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New system drive boots fine but issues with Win7 backup, etc
I've decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas about this before I go any further.
Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a ...
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SSD Boot disk error
This is more just a general question about troubleshooting, as I think I know the answer already, but the behavior is a little odd so here goes...
I have two 60gb SSDs striped together (for more ...
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Sufficient assurance that defragmentation is disabled in Windows 7?
The vendor documentation for a hybrid SSD/HDD drive says to disable
disk defragmentation because it undermines the algorithms that
determine what portions of the conventional magnetic drive to store ...
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What are the best ways to make use of my SSD's extra capacity? [closed]
I recently bought a new SSD to replace an old one with less capacity. Previously I'd only used the old SSD as a boot/Program Files drive, but only half of the new SSD is taken up by the C:\ partition, ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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Also clone "invisible" partitions on laptop's hard drive?
I wanted to boost my old ASUS U32U laptop by replacing its Hard Drive with an SSD. Under Disk Management I shrank the Boot partition (C:) so it could fit on the new drive. However, I also noted some "...
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Windows WriteFile performance (SSD vs HDD)?
This question is tied to the following observation:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/09dd046e-8127-4550-8e26-5fba7a5a0743/performance-flaw-in-file-system-decreases-writefile-...
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I've had FIVE hard drives die in the past few days. Is it a power surge? Could anything else cause this, and can I trust my other components?
So I had 3 mechanical HDD's (all different), and 2 SSD's (one old, one new-ish)
Timeline:
2015 - 2 weeks ago - Homebuilt system works fine.
8-10 days ago - Multiple power outages during last few ...
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renaming C: after moving Windows 7 64-bit partitions to a SSD and keeping the old HDD
I bought a 500 GB (6-Gbit per second) SATA SSD to move my Windows 7 64-bit partition (and the 100 MB BCD partition) from a HDD. As that HDD has other partitions that I want to keep, the old HDD is not ...
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Make a 2nd hard drive "appear" as part of 1st hard drive's partition
On my Thinkpad laptop, I have a 1TB SSD (main computer's drive):
C:\ ~200 GB (system)
D:\ ~800 GB (documents)
I'm about to add a second internal 1TB SSD (buying a 2TB SSD is currently not an ...
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HDD MBR problems?
So, I installed W10 on an SSD with an HDD also installed. This HDD is WILDLY noisy, so I'm swapping it out for a different, quieter one.
Now, I plug the new HDD in, so there are now three drives and ...
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How to move Win7Pro OEM from HDD to SSD?
This is probably a generic question, but I could not find my specific case anywhere.
I am using hp elitebook 2570p bought from a refurbisher (?). it does NOT have HP recovery manager installed and ...
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Is it worth to delete files from SSD drives in order to free up disk space?
I want to delete many gigabytes of files on my SSD drive in order to free up disk space, so that this free disk space would help to reduce wear of the drive, but, on the other hand, I'm not willing to ...
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Recovery options on Lenovo with combo C: drive
I have a Lenovo Y570 with Windows 7. It recently crashed. It booted into the windows recovery screen. I let it go ahead and try to repair the filesystem and now the system does not boot (says no ...
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Could bad drivers be a reason for bad SSD perfomance?
Lately, I've cloned my HDD to OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD.
I disconnected the HDD and booted from SSD. Then the speed of SSD showed its beauty. But not really, because it took ages to load the Windows....
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