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Windows on the E drive got corrupted, so I installed Windows on the C drive and wiped the E drive intending to move Windows back to the E drive later. But I made a a mess of it. The EFI and Recovery partitions are still on the E drive while Windows system files are on the C drive, and I'm not...

I've got my OS, and some other applications and files such as Adobe on a Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD. I've got a new build ready to put together but I'm not sure if I should do a fresh install of Windows, clone the drive, or just move the hard drive and continue to use it as my boot drive. I have...

I have a fitpro smartwatch with 64 mb ram and 64 mb rom and I want to game on it I can connect keyboard to it and mouse and connect it to pc all fitpro use same motherboard please help me and yes I am serios

For context, recently while updating windows my power had gone out and corrupted the OS on my HDD. I've had an SSD on standby for awhile now so I figured I'd install windows on the new SSD. Since then, my SSD doesn't appear in BIOS but my HDD does. BUT my SSD appears on windows (file manager/...

Hello, I bought a new 64gb high speed flash drive and I wondered if I could split it into 2 partitions so that one would be used for a live boot os (puppy linux probably) and the other one as a normal USB. Would this work?

I am trying to reinstall windows on a new m.2 drive that I have and I cannot locate my product key. I bought a physical copy from best buy and it is on a flash drive, but I lost the box and am trying to locate the key. I seem to remember years back being able to look in my computer "properties"...

Hi, I am still running Windows 7 on my machine, but I'd like to jump directly to Windows 11. I have a new SSD that I'd like to use for my OS, but I'd like to keep everything else on my HDD. Should I clone my current HDD ? Is it better to just backup all my documents, pictures etc. (which I've...

Hi all. I am about to reset my computer entirely and install new drives. My plan is to: Drive C: (256 GB NVMe M.2 SSD) - OS only Drive D: (1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD) - everything else In the past, I have a hard time understanding how to configure Windows such that by default I am working with my D...

I have cloned my OS to SSD from HDD now I have windows in SSD and hdd both now I want to delete the windows of HDD how can I do it and there is boot manager also in both disk so I can boot windows from both SSD and hdd how can I delete it too? Help!

Hello! So I have this laptop that for some reason won't boot, I could format it and make it work, but I want to know if there is a way to recover the data in the hard drive. Here is what I have tried so far, I tried to attach the images but can't...(I apologyze for the screeshoots, they are in...

I had an HDD for over a year and bought a M.2 NVMe SSD. I am planning to fresh install Windows 10 on the SSD. I need help regarding the following- What would be the status of the OS that exists on my HDD? Would I still be able to use the already installed applications on my HDD if I have the...

I recently bought a 2TB Barracuda HDD because my current 1TB HDD was too small for all the games I like to play, and after screwing it into the tray and connecting the SATA cable, my PC wouldn't boot my OS, it just loaded into the Aorus Easy Safe Mode, even though the original HDD (where the OS...

So I've recently freshly installed Windows 10 on my PC. I've disabled all the windows defender settings but still there's this antimalware process which stays on all the time and uses about 250-350Mb of my memory. When I try to end it, it just says cannot end the process permission denied. I've...

I have had a MacBook for years that stopped working well about a year ago. Luckily, I had been regularly backing everything up on an external hard drive and had a work computer that I continued to use instead. My MacBook has just been sitting around unused for about a year. I would like to now...

Hi everyone, I need some help and advice regarding OS backups and images, but please (ELI5) explain like I'm 5yo as my knowledge is very poor on this subject. I'm a little embarrassed to say that after more than 2 decades of being a techy PC nerd/enthusiast, I've never actually done any OS...

Afternoon all! I am in the process of selling an old gaming laptop. I used the Windows tool to reset the laptop to factory settings in an attempt to wipe my old sensitive data clean. Well as you all know that process truly doesn’t wipe the drives “clean” and when I actually went through the...

So, I decided to install Linux Mint on the second HDD which is 80GB big. Windows 10 is installed on the 500GB HDD. Of course I went with dual boot. Now, I want to revive my older system just to play music from it, so I decided to take out 80GB HDD with Linux. Linux runs smoothly on that older...

EDIT: Looks like I am a noob and I posted this in the CPU forum? Idk how that happened but I meant for this to go in either the MoBo or Storage category. FINAL EDIT: Ok so this is my only, and final edit to this post. I got no replies but I am editing it now in the event someone has this...

So before getting into anything I want to give a little history of my ssd. I have formated it multiple times and once converted its partition style from MBR to GPT using easeUS software to find out that my mobo/bios dosen't support it. So I installed windows on it again and formatted it during...

So I got an NVMe SSD today, 1TB. Install was fine, however I realized getting windows onto it isn't a simple copy+paste (unless you want to add everything from your boot drive) so I haven't really done much with the SSD so far other than benchmarking it. I'll be using it primarily for games and...

Hello, Windows 7 is going to end its support on Jan 2020, I was planning to upgrade the OS. I've two options, should I upgrade to win10 or 8.1 because of my PC old hardware I'm worried that if I upgrade to win 10 then I should face many issues like performance drop most probably drivers...

After booting off my new SSD, I no longer can find files in my HDD. It’s like they no longer exist. When I click on windows and search for applications and files that I have on my HDD they do not show up but hey are still there. I can still find the HDD applications that I have on it but when I...

Sup, I want to start learning linux, and want a safe environment which I can play with, for this I want a seperate storage device from my windows.. now, I tought about buying some cheap 160-120gb internal HDD for that which I can format incase of trouble easily.. use it mostly for linux...

got a new hard drive for my desk top with no OS, and on the screen says" "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key", I cant even get to the bios menu becuase it quickly starts up. help please!

Hey guys, So I have been using my computer running on windows 10 home for a couple of years now, and for the past couple of months I started getting a lot of BSOD. Some of them saying "MEMORY MANAGEMENT", "CRITICAL PROCESS DIED", "STORE EXCEPTION" and sometimes "REGISTRY ERROR". Now when...

Windows 7 ends support on 2020 and before that I want to upgrade my os, I want to know that does my mobo supports win 8.1. On the asus site it shows only win 8 drivers but not 8.1. I'm bit worried about this. I don't really like win 10 also win 8.1 ends on 2023...

So, I've had this PC for quite a few years, kept it updated for most of its life. Originally had Windows 7 on it, then upgraded it to 10. Recently, my hard drive decided to burn out and I lost everything. I've bought a new hard drive and tried to restore my OS by using a recovery drive I...

What would be a good (insert list of computer component/software/peripheral that will be listed below) for a digital artist working for a video game company and if you can, please explain why it would be suitable. List: -processor -ram -hard drive -graphics card -monitor/screen -printer...

Hi,did anyone know system like Rockstor,FreeNas or etc,that can locally share file via SMB + Browser (like local cloud),coz they only can share SMB and NFS. i don't know using OwnCloud, im using HyperV on win server 2016,i don't wanna to messing with the main system and will use the HyperV,and...

Hi, I just updated Windows 8.1. Now when I right click an app in Start nothing happens it only puts a check mark. It was working fine before the update. Any ideas? I saw some posts about missing folders but none of my folders are missing.