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    Solved How to shrink Win 8.1 C drive with OEM partition in front

    The OEM recovery partition is for restoring your computer to factory default settings when in serious problem. Since you have created a backup including all partitions, I think you can delete the OEM partition.
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    Solved How to shrink Win 8.1 C drive with OEM partition in front

    the recovery partition will not be a problem, as you can only shrink a partition from the right.
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    HP Recovery partition problem

    From Microsoft Help with upgrading to Windows 10 - Windows Help, under "Can i go back to my old operating system", "Note: If the manufacturer set up your PC to run from a compressed Windows image file (also known as Windows image file boot or WIMBoot) and included the option to restore factory...
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    Solved Converting from MBR from GPT when Installing from HDD

    If you want to install Windows 8.1 on MBR, you need to go to BIOS to enable Legacy boot mode and disable UEFI mode. Most of the UEFI -based hardware support Legacy mode. if your computer doesn't support it, you can use a third party software AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert MBR to GPT...
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    How to extend shrinked volume to C Drive

    In disk management, you can only extend partition using the unallocated space next to its right side. You have to delete a contiguous partition, before you can merge partitions in Disk Management. therefore, My suggestion is to use a third party software, AOMEI Partition Assistant, both the...
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    Unallocated Disk Space?

    How exactly do I find a way to transfer the extra space so it's sharing the same disk with my C: drive? I don't understand what exactly you want. since your C: drive is dynamic volune, you should be able to extend it with the unallocated space on disk 0. if disk management fails, try third...
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    Error in Installation

    To solve this problem, you need to convert GPT to MBR disk or enable Legacy boot mode in BIOS. By the way, you can use a freeware AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert disk between MBR and GPT without data loss. For people configuring their PCs for the first time all by themselves, an error...
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    Inspiron 15R SE 7520 Windows 8 Reinstallation

    For people configuring their PCs for the first time all by themselves, an error message like “Windows cannot be installed on this Disk” can be a big time problem. One, the message explains little about its cause and second, most of us don’t really have a lot of experience in setting up systems...
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    Solved Can't extend Local Disk drive on 8.1

    You cannot extend C: drive unless you convert to dynamic disk without data loss to create spanned volume. note that there is a risk that system may fail to boot after the conversion. Separated dynamic disk can be combined into a single dynamic volume, split data among several dynamic disks for...
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    Can't figure out extending a disk partition (Windows 8.1)

    I think you should use the third party software, which I have used it once in a while. it is a great product by the way.
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    How to extend Windows 8.1 partition without messing up?

    Disk management only allows you to extend partition when there are unallocated space next to its right. I suggest you use AOMEI Partition Assistant, the standard(free) version will do this. You can follow the extend partition wizard to complete the process, which mostly won't even need you to...
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    How to partition a new drive to clone 2nd hard drive

    I don't think you can only copy drivers and programs without OS. I suggest you clone system. Then all the drivers and programs installed on C : drive will come along with system clone.
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    How to partition a new drive to clone 2nd hard drive

    clone a hard drive will delete all the data on the destination drive. You'd better clone all the partitions on the drive that clone disk.
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    Solved merging drives - adding folders to this pc.

    you have to convert those disk to dynamic disk to create spanned volumes. if you use disk management, you'll lose all the data. I suggest you use a third party software.
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    What options in Chkdsk windows 8 check for bad sectors?

    f means fix., r means recover
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