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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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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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Laptop with broken HDD as a Secondary Monitor
My lenovo P400 ideapad, running win 8.1, crapped out a few months ago (registry error and I can't access my HDD) and I recently got a new laptop running win 10. Last time I tried fixing the computer, ...
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Limit Windows to connect only one specific hard drive during startup
I stumbled upon weird Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 dual boot. Both 8.1 and 10 are on a separate disks (not partitions, although I recon the same would apply for partitions).
The problem is that W10 and ...
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Scheduled task fires even when hard drives are not idle in Windows 10
TL;DR;:
Can I increase the verification time for idle time in Windows 8?
Is streaming a movie from computer A with Computer B enough to keep computer A out of the idle state?
The case
Given the ...
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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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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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Will I have any issues installing a Hard Drive with another OS, on my computer
My computer is running Windows 10, and I would like to plug my 1TB 7200rpm HD from my old computer into this as additional storage.
This other HD has windows 8.1 installed on it.
Will I have any ...
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Can't boot windows
So I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7537 laptop for about one and a half year, it has performed quite well over the years. But yesterday when I started it, it got stuck in the Dell logo. I ran the ePSA and ...
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Is there any drawback for having one large (e.g. 512 GB) hard drive partition for Windows 10 instead of having two smaller ones?
I just got a new laptop ( Asus ) with one 512 ePCI SSD harddrive.
From the factory, the system comes with two partitions:
the one with windows on it, size ~190GB
a second one called "data", size ~...
