Partition

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)...

My PC is very space limited with two pretty old SSDs. I'm considering spanning a volume onto another disk using Disk Management in Windows 10 Pro, having never done it before. I'd be doing this so that I can install PC games that are larger than 100GB. Currently I can only install games of...

Hello everyone. I recently bought a new M.2 SSD as an upgrade for my laptop that originally only came with a super slow 5400 RPM Hard Drive. At first i tried to clone the hard drive to the SSD, however when i went to boot off of the SSD it would not boot and would get stuck in a boot loop that...

Hello, i have an HDD with 126GB Unallocated space, whenever i try to merge or even create simple volume, it says that i don't have enough space on disk(s), i have 193GB free out of the 804GB since the unallocated space is on the left i tried easeUS but it shows that the hdd is already taking the...

I have two drives, one is a partitioned SSD and the other is a 7200 rpm HDD. I'm unable to install any games from pc game pass on the 2nd SSD partition. I tried to change storage settings on windows with no success. Any ideas on how to fix it?

I'm having issues with My mobile Seagate 5TB external HDD. I used it on My Xbox for a while before upgrading, now I want to connect to My router but for some reason there was multiple partitions. I formatted the hdd but now there is 3 unallocated partitions, what did I do wrong? 1 of them...

Hi, so i just bought a new Asus ROG Strix G. and it comes with a 512GB SSD. A little bit of intro to my question is that on my pc I did a 2 drive setup. 1 - 120GB SSD for windows and some apps. 1 - 1TB Hard Drive to install my games and media. This is for the sake of me not messing up any...

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 everyone, i recently bought an SSD and i dont know much about it i had question about SSD Optimization, "Image" it says it needs a partition to execute the Trim Command it says it needs a partition to execute. so my question it is it safe to run it? i got my OS installed on SSD and...

Hello everyone! So i just used the Windows built in Converter, to convert from Mbr 2 Gpt. I used: mbr2gpt /convert /disk:0 /allowfullos Everything went well, no Errors. But now i have a second "Local Disk" mapped as drive letter F: with 100MB Reserved. Is that normal? How can i get rid of it...

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...

Hi, in the past I used Partition Magic to partition the drive in a laptop to allow dual boot of Windows and Linux. The software worked all the time. I could also adjust the size of the partition by moving a slider. The software showed the picture. After making several adjustment commands, the...

Recently I cloned my old 1TB drive to my SSD. I was able to boot from both drives perfectly last night. However, I removed a couple partitions within both drives (only around 65Mb partitions). Now i am unable to boot to both drives. Im having a hard time figuring out what to do. I have set my...

I have a 16Gb pen drive in ext4 file system which is divided into two portions 1) 2.94 GB 2) 11.7 GB I want to increase the first partiton size by taking the memory from the second partition. How to swap memory between these two partitions in a pendrive ? I'm using Windows and using Paragon...

Okay, so I am wanting to dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. My laptop has windows installed, and I wanted to shrink my main partition by 100gb. I thought this would be doable because I have more than 200gb unused on my nvme, but it only let me shrink it 60gb. Next I have two unallocated...

Hello. Recently, my hard drive failed (Luckily I had a backup). I tried to make a new partition on it to store some non-important files (I needed a way to transfer them and this was the only available drive I had at the time). While doing so (In Disk Management in Windows) I got an error...

I am building a new machine. I want a dual boot Windows 10 Pro / Ubuntu 18.04 (soon 20.04) system. I also want a separate partition for downloads and game installs. I intend to game on Windows only. What partition sizes and file systems do you suggest? Thanks!

I want to add another SSD to my PC and I was wondering if I just connect it to my PC will it be recognised and could I use it normally or do I need to reinstall Windows and add new partition for that new SSD?

Hi. I made a dual boot Windows 10s. I used my Kingston 240GB SSD and split it into 2 partitions. My main one with 160GB and the other one with 80GB for some testing. It's all good but i can explore, edit and use others partition files. I'd like to know how to hide the partitions from one...

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...

Hi, simple question. I want to install two Windows 10s on my single Kingston SSD 240gb. I split the SSD into 2 parts, one is my main partition which has 160GB and the other is about 80GB in which i want to install the other Windows 10 and be used for small things and not storage (saying that...

With a 500GB SSD the available space is about 465GB, I want to partition it and install W10 Home in a small partition (50 GB) and use the other partition to install programs and games, that way if I need to format I would just format the partition without losing the rest. I will also move the...

I have Samsung M3 1TB portable Drive. which got corrupted. I recovered all data including "Samsung Secret Zone Virtual partition" which is MSR file and now not accessible. Can I put that file in new Samsung M3 drive (I have to buy if needed) and open it? Please Assist me.

So I recently installed the Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 into my MSI ge62vr. All was going well, I transfered my existing data/os onto a new partition on my hard drive, swapped the ssd that came with the laptop and transfered the data back. I booted it from the new ssd and got bsod with the error...

I'm having some other hardware issues and ended up completely reinstalling Windows(twice) while trying to fix those. This time I noticed that a 100mb "primary" partition has been created against my will, as seen in the picture below. All I want to know is if it's safe to delete this E...

Built my first pc on Monday and I’m running windows 10 and have bought a 4TB HDD. Well, after getting booted up I noticed I didn’t even have the 4TB HDD to store things on, had to use my 500gb SSD. Well, that being said, I found out I had to partition the 4TB but I can only partition 2TB of it...

I have a 2TB hard drive on my computer, but my C: drive only accounts for about 200GB of this. Meanwhile there is another D: drive that seems to be virtually empty with about 1.8TB allocated to it. My computer was set up this way since I bought it, but my C: drive is filling up and I want to...

Hi, Normally I'd try quite a bit myself before posting here but I'm afraid to try much since data is on the line. As far as I can tell this seems to be a software issue rather than a hardware problem, though I can't be 100% sure. I say this because both drives involved are fairly new, still...

Hello Experts, I am having a strange issue with SSD disk. Upgraded from my 256 GB SSD to 1 TB Drive. After the replace 1TB HD and reinstall OS (Both machine s are W10), I tried to connect the OLD SSD back to machine and via USB and try to move the old content.But I see the partition...

Hi Guys I just built a gaming/editing PC using the ASUS Z390-A Motherboard and the Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1Tb M.2_2 drive. My only other computer is a Mac and I used this to create a bootable Win10 USB. I couldn't use unetbootin because I'm running 10.15 beta, I make the USB bootable in the...

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...

Hi, I've read around some of the threads I could could find. I'm doing a fresh install of Win 10 to my new 2tb 660p. Should I partition a section just for Windows and another section for everything else? If so, what size would you suggest for each partition? Thanks

Good day, ladies and gentlemen. My story: Yesterday i decided to devide my 2tb hdd (with data on it and this is not system drive) into 2 partitions. I had almost 800gb free space on it and have made a 250gb partition with mini tool partition wizard. The proccess completed with no mistakes, but...

I just bought a 10GB WD My Book external backup drive, and partitioned it because FileHistory doesn't allow you to cap the amount of space it takes over, and I wanted to use half of the drive for personal files. Everything runs fine until I create the second partition in Windows Disk...

So I just ordered an SSD M.2 which I plan to use as my new PC's boot drive. I have a 4tb HDD that I use as a second storage option (my current PC boots off a 1tb HDD) and was told a long while ago that if I have any data I want to keep, that I'd need to partition a portion of my HDD and send it...

Hey there, My friend has an Asus TUF fx504G laptop. We recently bought a new SSD and installed it as his main windows drive. We nuked the internal 1TB that came with the system and left it in as a secondary storage and Windows 10 installed on the new SSD without issue. The problem we're having...

First I would like to say that this website and forums are awesome. You all have so much knowledge that you are willing to share. With your help I was able build a computer while blowing right past my budget by thousands.... I had a old HP PC and was going back to school. I already hated to even...

Ok, I really fudged up this time. I was attempting to downgrade from Windows 10 Professional to Windows 7 Ultimate on my Acer TravelMate B-115M. I'd done it several times before on different PCs, laptops and netbooks. I wanted to do as fresh and clean of an install I could do, so I chose...

I have a lenovo Y510p ideapad. I recently caught a virus and had to factory reset my pc. When I went to the nearest backup (made very recently) and tried to recover it using OKR. I received an error stating there wasn't enough space on the drive. The backup is about 683gb. When I made the...

Hello there guys, My mother has an iMac from a few years ago and it's been going fine but there's been some issues with it over the last year. She got it from our IT guy who I'll call John. John bought the iMac originally and put windows on it. When he gave it to my mother, she wanted OSX back...