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Hello my blyatiful boys so far for cloning i was using Macrium Reflect Free version but unfortunatley they discontinue supporting it, and so far for partitioning i used windows disk management and DISKPART in command console. I looking preferably for some windows application. I have in plan to test geparted but i need make multibootable usb drive with diffirent images for my needs and again copy 60gb of drivers for all hardware there and sorting this take me some time. I recently clone my windows from 120gb sdd to 512 gb ssd and i would like to merge the free space with system partition, unfortunatley windows could not do this without changing it to dynamic partition and dynamic partition cannot boot windows. Also if you have any idead what i could include in such multiboot pendrive it would be cool. I read before about Windows Preinstallation Environment and i never heard about this before and with this u can teoreticaly fix windows if could not boot? Is there maybe some antivirus scanner as bootable thing? i always use ADWCLEANER but it need run from windows itself.

Summary An advancement in optical disk writing significantly increases storage capacity while greatly reducing energy consumption and cost. Quotes My thoughts Any breakthroughs in technology which increase capacity and decrease cost are welcome with open arms. I think this particular development in optical disk writing could have the greatest impact for platform gamers. As game graphics continually improve and game mechanics/dynamics become increasingly complex, the demand for next generation optics with the capacity to store these gigantic game files greatly rises. The industry has been shifting to allow players to download these files over internet connection as opposed to buying a physical game disk, but downloads of these games can take hours and eat up many gigabytes of precious local storage. Even game disks often only contain basics of the game and still require hours-long downloads before playing. This nanoscale optical writing could introduce physical game disks that are able to hold entire AAA games thus saving valuable time and storage. Sources Lamon, S., Wu, Y., Zhang, Q., Liu, X., Gu, M., 2021. Nanoscale optical writing through upconversion resonance energy transfer. Science Advances 7, eabe2209.. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe2209 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabe2209.full

Since upgrading to windows 11 a couple months ago I haven't been able to upgrade my drivers. Every time it would say error. Also as of lately my disk usage has been excessively high constantly despite having nothing running. I have tried updating, restarting, clearing temp files, disk checks, uninstalling unwanted apps, virus checks etc. and yet neither issue has been fixed.

so when I format my USB drive, it would constantly get lots of I/O errors, even ubuntu's disks can't format it, but gparted can, meanwhile I can pull up es file explorer and read the NTFS partition to get it's data, but can't copy to it, but it works fine under windows, I am currently looking on amazon to find replacement parts for the USB drive, oh and the screws are tiny, here's the USB drive on amazon SmartDisk USBFLB80 FireLite 80 GB 2.5-Inch USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (amazon.com), it's out of stock, but its a Samsung drive.

I just tried to create a new Document but it says - Photoshop Scratch disks are full. I checked my Scratch Disk it has over 40 Gigs free. I have Only one SSD boot Drive of 220 Gigs and currently it have over 60 Gigs free. I even changed my Scratch Disks to my External HDD which have over 200 Gigs free but still the same problem. I tried installing and Uninstalling both CC 2018 and CC 2019 but same problem. Help guys this is critical.

Tier 1 -WD Gold Enterprise (Used in NAS devices) -WD VelociRaptor (Built for gaming, not commonly used due to it's small capacity) -Seagate IronWolf NAS (Can be used for storing games and files if you don't own a NAS but require a large amount of storage, could receive long warranty due to the fact that these hold a large amount of data) -Toshiba X300 (Good drive, bad warranty) -WD Black (Receive your best performance in games for a decent price, recommend for a high budget build) -Seagate Barracuda Pro (On the same scale as the IronWolf but with longer warranty, a little more pricier) -WD Red (A reliable drive, but only runs at 5400RPM unless you upgrade to the Red Pro or IronWolf) -WD Red Pro (Good overall performance, optimized for a NAS, Top-end capacity could be higher) Tier 2 -Seagate Firecuda Desktop/Mobile (Includes SSD NAND Flash for faster speeds, not recommended if you tend to do a lot of writing with the drive) -WD Blue Desktop (A good reliable drive that has been used for many years, recommended when sticking to a budget) -Seagate Barracuda (A good reliable drive that has been used for many years, recommended when sticking to a budget) -Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (Good drive, could improve on power consumption and warranty) -WD Mainstream (Basically a re-branded WD Blue but with RPMs that vary) -Seagate Constellation ES.2 (Long warranty with a high capacity, weak performance of the 3TB Constellation ES.2 SAS drive) -Toshiba P300 (Good drive, not much else to say) Tier 3 -WD RE3 (Mainly a enterprise drive, but it's good in consumer devices. Has had issues with read/write speeds) -Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 (Decent performace for a good value, not as fast as some competition) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What to look for in buying a Hard Drive: - Review the item before buying it instantly - Pricing is a big factor in this, make sure you don't overpay, ask a forum community for information - Try to buy a drive over 1TB storage if you plan to use this for large files and games. (Games range anywhere from 2GB to 100GB Average, so you would want to make sure you will have a large drive for your games) - Don't buy used! You never know if the drive has been dropped, damaged, worn out. Drives are cheap at your nearest computer store most of the time - Keep your receipts if your drive is defective (People like to throw out there receipts before they get home and test it, ends up being fried) - Don't leave consumer drives or your computer on 24/7 if you aren't using it for any specific purposes, your drive hours will decrease and it will be a waste) - Consider if you want to buy a large capacity Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive. Some people have it in there budget. - Be aware of the type of interface, whether it's 3.5" or 2.5". You will mainly see 5.25" for DVD/CD Drives or Add-ons for the front of your PC. - Don't buy a External Hard Disk Drive, these aren't meant to game of them, and you will more then likely experience stuttering because you are running this through a USB, and are more so for accessing files on the go.

Hi everyone, I am practicing on Windows Server 2012 R2 since I've never used it anymore. The disks under Disk Management are labeled as basic and yet also appear to be organized in volumes (which would indicate that they are dynamic disks). Any thoughts? Right clicking a disk does not give me the option to convert it into dynamic, and yet under "Type" the discs are labeled as Basic. Thanks for any help in advance.

Say I have an existing drive with data already on the disk, am I able to directly create a RAID 1 array with another disk without having the original disk's contents wiped? Similarly, is it possible to then have that RAID 1 array formed into a RAID 10 also without having the original disks' contents wiped?