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How do I make Windows spin down my external HDD before cutting power to it when I shutdown?
Whenever I shutdown my laptop, my external HDD make a loud "click" sound when the power is cut. Even if the hard drive is idle, it spins up for a few seconds before being forcibly turned off ...
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Why does Win 10 Pro consider a storage drive an app?
When I shut down or restart Windows 10 Pro it always pauses and lists one or two storage drives and says that the drive preventing shutdown. It's always the same one or two of my many storage drives ...
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Windows 10 Force Shut Down (Power Off/On), Data Corruption Possible?
Earlier today someone in my house reset the power by flipping the power switches for the entire house on and off really fast. This resulted in my computer forcibly being shutdown. Since then I have ...
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Windows 10 - Slow shutdown and restart / how to read Windows Performance Analyzer results
In trying to revive an old laptop (Asus N56VZ) so my brother can use it for school, I installed an SSD where the HDD used to be, to speed it up. True enough, the general speed of the laptop increased ...
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Can't mount a Windows 10 drive for ddrescue
I'm trying to run ddrescue for a drive containing a Windows 10 installation. I have shutdown the operating system with shutdown /t /s 0 to circumvent the hydrid shutdown issue.
blkid shows the ...
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What's the Proper Way to Shutdown / Restart a laptop, if it is not responding?
I came across a program that is not responding, and I don't know how to restart the laptop properly.
If you're thinking that I should long press the power button to turn off the computer, no! Yes, it ...
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Unexpected shutdown while resizing partitions
I run Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 to resize the partitions on my disk: first partition (on which I have Windows 10) and the second (where I put my stuff). The computer was restarted to do the ...
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Notebook with SSD: Added a HDD and now hibernation and shutdown are slow
I have an Asus N56VZ notebook. It have a 1 TiB SSD on which I installed windows 8.1. I used this configuration for about 2 years. Yesterday I added a 2 TiB HDD and now the hibernate is very slow and ...
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is it okay if I just turn off power if I have a SSD?
I have heard that normal HDD can have bad sectors if the computer turned off from power(without shutting down) ,so I'm wondering , since SSD has no moving parts, is it okay to turn off computer from ...
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Laptop is taking too long to startup and shutdown Samsung RV509 both windows 7 and 8
I have a Samsung RV509 Model Laptop and for the last three years it has worked perfectly. But for the last three months it has been really slow:
Startup takes more than 20 minutes
Shutdown takes more ...
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Computer shutdown during disk scan
I have a situation like this:
Several years ago I've built a home NAS out of:
a Chenbro ES34069 case which came with a FSP180-ABA 180W 4 pin power adapter and a power distribution block inside ...
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Can unplugging a VM be harmful?
We know that unplugging the power cable from a PC may damage your hard drive and may corrupt your OS.
Could the same harm (or any harm) happen if I unplug a VM (simulated by Power Off option in VBox ...
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Windows 10 100% disk usage on startup and whenever opening Windows/Microsoft Native Apps
Since earlier this week, my laptop becomes unresponsive when logging into windows. Disk C: is always at 100%. Windows will only be usable and lag free after around 15 mins. Open Resource Monitor shows ...
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AppleScript to mount and unmount drives
this is my first post on this site, so excuse me if this is a double post but I couldn't find anything similar.
I'm on Macbook Pro 13 early 2011, I have installed an ssd and moved the hdd to the ...
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PC shut off and will not start
I have a PC that has been running without any problems for more than a year. Last night, I was playing Wasteland 2, when the computer just shut off. There was no power surge that I am aware of--...
