Unallocated

I need help with my boot SSD suddenly becoming unallocated. I didn't do anything before. 3 hours ago I booted my PC and it ran well, after that I turned it off. After a few hours I turned it on again but the BIOS doesn't detect my boot drive. So I checked it with my other PC and it appears that...

Can anyone please help me resolve a troubling issue with my Seagate HDD, which had been running with Windows 10 on board? One day the PC booted up just fine. The next day it wouldn't boot up the system at all. I've made the ultimate arse of myself by not having the backup I should have been...

I have a Toshiba 1TB external USB hard drive that is now showing as Unknown, Not Initialized and Unallocated 931.51GB in Windows 10 Computer Management. I've always thought that if you initialize a drive, it WILL erase the drive, yet some sites are saying the initialization will NOT erase the...

Cloned my harddrive through ETCHER and when i go to disk manager its says its "unallocated" but if I initialize it, I have to format it?? How do i make it into a usable drive without wiping it?

I used Balena etcher to format a usb stick onto a debian iso, then wanted to undo it. Did diskpart but closed it in the middle of formatting, now even after cleaning it only shows 900~ mb of unallocated space even though it is a 16gb drive. When i do format from the file explorer it says...

I recently upgraded my PC and with this did a fresh install of windows. I wanted to temporarly connect my old HDD's to transfer the data over to the new m.2 that I have, but the HDD isn't showing in the file explorer. It is however showing up in disk management but as "unallocated". I have...

After 1 month of usage, I suddenly noticed some of my apps that were installed in my HDD their icons were changed to a paper/note. I tried troubleshooting it and I found that in my Disk Management my HDD went from 1 TB to 3.86 unallocated. I tried reallocating it and it says: "The request could...

Hi drive gurus please help me out, I have read many many questions and my situation might be different even if solution is same. I am bit worried and confused right now. I have new WD 2TB and an old 1TB seagate desktop drives, my windows OS is on new one from where I was installing a game...

So my current storage situation is a bit of a problem. My current main boot drive was originally a storage drive, that at some point I installed a very slim Windows system to in a small partition (50GB) part way through the drive and between 2 storage partitions I resized to fit it between. Poor...

I recently bought a WD Black 6TB Performance Internal Hard Drive: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0792GSD6N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1 And it keeps getting unallocated when I turn the external HDD hub on or off (although sometimes it doesn't get unallocated), so it no...

I Built a new pc last week. Specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus x570 Pro CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: EVGA GTX 970 (leftover from old pc) RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200MHz C16 kit PSU: Corsair RM750 Watt 80+ Gold Case: Corsair Crystal 680x with 3 LL120 Fans and their fan controller SSD: Some...

Greetings, In my computer i've a 1TB WD Black HDD with Windows 10 Pro x64 and a 2TB WD Blue HDD with Windows XP Professional x64. I use the 2TB as backup, and since for various reasons my main Windows 10 installation got screwed up not long ago, i had moved all the data to the 2TB drive. Today i...

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...

I just got a new SSD and am wanting to boot my OS off of it. I downloaded EaseUS Todo Backup but when I try to do a system clone I get a message reading, "Not enough unallocated space on the target disk. To make sure the boot ability of target disk, please delete partitions on there first." My...

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...

Hi I have a potential issue with my partitioning - Windows update in February automatically sorted the situation of my 32GB SSD and 2TB hard drive as below. I do not have any separate drive showing on my computer re the SSD. Disk 0: (FAT32) 100MB, Other 128MB, C: (NTFS) 1.81TB, (NTFS) 450MB...

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...

ok bought Philips 436M6VBRAB 43in UHD HDR400 Monitor With Ambiglow this screen and its scanning Frequencys are VGA:47-63Hz/HDMI/DisplayPort:23-80Hz/DisplayPort:30-160hz.... i can only get it to work in 60hz .... my pc build for helping with the issue is ASUS Maximus VIII Hero ATX...

So, today in my free time i saw a pc build with gtx 1080ti sli, i9 7960x, 64gb ddr4 ram and stuff, just wondering what people do with such builds?

so i have 2 weeks left to build my self a desktop at the first i have added rx 480 gpu but then i saw a gtx 1060 which everyone says to go with gtx 1060 as i saw the price between them wasint that much as i can spare that extra £20 and get the gtx 1060 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GT OCV1 so i...

Hey, I've recently been having problems with graphics in-game. Whenever I play a demanding title (such as JC3 or GTA 5) in 1080p I get around 20-30fps yet if I lower it to 720p I get 60fps (this is weird as even if I increase the settings it still stays at 60fps) Do I need to upgrade my...

Right now I have 90$ to spend on a keyboard. I'm looking to get a mechanical keyboard that has MX blue switches with EU letter layout. Anyone know any good websites located in Europe ? I would order from Ebay but the customs and shipping is gonna cost me way to much. Would really appreciate all...

Hi, yesterday I was playing csgo and today when I tried to run csgo I got the following "Failed to create D3D Device" error I tried multiple thing, including the following -Restarting my PC -Shut off my PC -Updating my graphics card drivers and direct x -Uninstalling and Reinstalling CSGO -Tried...

Hey guys, hopefully you can understand my English it's my second language. Its about my laptop its having a nasty bootloop, when I press start my laptop it shows the acer logo and after a 2 or 3 minutes it will turn black then shuts down and restarts again. If anyone can help that would be...

Dear all, "Attached link is the screenshot to my resource monitor while under load, i hope this will help , do let me know if u need any other info" I have been facing this problem for a few weeks now and finally found out what was causing it but not sure why it's happening. I am using 16gb...

I would love to have AGP HD 4670 since it's the best AGP card ever made.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161337 Another part I would love to have is a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition...

Hello guys.. my very first question here... I have a computer that suddenly wont boot..the led and gpu cpu case fan are all alive.... I thought the psu is faulty or somesort...so I swapped with my friends cpu.. Which is aerocool gt 500s, the thing is when I use it, the led and fan alive for a...

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So i've more or less completed my theorised new high end build, and am debating the case. I have previously been using the Phanteks Enthoo Luxe, which ive found to be brilliant, but since im selling it on, im considering the Fractal Design Define R5 and the Coolermaster Mastercase Pro, or buying...

I have an i5-6600 (non-k) that I'm choosing a mobo for. I'm looking at the Gigabyte H110M-A and the Asrock H170 Performance (both listed below). Will there be any actual performance difference between the two? The H170 has things like gold contact in pcie-x16/DIMMS and more heatsinks, but does...

Okay, so I'm making the transition from Xbox to PC because I have more friends on PC. Now, that said, I want to build the best PC possible (or buy) in the $800 range. If you have any ideas of great PC's or Components in my price range please tell me. Thanks for any replies and have a nice day.

Hello again community of Tom'sHardware, I finally bought a computercase today (yay). Now im having a hard time with deciding which casefans I should buy. The case I bought is a phanteks enthoo pro. I know about all the fan options. My thought is to replace the 200mm front fan and put it at...

Hello, I have a user that has dual monitors, and when she maximizes a window it locks and she is unable to slide it to the other monitor. She can double click and move it as well as minimize and move it to the other screen. It is just when the window is fully maximized she is unable to grab...

going to connect PSU after its set in case to be able to ground myself will this handle CFX bronze 650W power supply now and when its running? extension: 13A 250V BS:1363/A checking just to be safe. PS: my PSU comes with four wires from the box and tonne extensions insides, first time...