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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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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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what does a Windows 10 upgrade from an ISO do with any recovery partitions?
I have an MSI GT70 2PC Dominator gaming notebook which I bought about a year ago with Windows 8.1 and PowerDVD 10 installed. When I accidentally uninstalled PowerDVD because I thought it was a trial ...
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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 ~...
