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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.
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I was trying to partition my Drive, and during partitioning I had a bluescreen. Once my PC rebootet, everything looks fine but my Drive now says (XGB free out of 921 GB) instead of 931 GB. In Disk Management it still shows the Partition to be 931GB in size and there are no additional partitions. On top whenever try to partition the drive, it fails stating 'wrong parameters'. How do I get my 10gb back?
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I had an old hard drive lying around and installed it into my computer, but it has some partitions on it that I can not use even though I formatted the entire drive. (They are old backup and EFI partitions from a previous windows that was installed on it.) I wanted to know if I can remove them so that I could use the full storage capacity of the device l. These partitions do actually take ip a fair bit of the drive unfortunately, around 200 GB.
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Recently I have used my 5TB external HDD to re-install Windows on a laptop I am selling. I created a separate partition to boot the windows installation on the laptop, well I screwed up by ignoring the warnings thinking it will only "wipe" the boot partition and now my data from partitions I was using is "unallocated". This disk had 2 partitions (except the boot one), main one with most of the disk size and a BitLocker password encrypted one of about a 100GB. Main partition was filled with ~2.5TB of data and a BitLocker partition was filled up with ~50GB of data. I have the recovery key for the BitLocker drive. Now when I open the disk management tool in Windows it shows it like this: "New volume" is completely empty and I assume the "Unallocated" space is where my data is, and I need to recover it, also when I right click on the unallocated space the options to create a new simple volume are greyed out. How would I be able to recover the data and especially how can I recover the encrypted BitLocker partition properly? What software could I use (highly preferably free, or max up to 50€) that would be able to recover the data and divide it into its original partition properly? -
I recently bought a new laptop with raid 0 configured by default. (512+512) There's only one drive (C drive) but I would like to create partitions. Is it possible with raid configuration? If so how?
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My actual OS drive will be set up as GPT as I'm using UEFI but the SanDisk thumb drive I'm using to install is MBR from the manufacturer, does this matter at all? I just don't want to mess with converting it if I don't need to. -
So I'm planning on buying a new PCIe NVMe SSD for my PC which currently just has one traditional SSD for storage. My system has been getting a little buggy as of late so I've decided I want to also reset windows completely (including deleting all files), and this would ofc make sense to do now since I want the OS on the NVMe SSD anyway. I'd consider myself at least somewhat technically proficient but I do not have all that much experience in partitioning and disk/OS setup etc so I have a couple questions. First off how should I approach the windows installation process for the new drive? Can I just install it using the installation media I have from when I originally bought the license and can I still activate windows using the same key I've already technically used once? Also, at what point and how would I go about wiping the old SSD completely for use as a secondary drive? Would I just plug it into the new system and use a tool inside windows or what is the best approach?
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Hey folks, so... I have this USB drive that I used to install ArchAnywhere a week ago. Now I noticed it was only 64MB (although it's 32GB...). Formating doesn't work in Windows, Ease US worked... somewhat. Now, look at my screenshot. Those 7.88MB - can't extend the other partition to it, can't do anything with it - it's not mountable. And that prevents the entire drive from being mounted now. What can I do about that? Cheers, John
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I have two questions: (1) How to partition a USB flash drive and make all the partitions appear in Windows OS? Note: I have managed to show it in Kali Linux, But it doesn't show up in the Windows OS. (2) How to make a USB flash drive to show it as a Local Disk?
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I'm trying to join partitions for my main drive together on my computer but am having trouble doing so. I have a 4 tb Toshiba HDD that has a 400 mb and 2 2tb partitions. At one time I can join 2 together but not being the 2 largest partitions. and I do not understand why. I would like to be able to access all of the drive but cant right now. any ideas? Hard ware: Toshiba MD04ACA400 Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
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Hello everyone! I've been reading about the importance of leaving some space for wear leveling and improve the lifespan of a SSD. But I didn't understand to what they do refer with "free space". Do I have to create a big partition with many free space or do I have to have a smaller partition and leave unallocated space? Which one is helpful, the free space or the unallocated space? Thanks!
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I am installing ubuntu server from a bootable usb onto a computer with one hard drive that already has windows 7 installed and I have a couple of questions 1. I am on the partition disks steps of the installation and it gives me the option to do guided - use entire disk, guided - use entire disk and set up LVM, guided- use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM. What is LVM and what choice should I choose? If possible, I would prefer to be able to keep all my existing data. Thanks -
So I want a fresh windows without getting rid of my old one. My Windows key is bound to my Microsoft account. If I partition my drive, install the Windows 10 ISO on the new partition, and then sign in, would it unauthorize Windows on the first partition.
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Hello, I'm newer to gaming PC and upgrading my 500gb HDD to a 2TB SSD to help improve performance of my ASUS ROG (can't remember which ROG it is). I am going to partition my new SSD. This laptop is for gaming, work, and other entertainment. How would people advise me to partition it? I am thinking one 250GB or 500GB for my main game and the rest for all my games and work stuff. Or 3 partitions one 250GB for my main game, one 750GB for work, and one 1TB for my other games. Looking to buy a gaming pc in the next year as well.
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Hey guys, long-time lurker here. I'm in the process of building a new gaming rig, and due to the nature of my work (I work for a fast-paced AI firm as their Web Developer/Digital Prod Manager) I spend a lot of time sitting behind a computer screen for non-gaming reasons. I've found that in recent months my interest in PC gaming has steadily declined, which I'm attributing to the fact that every time I wake my rig I'm reminded of work (due to MS Teams always being open, the files and folders littering my desktop, etc.). I like what I do, but I need more of an escape from reality when it's time to play. So, my first thought is to partition my boot drive and dual boot Windows—one install for work, another for play. Is there a downside to partitioning a boot SSD? I'm not sure how this might affect performance. Would it be better if I simply had two separate boot drives? Also, because it's been 10 years since I had a dual boot system (mac book pro with windows installed) - can you access other SSDs or HDDs from BOTH Windows instances? All in all, I'm just wondering if this is potentially a very bad idea. Thanks! -
Hi ! The question is in the name of the topic ! I want to dual boot my computer which wil be running with an nvme SSD. I've seen here and there that having two OS an their partitions on a single SSD could be harmfull for it because wear levelling problems. Thoughts ? Since my mobo will have two slots, what would be best ? One 500gb ssd partitionned to have both OS, or two 250gb one for each os ? Price is not really a concern but long term longevity is. Thanks for you time
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so I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my machine today and I disconnected my HDD so I can install it on the SSD cause I was afraid to erase the HDD data, first time installing Ubuntu without a VM btw, then when I connected the HDD again I found the two partitions in /dev as /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 so I first tried running the cd command to access the HDD but it tells me that /dev/sdb1 is not a directory, then I tried copying a directory to the HDD to back it up and paste was grayed out, what can I do to access it. Oh and I did some searching online most of the things I read said to mount the HDD using sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 but I get this message: Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened. The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command. if it helps I had this hard drive partitioned on windows before -
I currently can't boot into windows, and have somehow removed a partition containing 4TB of backups and un-backed-up files I'm currently working on. I was planning on reinstalling windows due to system instability caused by corrupted system files. I was going to use the system reset feature but it failed repeatedly and no amount of troubleshooting worked so I decided to create a new partition with some spare space to use as a bootdisk (I didn't have a USB stick or CD), load windows onto that and boot from there. In the process, without realising it I deleted grub (I dual boot with Elemental). I kinda copped that I had done that and sighed and shook my head but no biggie. The problem being when I was using diskpart I cleaned the volume that I thought was just my partition for installing windows onto but disk unmounted. Panicked and tired, I then restarted my PC. I was unable to get back up and running with grub rescue, so I took my elemental install media and figured that I'd format C:/, install elemental on one of the few free partitions on my 4TB disk, and continue getting a bootable windows installer ready on another partition in elemental Only, when I got into elemental it read my 4TB disk as completely empty. There was absolutely not enough time between me pressing "clean" on that volume and the operation completing/me restarting to format that disk, so I'm convinced the data is retrievable, but I have no idea how and I'm out of my depth and making mistakes. Pllleaaase someone help. I have been working overtime and trying to balance my degree on top of that and have made some very stupid mistakes in the course of the last 2 hours please forgive me for being an absolute idiot. -
I have some questions, one of which being: Can you seperate a drive into equal partitions and then put them into RAID? I am honestly not sure if that would work. And my second question: Can you put an SSD and an HDD in RAID together? (Maybe some other questions later idk.)
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I am trying to shrink the partition of my C drive, just cleaned it out with windirstat, it claims to have 100gb free, but in diskmgmt.scr, when i try to shrink the partition, it will not let me shrink it more than 255mb
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Hello guys, I have a pretty simple question. What are the pros and cons of doing a partition on a drive vs having two drives. I want a 1 tb partition for a time machine backup and the rest as mass storage. I want to run the WD My Book Duo in a raid 1 for redundancy. -
I have a Lenovo laptop from probably 2014 that was running Windows 8.1 and wanted to update it to Windows 10. So I have a pen drive with windows 10 64 bit on it, and i loaded it up. I got to the partitioning step, and there were 7 partitions. I formatted all but 2 which were recovery partitions. I tried to load Windows 10 to the main partition with 800+ gb, and it says "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." So then I saw something on google that said you could convert it to MGP or whatever it's called in the bios lol. So I try to boot into bios and i tried every way to get into bios and it just loops. It says Lenovo and then it comes up with a black screen that stays for like 10 seconds. It says Intel UNDI , PXE-2.1 (Build 083) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6, 570, 884, US6, 115, 776, and US6, 327, 625 Realtek PCIe CBE Family controler series v2.57 (08/27/13) PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM That just loops forever and like I said ive tried everything to get into bios. Please someone help me. Update: I formatted the USB as GPT and loaded Windows on it. This time when i put it in the laptop the lenovo logo has a loading sign under it. I get to the Windows setup screen and it lets me click next n which partitionn i want to pick, and when it gets to the page with the percentages and it says "Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS. Format the EFI system partition as FAT32 and restart the installation." So I do as it says and pick FAT32 on Rufus and try again and it says the same error. Also I tried to goto the "Repair My Computer" option on the install now page and it now gives me the option to get to UEFI.
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Hi guys, i need help with this strange bug. It is involved around the GUID (gpt) disk style. When i delete partitions, they are not partitioning correctly, for example: I delete my games partition, primary ntfs, 50gb. The partition does not become a logical partition (unallocated space) instead the partition is formatted and renamed unallocated, when in fact it has not become unallocated storage, and the partitioning space (50gb) is rendered useless and can never be used again (cannot create a new volume, cannot merge, can literally do nothing unless i use diskpart and clean the disk) I know these sentences are not too clear, however it is really hard to explain. Put simply. When you delete a partition, it is supposed to become a logical partition in which it can be reused to create volumes again, in my case, the partitions are not becoming logical, they are still physically on the disk, and with the now new blank partition, nothing can be done (resize, merge, create new etc.) This is strange as i am now using the mbr disk style in which this error does not occur. But i have tried gpt numerous times, and I KNOW FOR certain, that it always happens, that it is not just a one time thing. If you understand what i am saying (which your most likely do not, i cannot blame you) then please help me. Also another strange instance, is that the sleep on my computer does not work, i have tried countless times to get it too work and it never does, what happens is i try to turn the computer on and nothing happens, I have to press the reset button and then the computer goes back to the last session, for some reason the first time i load the computer after it is in sleep mode, the Ram is not loading, it only loads when i have to restart it for the second time. With kind regards- Kurt Windows 10 pro
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So I'm.about to install w10 on my brand new pc, and have watched many videos about how to do it, but one thing I don't understand is the partitioning screen. I've seen different methods of doing it and I guess I just don't understand how to go about it or what exactly is happening. I'm going to be installing w10 via DVD thru my DVD drive and saving it to a 480 gb ssd. This ssd will be my only saving device currently. I've done some research here but can't really find what I'm looking for. If someone could explain the partitioning screen (deleting, new partition, formatting, system reserved, unpartitioned space etc) that would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to screw up my brand new pc! Any help is thoroughly appreciated!!!
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I have an old seagate barracuda 1 TB where I store my OS and a bunch of other data as well, and I have a WD Red 3TB where I mostly store games, movies, picture and the like. The seagate is getting full yet the WD Red has loads of space left, I would like to migrate all the data from my barracuda to my WD Red, but I also want to keep all the data on the WD Red. Could this be done by migrating to a separate partition and then combining the partitions afterwards? I have a partition large enough to accommodate all the data on the barracuda, but how would I go about migrating to the partition, booting from it afterwards and then combining the two partitions on the WD Red into one?
