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How can I move the page file to another physical disk location?
I would like to know exact instructions for moving the page file from 1 disk location to another disk in Windows 7. I.e. from an SSD to a non-SSD drive.
I've spent about two hours searching - Google,...
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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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Can a 'system image' be restored to a drive with a different storage capacity?
I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, and found that the hard drive was at ...
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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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Does Windows 7 actually defragment an SSD drive if you tell it to?
Defragmenting an SSD drive is a bad idea and Windows 7 is (should be?) smart enough not to schedule defragmentation on such drives.
However, I've opened up Disk Defragmenter on my system and found, ...
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Is it a good idea to have the operating system on a solid state drive?
There is something I don't quite understand. I know a SSD helps with OS load times, but I'm not sure if all this boost is only noticeable/interesting when booting, or gives an all around considerably ...
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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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(solved) Mysterious and frequent activity on secondary disk, event when offline in Disk Management
Update (solved) The sound was coming from my speakers, that's all there is to it. While I go to cringe in a small hole for a few weeks I'd like to thank (and beg forgiveness from) everybody who took ...
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Can a Military-Grade wipe harm an SSD?
I recently sold my 128GB Crucial M4 SSD (I have a much larger capacity OCZ SSD, which is faster), and need to wipe the drive.
I know that the 'toughest' wipe that can be done is a 35 zero-write ...
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My hard drive doesn't show up on my computer after I have installed windows 7
I have just installed windows 7 on my computer and on the install I was able to choose my two hard drives both my samsung and my ssd , I choosed my samsung and it installed without errors. But now ...
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SSD upgrade underperforming
I upgraded my Windows 7 PC from a Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI HDD to a SanDisk Pulse SDSSDP-128G-G25 SSD but, unlike seemingly everyone else in the world, I have never noticed a performance ...
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Moving Windows 7 to an SSD
I've done some research and the most common answer seems to be to just reinstall Windows, but I really want to avoid that.
I'm attempting to move my Win7 install, including applications, documents, ...
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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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can Windows 7 clone the OS HDD to new SSD?
can Windows 7 clone the OS HDD to new SSD?
i.e have a new SSD to introduce for the main OS in my windows 7 PC, and it is of a different size to my existing HDD...
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Whole working Windows 7 partition (on SSD) suddenly became "Unallocated Disk Space"
I have an HP 2540p with Windows 7 installed on a Plextor M3 SSD that sits in the upgrade drive bay (that used to house a DVD drive). The system has been working fine for months until this morning when ...
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