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Windows 8.1 Update 1 Disk Usage 100%
Background Information / Computer Specs
I have a 14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultra. Core i5 CPU, 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000. I've had the computer for about 1.5 years with no major ...
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Windows 8: 100% SSD Activity, 0 R/W Speed: System Hang Issue
Experienced a weird issue with my Windows 8 system where it hangs and it is very unresponsive at random intervals of time (in fact, the first clue that I had an issue was when boot to desktop time was ...
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Service Host: Local system (network restricted) is thrashing hard disk
I am having windows 8.1 with update 1 installed and all release updates of windows till the date i am posting this questions. System is laptop, Core i3 with 6 GB RAM and 500GB hard disk.
When ever i ...
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Can't create partition or locate existing one when installing windows 8.1
I'm trying to install windows 8.1 and I'm getting this error message after I choose the hard drive to install the windows in
we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one
just to be ...
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I cloned my SSD to a HDD, but Windows still thinks its solid state
I just finished cloning my 120 Gb solid state drive to a 2Tb HDD using the linux dd utility. Windows seems to think the new HDD is a solid state drive, and it's running very slowly. Is there a way ...
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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it.
When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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Chkdsk consistently failing due to no free space but it has 90% free space
I have a drive that I suspect is a bit borked but none of the sensors or alerts have gone off on it. Regardless I decided to move important files out of it before replacing it.
But any move ...
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Windows 8.1 powering off USB Drives
Since upgrading to 8.1, Windows will shut down my hard drive bay connected by USB after about 10 minutes. I didn't have this issue in Windows 8 as I just went in and changed the hard drive sleep time ...
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Hard drive has this tendency to just shut off
I have this 'new' Dell work laptop for less than a month now. Something happened today that happened once on this laptop just recently before and also rarely on other computers that I've used.
I was ...
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Windows showing up new unknown (Z:) drive
Recently, a new drive with letter Z showing up which cannot be opened to see what's inside. Here is the picture for better understanding.
How to fix it? Sometimes, restarting system fixes temporarily....
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How do I determine optimal Blocksize, Sectorsize, and Clustersize for a disk with millions of files?
I have millions of files on a large disk. I want to minimize the average wasted space by correctly formatting the drive.
Is there any way to optimize the BlockSize, Sectorsize, and cluster size for ...
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Files on HDD are getting corrupted
tl;dr
On my new PC (with windows 8.1 x64) some files on local SATA-HDD are getting corrupted without visible reason (after some IDLE).
Not a virus/malware! (did test with AVG antivirus installed, also ...
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How to utilize 4TB HDD, which is showing up as 2.72TB
I have two internal HDD's. They're both 4TB capacity. They're both formatted with the GPT partitioning scheme, and they're Basic Discs (not dynamic). I'm on Windows 8 64bit. I have UEFI, not BIOS.
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How can I create a recovery drive for Windows 8.1?
I just installed Windows 8.1 on my computer. I am trying to create a recovery drive.
I click start, type "recovery", hit "Create a recovery drive". I click next once, and this is what I see:
We ...
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BitLocker: Encrypt all hard drives
Since TrueCrypt is gone now, I'm planning in using BitLocker to encrypt my drives. I want to encrypt all hard drives.
In my computer, I have an SSD and an HDD. At best, I want to turn on the computer,...
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