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Hello! So my friend was trying to clean his HDD a bit to make space. He was removing programs via the "Add or remove function" . And then suddenly most of the storage was gone except for the Steam folder and Fortnite which is pretty odd... Now it just shows that the disk uses has 921 GB...

Hello, my current system is a 2700x, Vega 64, plugged into a B450 F Gaming from Asus. As for storage I use a NVME 500GB as my primary os drive, 1 480gb ssd, and a 3tb HDD, and a dvd/cd read write. I recently purchased a 4tb Barracuda and upon adding it to the system and booting up the only drive...

If I clone an HDD that doesn't contain my OS, but contains other programs, to another HDD, will I be able to use said programs without having to reinstall them again? Does the cloning process preserve file associations and program settings? Or will I just have to reinstall all the programs I had...

I was encrypting my pendrive using veracrypt and the encryption failed at 97%, thus making the flashdrive RAW. I have tried formatting the pendrive many ways, nothing works. I have used 3 different third party softwares such as minitool AOMEI partition. They do detect the flashdrive but aren't...

Hello, I noticed a discrepancy recently regarding a partition of mine that I installed Ubuntu Studio on. According to Gparted, it shows that the partition that it's installed on reads 652.71 GB total compared to what it shows on the desktop. On the desktop for that same partition, it reads...

I just changed my motherboard to a B360-F and my cpu to i7 9700k Now, the bios opens when i turn on the pc and it says the sata connections are connected to the disks, however if i go to the boot menu «F8» it doesn’t show any, just shows the message «no bootable devices found» Please help And

I have 4 disks of 1TB in RAID 10 with 2 NTFS partitions, one of 500GB and one of 1,3TB. After some time 2 disks of 4 are dead, and one has bad blocks but I can access it. Because this is an old computer I left it without a backup for some time ;-( With some programs like "ReclaiMe Free RAID...

I have a Seagate 10TB 3.5" drive which I was using as a large single drive to copy the contents of my 8.5TB RAID5 volume, so I could back this single drive up to the cloud and get away from using a RAID array. I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 on the machine. Drive is formatted NTFS and is...

I tried everything to decrease my disk, it's 100% most of the time, last thing i did is a disk check and repair from cmd and it fix nothing. I even delete all my background programs (antivirus, windows search , etc...). In task menager i only have System and compressed memory and service host...

When the system boots and whenever i open a program the disk activity just spikes. Almost every time it reaches 100% but sometimes it just spikes to around 80 or 90% and then, after a few second it goes down. The high disk activity only lasts a few seconds but it is still really annoying...

Hi everyone, After my PC started lagging in one small folder, I decided it was time to check the disk. Some HDD utility told me there are 8 unstable sectors. Overall health looks fine, only 0.2% of the disk being "bad". I ran chkdsk once (from the properties tab) and it found no errors...

I've never had a problem with my PC until lately. Before I had this problem I was able to play my game while I watch Streams or videos and had no problems. I was able to stream my games with no problem too. Now my PC would lag or freeze when I watch Twitch Streams or Youtube vids. When I go to...

I use a Corsair One with the following hardware: OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 2.C6, 1/24/2018 Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB...

I found this adapter that plugs instead of the CD reader which have SATA ports on it, so I decided to buy it and plug an SSD to it since my laptop runs off an HDD and its really annoying how unresponsive it is just wondered will it have standard W/R speeds? or will it be throttled, if it does...

Build i7-8700k @ 3.70GHz 1080 Ti 16 GB DDR4 3000 HP EX920 M.2 1TB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVME SSD (Read/Write Speeds up to 3,200 MBps / 1,800 MBps) Computer is a year old I come back from a vacation and my disk usage becomes 100 percent on startup, when opening a program, or just random spikes during...

Hello, I'm new to this forum, not sure is this the correct section. PC specs: Windows 10 home Intel i5 6400 Evga GTX 1060 6gb 16GB Ram 2TB WD HDD (200gb left) 200 internet speed I've been having these issues for a while where my pc runs cpu and disk at 100. It's quite slow and takes forever...

About half a year ago I realized that my external hard-drive that I bought on amazon was malfunctioning, I had noticed there was a connection problem even before that, it would connect and disconnect rapidly sometimes, but I didn't think much of it cause my files were still there. then 1 day I...

I want a batch script to automatically format a partition in windows when any program copying files pop up "Insufficient disk space" Anybody please help me,

Hello all, I recently purchased a 2tb WD Blue Hard Drive and when i opened my file explorer, i saw that it was only around 1tb. I went to look at the partitions and i saw that the other tb was unallocated. I messed around with it, trying to get them together, and i somehow ended up with 2...

Alright, so basically I bought a new laptop Asus X540U. Im not really familiar with computer booting but I really need everything explained because I tried everything I could. When I was at the shop, they said that the Windows 10 drivers must be installed. They gave me a disk but the laptop...

Yesterday I tried messing around with my storage devices, because I could not find my SSD in my folders. Well, after messing around in disk management for a while, I was able to get the SSD to show! After a while of gaming I turned off my computer for the night. The next day when I tried to boot...

TLDR; I thought I broke my hard drive but now it works again! Hello! I was transferring some data from an external hard drive to my (C:) drive. When I was moving data from the drive, the power in my house went out. When I tried to restart my computer again after the power went out it did not...

I've been having this issue lately, and I am baffled on why it occurs. My 7200 rpm HDD has this fluctuating issue where whenever I use a program for an extended period of time (usually 3ds Max/Maya, alike program of the stature) or play any modern game for extended time (mainly FFXII The Zodiac...

Hi there, I just moved my OS over from my old HDD to my new SSD and everything in terms of the OS works it's just that after I deleted everything on my old HDD, as all the files were copied to my SSD, I can no longer use the majority of the disk as it remains un-allocated. I have a 1TB HDD as...

Hello! I own an Acer Aspire VN7-792G laptop, had it for over a year and a half. It's a great machine and never had any problems before, nor did I go for any "personalization", as in it's still just how I bought it in terms of setup and everything. About two months ago, I noticed that whenever...

Seemingly out of nowhere, windows stopped recognizing my HDD. It wasn't after downloading something, it wasn't after a shutdown or anything, just out of nowhere. When I tried to access the HDD, it said the "folder was empty". However windows still knew how much space was remaining on the drive...

The process "system" seems to be using a 100% disk usage. I know there are many who face this issue. The process points to the file ntoskrnl.exe. Also there's another process registry which point to the same file. can anyone help me with this. I have run anti-virus scan also and the files are clean.

Hello. I recently started having a problem with my laptop Ever since a couple of days ago my CPU and DISK usage has been around 80 - 100% even on idle. I have no idea what happened but I've tried every single "fix" on the web and nothing is helping! PC Specs: CPU: Intel Core I7-7700HQ @2.80GHz...

Hi! I have 2 drives on my computer as they list; Disk C: (306GB almost used) (HDD) Disk D: (390GB with 390GB free) (HDD) I decided to make a thread since my C: disk is almost used with 5.20GB free. I own 4 games located on Steam* and a couple of programs. I store some memes and a couple of...

Today, I saw a notification that my C partition has almost full storage. How can I allocate space from disk 0 to a partition that is on disk 1? Can I merge the disks? What should I do in this situation? A photo with my partitions is here and on imgur: View: https://imgur.com/i1KhLVY

I've tried reinstalling windows to a freshly wiped SSD and every time I boot into windows I check disk partitioner it shows as a system partition. The last time i wiped this drive I wasn't able to boot into windows. Here's what the drives look like right now...

Like the question says I have a RTX 2060, AMD Ryzen 2700x, 16gbs of DDR4 Ram 2666mhz, and I am getting stutter when I am playing games. The hard drive I have is 1TB 7200, but I have had it since 2014, so it could be getting old, but I’m not sure. My temps while gaming never go above 68...

Hey Guys, So I'm having an issue where my system (upon pressing power button) will do these steps: Load extremely slowly - BIOS screen works but the _ screen and Windows 10 Loading screen takes millennia Have had a Disk Error twice - simply restarting solves problem If my system slows/freezes...

Recently I had the misfortune of having my Hard Drive die 😭. I don’t know what happened I was installing a new Powersupply, my guess is that I shorted my hardrive. Anyway, I recently bought a new SSD to be the replacement and once I got everything installed I popped in the Windows 10 disk to be...

Hello, I just built my computer less than 2 months ago, and it's already starting to lag. I look at task manager and the disk usage always goes super high when I'm opening programs and sometimes just randomly. Is there a way to fix this besides reinstalling Windows? Thanks!

I got my computer back after changing moterboard and noticed i only have disk 0 so i went to initialize disk 1 but i got an error and when i try to initialize it i get this (the system could not find the file specified) what to do?

I have a Xenta 700w Non-Modular PSU. Sometimes when I turn my PC on, it randomly starts making a loud buzzing noise that originated from the PSU. I fix it by turning it off by the socket and turning it back on. This sometimes work but sometimes it doesn't. Should I consider a replacement or...

Under heavy load, my 5 year old graphics card is finally getting much hotter than it was when I first got it. Using Open Hardware Monitor shows that my graphics card has run temps up to 91 degrees. About a year ago I re-seated the cooler and changed the thermal compound (the old stuff was...

I'm about to put together a new PC and I'm wondering if my old PSU is still good to go or if I should look into buying a new one. The old one is an XFX P1-850X-XXB9 850W, still actually has a newegg page up (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207024). Anyways, not sure...

Hello everyone, I have this pc for almost 10 years, and it ran with an ATI HD 5770 MSI variant since. Recently that graphic card stopped working and I started to look for a replacement, and that's where I would appreciate some help. I intend to just replace the graphics card in order to keep...