Using Windows 10, I notice that each drive on my system has its own recycle bin. Is there any way to override this behavior and put the entire recycle bin on one drive, e.g. a hard drive, so as to avoid taking up valuable space on other drives, e.g. a SSD?
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I have a SSD as a primary hard drive, and one HDD for storage. I want the recycling bin to be on the HDD. I want is so that even if I delete files from the SSD the end up on the HDD's recycling bin. What is the proper way of going about this?
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I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin.   My question is, are my files still there? I've searched and found that the Recycle Bin may live in $Recycle.Bin, but I can't open files there so I can't know what they are. Any help how to open deleted files or how to delete them permanently?
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I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size.   Would I be able to restore this image on a larger hard drive? I plan buying a 1TB hard drive.  If yes, how? I prefer no data loss.  I am using Windows 7
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I'm upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive.  How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that it looks like nothing has changed (other than the new hard drive) to my operating system and applications?  Can I use what is built into Windows 7 Backup or should I use something else?
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I'm on Windows 7 Professional, and this is my scenario :  Folder "Asd" (C:\)              Folder "Asd" (D:\) File 1                          File 1  File 2                          File 3  File 3                          File 4 File 4 File 5   I'd like to select the folder on C:\ (without selecting each single file, of course) and copy it over the same folder on D:. Usually, it will copy all files. But what I'm looking for is to copy only files (from C:) that are contained on folder d:.  So in my case I'd like to replace only File 1, File 3 and File 4.  File 2 and File 5 must be ignored.  Is it possible?
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I know that on the windows operating system, when you delete a file it's still recoverable.  I'd like to avoid simply paving the harddrive with zeros as I would like to keep my OS installation as is, but is there a way to truly delete files that have been previously deleted?
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What is the most efficient way to transfer a large number/amount of data, such as 430-450 GB, from one Windows 10 laptop to another?  Could someone guide me visually using a short yet comprehensive tutorial? And which connector/cable should I use to transfer between two internal HDDs?  I think all the laptop specs are fairly standard and fairly inexpensive. The laptop internal HDD data interfaces are both SATA.
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I have a load of old external USB hard drives lying around - as I'm sure an increasing number of others do also.  Is there any way I can utilize these to act in some kind of RAID-type system?  Seems a waste to have all that storage lying around in uneven and relatively small chunks.  I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
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I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.  Will the first disk fill up before the second one starts being used, or will Windows use both disks. For example, if I have 256GB of data on the spanning volume, will it be divided to 128GB on first and 128GB on second physical disk or will it all be on the first disk with the second disk empty? Would this behavior be any different if I were using two HDDs?
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but when you "delete" something from your PC all your computer does is write over some of the binary with 0's replacing the 1's.  (Or something to that effect) So when you send something to the recycle bin it writes over part of the file, and when you delete from the recycle bin it writes more?
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With the new Windows 10 coming out soon as a free upgrade, I'd like to know if and how I can install the upgrade on a new HDD. I assume the files needed for Windows 10 are only for upgrading an installed copy of Windows 7 or 8 and not a standalone installer to use on an empty hard drive. Or is this assumption wrong?  I have some issues booting (an older non-working version appears in the list of OS's to choose from) and I'd like to replace my current SSD, which is too small, with a new larger capacity one, while keeping my other drives intact. The old SSD will then be removed.  If more information is needed, please let me know.
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Back in the day you could gain some performance by partitioning your hard drive to several partitions:   Pagefile OS and Apps data   There was some debate regarding the order of the drives as the first partitions are faster. Is all this still relevant for modern OSs such as Win7 and latest linuxes? What optimal partitioning scheme would you suggest? Assume there's only a single (non-ssd) drive in the system
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I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview).  Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new hard drive, which has been connected to the computer (unpartitioned). I don't mind and I even prefer reinstalling it over again.   Since I have the free version of Windows 10 pro, can I still reinstall it anew? Does the windows 10 installation offer disk management and partition like the older Windows installations used to? How should I reinstall Winodws 10 x64 the easiest but still remain on free mode?
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I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 recently, and am looking to burn some .iso files. In Windows 7, there was a default program that I could use. I have dug around a bit, but cannot find one in Windows 10 so far. Although, a bunch of search functionality seems to be disabled on my machine, so I may just be searching incorrectly.  Is there a disc image burning program bundled in Windows 10 like there was in Windows 7?  Image of what I see:
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I subjected my hard disk (C drive) to a disk scan and found that there was 12 KB of bad sectors. I now consider that disk to be unreliable, and am looking forward to transferring all my data to another file.  The problem is, I want to clone the complete drive (including the apps, OSes, files and everything, verbatim) to another drive. I know there would be some crazy software activation issues, like Windows Not Genuine problem and so on. But I wonder whether is there a tool powerful enough to do the cloning and at the same time maintain the  OS and apps?
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I used to run Windows 7 32 bit, but installed the 64 bit version because of a RAM upgrade. During the installation I got this message:      The partition you selected might contain files from a previous Windows installation. If it does, these files and folders will be moved to a folder named Windows.old. You will be able to access the information in Windows.old, but you will not be able to use your previous version of Windows.   The C:\ drive now has two (2) Windows folders:   Windows (15.3 GB) Windows.old (15.7 GB)     Don't see why I need the Windows.old taking over 15GB of space on my hard drive so I tried to delete it. It didn't work.  How can I safely delete this folder?
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I'm looking for a quick, simple, and effective way to erase the hard drives of computers that my company will be getting rid of (donation to charity, most likely). Ideally, I would like a single-purpose bootable utility CD that upon booting, finds all attached hard drives and performs an "NSA grade" disk erasure.  Is anyone aware of such a utility (even one not quite as automated as what I've described)?