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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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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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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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Have I bought a faulty SSD?
I've recently acquired a Samsung Evo 840 120GB, but haven't been able to actually use it.
The problems started when trying to do a fresh install of Windows 8 on it:
I've retried the process with the ...
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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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Windows 8.1 installation - partitions
I downloaded and burnt windows 8.1 from MSDN, but during installation I noticed that when I formatted and deleted particular partitions they won't merge into one as in windows 7 installation (as far ...
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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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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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“We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files”
I am trying to install Windows 8.1 on an existing partition. I can’t format it because i have like dozens of GBs of data there. I receive this message when i select the partition. I am installing the ...
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Lenovo Y50-70 w/ Windows 8.1: What to do before deleting the D: partition?
I would like to use the space on the Lenovo's Y50-70's D: drive, for installing there Ubuntu 14.
This is how the laptop's partitioning looks, out-of-the-box:
And from Ubuntu:
Before doing so, ...
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How do i increase my swap partition size in Ubuntu?
I had a 2 GB RAM before. So When i installed Ubuntu i just gave 2 GB for Swap partition. Now I Had increased my RAM capacity to 4 GB . How can i increase my Swap capacity to run my OS smoothly?
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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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iMac dual-booting Mavericks and Windows 8.1, trying to extend 8.1 partition
So once upon a time, I had 2 partitions: 800GB for OS X, and 200 for Windows 8. With the 8.1 update, I would like to start using Windows more, and I proceeded to free up 300GB of OS X space, which is ...
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How to resize (enlarge) C: partition in Windows 8.1 | MiniTool, Paragon, and Disk Management all failed
ISSUE SUMMARY
I can't resize the Windows 8.1 system partition to utilize unallocated drive space.
DESCRIPTION
I have an HP Pavilion 17 running Windows 8.1 which came with a 750GB hard drive. I ...
