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I'm trying to wipe my secondary hard drive because I did a clean install of windows on my main M.2 NVMe drive and would like to wipe the hard drive, however, when I go into my Admin account and try to format it, it pops up with errors along the lines of "An application is using files from this drive, close those applications and try again." I made sure no other accounts are open, and the only other processes open are ones from the C-Drive (I checked Task Manager) so how exactly do I wipe it? I tried both File Explorer's method (going to "My PC --> format") and Disk Partition Manager's method and neither worked (disk partition's format button was greyed out, I.E un-clickable) so not sure what to do. How do I fix this?
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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! I have a question regarding new storage and moving from one to another. I have always assumed that if I get new storage and I want to move my main windows installation there, I would have to format, then re-install windows in the new one, or just have two windows installations for both disks, then after I am done with the latest one, I move as many files as I can and then delete the previous one entirely. Are there programs that can help me move a windows installation from one disk to another? Keep in mind that I have more than 1 disks that are used (without windows) with shortcuts to their items, so will that program preserve the disk letters and shortcuts for them? Are there any videos from Linus about that topic? Please tell me everything that I need to know and to be careful of
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I've kept all the laptops and PCs my family goes through so I can use them for backups and RAIDS. However, all the HDDs seem to have some kind of feature is preventing me from viewing or modifying partitions. My computer recognizes the drives and S.M.A.R.T. reports the drives are working. I've tried removing permissions, formatting and repairing through cmd. If someone had a solution that doesn't involve restoring old laptops please let me know.
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I'm confused as to how to do this/if it will even work, I've looked through the forums and haven't seen a solution to my situation. I want to format 2 1tb drives, one I'm using right now, and another that was used in a different PC to use in a Ryzen build I'm going to do in a few days, and I'm really confused as to how to do it. I want to clear both drives of all their data, do a fresh install of windows, and format them from Intel to AMD with as little complications as possible. I haven't tried to do anything yet, just been researching, but I want to know how to do it when I build my new PC
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Caps is there any way to install a new os on a GPT harddrive without clean the entire hard drive just to convert it to MBR ? I just format the entire "C" in my drive. And I didn't know that my hard drive is in GPT and to fix it, I need to clean the disk and convert it. But all my file in "D and E" will gone and there is so many important file in there.
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So my computer was recently playing up, it has been constantly blue screening after a couple hours of use consistently for the better part of 2 months, I had sent it in for repairs but each time they would send it back and say its fixed when it clearly wasn't as the crashes would continue. anyway, i noticed that the hard drive had been putting out several error messages around the time of the crash and then did nothing more with that information, until today. I figured that a reason that the computer might be BSODing so much because I still had my GTX-960 drivers installed, and those might be conflicting with my newer GTX-1060 drivers, causing problems, however after uninstalling the 960 drivers i went to play a steam game to test if the problem had been resolved, and found that every single one of my games was missing, as they were all installed on the hard drive and not my SSD. the hard drive had been changed to the File System type as "RAW" and I was unable to format the drive or access it. I resorted to deleting the Partition for the drive and recreating it which seems to have fixed the problem, however now the drive is showing up twice, with one constantly having the status as "Formatting" I'm wondering not only is it safe to delete the duplicate hard drive with the formatting status, but also how to go about using the hard drive from here on out. should I replace the drive ASAP, or will it be fine to use for some time now that its back to NTFS. this is how the Computer Management looks like currently, after recreating the HDD Partition, I would appreciate any help anyone can give me. Thanks, Gianni. Update / Edit: the "formatting" drive has now disappeared, and the drive seems to be working again, but I would still appreciate any advice or knowledge on if any of the BSOD problems could be caused by any of the changes I talked about in the original post, as well as any information moving forward on if the drive is safe to use now.
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Hey there, Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place, but you guys usually are the best at solving my problems. I've had this 128GB SDXC card I bought off massdrop about a year ago. It's been working fine in my android smartphone until I updated it not too long ago to 7.0. This is where stuff got bad. 1) I could no longer write any data to the card through the phone (the exception being a file browser that let me do it) 2) The card became write protected in the phone itself (I could still read it no problem) 3) I tried deleting some files off it and it won't do it. (refer to screen recording) 4) Trying to format it in the phone ejects the card and brings up the error in the photo 5) Windows refuses to format the card but files can still be copied from it. (adapter set to unlocked). All I want to do is reformat my card and be able to use it again. Say if you need further info, I'll provide as much as I can. ScreenRecord_2017-04-02-23-23-17.mp4
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I have a hard drive laying around from a previous laptop. If I were to put it in my new computer, would it be formatted, or would the information stay the same. Keep in mind it has Windows installed on it as well as a ton of Steam games and whatnot.
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HDD Shows up in BIOS and via external USB (Sharkoon Drivelink 2.0) but not in Disk Management when connected internally. Formatted my 1.5TB HDD last night (took like 8 hrs) via my Sharkoon↴. The problem was still here before i formatted. Here's also a pic from BIOS
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Hey Guys, I have a 256GB WD Black PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe SSD and I run on an Alienware 15 R2 ( I don't know the specs of this laptop in depth). I'm trying to boot Windows 10 on it so I can boot with the SDD and still use my 1TB HDD and I can't seem to get it to work and I've tried formatting it, but I can't seem to be able to format it using Disk Management or even format it using the windows 10 CD. Every time I format using Disk Management it will format to 100% then say it failed and its no better trying to format using the windows disk
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Hey there! I used to have Linux installed on a USB drive, that I know want to use for a different distri, but the drive shows up with 2 unformatted partitions and even if I try to create an 8GB volume on it, it tells me there is not enough storge? Any suggestions?
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Hello guys, Long story short, I've tried using an eraser program to erase some encrypted sensitive files I had in duplicates and well... lost them. They aren't showing up anymore and because they were encrypted, the program apparently didn't erase them. Will a format take care of this?
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Hi! Sorry I am kinda new to the forum but I ran into an issue I thought was very weird and thought would be nice if I could fix. Basically I was experimenting with a few different Raspberry Pi projects and was downloading various ARM Linux distros and installing them onto SD cards with Win32 disk imager and Rufus and the like. Then, one day I downloaded an OS which I cannot really recall and installed it onto the SD card. I then ejected the SD and proceeded to try and boot the Pi. It would not boot, so I decided to place it back into my PC for formatting and reinstallation. Then, I started to have problems. Firstly I got an error message which said that it was an unrecognized filesystem, which is sometimes normal when installing Linux, so I went to format it and the damn thing said that it was a near 16GB SD when in actual fact on the outside of the SD it clearly says it is 8GB?! I browsed online and I could see people had problems with it displaying a smaller partition than usual and I did encounter that issue once , but I just used diskpart to fix but this thing isn't even able to format in diskpart. When attempting to format, it says that the SD is write-protected, despite the little 'lock' thing on the side always being unlocked, I tried to fix this with some registry editing but nothing has thus worked. I know its probably easier to go and buy another SD but I can't be arsed and it would be nice if I could just fix this, so please help. I have attached some pictures below also for reference. Thanks for reading
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Near as I can tell, the PC h tried hardware is working. I am trying to install Windows on a 500 GB Samsung EVO SSD. The first time I tried i had an error message that I thought I resolved by unplugging the mechanical HDD I had installed, leaving the SSD as the sole storage. Windows began installing. I looked away from the screen for a bit and looked back up and saw I was back at the install screen. I tried to start the installation again but got an error message at the screen where I have to select the drive to install Windows. The first time (without the HDD connected) the SSD had no partitions. But this time "Drive 0" had 2 partitions. Partition 1 System Reserved 579.0 MB and Partition 2 465.2 GB. But "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks. Near as I can tell the Windows installer must have been the one to partition the disk. But my question is how do I reformat the drive as a GPT disk without having an OS installed? Is there a way to get the Bios to format the drive? Thanks.
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Introduction 1. Formatting via Disk Management 2. Formatting via This PC 3. Formatting via Command Prompt (CMD) 4. Formatting via PowerShell
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Hello, I have made a Windows 10 boot drive on my Sandisk USB and formatted my M.2 NVMe PCIE SSD. I then go to settings, Update & Security, Recovery then Advanced start up. I select in the menu to use my Sandisk UEFI to custom install Windows 10 to my Drive 2 (My M.2 NVMe PCIE SSD) and enter my code. It tells me my EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS and should be FAT32. Also, for some reason my empty Sata III SSD got partitioned to hell after this with tonnes of recovery partitions which I cannot delete. Drive 0: My HDD with my OS currently installed. Drive 1: Empty Sata III SSD. Drive 3: Empty M.2 NVMe PCIE SSD which I want to put Windows 10 on. Drive 4: My Sandisk USB I set up using: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 automatically. Does this mean when Windows turned my USB into a boot drive it formatted it wrong? Or is my SSD formatted wrong (Because I tried making my SSD FAT32 and NTFS and it always tells me to make it the other one)?
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So, I had this idea about making an automatic dumping station for memory cards, that I kinda wanted to use at an upcoming LAN event. The idea was to have a sort of station, where both me and others in the photo crew could just insert a memory card in to a memory card reader, and then the "station" would automatically copy them over to a new folder on a hard drive, and once it was done copying the files, it could format the memory card (and maybe make a sound to signal it was done, just to remove the need for a monitor), having the momry card ready for anoither round of photography. I was also thinking that it should maybe be network attached as well, so that we'd be able to access the files for editing,withoiut having to move around on the hard drive, and for the ability to upload photos to it, if the station were occupied. I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ that I thought could be used for this, together with an external HDD, and a multi memory card reader (so that I have support for both SD and CF cards). Currently we're only 3 people in the photo crew, which is why I thought this would be decent equipment for the idea, my big problem however is that, whilst I think it's a great idea, I really don't know how to actually do it... My big questions are: What OS would be the most practical for this? Which programming language would be the most suitable? And just, how would you do it? I'm still relatively fresh to programming, trying my best to learn, so any help, suggestions and/or ideas would be highly appreciated. I also want to apologize for any bad English here (grammar, spelling, phrasing etc.), it's not my native language, but I still hope you understand. Thank you
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I currently have a 970 EVO SSD installed in my MacBook Pro. I plan to build my own PC soon. Is it possible to simply format this SSD and then install it in this build?
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in an attempt to better understand what brand of m.2 ssd i have, i unknowingly corrupted the windows 10 os i had. if i was to format the ssd, would that give me drive options to install the os to? or do i need to get a whole new ssd?
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Hello everybody I recently built myself a new pc and am now planning on selling my old one. However, I want to completely wipe my hard drives before i sell it. What is the best way to do that/what software should I use?
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So I have a very big problem. About three months ago I needed to install fresh windows into a new laptop, so I used my Samsung M3 Portable 1TB hard drive as a bootable usb, as I didn't have a real usb i could use at the time. I moved all of the files to my other computer and did everything else on the Samsung hdd. When I installed windows and everything, I wanted to reformat the portable hdd into a usable one. And I did such a big mistake, being a dummy, I formatted it into FAT32 instead of NTFS that it should've been. So later on thinking everything was okay I moved the files from my other PC into the samsung and everything was moving like it should've been, the speed was good and everything was fine. Thinking everything was done I tried to see if files moved out of the samsung hdd the same speed as before and to my surprise it didn't. Files moved from the samsung hdd into my pc veeery slow - like 1 picture in 1 minute, the speed fluctuates from 30mbs down to 0 like every 2 seconds and doesn't come back up for atleast 15 more seconds before coming down really fast. Now to fix this I know that I need to reformat it again, but the problem is I NEED EVERY SINGLE FILE FROM IT, which is over 200GB, so what should I do? I am really hopeless at this point and any help would be really appreciated. Maybe I should just bring it to the proffesionals or can I fix this an home? Some things that may be helpful: I didn't touch (plugged in) the samsung hdd for 3months so it shouldn't be corrupted as I read somewhere. I am trying Photorec right now and it doesn't work, I tried searching two times, first time it recovered one photo and now the second time I used different settings or something and I hope it recovers more. I didn't leave the files on my PC, just moved it into the Samsung HDD
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