need it to spin all the time because it's ...
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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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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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Low disk space after filling up C:\Windows\Temp with .evtx and .txt files
I've been using my new Windows 10 PC for about one week and have recently started getting this warning:
This does not appear every reboot. Checking C:\ properties, 212MB was reported free...and after ...
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Windows 10: Can I safely remove WINRE or RECOVERY partitions?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:
Thus, I ...
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"Computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk" when trying to install Windows 10
I have a laptop that originally came with Windows 10; the hard drive is now completely empty, and using Gparted, it's been formatted as a single, empty NTFS partition with an msdos partition table. ...
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Installed a new SSD, Windows still boots from the old one
I recently got a new 1TB SSD for my computer (a Lenovo ThinkPad P70). My plan is to have this disk as the main Windows 10 boot drive, and keep the old one (500GB) as a secondary drive.
I didn't want ...
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Can't extend partition to use free space
On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions
How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?
The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the ...
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Installing Windows 10 (same product key) on a separate drive in case primary drive fails (multi-boot)
Current Setup:
My machine has four hard drives:
A 237GB SSD C: drive (almost full, nearly 4 years old) with Windows 10. I've got the original Windows 8 installation CD.
Storage Space (Z: drive), ...
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my windows 10 pc got really slow although CPU and memory usage is fine. what else can I do?
since two weeks my windows 10 pc got really slow, and I have no idea why. I can still do everything, but everything takes much longer to a degree that I'm struggling to get my school work done. ...
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Internal hard drives showing as removable in Windows 10
My internal drives are showing for some reason as removable in windows (one is SSD and the other is an HDD) in Windows 10 Pro.
I read somewhere this can affect performance.
Why is this? Is this ...
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Disk usage at 100% during startup
Every time I start my computer, I have to wait 15 - 20 minutes just for it to actually be usable because disk usage is stuck at 100% and causing high lag. I have no idea why, and I tried a few ...
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How to make my old hard drive non-bootable?
Frequently my BIOS for some reason tries to boot to my old hard drive instead of my new SSD. This is starting to get very annoying have to switch hard drive priorities every time I restart my computer....
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?
I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
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Windows 10 is showing an OEM Partition with a logical drive letter in Explorer [duplicate]
Recently in Windows Explorer, a "Local Disk (F:)" Drive appeared and shows 34.2MB free of 449MB, but when I double click on it, Explorer shows no files on this drive. I don't have any idea what this ...
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Hard disk drive is visible via USB 3.0 but not via SATA
I have connected and initialized(as GPT) a new 3.5 3TB hard disk drive via USB 3.0 (using this Orient UHD-523 adapter with external power supply), moved my data from two old 1TB hard disk drives into ...
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External hard disk detection issue
what exactly happened:
I have a Seagate 1 TB external hard disk.It was working fine till now.The problem started when I plugged it in my android phone and then back in my pc then simply it does not ...
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Did Windows 10 just add a partition to my hard drive?
I have two computers running Windows 10. Just today, I noticed that both of them have an additional volume with a drive letter assigned to them (one of them named "Local Disk (G:)" with 68.9 free of ...
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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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