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Hello, My HDD is currently dying so i'm gonna replace it, and at the same time i want to upgrade the os SSD wich is only 128GB and cause problemes because it's always full. I think to replace the os SSD with a 1-2T one but i don't know how i should partition it and set it up. Wich size the C: should be, if it's possible separate the os with page file and hibernation file from every other (progams folders, users folders). Also is it possible to make a fresh install of windows without losing all the drive ? (in case i need in futur). The setup is : 128 G sata SSD with OS, full --> 1-2 T NVME SSD 2 T HDD 95% full, video/photos/apps/lot of games /backups --> 4-8 T HDD 1 T NVME 90% full, AppData/Roaming folder, games needing a SSD and modded MC / Skyrim

I had a sata 240gb ss on my PC for a long time and it is not quite enough for me for now. So i bought a 500gb nvme ssd. I want to make the new ssd my c drive, like i want to transfer every single file to the newer ssd including Windows and clean the older one. I found some apps that transfers windows files to an another disk but couldnt understand completely and it was only for windows. If anyone could help or knew any guide about it i would be really happy.

so i have an windows 10 home key but originally i had installed windows 10 pro non activated how can i re intsall windows without losing anything

So I started my pc and I saw a message on my screen when starting it. scanning and repairing c drive... but It didnt show any percentage or anything besides the massage so I looked up all sort of stuff about how to fix the error but nothing so far seems to fix it. I have tried going to my c drive then properties and checking my drive for errors, there it shows that there is something wrong with my c drive but when I try to let it fix the error it tells me the drive is in use. so I found out you had to restart and it would repair the issue. But again when I restart my pc it wont show any percentage, just scanning and repairing c drive. so I checked my c drive again in properties and it still gave a error. Then i tried the sfc /scannow it did its thing and told me it repaired my drive and everything was fine. ran it another time to make sure, still fine. checked my c drive in properties and still had a error. then I tried the chkdsk via the instructions of this vid : Fix Hard Drive Errors in Windows 10 | Repair using Windows Tool FROM:windowschimp let that do its thing and I still get errors. I also have downloaded the samsung magician program to check my drives status. it told me it was in good shape and had a good temprature. so know I don't know what else I can do that could fix it. ssd: samsung evo 970 1tb any help would be appreciated. thx in advance

So I started my pc and I saw a message on my screen when starting it. scanning and repairing c drive... but It didnt show any percentage or anything besides the massage so I looked up all sort of stuff about how to fix the error but nothing so far seems to fix it. I have tried going to my c drive then properties and checking my drive for errors, there it shows that there is something wrong with my c drive but when I try to let it fix the error it tells me the drive is in use. so I found out you had to restart and it would repair the issue. But again when I restart my pc it wont show any percentage, just scanning and repairing c drive. so I checked my c drive again in properties and it still gave a error. Then i tried the sfc /scannow it did its thing and told me it repaired my drive and everything was fine. ran it another time to make sure, still fine. checked my c drive in properties and still had a error. then I tried the chkdsk via the instructions of this vid : Fix Hard Drive Errors in Windows 10 | Repair using Windows Tool FROM:windowschimp let that do its thing and I still get errors. I also have downloaded the samsung magician program to check my drives status. it told me it was in good shape and had a good temprature. so know I don't know what else I can do that could fix it. ssd: samsung evo 970 1tb any help would be appreciated. thx in advance

Hi people, I'm planning to buy a 1TB NVMe for Both C drive and Projects.. Does 300-400GB would be enough for C drive space? Besides windows 10 pro 64 bit I'll install all my softwares like Cubase Pro; Adobe Premiere pro, After effects, Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrations; DaVinci Resolve; Blender and All plugins for both Music and Video production! I will use another SSD for Cache files! and another for sound library and samples! Regarding my budget.. I only have 2 options.. Crucial P1 or Gigabyte 1 TB m.2 NVMe! Please help me out on this! Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, I have a 2TB Sata HDD that was partitioned years ago into 2 1tb volumes. I'm selling pc now and wanted to remove the partition and extend volume of C drive back to normal. I formatted and deleted the partition but I can't seem to extend the volume of C even if that partition is now unallocated space. Please help thanks

#1 Hello, iv tried various programs to try and backup my c drive but i keep getting similar errors saying volume is locked or being used by another application. I've tried running backups in safe mode as well as closing all background tasks i can but still get this error. checked the drive and no errors were found. looking for a solution that allows me to find what application is holding my c drive hostage and keeping me from being able to back it up. PLEASE HELP!

I'm about to build my new gaming rig and thought this would be an ideal time to replace my very full SSD C drive. I currently have a 500 GB SSD drive for C and a 1 TB HDD for D and I'm looking to expand that by adding a new SSD for C. Turning my current C drive into a regular drive and then keeping the 1 TB drive as is. The only problem is I have no idea what process is involved in replacing a C drive without losing everything on that drive and having to reinstall windows. Do you clone the current C drive to the new one and then format the original C drive? What software do I need? Is there a different process? Clearly I've got no idea how to go about this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Apologies if this is worded horribly, I'm running on 2 hours of 3 minutes of sleep...) ?

Hi guys I was trying to increase the space of the C drive but it wouldn't make me. Do you guys have any 3rd party programs to do that?

Hey everyone, I have encountered this problem for quite a while now and it is that whenever I boot up my pc, it tells me to wait a couple of seconds or it will scan and repair my C drive. I tried fixing this but I cannot get rid of this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The current Partition capacity of C Drive on my PC is about 100 GB. I don't undertake any downloads/installations that take up more than a few MB of space at a time typically i.e. I don't splurge-download software, movies, etc. - this thing has given me so many problems I've learnt to be wary But the weird thing is, at times there are wild shifts in the amount of space that is shown to be free on Local Disk C, which is where most program files, softwares, etc. are kept in my PC along with, of course, Windows Data. (media, misc. softwares, docs go onto Local Disk D). This is without, as I mentioned, me explicitly initiating any major actions that can cause such shifts. Usually these changes occur as soon as I switch on my comp (eg. its legit 2GB free when I shut it down, and then 30 GB free after I switch it on a while later). Probable changes that happen AFAIK are Temp Files (I guess) and Recycle Bin emptying. But Temp FIles generally dont take up 30 GB of space (right?) and I certainly dont delete 30 GB worth of data over a period of less than 13-14 months! I can't pinpoint anything in specific of course when I visit C, because there are too many things in there for me to be able to keep track of. What's happening? Is it something to be worried about? (I think not, but I'm still putting it forward) Thanks!

Hey LTT forums, I'm having an issue dual booting my alienware laptop with linux. I have an alienware 15 (the newest model) with a 120 gb ssd for the boot (103 gb after formatting) and a 1tb mechanical drive. I use windows 10 for gaming and game development but I'm trying to dual boot it with arch linux because I need certain command line tools and because arch is lightweight and my drive space is limited. When I go into the windows 10 disk management it wont allow me to shrink the size of the boot partition. It gives me an error message saying that I don't have enough room to shrink it even though there is clearly 45 gb free. It won't let me delete recovery partitions either. Can I not partition drives in UEFI boot as opposed to legacy bios? I don't want to install arch on my much slower D drive especially because I have a dual-booted desktop already. Does alienware have some weird feature on motherboards preventing from people dualbooting? Any ideas on how I can partition the drives? *Update I tried changing boot mode from UEFI to legacy and then it wouldn't boot into windows. I also corrected a typo above where I wrote NFTS instead of UEFI by mistake. oops.

So my C Drive is running at 100% active time with no transfer rates and a near zero or zero cpu usage. Tried disabling the normal windows processes and only 9% of my HD is fragged. Going to run a transfer right now in case its a mechanical problem but I'm open to any suggestions

This is a massively confusing issue, with lots of useless guides online on what i'm supposed to be doing. It also involves using a lot of stock windows tools which are rubbish and outdated. But required, as you have to transplant the OS so seamlessly it doesn't notice. I have now tried this operation twice by myself, failing both times. Now i need help. This post may be very long. More of a journal than a formal post. Please bear with me. Advice is appreciated. I have a 128gb SSD boot drive and a number of 2tb hdds for mass storage (i do a lot of things with media, i have about 4tb worth of files). 128gb is puny for a C drive, and despite me deliberately never installing any application, or document to the drive (chrome, Microsoft office, that's it), it still repeatedly fills up with cache and temp files, especially from adobe applications (again, the whole "large files with media" thing, going straight to the c drive with no scratch disk to speak of) So I've bought a new 480gb ssd. I'd like to make it my boot drive, put applications on it, etc. Convert the SSD into a scratch disk. Keep mass storage. In fact, remove the old C drive entirely, and copy across the contents so perfectly that the computer can simply reboot off the new drive (same designation etc) and never skip a beat. That's the plan, anyway. Attempt one: Macrium Reflect to create a disk clone on the new drive. There is a lot of conflict on the internet over what exactly disk cloning and disk imaging do. I have found sources that both claim one works to copy a c drive, the other doesn't (doesn't grap crucial boot info). For both drives. useful. The clone seemed to work seamlessly enough, but cloned the same partitions leaving a 300gb hole on the new drive. Problem 1: windows does not allow you to extend partitions on a boot drive. this makes it unbootable.... Furthermore, when i replaced the drive in the computer, the thing failed altogether. I tried to rebuild windows following its own instructions, but it got caught in a restart loop at 64%, 1% Configuring Startup Settings (eg. http://www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/12857-endless-boot-loop-after-reset.html) This was unnerving, as it said it would format all my hard drives and rework them. It didn't. I pulled out the new drive, put in the old one, everything booted fine as usual. Went on normal way. Attempt two: I aborted this because the last backup i had was from December. So i decided to do a proper backup and re-image, and use Windows' own recovery tools to apply that image to the computer. Backup had a lot of hiccups. A number of backups failed because of insufficient drive space, and one or two files corrupting the process. List of errors: 0x807800C5, 0x80070002, Windows update troubleshooter failed, 0x807800F, Windows 10 Service registration is Missing or Corrupt. But finally, it created a passable image. And i got a full backup of my C drive. Made a recovery disk. Shut down the computer. Unplugged everything. Put in the blank drive and recovery disk. had another crack at it. Immediately had to plug drives back in again. For the system-wide image to work (DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO IMAGE ONLY A SINGLE DRIVE???) i needed the other hard drives to be installed, which would then be formatted, wiped and replaced by the image. I tried this twice. both times it failed (You need to repair your PC, 0x8078012D). I try to use command prompt to run checkdisk on the two drives, /r and /f to find bad sectors and repair them. The new C drive (with the botched images on it) took four hours through this process, turned over zero bad sectors, gave the all clear. The O drive (with the image) didn't get past 0%. got stuck for half an hour on sector 28. I gave up. tried to restart again. Failed again (you need to repair your PC, 0xc000000f). I was very scared that my hard drives would be wiped. But once again, they're untouched. Either the image actually worked perfectly, or it isn't actually doing anything at all! I'm not sure which is scarier!! Should i try running checkdisk before i create the image? should i be using third party software (do not want to pay for anything!)?? Tell me something better to do! Thank you in advance.

C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local in this location I have a folder named Ethash. I don't know where it came from. Google said it's data miner or something. no idea what it is. Can I delete it? will it harm my PC if I delete it. Is it harming my PC now? Please help! Thank you...

I want to make my new 250gb ssd my C/boot drive. I have already cloned my 1tb hdd to the ssd and even set up the bios to give the ssd boot priority over the hdd. However, it wont boot and will prompt me with a message to install bootable device. I plan on formatting my hdd so I can just use it for storage, not my os, but it wont let me format because I am using it for windows when I dont want to. My brain has been hurting over this all day. Please help.

my pc's C drive is acting crazy its total capasity is 109 gb. but i have used only 29 gb including windows. i can see that its 29 gb when i highlight all the folders and click properties. (as in the first picture below). but if i go out of my c drive to my computer ad see properties of the c drive its shows that 84.1 gb is used.(in the second picture) and its slowing down performance specially gaming vise i cant even play a game it slows down and when i play metro i can see artifacts all over the place. i have had this problem for about 3 months now but when i format the drive and reinstall windows its gone but after using it about a month its filling up again and i cleared cache and tempory files too. no matter how many times i format it getting filled even if i don't install anything in it. anyone know what to do? spacesniffer one EDIT: Elapo told me how to get rid of it. here Elapo, on 22 Apr 2015 - 6:55 PM, said: aha, restore points are using 50% of your C drive. either type "vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=XGB" (Fill in the X, I recommend 5% of the drive's size), or go to start => Right click computer => Properties => System protection (on the left) => Protection settings Tab select your drive and click configure. (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/how-much-disk-space-does-system-restore-require) You should get a slider that does the same as the CMD command. This does delete the existing restore points though. now its free.

Hello every one. I have a gaming pc and today it start to drive me nuts. because my C drive is working for nothing. The ssd is not stable and he is going from 0 to 25% usage every second. in process tab, there is no software that use the drive. in my utorrent i saw it says : disk overloaded 100%(C drive problem was already there). so i changed disk cache to 1800(the max cache). I also have a video on dropbox(no need to download juste watch) :https://www.dropbox.com/s/9n1m74h1rvvyjd0/20150101_200147.mp4?dl=0 Please anyone have a solution because i work with my PC. Also, my pc is slower now. SORRY FOR POOR ENGLISH I'M A FRENCH NATIVE PERSON.

So I've had these files in C: for a while now, I have no idea why they appeared, and I was unsure of their importance, so I just left them there because they weren't doing any harm. But now I'm not liking them there just because it doesn't look tidy. So what are these files? Just some stuff that are left over from an installation/uninstall? Also, that msdia80.dll file that was supposedly created in 2006, fairly wasn't, Windows 7 wasn't even released until October 2009... Cheers!

Hey. I am running out of space on my C: drive, so I bought a secondary ssd. I was wondering if there was a way to extend the volume of the C drive over both ssds? RAID 0 is out of the question as the drives are not identical. I am storing most of personal data and some programs and games on one of my HDDs, but some applications requires some use of the ssd which, over time has filled the drive. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

So just this morning I discovered a large amount of files all starting with the letters awh and ending with .tmp in the middle is a random combonation of letters and numbers. an example of one of the files is awh2a79.tmp are these files anything to worry about as they are sitting in my c drive and im not sure when they got there. also could these files be connected to the amount of annoying pop ups and ads when im on the internet no matter what browser im using whether it be firefox or chrome or internet explorer. please help

So i got a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB great SSD which i installed windows 8.1 pro on. Now here's the thing, my current Seagate 1TB HDD holds all my programs and games but still has the original windows 8.1 pro install and i'm wondering what i should do about since the option to remove previous Windows installations is not there. Could i just delete the windows folder or should i just do a backup and wipe it? Steam works just fine even though it is on the SSD (the new C drive) And not the old OS and Data (E drive). Origin is a different story as it will only let me play the base game of battlefield 3/4 and not any of the DLC maps. i imagine I will need to re-install them onto my E drive? I really don't know what to do since i want my E drive to be for Games, some Programs, video files and images. I can still boot into the E drive since windows is still present but i wonder what is the safest way to delete it?

Hi Friends, Whenever we install Windows and Office, it hardly takes 20 GB, but whenever we get updates the space occupied by both of it increases now it is more than 30 GB how to reduce it. I did clean installation of Office 2013 SP1, yesterday suddenly I got some 1.2 GB of Office updates in my windows update. I am confused... now how to get that occupied space free?

I have a 120gb samsung 840 ssd as the C drive, and a 2tb barracuda as a storage drive. In about 3 weeks after building the PC, I'm already running out of space on my C drive and I need some advice on which options I should take. In my mind there are 2: - Buy another 120gb ssd and make a raid 0 - Buy a 260gb ssd to use as the C drive and use the remaining 120gb as a seperate storage drive. Option #2 would be twice more expensive, but I'm looking for the most effective way with the least amount of hassle and am willing to pay for that. For each option, I would need to somehow transfer all the data, including the OS and I have no clue on how to do that! Some links to video tutorials (idk if Linus has some) would be much appreciated!