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Why might my Win7 install not work on Thinkpad with new SSD?
I have a Thinkpad T500, it was running Windows 7 Pro. The hard drive (normal 160GB SATA drive, 5400rpm) started making a clicking / chirping sound and things started becoming unstable so I bought a ...
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new ssd drive - programs on old hdd- easy transfer?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I have a hdd which has windows 7 installed along with LOADS of programs. I have just bought a new SSD and installed a new install of windows onto it as the main drive. ...
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"Windows detected a hard drive" issue in Windows 7 x64
I upgraded to the OCZ-Agility3 120GB from a 60 OCZ Vertex2 SSD. I cloned the drive from the Vertex to the new Agility. Everything seemed to have gone well and have not had any problems.
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Moving Windows 7 to an SSD
I've done some research and the most common answer seems to be to just reinstall Windows, but I really want to avoid that.
I'm attempting to move my Win7 install, including applications, documents, ...
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Want to upgrade stock PC at work but keep it on the down low. Looking for advice [closed]
I have a problem at work. They've got me doing fairly processor-intensive image editing in Adobe CS5 pretty much daily. This would be fine except that I'm on an HP Compaq 6000 with an Intel Core 2 Duo ...
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Should I replace my system drive or work files drive with an SSD? [closed]
First of all, I've read lots of questions on this site (and over the web) about this question, but I'm still not sure about my specific situation.
I currently have a laptop with two 320 GB hard ...
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Migrate HDD XP to SSD Win7
I have 32-bit Windows XP installed on two HDDs in Raid 1. My end goal is to install 64-bit Windows 7 (to increase RAM to 8GB) on a single SSD drive and use the 2 HDDs (maintaining Raid 1) for user ...
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Windows SuperFetch service for SSD + HDD mixed systems
The guides are floating around the web stating that Windows 7 automatically disables SuperFetch if it finds that disk is SSD.
However, my SSD is only 60GB, and I still have 3 TB of storage on HDDs ...
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Intel SSD Toolbox options are disabled for SSD when Intel firmware update works fine
I configured my BIOS to use JBOD instead of RAID because RAID does not support TRIM for SSDs.
My laptop BIOS does not have any option for SMART or AHCI, it's just JBOD or RAID0 or RAID1.
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Getting 0xc00000e windows 7 "Boot device inaccessible" after random crashes
I've been having some weird random crashes that I can't seem to locate, and I'm unsure if it's windows or hardware related.
It's a brand new computer and very powerful. I've run into a couple of ...
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How to mark drive as SSD in Windows 7
I have 2 SSDs in RAID-0 which is visible to Windows 7 Home Premium as one drive, which, I think, it does not detect as SSD because I don't see any sign of it - it detects it as "TOSHIBA RAID LD0 SCSI ...
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Mounting my HDD as my C:\Users breaks my accounts? [duplicate]
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Mount second drive as c:/Users in Windows 7
I just finished my first build. I'm using a 60GB SSD for my programs and operating system. My goal is to mount my 500GB HDD as c:/...
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Possible HDD error. Explorer seem to pause/stop/lock and dir using cmd seem to pause/stop/lock cmd
Reference: When I use the words pause, lock or stop I refer to a stage where a process seems to be in a never-ending-loop with no timeout.
I have built a brand new pc, except for the hard drives.
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Low performance on a Vertex 3 SSD
I have a new vertex 3 drive. I did a fresh install Win7 Ultimate x64, installed all the drivers, optimized the services for the SSD, and still it has 400mb/s read, 80mb/s write (using CrystalDisk Mark)...
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Upgraded and reinstalled into new boot disk, but still have old data. How can I just move it?
Nutshell: Bought a new SSD drive, made it primary and installed a new version of windows 7 into it. Drive E was my boot disk in old computer. Has many games, etc. installed.
Is there any way to ...
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