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Hi all, so I noticed that in Windows 11 Home 23H2, when formatting drives, Windows will now add 3 folders to the root directory of every drive you format. Those folders are: Program Files, WindowsApps, and XboxGames. See below: So my questions are: #1 Why? #2 How do I stop Windows from doing this? When I hit delete on these folders, Windows does not let me and Program Files and WindowsApps remain. Only the XboxGames folder can be deleted. When I hit format on a drive, I want that drive empty. I don't see why Microsoft feels its ok to start arbitrarily changing how computers work.
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Hello, Recently I've been thinking about formatting my hdd which currently has windows on it however I use an ssd for my OS. Now I would just format it like it was nothing but unfortunately I've got mostly some 'crucial' data on it. I would transfer all the files on my sata ssd which is new and wanted to put some of my games on my hdd which would have 'less intensive' games on my hdd. I would transfer all my important stuff onto my ssd and then get rid of windows but all the data is over 500gb+ and I only have a 480gb ssd. Maybe I could use a usb stick?
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Flash disk used for ubuntu installation cannot be formatted
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Hello there! I've used a flash drive to install Ubuntu ona dying computer (wasn't pretty). I used the balenaEtcher soft to write the whole thing onto said drive. Now that everything's installed, I'd like to wipe ubuntu from the drive and use it normally, but when plugged back into a windows device and trying to format it, the only options available are ~5Go while the drive was originally 32Go. Even when trying to format it that way (using the deault windows format utility), an error pops saying that the disk is protected. How could I save my drive? -
Hello, Recently I bought an ssd and I would like to swap some of my games onto my ssd. This is because I have a copy of windows 10 and want to format it. However I could transfer the files and make the game download from that but would that have any difference than just completely newly re installing them? I would like to benefit of having the game completely re installed but still having the same levels and data inside the game? Would that be possible. For example ats would I still have my profile and level? Same steam, epic, riot games, blizzard accounts!
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I have a Xbox 360 I have bought a pny cs900 SSD 128gb with a sata to usb apapter can the Xbox 360 format a non partitioned SSD? I don't have a computer to format it should the Xbox 360 able to do it?
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Hello. I am building a new pc but want to use my old RAM, GPU, PSU and SSD & Nvme in my build which is a new Aio, CPU and MOBO. I have 2 SSD's 1 Nvme drives. Idk if im doing this right or not but ive read I can just install the new drives on my new mobo, boot the bios and pick my boot drive. I copied the data that has videos and applications installed from my D drive to my E drive. I literally just copy and pasted it. I tried to format My D drive So I can have a fresh drive to load windows on it in the event I cant post. Im really not sure if Im doing this right but im just trying to play it safe. When I go to format my D drive it tells me "the drive is in use another program or process is using this drive" I went into my Disk management on Windows and see that my D drive is listed as "Active, Primary Partition" and my C drive that has windows installed says (Boot, page file, crash dump, Basic data partition) Which seems a lil odd. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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I recevied an old laptop form my work a Panasonic CF-54 wich was broken. I would like to repurpose the SSD inide a Samsung MZ- 7LE1T00 1TB for my gaming pc but according to windows the drive is empty and has no partitions wich i know is not true there should be some windows partitions on there. I have tried the following steps: changed sata kabels changed sata port used windows disk management to try to format the drive used diskpart to try to format the drive I got a I/O device error when i want to create a new partition something tells me the drive is encrypted or protecded in some other way but i dont know how to check that. any advice is much appreciated.
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I want to Clone my Windows 10 Computer's 256 GB SSD Onto A New 300 GB Partition on a new 2 TB SSD. I Don't Want The Cloned 300 GB partition on the 2 TB SSD Part To Be Bootable, But Bootable In The Future If I Choose To Later. Is this Clone from SSD to partition on another SSD possible to do? If So, What Parameters Exactly Should The 300 GB Partition Have? Do I format this new partition on the 2 TB SSD special like NFTS, FAT, GPT? Other things special? What are the step-by-step directions to do this clone the right way? Which Software Is Best To Clone the SSD to the Partition That is Free Or Nearly Free? Thanks a lot, you can't know how much, but trust me….
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Hi I just brought and installed a WD Red Pro 16 Tb hard drive and noticed that when formatted but empty that it says 46.6Gbs has been used see below. Is this normal? Also my Case only allows me to screw the hard drive in 3 out of the 4 screw holes will this be a problem? Also does anyone know how to find the serial number for my driv because I need to register the drive.
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Hi, I need help fixing a 1TB hdd that is appearing as 371GB, I have attached pictures that help show the issue
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I have a Hp 240 Gb SSD. I had windows installed and running on that drive, one day automatic disk repair started and I turned my laptop off while that was running, which I regret because afterwards, it just wouldn't boot and show some error. After many failed attempts, I connected that drive using sata to usb to another working pc and found that it was being shown as a nameless "Raw" drive with 240 GB storage. I couldn't quick format it, got error codes, couldn't long format it, got stuck at "99%" twice. But when I try to recover lost data using disk genius, my data becomes accessible (not like I need the data anyway) . So why can I find the lost data but still not format the drive in any way possible? (Drive shows as a "Raw" "Healthy" "223 gb" "blank info" under list disk in Cmd) how do I format the SSD?
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I formatted my disk accidently, then I use testdisk to fix it Testdisk ask me to run fsck.ext4 and fix the superblocks, it works, everything is back, but after I reboot, things back to the beginning, files are gone a again. How could I save the result / write the files back to the disk? Or REPAIR the filesystem completely? Thank you!
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A few days ago, I got a new 1TB HDD. I had been experiencing some issues for a couple weeks so I decided to format my boot drive which is a 240GB SSD. I share this pc with my two siblings and we all have our own user files which we don't want to lose, so I cloned the SSD onto the HDD and after I made sure everything was there I formatted and installed windows on it. I now have 2 bootable drives that I need to either unplug one or swap SATA cables to determine which one I boot into. And when I try to access the HDD user files when booted from the SSD it loads for a long time and nothing happens, so I booted from the HDD and copied the user files first directly into the user files on the new windows, and after that I tried copying straight to the SSD and still the same issue. When I boot to the SSD after copying, I don't see the files I copied. They're simply gone. If anyone has any idea how I can fix this or get around it please let me know ASAP. The files take forever to copy then it's all gone like I've done nothing. Edit: another issue that I forgot to mention is that the PC won't shut down properly sometimes, the system is off and everything but the machine itself isn't. Solutions for this are really appreciated too PC specs: (very old ik) Core i7 2nd gen Nvidia GTX 1050Ti from MSI 8GB DDR3 ram 240GB SSD (forgot the brand) 1TB WD purple HDD The PC itself was a Lenovo thinkstation but and these are the changes made it to it (and a different power supply but idk what that is either)
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hello, im trying to format my new m.2 drive, i already have a 1tb m.2 installed and fully working. i can get it to pick up and register but i can not for the life of me format it. iv tried doing it trough command prompt and drivemg and both wont work. i get one of 2 errors, one saying windows carnt do it and the other one is attached in the photo below. heres my specs: ryzen 9 3800x asus rog strix b550-e mobo asus gforce gtx 1650 duel 4gb gpu 32gb ram. any help would be greatly appreciated. thankyou.
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I've got a normal VHS tape and a D-VHS player. I need to know if there's some form of incompatibility between them because information is sparse online. The audio works but the video is heavy with artifacting. Could also be tape degradation or something else. (https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/523482515)
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Hello guys I have one question, first of all if you buy some parts for example a b450 tomahawk max and a ryzen cpu and Nvidia gpu you have to put windows 10 when you do that you go to nvidia site and you install your graphics card drivers after you go to your motherboard site as I said msi and you install all the drivers my question is if you have a laptop and you want to format it after format what you have to do ? You have to check your graphics card and go and install the drivers ? And with chipset, realtek and all that drivers ?? What i have to find the motherboard model ? I'm confused if anybody can help me thanks and have a nice day! ( I don't want to do it with program for example driver booster I want to do it manually)
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Hey, long story short i changed security camera provider last week and have an extra hard drive from the other system we used, so instead of just throwing it away i decided to use it on my pc but it wont format or let me create any partitions for me to use, it says there's an I/O error. it is recognized though and it also says it is 0 bytes in size, I've used windows disk management tool and also cmd diskpart to try and fix the issue to no avail, please any suggestions? thanks. its a Western Digital Green Wd20EARx 2TB
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So I've been trying to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 on the new Team MP33 NVMe SSD I got. I put it into the slot of my Asus Crosshair VI motherboard, and then tried using a bootable USB to install windows. However, I am met with the following: Error code 0x80300024 when trying to install Windows onto the drive after getting to the installation and seeing the drive listed properly. I attempted to format the drive to gpt and mbr but was met with a "Virtual Disk Service Error: The Object Is Not Found." Using the "detail disk" command yielded everything about the drive, and it was not in read only or any other mode preventing it from operating. Then I re-mounted the nvme ssd, and kept unplugging USB devices and other non-essential things. I also reset my computer a few times, and occasionally the BIOS would read the drive as SM2263 instead of Team <Name>, and when it did this it only read the capacity as 1023MB. I am at a loss of what to do. I tried disabling fast boot, CSM, resetting the CMOS, and nothing is working. Any ideas?
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I am about for the first time to "build" a computer, in fact it is an upgrade but everything will change except my HDD. So I got 2 HDDs, one was for windows and the other for pure storage. And I plan on using them the same way with this upgrade. My question is : Will both of my hard drive gets formatted ? Or just the windows one as I will obviously install a new win 10 on it. I have nothing on that drive only windows stuff... But I have all my personal files stored on my other HDD so do I need to back up everything on this one ? Do you always have to format all your drives when upgrading the motherboard ?
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I recently formatted an old Vista laptop. I installed it, did all the updates and went to IE to download chrome. It kept popping up a security threat for every website I entered that was https! Even Google! Once I downloaded chrome and tried it, the same thing was happening! Some(if not all) Google images couldn't show up neither could I see a YouTube video. My time is all correct, I have tried to restart my wifi, clear ask cache and even deleted McAfee. I even tried to re format the laptop again but nothing! The exact same. Please help me! Thanks
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So lately I had to format and reinstall windows multiple times, probably 2-4 times because I'm still somewhat newb when it comes to PC, my PC is a pre-build and had everything installed. First I messed up device drivers and then downloaded many motherboard bloatware without knowing. It was a learning experience for sure but did this cost my SSD some harm? My SSD is Samsung 970 Pro 500GB and it had already written 6tb worth of data.
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Hi guys.So i just cloned my hdd and it worked fine.The only problem is that i can't format the old drive since windows recognises it as my windows drive and its not letting me. Is there anyway i can fix that?
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When i enter my cdkey i get the error "Windows cannot find the microsoft software license term" Ive tried to skip this option, but that doesnt work either. No im not running a vm, im trying to do a fresh install with a usb boot drive, just created the bootdrive with windows media creation tool. Do you guys have any tips?
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I am using ASUS Z170 Pro gaming mother board for my PC. Also using a 120 GB SSD where Windows 10 is installed. Config is as follows: i5 6600k (stock) 16 GB ram 3200 MHZ ASUS Z170 Pro gaming mobo 120 GB SSD ADATA - Windows 10 installed 1 TB TOSHIBA HDD Every time I turn on the PC, the windows operating starts within 6 seconds. I am unable to enter BIOS settings. Even if I keep pressing "Delete" (designated key for entering bios for ASUS Z170 Pro gaming mobo) right after pressing the power button, it still directly goes to start the operating system instead of giving me the chance to enter BIOS settings. I need to format my SSD, HDD and re-install windows using a portable pen drive loaded with windows 10 that has been made boot ready. I need to enter the bios and set the boot device to the pen drive to do that. How do I enter BIOS settings when my windows starts directly instead of giving me a chance to enter BIOS settings? Or is there any other way to boot the device form pen drive?
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Hello Everyone, i recently failed miserably while formatting a flash drive, and ended up formatting my secondary HDD in my laptop :(. the HDD was encrypted with Bitlocker and it was just a quick format, i was able to get all my data back using "Get data back" and putting everything in an external disk, but my problems began here, after i had everything in the external disk, i moved everything back to the previously formatted HDD, and everything was fine, i even checked many files to see if they will open. an then i restarted the laptop and the first thing i noticed was that to open the secondary HDD i needed to put the Bitlocker key, and then the drive was empty.... why? how? i don't know.... any explanation? did i miss something, did bitlocker f* with me?. Regards
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