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Harddrive disappearing intermittenly
Thanks in advance for helping
I am currently facing a problem with my hard drive that I had for over two years now. It is a WD green 3TB running on windows 7 as a secondary to a Samsung SSD that have ...
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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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Can I remove this "SSD Partition" from my hard disk storage?
My disk partitions are like this:
C is an SSD with the OS. D is an SSD with my User files on it, and H is a HHD for all other files that is, storage.
C is the boot drive, installed a fresh copy of ...
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SSD drive keeps filling up
For some reason my 120GB SSD keeps filling up dramatically, sometimes so much so I only have 7GB left. Currently I have 17GB left which is still a low amount. I've only installed the OS and a few ...
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Blinking white cursor while booting
I have a Dell Studio XPS desktop PC. Previously, I had a 600GB SATA hard drive with a working installation of Windows 7. I just bought a Crucial M4 128GB SSD and put it in my computer. I then backed ...
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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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New PC with new and old drives
so I ordered parts for a new PC that should arrive soon and here's the situation :
I want to transfer two drives with data on them from a non-working pc running windows 7 to a new computer that will ...
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How to make sure you are getting the most out of your SSD?
Just got my hands on a 60gb OCZ Vertex 2 SSD - Claims to have 285/275 write and read speeds. However when testing with AS SSD Benchmark im getting about 140/90.
System:
Windows 7 32-Bit
60gb SSD - ...
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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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What is the proper use setup for an SSD?
We had our new computers at work pre-built, as none of us were computer experts.
We didn't notice this today, but Win7 came installed on the SSD - i.e. the SSD was C:\ drive. So, when we installed ...
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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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Windows 8 License Transfer on a Toshiba Laptop [duplicate]
So a friend of mine recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite C855. The computer comes with Windows 8 pre-installed on a 5400 RPM SATA disk.
I had my friend purchase a 240GB SSD that I was planning ...
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Problems with Windows 7 and HD
I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA hard drives.
One day I got a BSOD and my PC restarted. After that the following error appeared:
Windows Boot Manager
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HDD(storage) partitions and new OS
Okay, to my understanding.. considering this is how I have my PC set up:
SSD [contains Windows 7 and program installations]
HDD 2TB [solely storage, and split into two partitions, one being 100GB ...
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Will Windows XP work on a Hybrid Hard Drive?
I'm looking into getting the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive, and I'm planning on dual booting between Windows 7 and Windows XP. I know 7 and Vista have native support for taking advantage of ...
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