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Trouble running Windows
I was given an old PC that was upgraded a little (not that much) about half an year ago. Said PC suddenly had some fuzzy image, rebooted and went to a state where it couldn't load it's Windows (8) and ...
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Problems building a new AMD A10-7850K based PC
I'm not sure where to start, there seem to be several issues with this build. I'll run down the specs first. That should be a good start.
Specification
mobo: ASUS A88X-PLUS FM2+ AMD A88X FCH
CPU: ...
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What is faster: SSD (OS) + HDD (data) versus 2x HDD as RAID 0 stripe?
I will mostly be working with Autocad Software, Photoshop and maybe some other design software (architecture).
I will have a Quadro FX graphics card for rendering. So I am not so much interested in ...
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Samsung840 SSD install alongside using/used windows 7 HDD, Migration software made new drives, how do I tell which is which physical drive?
I started with my HDD and have windows and a few programs on it, and bought a new Samsung SSD the 840 Pro.
Initially as usual I had my C:/ drive, Windows everything was there. The Data Migration CD ...
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Dual Boot Windows 7 + Linux on 2 separate SSD + Data HDD
I'm about to build myself a new machine (to replace my old Celeron, yes you can laugh :P) and I want to be able to dual boot on Windows 7 (mostly for games) and Linux (development/programing). I'm a ...
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Cloning Windows from HDD to SSD with Ubuntu
I wanted to clone my Windows 7 from an 60GB HDD to a 250GB SSD.
I put the SSD on SATA3, booted Ubuntu from a USB flash driver, cloned in GParted via cCopy/paste and flagged the partition bootable.
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Dual boot with HDD and SSD
On my desktop PC I've got an HDD with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Ubuntu was installed second after Windows 7, and GRUB lets me choose between the two OSs.
A short time ago, I bought an SSD. I installed ...
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How to find whether my hard disk is HDD or SSD [duplicate]
Where is it written that my hard disk is SSD or HDD?
I have tried searching:
msinfo32
Device Manager
Disk Management
I need to to see the words solid state drive or hard disk drive in Windows 7.
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Can't partition my SSD because of an immovable object
I wanted to dual-boot arch with win 10, but I can't shrink my partition because of the file further down. I've searched the internet and found that it has to do something with Intel's Software Guard, ...
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SSD Speed Half As Expected
I have bought a SSD recently. I have checked its speed with several software but speed is only half as expected.
SSD is installed on SATA 3/6Gb/s and company informed SSD speed is about 550MB/s but ...
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Moving VM from hard drive to SSD
A hard drive was replaced with a much faster SSD. The contents of the hard drive, including a Windows 7 VM for VMware Workstation were copied over. Is there anything that must be done so the VM and ...
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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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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?
I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Internal Disk randomly becomes unmounted on Windows 7
I have several hard disks in my rig. C: is an SSD, so is D:. E: and T: are both HDDs. The issue I described in the title exists with D: (and only with D:). Sometimes, when I boot up my computer, it is ...
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Fix BSOD error 0x7B without reinstallation
I recently upgraded my machine from a z87 platform to an X99 platform (specifically the Asus x99 Deluxe + 5930k), and when I went to transfer my old SSD containing Windows 7 Pro x64 to the new build, (...
