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I barely have free space in the system partition but I should have much more (Windows 8.1)
At work I have a computer with two hard drives, a 60 GB SSD as the system partition and a 300GB HDD as a data partition.
The SSD is almost full or at least that's what I can see in the disk manager ...
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Can't boot windows from a clone of my working harddrive
My goal: Clone everything on C: to my SSD drive f:, then use the old "c:" for data.
Some threads say I need GPT (on one? both?) I think it's already set to F: bedcause the convert button is gray in ...
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Is there any drawback for having one large (e.g. 512 GB) hard drive partition for Windows 10 instead of having two smaller ones?
I just got a new laptop ( Asus ) with one 512 ePCI SSD harddrive.
From the factory, the system comes with two partitions:
the one with windows on it, size ~190GB
a second one called "data", size ~...
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How to install Win 8.1 to HDD as booting it from SSD? [duplicate]
I try to install Win 8.1 to my new computer with both SSD and HDD. I want to boot it from SSD but keep the all related files in HDD. Is it possible to choose such a scheme for the installation ?
If ...
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Hard drive stopped working after trying to delete a partition
So I recently got an SSD, put it in my machine, installed my OS on it which is Windows 8.1 64bit, and after booting everything was perfect. I had an older hard drive of 1TB, and an SSD of 120GB. The ...
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After upgrading to an SSD, lost access to Windows refresh options. How do I get it back?
I upgraded my notebook from a spinning disk to an SSD. It's smaller (1TB vs 500GB), but by shrinking the main Windows partition I was able to fit all data, including the recovery partitions.
However, ...
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Cannot boot to old hard drive after installing SSD and Windows
I purchased an SSD and replaced the hard drive in my HP laptop. I then took the old HDD and installed it onto a caddy to my CD drive.
When first booting up, my computer was able to recognize the ...
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How can I swap a HDD with Crucial BX100 SSD?
At work I have swapped HDDs for SSDs on two Toshiba satellite pros running Windows 8.1. Both were Samsung 250GB SSDs. All I had to do was create recovery disk, swap in SSD, boot from recovery drive ...
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Where is my EFI? Dual booting arch linux and windows 8.1
I will start by saying I have never used UEFI before and am still trying to understand.
So I have a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD.
Formated In this way.
Windows 8 is installed as C: and I want to ...
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Windows 8.1 thinks my partitions are SSDs
I just removed an SSD from a PC so that I could put it into my "new-used" laptop. With the SSD, I had simply cloned my System and Windows partitions to partitions onto the HDD as a backup/recovery ...
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Can I reduce the free space on my windows 8 Restore partition?
I recently did a hard drive clone from the out-of-the-box HDD of my new laptop to a smaller SSD. The cloning software (Acronis True Image HD) handled the resizing of the primary partition to make it ...
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How to get access to unaccessible SSD drive and weird partition volumes?
I bought a ASUS S46CB a month ago, and it boasted, among other features, two hard drives: a 20Gb SSD and a regular 1Tb hard drive. After booting, I saw that the 1Tb disk was splitted in half and ...
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Can't clone SSD with a Windows partition and a Linux partition
I recently installed with some effort Zorin OS (based on Ubuntu LTS 14.04) on another partition of my Intel SSD 335 (240 gb in total) and divided that other partition many smaller partitions of the ...
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Copy only OS which isn't partitioned to SSD
I am using Paragon Hard Disk Managment to move Windows 8.1 from HDD to SSD. The SSD is smaller (120gb) and the HDD is bigger. Both is installed and running on computer.
The problem is that windows ...
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Make a partition with only Windows 8.1 in it. Already installed. And move it to SSD [duplicate]
I just bought a SSD and would like to migrate the OS from HDD to SSD. I tried easeUS Partition Manager but it says that the disk (120gb) isn't big enough.
I think the problem is that I don't have a ...
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