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Can I delete Windows 7 on a hard drive and keep my stuff and then access it on a new Windows 7 on an ssd?
Let's say I have a hard drive with Windows 7 and all my other stuff on it. I later buy a new SSD to put my operating system on it.
Can I delete Windows 7 on the hard drive and keep the rest of my ...
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How to remove the password from an SSD in a HP ProBook?
Apparently someone found it funny to password protect the SSD hard disk of one of our HP ProBook laptops, and now the laptop is unable to boot. Of course the password is unknown to us, but I'd like to ...
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Why sometimes the whole system crashes?
Sometimes when I work with Google Chrome, the whole system suddenly locks and the mouse and keyboard stop working. This usually happens when I'm working with Wampserver. Even once the local database ...
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Can't install Windows 7 on Samsung SM961 M2 NVMe drive but CAN use the drive after installing the OS normally. Why?
As the title suggests, I'm having trouble installing Windows 7 64-bit on a Samsung SM961 M2 SSD drive, via the M2 slot on an Asus X-99 A motherboard.
The drive is visible to the BIOS, but not during ...
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
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I have decided to upgrade my old Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10. I downloaded the ISO file from the official Windows 10 download page as the installation media creation tool did not ...
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Remove Windows 7 bootloader from second drive
I have a Windows 7 installation on a PC with a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD.
I installed the OS on the 128GB SSD but I forgot to remove the 2TB HDD befopre installing Windows 7, so it installed the ...
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M.2 SSD not recognized by Windows 7 Ult installation
I've installed a Crucial M500 480GB SSD in the M.2 slot on an ASRock Z87 Extreme6 motherboard. When I try to install Windows 7 Ult on it, the drive doesn't show; but with diskpart, it shows as drive ...
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mSata m.2 SSD not detected on Windows 7
I have a Dell Latitude laptop. Its motherboard has problem and I cannot use that laptop anymore. I want to recover data from that HDD. It is mSATA SSD by Lite-On IT. I bought an Orico M.2 NGFF ...
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Can Windows 7 OS on harddrive use SSD for prefetch (SuperFetch)?
I have a Windows 7 computer with a primary drive being conventional 1 TB hard drive. I have installed an additional 128 GB SSD which I use to keep some of my frequently used data and applications.
I ...
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Move AppData (via symlink?) to a different drive
I've been looking for ways to move AppData off my SSD but the symlink methods won't work since they attempt to make the link in the folder that my AppData folder is in. Since the folder exists and can'...
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SSD drive prevents Windows 7 from booting
An apparently random recent failure on my Samsung 870 EVO drive is so bad that it seems to be stopping my Windows 7 install from booting when it's plugged in. This drive is my backup drive so my OS ...
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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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Using "clone partition" of DiskGenius to transfer data from HDD to SSD copies nothing
My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) had a broken HDD. So I bought a Samsung SSD (with SATA). I inserted the SSD to my laptop and installed windows-11.
Then I took the SSD out of the laptop and connected it with ...
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How to clone only the Windows 7 system drive C: to new bootable SSD without cloning the data from separate drive F:?
This question is similar to my situation but does not provide a definitive answer:
How can I transfer Windows from a partition of an existing hard drive to a new (smaller) SSD?
It says clone the C: ...
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Video files corruption
A few months ago I copied a lot of video files from my laptop to an external HDD, replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD and copied back those files from external HDD to my SSD.
Now some of the video ...
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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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Samsung laptop can't access the bios
my superior officer using samsung laptop (NT530U3C) and he wants change hdd to ssd.
First, that model has hdd and Windows8. And he wants to change to Windows7.
I think it's start of nightmare.
When ...
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Cannot resize NTFS Partition
A family member recently asked me if I can "make their laptop run fast again".
When analyzing potential problems it was pretty clear that the storage is the biggest concern.
Almost 0% free ...
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"Bad" read error rate for SSD?
My Windows 7 laptop is reporting that
Windows detected a hard disk problem.
Back up your files immediately to prevent information loss,
and then contact computer manufacturer to determine
if you ...
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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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Why does performance of a regular hard drive decrease over the duration of a benchmark while SSD doesn't?
I use HD Tune to measure performance of the hard drive. The tests typically take 2-3 minutes and the transfer rate of a regular hard drive decreases dramatically as the test comes to a close.
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Cloning HDD to SSD but Windows fails to boot
So I've got a laptop with a 300GB HDD which I want to replace for a 120GB SSD. The 300GB HDD will then act as a secondary hard disk. I've tried cloning my hard disk with EaseUS ToDo Backup and EZ GIG ...
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How to transfer just OS (Windows 7) from bigger hdd (1TB) to smaller ssd (240GB)
I want to move just the OS off a bigger HDD to a smaller SSD. My plan is to make the HDD a storage device and the SSD the OS bit to speed up the system and eventually upgrade to windows 10. Please ...
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Is Windows Readyboost with an SSD remotely as fast as a dedicated SSD disk?
I have at home a 1TB disk and a 40GB SSD. I have tried using Windows on the 40GB SSD, but it's just not doable, even when I install everything on the 1TB disk I run out of space.
I am wondering if I ...
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Load Dialog disk access slowdown on Windows 10
TL;DR my hard drive combination is causing load dialogs to take ~6 seconds to load, which is also confirmed via code, and I can't find any relief.
I had Windows 7 for a long time, ignoring 8 entirely....
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2 SSD, 1 HDD, why is second SSD much slower when copying data HDD -> SSD
For nearly 2 years I've been using 250GB SSD for system (drive C), and 500GB HDD for storage (drive D).
Today I added a second SSD (drive E, 1TB) to my PC, so I don't have to keep moving games between ...
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Windows shows smaller size of hard drive after cloning partitions
I upgraded my Windows hard drive, and now have a space problem.
I inserted a new 240GB SSD, used CloneZilla to clone my old 120GB Windows C: drive SSD to this new one, switched the SATA cables, and ...
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First experience with new SSD - slow, resource hog?
I just bought my very first internal SSD and installed it into my desktop PC. I was running out of disk space and want to use it for data storage. The OS is installed on the first disk, which is a ...
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How can I control disk numbering (enumeration) in Windows 7 Disk Management?
A desktop system had two drives (Assigned C and D, which were enumerated in Disk Management as Disk 0 and Disk 1). A new SSD was added as the boot drive, after copying the C drive to the SSD. The SSD ...
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How to discover when HDD/SSD was detached?
I would like to check when was the last time (with date) a particular SSD was detached from my computer (Windows 7).
I know that I can find some information on the registry and on the event log, but I´...
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