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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 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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HDD long response times when trying to use it
To preface this, I've already seen this
seemingly similar issue.
Unfortunately nothing in there really helps lead me to a solution so I'm making my own question.
To start, system specs are as ...
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Windows 8.1: Windows cannot be installed to this disk
I am installing windows 8.1 for the ASUS laptop.
I have two drive in the laptop namely:
Drive 1 : 40 GB
Drive 2 : 450 GB
At the time of installation I have formated Drive 1 which I was suppose to ...
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SSD Won't Initialze
I bought a bare bones computer with 1TB HDD and 250GB SSD in it. I would like to install windows on the SSD and leave the HDD for files. When I installed windows it asked me what disk I would like ...
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Is windows chdsk enough or there are better alternatives to recover filesystem?
Recently I have various problems of file corruption on Windows 8.1 x64 when I copy large files.
Using HD Tune Utility apparently there is no hardware problem the already present files are fine too, ...
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My windows 8.1 shows only C:
I have recently installed Windows 8.1, I was previously running 8.0. I had to convert to GPT while installing and had to format my disk. While installing I have created 6 partitions of which I can ...
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How much storage can windows 8.1 support?
How much internal storage can windows 8.1 support? I've been looking to upgrade to a 6TB hard-drive disk. more specifically: http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Western-Digital-Company-0S03839/dp/B00O0M5QK8/...
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HDD in optical bay spins down and up constantly [duplicate]
I've installed an SSD and HDD in the optical drive slot on my notebook. I'm using windows 8.1 x64, running from my SSD which is my primary drive.
My problem is taht HDD spins up/down constantly, in ...
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Copy only OS which isn't partitioned to SSD
I am using Paragon Hard Disk Managment to move Windows 8.1 from HDD to SSD. The SSD is smaller (120gb) and the HDD is bigger. Both is installed and running on computer.
The problem is that windows ...
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Make a partition with only Windows 8.1 in it. Already installed. And move it to SSD [duplicate]
I just bought a SSD and would like to migrate the OS from HDD to SSD. I tried easeUS Partition Manager but it says that the disk (120gb) isn't big enough.
I think the problem is that I don't have a ...
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Automatic Maintenance Significantly Slows Down Computer
Problem
I've found on several occasions that I've gone to use my computer only to find that it's practically unusable; just about everything runs extremely slowly.
Symptoms
The action center flag in ...
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Windows 8 - Constant Disk Usage
My installation of Windows 8.1 is constantly being extremely sluggish due to constant high disk usage. Doing anything, whether it be saving a file, opening a webpage, or closing programs, is very ...
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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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Why is Windows 8.1 using an external USB drive as the primary for .EXE Decompressions?
Funny issue here.
I have bought a Samsung 250GB SSD drive and installed a fresh copy of windows 8 on it which I updated to 8.1. in addition to this drive this machine also has 2 internal drives and 1 ...
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