I found the problem. Fortunately I had another identical computer to compare and I eventually found that I had a different driver for the broadcom wireless network card in the laptop. After some...

The computer that will not connect (or keeps disconnecting) is the exact same hardware as another that will connect fine. The only difference I know of is that the one that connects is W10-32bit and...

I am trying to set up my windows 10 phone as a mobile hotspot to use its cellular connection to share internet acces to a couple of laptops. It actually works quite well on one of them. Connects...

Ah, excellent. That works, thanks Ztruker. Detailed procedure is: From file explorer, select "view" tab, then the options down arrow, select "change folder and search options", then select "view"...

OK, thanks Ztruker. You have been helpful again, as in the past. I have to say it is a little frustrating to have things in file explorer that you click on that give you error messages, and it is...

Hi. I read the info about junctions, but it is pretty greek to me. I have similar "my documents" "local settings" and other such shortcuts or junctions or whatever that do not allow access. What...

I am putting in a final comment to correct my erroneous previous comments as shown above, so that hopefully I don't send anyone else down the wrong path I was taking:

As stated above, I thought...

Thanks for all the info about the extra partitions. I am definitely confused by them. Between my wife and my computers, I have seen 100MB System Reserved (which I thought was from Windows 7 and I...

Hi Wordman, I have read the tutorial for the clean install. I have a question about this note: It mentions a 450MB system reserved and twice also mentions a 350MB system reserved. I am thinking...

Wordman, thank you for the detailed explanation that makes sense. I will review the tutorial to make sure I understand what is going on. Then I will compare that to what I currently have (which as...

Yes, I can shrink the C drive to give unallocated space, but the recovery partition is still on the far right, beyond the unallocated space. So when I try to use Macrium Reflect to restore to a...

Ok, I agree that it doesn't look right to have this extra partition that I cannot figure out. When I use diskpart to try to delete partition 0 it tells me there is no volume. It also says it is a...

Thank you for the explanation which I partially understand. Yes, I did upgrade to W10 from W7. when I did, Windows put the recovery partition on the right side of the C drive. The reason I wanted...

Cerebrus, I appreciate your comments. Let me first say that I definitely am taking heed of your advice. I admit that I do not understand all of it all the time, but I re-read everything multiple...

Thanks everyone for the help. Everything is the way I want it now and working properly. I got rid of the extra unallocated spaces, and this is what it looks like now in Disk Management.

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[QUOTE=Word Man;539782]1. That's what I would expect. However, an MSR if you have one, won't show in Disk Management - so numbering would have to account for that.

2. Did you use "list par" or...

Thank you all very much for the help. Everything is working great, but I have a few questions and comments. These are only for understanding and learning, not to change anything. As stated...

Thank you! That is what I was missing. I had to use copy instead of move (don't know why, but I am OK with that). I have successfully gotten things in the recommended order and everything is...

That is exactly why I wanted to re-order things, to make it easier to shrink and expand C drive. This helps somewhat in making backups and moving to a smaller hard drive. For whatever reason, I do...

Ok, thanks. So how do I copy the recovery partition into the free space at the beginning of the disk? That is, what are the actual steps/commands to do that?

Yes, that is how I want to make mine look, just like you have it here. And I understand your instructions of where to move things. What I cannot figure out is how to move the recovery to the far...

Sorry I was too wordy. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it hurts. This is what I have now and it is working now. What I am wondering is if there is a way to move the recovery partition over to the...

Thank you very much for the help. I did run into a problem. I have to apologize that I am so illiterate in disk management. I ran into problems, but now it is working, but I do not know for sure...

Sorry to bust into this thread at such a later date, but I am in this exact position and I am hoping not to make you go through all the same motions. In my case I had the 495MB partition labelled...

Sorry that no one has responded about the psu yet. I didn't want to because I don't have any experience as to which ones are any good. I was hoping that others might jump in who might have...