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How to stop dropbox filling OS drive when the dropbox folder is on a secondary hard drive?
I have dropbox business, and am trying to create a local archive of a 4 TB dropbox folder. I have my dropbox folder location on my D:\ drive, with a 6 tb drive. My OS drive is a 240 GB SSD. However, ...
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How to resolve Hard disk failure with new external SSD
BIOS Boot Order
I have an error message on startup (SMART Hard Disk Error has detected an imminent failure, run the Hard Disk test in systems diagnostics). I can't even get to the login screen. I have ...
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How to solve boot in Laptop/Notebook after cloning Windows 7 64bits OEM from HDD to SDD?
I have cloned my HDD to SSD. The files can be seen when the SSD is plugged in as external device, but the SSD itself will not boot.
My original system:
Laptop Acer Aspire 5733-6432
Windows 7 64 bits (...
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Change Recycling Bin Location
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. ...
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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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Trying to set up the SSD portion of an SSHD as a cache in Windows 7 but it appears to be doing nothing
I just installed Windows 7 on my laptop which has a hybrid drive. I put the OS on the hard disk drive portion and left the SSD part untouched, currently it’s just unallocated space. However I want to ...
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Non-system-disk error on Windows 7/10 restart
I have a very specific error with an HP Elitebook 8540w notebook into which I have recently upgraded the hard drive, from a Crucial 500GB drive to a Samsung 1TB SSD.
Via booting to a Ubuntu 14 live ...
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"No Device Drivers Found" when trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD
I am trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD, but I have been getting "No Device Drivers Found" after I click "Install Windows." I have been using this guide for many years and have ...
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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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Windows 7 Install SATA AHCI controller driver "could not be installed"
I'm attempting to install Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit from a USB flash drive on my new PC, but my SSD is not being recognized and the AHCI driver is failing. Whenever I boot into the Windows 7 ...
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Trying to install Windows on an M.2 drive
I just bought new disks for my computer and got an M.2 SSD as well. I was thinking about doing a fresh installation of Windows, and using the M.2 SSD as a Windows drive.
I put my bootable USB into ...
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Installing applications off Msata SSD
I have Windows 7 running on a 32GB Msata SSD.
I have tons of games to install, (Dota2, GTA , NBA, etc), and definitely the SSD is not large enough for all these things.
If I install these ...
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How best to partition an SSD boot drive and HDD storage drive for Windows and Linux
I'm not 100% sure if this question belongs here or the unix stack exchange.
I consulted the following thread(s) on superuser and while helpful don't answer my questions:
Dual Boot Windows 7 + Linux ...
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Cloning SSD sector-by-sector to HDD for a "zero downtime" backup in emergency situations?
I have 120GB Intel 330i SSD drive that I initially migrated my data from stock 250GB WD hard drive to with Acronis migration tool that Intel supplied. Since SSD was only 120GB I had to do some cleanup ...
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Periodic slow performance after cloning from SSD to HDD
A user was complaining about C: Partition size and refused to reduce his personal content on the drive. At the time he had a SSD and we only had spare HDD of larger size. All parties agreed to replace ...
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