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Getting a new disk to be included in the partition of a pre-existing disk on Windows 11

I am looking to buy a new M.2 Samsung SSD for my laptop that already has an M.2 Samsung SSD in it. My current SSD is 500GB while I intend to buy a 1TB one for the new SSD. I plan to use both SSDs ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?

In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
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Unexplained partition gap after Windows installation

I used Windows's MediaCreationTool21H2.exe to make a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 10 on the SSD 2TB of my PC. The installation process starts by asking you which paritition you'd like ...
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Unable to shrink volume by needed amount despite available space in Windows Disk Manager [duplicate]

I am trying to create a new partition on my SSD and need to shrink my C: partition to do so. According to the "this PC" page, I have 36.1GB available on my C: drive. However, when I attempt ...
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extending disk partition with other partitions in the way

I want to extend my C drive partition after upgrading it, but the 2 partitions have partitions in between them. I'm not sure how to extend it and the extend button is grayed out.
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Can't extend my drive: “There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this operation”

“There is not enough space available on the disk to complete this operation”: Why am I getting this error? I've just decided to run linux on a VM to speed up the change between OS and ripped of my ...
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Is it an issue if my drive is assigned to B:?

I have read that drives are not typically assigned to B: because it used to be assigned to floppy disks in MSDOS. IS this still an issue? I partitioned my new SSD to the B: location.
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Best practice to organize data on new two drive PC [closed]

I recently bought a pre-built new desktop PC and have a little question about how to organize data. The desktop has a 256GB SSD labelled as "Windows" C: drive, and has Windows 10 installed on it. ...
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Where did my system partition go after cloning from my previous hard drive?

I recently bought a 250GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD for my laptop, and used AOMEI Partition Assistant to clone my previous hard drive. One completed, I physically replaced swapped out the two drives, booted ...
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