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HDD missing space until reboot
I have a non-system HDD in my computer. There is no hibernation, pagefile, backup, volume shadow set up on that HDD. Recycle bin is empty. The OS is Windows 8.1 the disk is NTFS.
I downloaded some ...
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Erase a hard drive without reinstalling Windows 8, by a Windows recovery disk?
Is there an option in a Windows 8 default recovery disk (a USB key in my case), to erase the main hard drive where Windows 8 is installed, without Windows 8 being reinstalled afterwards? Or to do this,...
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Windows 8.1: 100% Disk usages at Startup. How to overcome?
First of all here is the screenshot of the program that causes trouble when I boot my laptop.
Service host taking 100% disk:
When I boot my Laptop up disk usages remains 100% for almost 5 minutes and ...
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Windows 8.1 100% Disk Usage after reboot
I recently refreshed my PC and newly installed Windows 8.1. After that I noticed the 100% Disk- and Memory-Usage. Then with the following commands I fixed the problem:
SFC /scannow
DISM /Online /...
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Virtualbox guest OS running too slow on a Windows host OS
I have a toshiba laptop with a samsung ssd 860 evo 500GB in which I have installed Windows 10 64 bits.
This is the main hard drive. Also I have a second hard drive (not ssd) into an optical drive ...
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Can't install windows 8.1 - setup stucked
Recently I got a desktop with a hard disk Toshiba 500GB which has windows 7 installed on it.
When turning on the computer, windows logo appears and it does not go beyond that. After about 30 minutes ...
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Is it possible to install two SSD M2 drives using only 1 SATA port?
I have a six years old Toshiba laptop computer. It has traditional mechanical hard drive with SATA3 interface. It has no M2 SSD interface.
I am wondering if it is possible to install 2 SSD M2 using ...
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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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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 get rid of this "100% Disk utilization across all physical drives in Windows 8.1" and "PC-hang"?
As you see in the above screenshot in my task manager in Win 8.1 the "Disk" utilization is 100%. In my pc it gets 100% repeatedly after few minutes interval. And when it happens my pc gets stuck. i ...
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Why does Windows 8.1 BSOD make my HDD (ST8000DM004) RAW whenever it occurs?
I purchased a 8TB hard drive less than 30 days ago and because it was poorly packaged I tried to check it for bad sectors. 3 days later while the HDDScan was still doing a writing test my PC got a ...
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How to use a DVR hard disk drive on a Windows PC
I am trying to use a SATA hard disk drive of 2000GB capacity from a DVR on a Windows 8.1 PC.
I connected the drive to the SATA port and even though it shows up in the PC's boot menu, I can't find it ...
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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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