Disk Management

Hello This is regarding two sometimes separate, and sometimes combined topics… Formatting drives in general, and using Macrium to do stuff. When I format either: - a new System drive, or - a new Storage/General Use drive, or - a new external drive Do I need to choose a specific type of...

I have this SSD (Samsung 870 EVO) for a couple of years. Suddenly last night it stopped working. In the Bios it doesn't show up. I have the Asus Gryphon Z87. In the SATA Configuration, it shows up as Empty. If I boot to Windows I can see the drive and it's drive letter, but cannot open it. So...

Hello, Like the title says my RAID 0 is gone after a force restart. My PC got stuck searching for duplicates and wouldn't respond for a few minutes so I had to do a force restart (restart button). After it restarted my RAID 0 which is Drive D was gone. Disk Management tood only says "Error"...

Motherboard: MSI B550 gaming plus CPU: R9 5900 GPU: RTX 2060S Memory: 32GB DDR4 Storage: 1TB SSD Samsung 980 EVO and 2TB SSD Samsung 980 EVO PRO Windows 10 Pro http://HWiNFO64 (1 picture) I bought motherboard, CPU and 2TB SSD from Best Buy shop and I switched it from a new PC 4 weeks ago my...

I recently bought a new 2tb NVME to replace my 1tb NVME as it was running low on space. I cloned the drive and replaced it no issue at all. I also extended one (Design) of the two volumes on this drive no issue either but when I now come to extend the second volume (Games) with Windows Disk...

Hi, I am new here so I hope my question is in the correct place and format! PC: OS: Windows 11 MB: Gigabyte A320M-h CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D GFX: Radeon RX 6800 RAM: 2x Kingston 16GB 3200MHz DDR4 Power: 700W Mid range power supply Storage: SATA 1T HDD (windows installed here) & Kingston FURY...

Hello everyone, my name is Tommy. I am a data analyst in a railway safety company. We measure data on the railway that is then used by customers to ensure preventive safety. However, I am having a problem. Because it concerns large numbers of data, we receive physical disks that we then have to...

Hello everyone, I hope someone will be able to help me find out if I've bought a broken HDD. Short of it is I bought a HDD, it wouldn't show in 'my computer' yet the docking station appears fine. I can't initialize or do much with it. I'll add some images for context with a breakdown (inserting...

I bought and built this PC about 9 months ago and everything was perfect but I don't know how to activate my 2nd SSD (nor can i tell them apart of which one is actually doing all the work) my SSDs are Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVME M.2 2280 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SATA6GB 2280 I tried going into...

My boot drive is reporting it has raw file system (instead of NTSF in Win 10 Disk Management) and will not boot. I have a spare boot drive so the machine is up but it does not have all of my most current environment. I can see all the files on the bad drive with several disk management...

Hey everyone! Recently built a new rig and bought a 2TB kingston fury renegade M2 SSD. It shows up in BIOS , in device manager but not in Disk Management (and not available in 'My PC' on windows) i have read many threads on this forum and tried changing BIOS settings, reseating the M2 drive in...

I want to format a drive (with an os installed) in disk management, but i can't remove both healthy (EFI System) and Healthy (Recovery Partition). How to format it completely? i can do it via OS installer but i am afraid i will missclick and format my main OS. Thank you.

I have my windows installed on my NVMe SSD and my HDD doesn't show up in Windows (disk management, device manager, etc) but does show in BIOS. To get my HDD to show in Windows I have to boot into BIOS and exit out and then my HDD shows in Windows (file explorer, etc). Any ideas? HDD: Seagate 2TB...

I have these 2 yellow partitions that are the same drive, how do i make them into a single blue one ?? They are both the same drive and appear as one in my computer with its full capacity. i have data on it that i wanna keep, can i do it while keeping it ?

I need help getting my computer to detect my NEW ssd. I have 2 new drives and they are both not being detected. They have never worked for me. I have dell optiplex 7020 and I am trying to attach Crucial 1tb ssd mx500 on my windows server 2022. It is not showing up in bios, device manager, nor...

I've got a system with 5 hard drives in it, 1 2TB, 3TBs and my boot drive, 120GB SSD - gotta swap it out at some point. So I did a clean install of windows the other day to clear up some issues I was having and I noticed one of the TBs had an unused OEM partition reserved bit on it, so I wanted...

Hi! I hope someone can guide me to a situation I have. I've got a 1TB SSD drive where the C Drive has my OS (W10 Pro) - D Drive has my Apps and the E Drive, my work files. I can't keep uninstalling and re-intalling W10 and Office 2016 because this will cause me issues on the license activation...

I was trying to create a partition on an external hard drive using Win10 Disk Management. It didn't ultimately do what I wanted (long story), so I right clicked on teh external hard drive, with the Windows Management tool, pressed Delete and now I can't see the external drive in Windows...

Having one of those days where I think I shouldn't be allowed to use computers....I was trying to extend a drive after switching from RAID to AHCI, and accidentally extended it over the system reserve partition. It's now labeled as a simple volume, dynamic type. Is there a way for me to fix it...

Hi, I am trying to make a simple volume on a new USB drive but when I right click the thumb drive in disk management nothing happens. It isn't greyed out or anything, it just does nothing. I also tried to make a simple volume using Command prompt but it said: "A disk specified is not dynamic...

OK, so this is a 64gb Kingston HyperX USB stick, and it even says 64gb on it. I installed TailsOS on it last week with Rufus, and then suddenly when I went to format it because I thought that was a more secure Linux distro, I decided I didn't need it. I went into disk management and only 58gb is...

I had recently wanted to secure erase my SSD using parted magic and attempted to do so last night, but I accidentally secure erased my hdd instead, which isn’t a big deal since it’s not my Windows drive. After I realized I did that, I went back and secure erased the SSD that I wanted to...

Everything I've tried has seemed to make the situation worse. I cannot find the disk in disk management, nor can I find it in macrium reflect nor Samsung data migration. I can find it in my bios and in the device manager but that seems to be it. In the beginning i went into my bios and enabled...

I have a 2.5in HDD in an external enclosure (it used to be an internal HDD, but when I was replacing my last laptop, I stripped out as much removable stuff as I could, e.g. RAM cards). When I connect it to my new laptop via USB 3.0 (no way to do direct SATA, unfortunately), the computer doesn't...

My M.2 doesn't seem to work on my pc I have a 250gb SSD for my windows , 1tb HDD for storage and was planning on using the 1tb ssd for extra storage. It shows in Devices but nothing in storage or disk management for me to create a partition for... Its really annoying and cant find anything in...

So today I just finally Upgraded to a new graphics card. It ended up not fitting, so I had to disassemble it and reassemble it in a new, larger, PC case. The ONLY part that changed was the graphics card. However, now that I put everything back together the two NvMe harddrives I had installed in...

Yesterday I had a problem with HDD disk - my Windows wouldn't boot when it was disconnected although I had Windows installed on my SSD. It was resolved thanks to @SkyNetRising advice from some old thread. I did what he wrote in this thread: Shrink C: partition by 500MB Make a new primary...

Hello, I recently upgraded my system from Intel 9900K to AMD 5950X. My new motherboard is ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero I also have a new PCIex 4 M.2 SSD, which I installed new Win 10 OS on it. My goal was to install 2 x M.2 SSDs; using new one as main system disk and using old Intel...

I was downloading some thing and then suddenly my downloaded file disappear. That's when I found out all of my drive that isn't boot drive are disappear again. Around 15 days ago, I encouter this problem after I change my motherboard from B450 to X570. I thought I fix it by fresh install window...

Hello everyone, I've recently noticed a few issues with my storage configuration on windows, and as I don't know much about partitioning I was hoping that some of you could help me solve them. First of all, here's my system configuration: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X RTX 2070 SUPER 16 GB DDR4 RAM 1 HDD...

Hello everyone, I just reinstalled Windows on my PC after having some issues from using AMD StoreMI. It somehow bugged out, so I decided to make a full reset (was long overdue). I could install Windows on my main drive but for some reason I cant make partitions or see them? I saw them in BIOS...

I changed my motherboard from B450 Tomahawk Max to X570 Aorus Elite. Everything went fine except all of my sata device all disappear. If I went to Disk Management , it said that all the sata disk need to be intialize before logical disk manager can access it. I found a way to fix this problem...

TLDR: SATA m.2 is visible on both bios and disk manager but is unable to be opened in windows explorer PS: yes the drive is formatted Ill start with how this issue started. I wanted to uninstall some programs i didnt use any because my NVme C drive was getting close to being full. When i...

Got an internal HDD which I connect via SATA/USB as external drive. Two problems: the HDD shows up healthy in Crystal Disk Info, but doesnt have a drive-letter. In Disk Management, the partitions show up in the lower window, but not in the upper. As this HDD still has an Ubuntu installation...

Hi, I just built my first PC. I'm very very new to all of this so pardon if I'm missing something obvious. I'm only using one 1 TB SSD that I installed Win10 on. From what I understand, you're supposed to download Win10 to the SSD. I'm trying to get Windows to recognize the SSD but when I open...

So recently on this PC I wanted to dual boot install Kali Linux, so I shirked my D- Drive 20GB and went to create a new simple volume and went on to create a new simple volume and this error came up : I tried all the available solutions on the internet which says to change my drive to MBR, GPT...

My college has a server that was built by former students, and I am in charge of the server now. These students have graduated, therefore i have no knoledge of the history of this server. The backplane has spots for 8 drives, 4 of which are HDDs and 1 is an SSD. 4 of the bays for the drives are...

Disks are a mess after fresh install. How to delete System Reserved partition and extend basic partition? I just bought an NVMe SSD for my Windows 10 PC. Tried Samsung Migration Tool, but I couldn't get to boot on the new drive (BSoD). Long story short I decided to do a fresh install on the...

Hi, I apologize if this post is under the wrong topic. So I recently bought a Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD, installed it the day I bought it, and it worked fine. A few days later I come back, boot it up and the new drive is not coming up in file explorer. I went to allocate it under disk...

I recently built a new pc. Installed windows on an ssd. All good. Went to disk manger, tried creating a new simple volume on the hdd and disk manager would froze. Afer a while, the new hdd showed up as drive 1 and RAW alongside an error prompt of 'format failed to complete'. Any ideas as to how...