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How can a MBR formatted hard drive exceed 1.81 TiB capacity?
I recently purchased an external disk drive with 3 terabytes (2.72 TiB) of storage capacity.
Now according to Wikipedia's article on MBR, the maximum addressable storage space on a disk formatted ...
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windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style. Windows 8.1
I have a ASUS R500A notebook.Original OS is Windows 7 64bit.Few days ago I tried to Install Windows 8.1 64 bit version.But it failed & error message is,
windows cannot be installed on this disk....
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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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Can't shrink to available partition volume in Windows [duplicate]
I have 1TB HDD with 800GB free space plus a typical System Reserved partition.
I removed system files before shrinking in Disk Management since suggested shrinking size was no more than 100GB
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Why would there be two separate recovery partitions
I recently got a new Lenovo Y510P Laptop, with Windows 8.1, a 24 GB SSD drive, and a 1 TB Hard Drive.
When I opened up Disk manager, I realized that the Hard Drive was partitioned into six segments:
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How to extend a Mint Linux partition on a dual boot config with Windows 8.1?
I had previously installed windows 8.1 on my hard drive, then I later unallocated some space like 15GB and installed linuxmint separately on that partition, How to extend the 15GB volume that I have ...
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Explain the partitions on Lenovo Y500?
I have a Lenovo Y500 laptop, came with Windows 8, I updated it to Windows 8.1. I'm wondering what all the partitions do. Here is an edited screenshot of Disk Management:
(source: lenovo.com)
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Move Windows 8.1 to beginning of disk
I have 1TB hard disk drive where 700GB is reserved for my personal files. Remaining space is for Windows 8.1. Problem is that Windows 8.1 with their 4 partitions is at end of disk, so I can't extend ...
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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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Shrinking/Extending partitions in Windows 8.1
I have a 4TB HDD and it was partitioned like
Partition 1
Unallocated 503GB
Unallocated 4GB
Partition 2
and I decided to extend second partition with these unallocated ones, BUT, such a problem ...
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Error when resizing partition
I need help with resizing a partition.
What I have so far:
I currently have a single hard drive with 3 partitions.
Partition 1 has 11.4GB. It is my recovery partition and so I don't really want to ...
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How to extend C Drive in windows 8.1
I'm using Windows 8.1. It is installed on the C: drive.
The problem is that the drive is full. I have 200 GB of unallocated space, but I don't know how to merge it with the C: drive.
I tried to ...
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How to move the 350mb recovery partition on Windows 8.1
I have this structure on my disk. I want to increase my c drive but cannot due to the Healthy (Recovery partition) of 350 MB partition. The c-ext drive space will go into the c drive. I can format d ...
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How do I convert an EFI System Partition into a normal GPT partition?
I had a Windows 8.1 that required a re-install. In the process, my 4TB secondary disk is now showing up in Disk Management as an EFI System Partition, with no volume.
In DISKPART, a volume is shown, ...
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I can't add an unallocated partition to my primary partition
I have a 40.00 GB sized unallocated partition and is ticking me off because I can't extend my primary (C:) Partition. I checked on C: context menu and it will not let me extend it. I do know that the ...
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