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Should System Protection be enabled on all O.S. partitions together?
I have 2 HDDs, both GPT, HDD1 has w10-64 in one partition, HDD2 has w8.1.1-64 in one partition, all other partitions are data (meaning, without any o.s. on those partitions).
When I am in w10, I ...
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Can Windows 10 repair media repair a formatted C drive?
Windows 10 was installed on Drive C. Drive E and F are almost full. I decided to downgrade to Windows 8, and made a bootable USB stick of the same. I'm a linux guy and my windows skills are rusty at ...
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How do I move the DUAL-ly booted Win8 partition so that it keeps booting?
This a laptop that came pre-installed with windows 10. I then dual booted it with Win81, which is good since the Win10 partition is now freezing five minutes at a time.
When I boot up the original ...
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Updating windows 8 "to go" to windows 10
I have an installation of windows 8 on an external hdd. When I try to update to windows 10 the update fails with the message that windows on usb drives cannot be updated. Is there a way to update this ...
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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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Can I use one internal hard drive in different PCs?
I have an HDD internal hard drive in my desktop with windows 10 OS system now. However, I am thinking to sell my desktop, but I want to keep that HDD drive because the HDD contain a lot of personal ...
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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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Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10?
Who can explain the new options of chdsk on Windows 8/10 ?
The new options are
1./scan
2./forceofflinefix
3./perf
4./spotfix
5./sdcleanup
6./offlinescanandfix
7./freeorphanedchains
8./markclean
I ...
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Fixing a NTFS hard drive that will mount but not boot
Something went wrong during the upgrade to Windows 10. Now I have a Windows computer that won't boot, but if I boot into Ubuntu I can mount the drive in read only mode, and copy things off of it. Is ...
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reinstalling windows 10 and license key
My friend has a computer which he bought used. It came with a legitimate copy of windows 8. My friend got the free upgrade to windows 10 and installed it. Then the computer crashed, leaving the disk ...
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Broken and Mysterious Partitions
I have made a broken partition called safasf a long time ago when trying to fix my 400gb external hard drive (RIP broke from quick format lulz).
I need safasf deleted or something my knowledge isn't ...
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