Disk Management

Hi there. I'm trying to expand my C-Drive to use the extra, unallocated space after cloning my old system onto my newer, larger SSD. But I'm struggling to do so without paying an arm and a leg for a software I'd only use once. I understand that in order to expand a drive, they need to be next...

I've just recently got a new laptop yesterday from Best Buy, and the advertised space for this NVMe SSD is 512 GB, And in the BIOS, it does say that the max capacity of my NVMe SSD is 512 GB, but when I open file explorer or disk management, It says that my NVMe SSD only has 476 GB I Even tried...

I recently bought a PC with an 118 GB ADATA SSD and a 500 GB HDD, and I realized that Windows 10 was installed on the HDD. But when I tried to install Windows on the SSD instead, it challenged me with several errors (something with mbr and gpt). I fixed some of the errors though, but just gave...

hi i want to merge two partitions of my old HDD (1TB) which is completely empty. there are two partitions like 50GB and 880 GB and i want to merge these but when i click extend on these deleted partitions on windows disk management i get an error says "there is not enough space available on the...

Hi all, I plan to buy a Samsung 970 Plus 1 TB as storage drive and maybe an additional Samsung 970 Plus 240GB or 500GB for boot drive. I know SSDs do not function like HDDs. Nevertheless, I am wondering if there is any advantage to use multiple M.2 SSD (boot and storage drive separated)...

I'm fairly proficient in managing hard drive volumes and such, so I've tried all I can think. The (portable USB) hard drive does not show up in disk management, file manager, or device manager. Just confirmed. It shows up as "...SCSI Disk Device", but updating drivers does nothing. It has been...

I just received 2 brand new WD 8TB HDD today. I put them in my external enclosure and it picked up both drives and that they needed to be formatted. I formatted the drives and tried to create a pool with them. It failed and with a 0x00000032 error or whatever the MS error is. I Tried device...

Hi, I have an ssd i recently bought in my old computer, but I am now building a new computer and would like to move the ssd to the new computer What do I have to do? The ssd doesn't have windows on it, (that's on another ssd that will stay with my old computer) just games. Is it simply unplug...

Hello guys, recently did a fresh install of Windows 10 and have been able to find 2 out of three of my drives in disk management. I was able to enable both my 500GB SSD and 1TB HDD but it disk management cannot find my 2TB Hybrid drive. I am able to find it listed in my BIOS. If it matters...

Hiyo, Tom's Hardware folks. Been a long time. I'm looking for some assistance after having installed a new MOBO (Asus TUF Z390-PRO) and CPU (i9-9900k) onto a system. After rummaging with the system as it was for a day, I decided to make the decision to do a fresh Windows install (while buying...

So my SD2000DM001 drive, that has been working for over 2 years suddently decided to stop working. I can find it my device manager, but not at "My computer" nor Disk manager. Ive pretty much tried every solution i could find, but with no good luck.. Ive been struggling with this problem for...

Hello, I am new to this forum. I actually created an account just to ask this question, I have spent several hours searching on the web for an answer, but to no avail. My question is really simple, how can I rename the EFI System Partition on my C:/ drive in Disk Management. It is currently...

Hello, I bought an HDD for backups, but it's an internal drove. So now I wondered how safe that actually is. I can bring it offline, is that enough to prevent programs from fiddling with my back-ups? Or can something bring it offline without me knowing? Thanks in advance, Silas

Hi all, I fired up my M6800 i7-4900mq 32gb laptop yesterday (Windows 10), and everything was running extremely slowly, everything was absolutely fine previously, so am a little lost. As far as I’m aware there has been no updates applied, no software/hardware changes, etc. After checking...

Hey, I'm trying to partition my hardrive so I can run dual-boot with Linux and Windows. Currently, I'm on Windows 10 and using Window's built-in Disk Mangement tool. When I attempt to shrink my hardrive, the tool doesn't allow me to shrink it at all. I haven't shrunk my C: drive before. I've...

I need help. This laptop is running a little slow. Lags a little at times when playing Heroes of the Storm. I would like your help on what to do. I've already completed a Disk Cleanup and lowered the Recycle Bin allocation. Any way to extend C to D? Appears their separate and I've not done this...

Hello All, Recently, I used Windows Disk Management tool to upgrade my SSDs to dynamic-disks from basic-disks. Upon doing so, I noticed that I lost the ability to optimize / TRIM these drives. At first, I thought it may have been the AHCI SATA Controller drivers that were causing the issue...

Good morning guys. A couple of quick questions: I currently have 16GB (2x8GB sticks) of Viper Patriot RAM in my ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming/i7 6700k system (as shown here). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0157UQ5A6/?coliid=I1RVL8ND8QETNG&colid=3U7C7X0WQMAU3&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it If I want to...

For about 2-3 weeks now whenever I boot up my desktop it gets 'stuck' on the pre-bios screen for about 3 mins every time I boot it up. The little beep that normally comes does sound. I can't access the BIOS either, although the screen still shows. When the computer finally boots it works...

hello i build a amd ryzen 3 2200g Crucial Ballistix Sport LT UDIMM DDR4 4GB 2666 2 x4gb wd green sss 240gb Mother Gigabyte B450M DS3H Socket Am4 the problem i install windows 10 whit the tool of https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/software-download/windows10 and in 2 day i have a error error bad...

upgraded my psu you 650w from 450w. I installed it and it was all running smoothly, until I restarted my psu to finish installing a graphics driver. when It turned on there was a flickering white screen and nothing else. since then i haven't even been able to get any sign of power to the PC...

So I know I have internet, cause my phone in connected to it and it works. However on my PC the internet stops from time to time for a few minutes. But it doesn't stop fully. I can still play games but in my browser it says "No internet". I watched videos and searched forums for a fix but...

My specs are Ryzen 7 1700x Msi b450m bazooka Rtx 2060 turbo edition (Old ram was hyper x fury at 2400mhz 2x4gb) Upgraded to Corsair vengeance pro rgb at 3000mzh 2x8gb I wanted to upgrade ram because I wanted more gb and faster mhz. Then after a couple of hours of gaming I got a BSoD (the stop...

Hi guys, I recently bought a rx 580 8gb nitro+ and the base clocks through gpu z and the AMD control panel are showing as 1090 MHz, which seems really low. I have the latest drivers installed. Does anyone know the problem here? Do I have a fake card? It all looks totally legit but I bought...

I have 2 x m.2 drives on the motherboard, 1 running Windows 10, the other running Ubuntu. I have 2 x 5TB hdds and I'd like to put them in RAID 1 so data is safer in event of failure however I don't know if I can do this in such a way that both os can use them or if RAID is os specific. This is...

Hey yall I already have a PC built but the case I have is way too loud and is not cooling properly. My part list is listed below, I was looking at a NZXT H500 but didn't know if anyone had any better suggestions. Thank you in advance! https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Bp7xMZ

I want to buy a motherboard for a Ryzen build I'm doing, but both boards I was going to use is out of stock and I already ordered almost everything else. Does anyone know any board similar to B450M Gaming Plus AM4 Micro-ATX Motherboard amd and B450M Bazooka. My buget is $85 dollars, be Micro-ATX...

hi my pc is having a low performance when i bought it it was good and everything and one time i booted from other drive then i booted back from the primary drive and it start having extremely low performance all of my drivers are installed for the amd graphics card and 8 cores are running but...

Current rig: Cpu: I7 7700 (non k sku) Gpu: GTX 1060 3GB Ram: Adata 16GB ddr4 Power Supply: Corsair cx650m SSD: Adata 120GB HDD: 2x 1TB western digital blue Motherboard: asus not sure model, system was originally a prebuilt. I want to get the rtx 2060/2070 with presidents day sale i can get the...

When I turn on the PC, fans spin and everything works, it posts and everything shows up fine, but when windows finishes loading graphics card stops outputing the signal to monitor and leds on graphics card (sapphire illuminated logo) turns off too. This happens only when I turn on the PC first...

I've got a 1070 founders edition with no issues and I want to get as much money from it as I can to buy an rtx 2070 or a 2080 and I wanted to know how much should I ask for it.

Hello, Is my build capable of having a rtx 2070? My Specs: i7 6700K 16GB 2666mhz Z170 gaming m3 motherboard. 750 watt psu.

Hi, i am trying to connect the CPU to the motherboard but for some reason the gold connections wont stay on the CPU. If anyone has any ideas on how these can be connected i would be very greatful. I have attached a picture... https://pasteboard.co/HYZPhwb.jpg Thank you.

I've recently been playing GTA V again and the frame rates drop quite a lot while using high settings (anti-aliasing off) and I was wondering what is wrong because just a few months ago, everything ran fine at around 50-60fps @ 1080p. I'm not sure what's wrong and was wondering if anyone could...

I have an EMachines computer that has a vertical DVD RW Drive, and it is stuck shut with a disc inside right now. I've tried getting it out by doing the following: Using a paperclip, but there is no small pinhole on this one. And I tried going to "This PC" and right clicked on eject, and...

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I just got my msi Radeon rx 570 armor mk2, but I realized that I don’t have another 8 pin power connected because the only one I had is being used by my cpu and I was wondering if it was safe for about a month or two before I am able to save up enough money for a new power supply. I have kentex...

Gibabyte B450M DS3H Ryzen 7 1700x G.Skill Ripjaws V 3000mh So, i need a cooler, suitable for average overclocking (i'm not an expert so i won't be going pushing too far), less than 40$ (preferably less than 30$, but only if it's any good).

Hi everyone, On startup on my computer makes an audible beep, then there is a pause, then 3 more beeps in quick succession. Another pause follows this and then 2 beeps come afterwards, again in quick succession. I've tried removing my RAM and Graphics card Thank you very much! Sam (Spec...

I just installed windows 7 64bit to my cousins ideapad 110 but all the network drives are not installed . I also can't seem to find the wireless adapter to turn on or off the wireless(I dont know if it really has wireless but I guess it should). Is there any way that the windwos version could...