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Sorry in advance if I posted in the wrong section. I have my laptop from 2011. It's an HP dv6 with an AMD A8. It has windows 7. I'd like to format it and install windows 10 to see if it's worth saving before I set it on fire and sacrifice it to the gods. I don't really know how to go about doing a format and clean install. It's running very slow and I'm sure it has a virus or two. I've saved my personal files from it to a usb thumbdrive. The only thing I'm concerned about losing is the beats audiolab software that came on the laptop. But if I can't save that, it's not the end of the world because the thing barley works as it sits. So could anyone link me to an article or help give me a rough tutorial?
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I am currently dual booting a 128GB SSD with Ubuntu and a 1TB HDD with Windows 10. So far, I've used up 423GB of the HDD with Steam taking up 303GB and Non-steam games taking up ~20-30GB. I don't need Ubuntu anymore. I just want to boot Win10 from the SSD and use the HDD for game storage. Here is my plan: 1. Uninstall all games (Steam + Non-Steam) leaving the HDD with only ~95GB used space 2. Format the SSD 3. Clone the HDD onto the SSD 4. Format the HDD 5. Extend the Windows partition onto the HDD 6. Install Steam and other games on the HDD 7. Remove Grub Bootloader What do you guys think? Also, is there a specific program you guys would recommend?
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So, I decided to format my Phone to Factory Settings a few days ago. After the format was over, the device booted to a Setup Wizard Screen. I followed all the Steps when I encountered this issue: I had to unbind my current account (it's a Chinese phone from a brand called "LeEco" and they have this service that backs up pictures and other stuff) that I created using a friend's phone number because the service wasn't supported in my country but only in China, India, US and other countries. Now, the password is lost so I thought I could reset it, but it wouldn't let me do it from my phone unless the Setup Wizard was completed, and I couldn't do that until I unbinded my account. I tried to reset it from their website but it's broken (US Website, Chinese website, account system just doesn't work) . I managed to Glitch out of the setup by clicking "Options>About>Website" on their Chinese keyboard app, which gave me access to the WebBrowser where I downloaded a Launcher from Aptoide. (Functions like Task Manager, Home Button and notifications don't work though, which is very annoying, and I can not enable developer options by clicking the Build Number like I used to) but I could access to the Account Recovery. So I contacted my friend who told me that he dropped that phone number and no longer has access to it, so he wouldn't be able to receive the recovery message. I tried to boot the device in Recovery mode, but I found myself in a custom Recovery Menu with the following options: "Format, Update, Cancel, Reboot.) Now, Update functions doesn't work even if I load one of their ROMs, and other options are pretty useless. I really don't know how to gain access to my phone now, I see no way out of this. I emailed their support but in 3 days got no answer, and their contact form on the website won't work. Is there any other way to flash a ROM (Device is not rooted). If not, another way to enable developer options so I can enable USB debugging or anything? I'm stuck. This is the worst situation I've been in after that time I tried to format a Tablet that was in a BootLoop and did not have volume keys to move in the recovery menu.
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I am building a new computer and wondering how I should format my drive -
Sup guys so I'm planning on changing my CPU and Motherboard to new ones cause it's quiet old. Now here's the main question. Do I still need to format my PC? I'm planning to sell CPU + Mobo once the new ones arrive.
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My 32gb pen drive is corrupt and I can't access the files inside. It is recognized by my pc but when i try to open it, it says that I should format it before I can use it. Is there any way i can repair it without formatting? I have tried "partition wizard" but I still couldn't access the files. What can i do?
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Hello, So i am makin a plan in my head to change my i5 6600 K to i7 for some time (maybe winter maybe not but first i want solid AIO) and here is my question do i need to format whole system if i change the CPU that on same family and is on the same MB? thx for any kind of answer cheers -
So I am helping a friend out trying to format his hard drive (WB blue) after he has flipped the switch in the back of his power supply a couple of times making Windows files corrupt and doing so made windows not boot or recover from it. From then we have tried re formatting his hard drive to reinstall windows but are unable to get it to format at all and says it fails in both command prompt and windows format tool. Just trying to resolve this issue to get it to format so he can use the hard drive again as storage since he has bought an SSD now for his Windows and will use that while this hard drive isn't working.
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I am using the Synology 1813+ for home NAS. Some of the drives that have been striped together using Synology's exclusive raid program have been corrupted. After multiple attempts to try to resolve the issue, I have concluded that the drive format sector is itself corrupted, because reimaging the Synology's DSM OS had not resolved the issue of corrupted data. Because I have around 7 TB of data that are mostly non-corrupted, I need some sort of cloud service to offload my data for about a day while I sort through the 8 drives and format them. I have considered using Amazon AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive for data offloading, but I'm not sure how to directly upload all files to these servers. TLDR; Where / how do I offload my NAS data so I can format my NAS drives? -
So I have a new Motherboard, CPU, GPU and RAM on the way for an upgrade, I currently run Windows 10 Pro and what I have understood I need to wipe the harddrive and do a clean install with the new PC parts. So do I just go into the file explorer, right click my harddrive and choose format and it will then be as when I bought it, ready for a fresh Windows 10 install, or do I need to do it in some other way?
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So I got a WD Black 2TB hard drive and am currently formatting it because I will be transferring my Steam games over to it in a couple days but I also got an SSD that will be my OS drive. Do I need to format the SSD before I install Windows on it or can it format like as part of the Windows install? I will probably format it beforehand to save some time on build day but I am new to formatting drives and just wanted some info, thanks!
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Hey, I just dismantled PC to sell for parts because some components died and I cant afford to fix it. The SSD works but I cant delete windows off of it. I'm trying to do it through a Macbook and it says I can't delete the files. What shall I do? (I'm aware that you would normally do this by booting the drive through windows start up). Any help is much appreciated
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Hello guys, I formatted my laptop yesterday, I already have it for a few months and I never had this problem with my first format. So after formatting I installed all the drivers with the order 1. Chipset 2. Video 3. Audio 4. Bluetooth 5.Card Reader 6. Inter Rapid Storage Technology and everything else after. Then I started having the problem where Windows started to be really slow and this error poped up: I tried to google the error and tried every possible solution there was online. Tried to install windows updates, uninstall and re-install the graphic driver and nothing worked. I also don't want to use the Windows 7 Basic because it's ugly. If I could get any assistance I would appreciate it. Thank you. Laptop model: Msi GE62 2QF Apache Pro Windows 7 x64 PU Latest 5th Gen. Intel® Core™ i7 5950HQ / 5700HQ processor Chipset Intel HM87 Graphics GeForce GTX 970M
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Hello! Basically I am about to upgrade to my new parts, aka CPU, SSD and Motherboard. Now I already have 2 HDD's and one has Windows on it currently, obviously, and other one is just for files. I plan to install OS onto the brand new SSD. Now my question is, when I am installing Windows 7 and I get to the drives part, what do I do with the 2 drives that already have files on them, I want to completely erase them so do I put the ''New'' or do I ''Format'' and for the brand new, untouched SSD that I want to put my OS into, do I 'format' or 'New', just saw these two options in a few videos and got confused as to what to do.
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I was watching Luke's latest video regarding optimising an SSD and HDD setup and was wondering why. at Windows installation Luke selected "New" at 1:05: https://youtu.be/QG4LXw4Nd5U?t=65 Can't you just select the drive you want to install Windows on and select next? What's the difference? Thanks.
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I was wondering if I could re-install windows on my ssd, and then just delete the windows copy that is on my RAID 0 hdds without having to format them or delete everything off of them?
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So I just got an SSD. I set it up as an extra storage space, so I could copy another drive to it. But I decided to change rout and install Windows 10 to it. I set up the USB installer. It launches and I enter my code and choose the edition, but once I get to the actual installation phase it says that windows may not be able to boot to it.( I also deleted the files from it via this window and clicked "format" during trial and error) So it doesn't want to install. I managed to force the install anyway, but once it re-boots during the install it starts from the beginning again. But it moves on to the next task without rebooting as long as it has been done before. It can go all the way until the "finishing up" phase and it cant go on to that step. I tried removing the USB after it copied the files but still, a no go. If I plug in both my HD and SSD, my SSD still shows up as a storage space but it does have all the windows files on it. Is it a formatting issue? Is it because it used to be a storage space? Did I set up the USB Installer wrong? Is it a bios thing? All I know is that windows does not want to boot to it and I have spent way too much time on something that should be sooooo simple.
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Here's the deal. I'm trying to print about 50 pages worth of revision material but when I paste it into Word the colour formatting is still present: (short extract:) Red Shift explained The colour light appears is based on its wavelength. Imagine looking straight along a wavy line. From your position at one end the waves will be foreshortened. Thus a yellow/green wavelength would look more blue or more purple because it appears to be shorter. Imagine pulling a wavy line away from you. This would make the waves appear longer. Therefore, the same greeny yellow light would look more orange or red. Light from galaxies moving away from us has been stretched in the same way which distorts the wave length. I want to keep the bold/highlighted text but don't want the purple-ish theme.. How do I do this? -
i have a 1Tb toshiba hard drive that says i need to format the disk before i can use it. What do i do i don't want to lose my files I also noticed that the name changed from what it normally was into Local DIsk (E:)
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So I just built my pc and for storage I bought the samsung 850 evo 250gb and used a 1tb seagate HDD that was in my previous computer that stopped working. since the operating system and all of that stuff is still inside the HDD I wanted to format the HDD as soon as I could so I could install games on it. but when I went into disk management, right clicked the D drive (HDD) and pressed format this popped up. I have no clue on what this means or how to fix it so any help would be greatly appriciated.
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Since my laptop broke I'm building myself a new system. My system uses a new SSD and I'm reusing my HDD from my laptop. I just installed a fresh copy of windows on an SSD, then copied the files I need from my HDD to my SSD, so now i can format that HDD and clear some space. The SSD is the C drive, the HDD is the D drive. When trying to format this HDD it wouldn't let me, it just tells me "unable to format drive." I found out, using minitool partition Wizard Tool, that the C drive is my System drive, but my D drive is the boot drive?!? I cannot boot with either of these drives unplugged. I have tried reinstalling windows from a thumbdrive, using the 'upgrade' option, this way I didn't lose all my files and programs. But that did not work. I there any way I can fix this? Can I make my system boot on C so that I can format the D? How can I do all of this without losing my programs and stuff on my current C drive? (I can obviously lose everything on the D drive.) Is it because the laptop dive had a windows on it, the boot and system drive are now diffferent? (The old laptop ran a 32 bit version of windows though, I'm now using a 64 bit version)
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Hi guys. I need to format my PC sometime soon. It's a custom built machine and I purchased a Windows 7 disk and key when I originally bought it so I could put the OS on the SSD. Now I want to format it, but have since upgraded to Windows 10, and I wish to keep Windows 10. I know the free upgrade to Windows 10 runs out around June time and because of exams I wont be formatting until after then, so my worry is if I format, I wont be able to get Windows 10 again. I understand I could get the W10 ISO file and do it that way, but if I use the W7 key I bought originally I'm assuming it wont work with W10. What I'm thinking is if my OS key got changed with the update, could I somehow get that key back and write it down to use with the new installation. I've done this before with W7 when I've formatted in the past and then just had to go through Microsoft's automatic activation phone line to get the new OS authenticated. Except when I do it this time round, the key I write down is associated with W10 and then I just follow the phone thing as usual. Any other help? Cheers, Nathan
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So I got new Lenovo y50-70 with ssd. I'm trying to install windows 10. Now when I make partitions and want to format them I get message that they cant be formated and also if I go into install process right at the start of it I get: Windows could not format a partion on disk0.The error occured while preparing the partition selected for instalation. I tried to install drivers for disk but I cant see them on my usb when browsing for driver, not sure if drivers are problem.
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Music is a big part of mine, and probably your life, so its normal that you'd want the best possible quality audio right? Well that's the issue... i mean i've been listening to mp3 all my life, but recently ive heard that FLAC is the best. Any thoughts?
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I do not know if this is actually new but i am going to ask it anyway since i coudn't find any info on it. I thought of this sort of blog where there is one page and every day the post on that page will refresh So if there is a post and than the next day that post will be deleted and another one would take it's place. What do you think about this? Thanks!
