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Partition Manager for Windows 8.1 RT
I've inherited a Surface 2 & it's UEFI would not let me boot to any other means other than the internal drive. I've tried even booting to a USB recovery drive created within the windows ...
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How to upgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping data in D and E drives?
I downloaded a Windows 8.1 .iso file and made a virtual drive using Virtual CloneDrive and mounted it. I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping the data in D and E ...
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How to expand the recovery partition of my hdd?
Disk Management pic
I want to add/allocate free space to the final partition in the image above (the 14gb one). How would I do so?
The intent is to test if a larger recovery partition will fix a ...
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Is One Key Recovery on the Bios of the laptop? (transferring harddrives)
Lenovo 510p ideapad
I need to changeout a 1tb hdd for 2tb drive. I'm used to making a windows backup of my harddrive on an external drive, then inserting the windows disks when the new drive is ...
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Deleting Recovery Partition - What will happen?
I need to free up as much space as possible on my hdd. I have the following partitions seen below:
disk management pic
The 5th partition in particular is called:
13.96 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)....
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System backup too large for hdd
I made a system backup using One Key Recovery (OKR) for my lenovo ideapad, storing it on an external hdd. When I went to recover the backup using OKR it stated the hard drive doesn't have enough space ...
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How to correct "partitions not in recommended order" without erasing entire disk?
Most of the suggestions about "The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order." that I found on the internet and on this site, say 1. using diskpart to clean/ ...
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Share a program between 2 or more OS in one machine?
I was wondering if it is possible somehow to share or install a program in a common drive shared between 2 or more OS in one machine with dual (or more) boot?
For example, I have Windows 7, and ...
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What partition table types does Windows (8.1) support?
Which of the following partition table types does Windows (8.1) support (beside msdos and gpt):
aix
amiga
bsd
dvh
gpt
mac
msdos
pc98
sun
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Merge USB partitions into single partition on Windows 8.1
I was trying to install Ubuntu in dual mode on my PC, but it failed and it divided my USB drive into three partitions whilst making USB a bootable device.
Now I want to merge these USB partitions ...
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How to merge various partitions on a disk into a single one ? (without data loss)
I'm trying to install Windows 8.1, alongside Windows 10. I have a single HDD on which I want to do this. This HDD is a dynamic disk with 4 partitions, one The system reserved, one with the OS ...
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Error: "The request is not supported" when trying to shrink volume
I have Windows 8.1 and when I try to shrink the C: drive I am getting an error (regardless how much amount of space I choose to shrink is)
The error says: The request is not supported.
What could be ...
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Windows 8.1 laptop with eMMC storage restore image to different disk
I have an ASUS notebook with Windows 8.1 with Bing installed on a 32GB eMMC storage device. Long story short, it is too small to be usable in our scenario.
We have added a 120GB SSD to the device, ...
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How much disk space do I need for running Parrot OS?
I just git a notebook from my uncle. The notebook already has Windows 8 x64bit installed but I want to dual boot with Parrot OS. My hard disk is 27GB and has about 13GB of free space in a partition.
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Linux Mint partition is visible in Windows 8.1
I have recently made some changes in my partitions as follows:
Previously, I had 3 drives named: C 150 GiB, D 400 GiB, E: 450 GiB
I installed Windows 8.1 and a partition manager software (EaseUS) on ...
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Upgrading to windows 8.1 on a dual-boot computer
I need to upgrade to windows 8.1 (from Windows 8), but when I use the windows store to upgrade I get error "application wasn't installed", and error code 80070002.
I am dual-booting with Linux (...
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Type of partition required for a dual boot system
What kind of a hard disk partition is required for dual booting a computer(specifically taking windows and ubuntu). Since, I did not know anything about partitioning, I decided to dedicate my E drive(...
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Windows attempts to chkdsk a phantom Volume at every startup
The question(s) of this post are the following:
This Windows 8.1 installation is executing what appears to be a chkdsk on every boot, specifying the following message at boot: Scanning and Repairing \...
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How to Convert an Extended Partition to Separate Logical Partitions?
I have two disks, with MBR.
The first disk has a part of it as an extended partition, and the whole second disk is extended.
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 to my second disk, but the ...
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How can I safely resize a partition created by Windows To Go?
Is there some way to resize a partition created by the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Widows To Go "wizard" without risking the boot system? If not, is there some other way to deploy a Windows to Go live ...
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Dual booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu: Can I keep fast startup enabled in Windows if I do NOT have a shared partition?
After recently reformatting, I installed Windows 8.1, leaving half my drive unallocated. I would like to install Ubuntu in that unallocated space. The common wisdom seems to be that it is necessary to ...
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Deleted bootloader when deleting Ubuntu partition, and I don't have a disk
I deleted my Ubuntu partition to free up some hard drive space two days ago. I restarted my computer the next day and it doesn't boot up, just says
error: no such partition
Entering rescue mode
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Partition positioning and listing in disk management
I'm trying to extend my C partition without re-installing OS and for that purpose I need some space after C: partition in disk manager.So I want to know is there a way I can bring C before D and un-...
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Extending partition with free space
So I'm having a problem extending the partiton, I don't have idea what is wrong...
I create some free space, and than I try to extend some partition with that free space but I just can't click "...
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Repair Windows 8.1 UEFI booting messed up by Easus Partition Manager? Error Code: 0xc0000225
Laptop Toshiba Satellite (Model will post but not super critical as the info posted below).
Pre-Installed OS: Windows 8.1 Bing as C: Drive
Default booting is/ was UEFI
Wanted to create another ...
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HGST 4kn support on Windows 10 with Z97 and Asmedia?
We've been trying hard and failed to get an HGST Ultrastar 2TB 7K6000 SATA 4KN to work on Windows 8.1 Pro and 10. Windows reports an inaccurate drive size, and Disk Management fails to initialize the ...
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External HDD unrecognized in Win10 but works fine in Win8.1
An external drive (Seagate Freeagent Xtreme 1.5TB) has some issues:
the filesystem cannot be recognized (1 NTFS partition but detected as RAW)
the drive cannot be accessed - an error pops up saying "...
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New Partition is mysteriously created and cannot access
I noticed something unusual when booting up Windows 8.1 this morning.
A new disk partition is created. Local Disk (Z)
See below
I have gone through many sites related to the problem and found quite ...
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Ubuntu doesn't show hard drive partitions properly
I first had Windows 8.1 on my laptop installed and now I'm trying to add Ubuntu 15.10 and be able to dual boot. I have freed up some space and partitioned my hard drive for the Ubuntu installation.
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Secondary partition became primary
I was using Windows 10 some time ago and decided to go back to 8.1 by wiping out my main partition and installing 8.1 over it. Since I wanted to backup a lot of stuff, I made a secondary NTFS ...
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