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phone shows a skreen " Storage card not working " How do I reset ?He

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Help  How do I reset phone. F.D.R.

Can't delete extra "Healthy (Recovery Partition)"s and "Healthy (EFI System Partition)"

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I have two "Healthy (Recovery Partition)"s and a "Healthy (EFI System Partition)" that were not there when I got my laptop and that I cannot delete. I have a Windows 8 laptop (recently updated to 8.1) and about a week ago I decided to dual boot "Ubuntu 13.04". I only gave it a small 18.55GB partition of my hard drive as I wanted to use Windows as my main OS and Ubuntu simply to make and Linux versions of games that I create. I noticed after doing so that it added a "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" to the beginning of the drive (the first one listed).

I could never get it to be added to the Windows boot loader correctly with EasyBCD and I had to keep going to the boot options to pick the GRUB2 and then Ubuntu. I really didn't want to keep doing this and I was having some problems with Ubuntu video drivers as well. I figured that I would just use a different computer for Ubuntu so I took it off of my laptop and formatted the partition it was on. It worked okay but there was still that first "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" that I couldn't delete but I just ignored it.

After updating to Windows 8.1, I thought that maybe the boot loader would work so I tried partitioning and installing Ubuntu again (I know, mistake) but it still didn't work and I could even get it load up correctly. So I finally gave up and have completely decided that I will never dual boot a Linux with Windows again as Linux has too many problems and complications for me. The only way I'm using Linux again is by itself on a computer (I think it's kind of nice to have both, but I'd take Windows over it any day). Anyway, I decided to delete it again.

When I went to delete it, I noticed that there were two more partitions listed that were not there before and I cannot delete them. I wouldn't mind leaving them there too much (as they only take up a small amount of space themselves though if I can I'd like to), but the second "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" is keeping me from increasing my Windows partition to fill up the 18.55GB left from the Ubuntu partition.

I cannot delete them and the only option it gives me is the "Help" option which does not really give me any info on this. All three of the partitions only give me the "Help" option and I cannot delete any of them and it's strange that they are all listed as "100% Free" for space. I'd like to just have the "(C:)" and "(D:)" partitions as drive C: is my Windows partition and D: is my real Recovery "Healthy (OEM Partition)" that was there when I got the laptop.

I'm not really even sure how that second "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" got there because it is in-between the Windows partition and where the "Ubuntu" partition was and it was there before I even formatted that partition. I'll put a screenshot of the "Windows Disk Management" so that you can see what is going on. It also started listing the "Healthy (OEM Partition)" twice, but I think that is because it contains both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 if I am correct. Any advice on how to get rid of those extra partitions would be great.

Install Windows 10 onto re-formatted harddrive

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I realize this is a Windows 8.1 forum, but couldn't find anywhere else to post.  I've got 64 bit Toshiba that came pre-loaded with 8.1 that I upgraded to Windows 10.  I have since cleaned hard drive using DISKPART.

Here's what I have now....

USB stick with  downloaded - Win10_1511_English_x64.iso (unzipped)

Disk 0 - Online 465 GB  0 (free) GPT

Disk 1 - Online 14 GB    0 (free) (not GPT)

Volume 1 -  C   J_CCSA_X64F (Label)  NTFS   Partition   465 GB  Healthy

Disk 0 Partition 1 465 GB 1024 KB (Offset)

When I try to run install from USB stick, I get the following error... "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one.  For more information, see the Setup log files."  

....And I can't find the Setup log files.

I converted Disk 0 from Mbr to GPT to resolve file type error.

I appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks, Don



Enable System Protection (Restore) on Available Drive - Recovery

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In my Windows 8.1 I have listed under System Protection, Available Dives:

  1. D: (Protection Off - I have used this for a System Backup location which created an WindowsImageBackup folder)
  2. C: (Protection On)
  3. Recovery (? This has a yellow folder icon.  Protection had been Off but I have changed it to On and set it to 100% Max Usage 14.86 GB. )

I hope somebody will explain in simple terms what the "Recovery" drive represents and whether my setting it to "Protection On with max usage at 100%" is a good idea or not and what the consequences would be if I set it back to Off.

Siggy


storage pool issue

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Windows is really making me upset lately, with the forced windows 10 upgrade dialogues  and all. Today I got some hard drives in the mail along with a usb enclosure all together 5 drives 4TB each. From what I understood windows storage spaces was supposed to be similar to raid. I heard there was something like raid 0, 1, and 5 so I thought this would be great I could have 1 big 20TB drive. So I went to set this up and the first thing I noticed was the raid 0 was nothing like normal raid 0. There is no speed increase it just morphs all the drives into one drive with no performance increase and all the chance of data loss without parity. So I decided to do 1 disk parity, oh boy doing that let me have only 12TB of usable space as 6.1TB went to redundancy for 1 disk. I really don't understand that as in normal raid 5 only 1 disk would be used for redundancy but in this case almost 2 full disks out of 5 are being used for redundancy. Anyways the major issue I have is the whole thing is being spun down and put into some power saver mode every 2 minutes regardless of what I have things set to. I turned of hard disk spin down in power options, turned of usb power saving in power options, and a tried to use a tool that claims to keep disks awake in windows. This is really getting me upset as every few minutes when I go to use my external hard drive I have to wait 30 seconds for all the disks to spin up in the storage pool and for windows to recognize it. This is not making me happy any help would be appreciated...

rolling back to windows 8.1 from windows 10

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ok since I originally had 8.1, and silly me decided to upgrade to 10.. being disappointed with 10, and wanting to roll back to 8.1 now knowing that as I recall... I haven't saved 8.1 . So is there a possibility that I can roll back and retrieve that info from 8.1? and how do I do this successfully??

I want to keep continuing my update after restarting.

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I am having a laptop with windows 8.1.

I want to upgrade my laptop to windows 10.

But the problem is I have a really slow internet connection (around 64kBps) and it will take around 22hours to complete the downloading.My laptop is new so I dont want to keep it running for a whole day so is there any way to pause the download and shutdown and then resume after on startup??

Free Windows 8.1 E-book by Ed Bott


Unable to Add drivers to Boot Image (Faulting module name: in-core-stringloader-l1-1-1.dll)

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I'm getting the following error when adding drivers to any boot images.


Faulting application name: dismhost.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215de49
Faulting module name: in-core-stringloader-l1-1-1.dll, version: 6.2.9200.17313, time stamp: 0x5507a832
Exception code: 0xc0000135
Fault offset: 0x00000000000e2100
Faulting process id: 0x10a0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d09b72e4165b6c
Faulting application path: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\72EFFF23-68CA-4B03-918D-6848C2A2DA0F\dismhost.exe
Faulting module path: in-core-stringloader-l1-1-1.dll
Report Id: 21cd2e9a-0766-11e5-941e-00155dc8a33f
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Below logs are from DISM

Mount Path:  [C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\~$WDSMGMT.000]
[5920] Wimserv process started for guid 37c7cc04-b952-4170-a49e-32f7680c218e.  Id is 1988
[1988] ImageUnmarshallHandle: Reconstituting wim at \\WDS.domainname\REMINST\Boot\x64\Images\capture 8.1 64.wim.
[1988] Mounted image at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\~$WDSMGMT.000.
[5920] ImageUnmarshallHandle: Reconstituting wim at \\wds.domainname.com\REMINST\Boot\x64\Images\capture 8.1 64.wim.
[5920] ImageUnmarshallHandle: Reconstituting wim at \\wds.domainname.com\REMINST\Boot\x64\Images\capture 8.1 64.wim.
2015-05-31 19:24:54, Error                 DISM   DismHostLib: Failed to create DismHostManager remote object. Checking for dismhost.exe exit code.
2015-05-31 19:24:54, Error                 DISM   DISM Manager: PID=5920 TID=5216 Failed to create Dism Image Session in host. - CDISMManager::LoadRemoteImageSession(hr:0xc0000135)
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   DismHostLib: Failed to create DismHostManager remote object. Checking for dismhost.exe exit code.
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   DISM Manager: PID=5920 TID=5216 Failed to create Dism Image Session in host. - CDISMManager::LoadRemoteImageSession(hr:0xc0000135)
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   DISM Manager: PID=5920 TID=5216 Failed to load the image session from the temporary location: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\72EFFF23-68CA-4B03-918D-6848C2A2DA0F - CDISMManager::CreateImageSession(hr:0xc0000135)
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   API: PID=5920 TID=5216 m_pDismManager->CreateImageSession failed - CDismCore::CacheImageSession(hr:0xc0000135)
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   API: PID=5920 TID=5216 InternalExecute failed - CBaseCommandObject::Execute(hr:0xc0000135)
2015-05-31 19:25:55, Error                 DISM   API: PID=5920 TID=5940 CAttachPathCommandObject failed - DismOpenSessionInternal(hr:0xc0000135)

So Far I've tried the suggestions from this link  https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a202816a-59f6-48bb-a71a-fe2ca3add4c9/wds-error-code0xc1420127 

I have also removed my profile locally but that hasn't helped. Also unable to find the faulting dll  in-core-stringloader-l1-1-1.dll .

Any Ideas?


windows update says downloading windows 10 for all updates

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There are widespread reports of "windows update says downloading windows 10" when it is not. The rocket scientists in redmond know this is a problem that enrages their customers but true to their time honored business model of making billions by pissing people off they will do nothing... None of the usual pablum like uninstalling and hiding the piece of crap update that tries to ram windows 10 down everyone's gullet fixes it... 

back to 8

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i need simple  instruction to get back to windows 8 from  windows 10

step1

step2

step3

format thats all i need someone please help

Windows 8.1 File Explorer crashes repeatedly with iPhone movies (MOV) files

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Hello

A company uses iPhones to take movies of on-site assessments. They burn these to CD and insert into a Windows 8.1 Pro laptop.

When they hover the mouse over a MOV file, Windows 8.1 File Explorer crashes repeatedly and the computer become unresponsive. If the file is copied to the laptop hard disk the problem is worse with repeated File Explorer crashing and the file cannot be deleted until it is renamed to .TXT

Windows Update KB2975719 causes this problem so I uninstalled it and everything is fine.

Please advise on the status of this issue, when it will be fixed and when the update can safely be re-installed.




MDT 2013 Update 1 Deployment Wizard Pages Not Sizing Properly for High Resolution Tablets

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The resolution for the tablet after the OS is installed is fine and set to the correct resolution automatically.

However, the initial setup screens in the MDT Wizard pages are not.  I have to manually resize all the dialog boxes on each screen and even after manually sizing using the trackpad, only the edges of the buttons are accessible and the text and radio buttons are almost unreadable.  So, I can barely select options or  click next to move to the next screen,

Is there a fix for the wizard screens?


Best Practice for Ejecting / Dismounting Storage Space

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Storage Spaces - anyone know how to "safely remove" one?

  I have three USB external drives pooled together in a single Storage Space, love it.  But I can't find out how to unplug the USB plug (or undock my Surface) safely.

  If I just remove the USB/undock (as I've been doing so far), it hasn't really failed catastrophically, but it has to do repair quite often - causing terrible performance on the pool but also definitely not good for me to be causing problems.  I don't want to destroy my data.

And one other Storage Pool question: my Surface Pro 3 reads my Storage Pool file in Windows 8.1 (where I created it) and in Windows 10 (dual boot). But I see threads mentioning not being able to access the pool after a clean install. I thought I could plug those 3 drives into any Windows 8.1 PC and access the pool?


Shawn Keene

Win 8 to 8.1 ??

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I am having trouble updating Win 8 to 8.1

It tells me "The update is not applicable to your computer"

Any ideas?


Printer Setup from bat

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hiya

I have this code to install a home cannon printer to the laptop I run it on

CLS
@ECHO off

SET varIP=192.168.0.25
SET varDriver=
SET varDriverFolder=
SET varDriverFile=
SET varName=CanonOfflinePrinter
SET varLocation=

REM "Deleting TCP/IP port"
CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnport.vbs -d -r IP_%varIP%

REM "Creating TCP/IP port"
CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnport.vbs -a -r IP_%varIP% -o raw -n 9100 -h %varIP%

CLS
REM "Installation message"
@ECHO.
@ECHO The %varName% printer is currently being installed.
@ECHO.
@ECHO Please do not close this window.
@ECHO.
@ECHO Once the installation is complete this Setup window will exit.
@ECHO.


REM "Driver installation"
REM  CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prndrvr.vbs -a -m "%varDriver%" -h "%varDriverFolder%" -i "%varDriverFile%" 


REM "Printer deletion"
@ECHO.
CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs -d -p "%varName%"


REM "Printer installation"
@ECHO.
CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs -a -p "%varName%" -m "%varDriver%" -r "IP_%varIP%"


REM "Location configuration"
@ECHO.
CSCRIPT /nologo %windir%\system32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prncnfg.vbs -t -p "%varName%" -l "%varLocation%"


REM "Making it Default printer"
REM CSCRIPT %windir%\system32\\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs -p "%varName%" -t
@echo Install Complete
timeout /t 10

but every time I run It I get a error like this

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The CanonOfflinePrinter printer is currently being installed.

Please do not close this window.

Once the installation is complete this Setup window will exit.


Unable to delete printer CanonOfflinePrinter Error 0x80041002 Not found
Operation GetObject
Provider CIMWin32
Description
Win32 error code

Unable to add printer CanonOfflinePrinter Error 0x80041008 Invalid parameter
Operation PutInstance
Provider CIMWin32
Description
Win32 error code

Unable to get configuration for printer CanonOfflinePrinter Error 0x80041002 Not found
Operation GetObject
Provider CIMWin32
Description
Win32 error code
Install Complete

Waiting for  8^CTerminate batch job (Y/N)? inue ...

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every forum I look at it says about using a .inf file to install the drivers but the printer automatically installs them

many thanks

installing windows on a netbook

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can I install windows 8 on my android netbook

can not connect to he store

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I can not connect to store to update update from windows 8 to 8.1

A QUESTION ABOUT WINDOWS.8 PRODUCT KEY.

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I am asked for the key in the first step of the installation, and it refuses the key. So what do we do now?

не работает Metro приложении

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ПОМОГИТЕ ПЖ!!!

Почему не открывается все metro приложении (новости, погода, камера и все установленные приложения не запускается) но откроется только параметры и магазин. Сам магазин не скачает приложении с ошибкой  

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