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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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Fresh SSD whilst keeping HDD for storage
I am planning on updating from an HDD only system to a SSD (OS + Applications) + HDD (Larger storage of files and some Applications).
I currently have an HDD with Windows 7 on it, but am going to ...
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Windows 7 Disk Cleanup deleted 30GB of temp files but only recovered 10GB of disk space?
Windows 7 was reporting I had 9.49 GB space free on my primary C: (SSD) drive:
Windows Disk Cleanup reported I had 28.1 GB of "Temporary files" that could be deleted to get this space back (together ...
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Recover windows 7 from SSD after HDD fails
The title sounds strange, but let me explain it. I have Windows 7 installed on a SSD and the System Reserved partition on the HDD (I don't know why I did this or if the Windows setup did it). Suddenly ...
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Windows 10 doesn't recognize my 2nd hard drive
I have Windows 7 in a SSD, a 1 TB WD Blue hard drive and another SSD with Windows 10. I physically swap between win7 SSD and win10 ssd whenever I want to switch to another OS.
The Win10 does not ...
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Motherboard makes a beeping sound when hard drives are accessed
I have a total of 5 drives, 4 internal, 1 external. My system drive (C) is a solid state drive, the rest are HDDs. The external drive and the internal SSD are both fine. However, when I access (read, ...
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Moving Windows 7 and boot partition from a SSD to a HDD without formatting the HDD
I’m having some disk issues and I would really appreciate your help. I’ll try to be as precise as possible, however, if any additional information is needed, please let me know and I´ll fetch it asap!
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Reinstalling a fresh Windows 7 on a SSD while its original HDD version was upgraded to Windows 10 [duplicate]
Many posts around that subject, but this case is a bit specific (I think) since it's not about a migration nor a cloning.
Initially Windows 7 on a 500GB HDD (OEM)
then upgrade to Windows 10 (offered ...
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Change SATA mode to AHCI before reinstalling Windows on new drive - possible lose of data on non raid drive?
Currently I've got 5 HDD connected to my PC: 1 is the OS drive, 2 are connected into raid0 volume0, 2 are connected into raid0 volume1 (the volume numbers might be wrong, I'm writing this from memory, ...
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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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Windows 7 Clone HDD to SSD – System unstable issue
I have seen many questions about Windows crashes after changing to SSD, but none that explain my issue.
In the last week I have replaced Graphics card, RAM and now added an SSD.
I have
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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Windows 7 Internet Explorer cannot start
I have a 128GB SSD with Windows 7 installed. But I can't always install programs and games on that drive so I changed the Program Files location from C:\ (SSD) drive to D:\ (SATA) drive.
Everything's ...
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adding SSD drive to HDD with OS [closed]
I have an older laptop that needs some performance help. I currently have a 500 gb drive with Win 7 and Recoery Partition. The computer has a COA. I'm looking to purchase a smaller SSD drive, probably ...
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How to clone an freezed SSD to another SSD? [closed]
I have a system running Windows 7 OS, with many programs. It's frozen by deep freeze. The old SSD is 120GB and the new one is 120GB as well. I tried a raw copy program to clone it. But it didn't clone ...
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