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File showing permission denied [closed]
While changing Windows from HDD to SSD, I accidentally deleted the 500MB disk that contains some HDD Windows files. Now after installation of Windows onto a SSD. I tried to open some Word files, that ...
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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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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
Introduction
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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How to resolve Hard disk failure with new external SSD
BIOS Boot Order
I have an error message on startup (SMART Hard Disk Error has detected an imminent failure, run the Hard Disk test in systems diagnostics). I can't even get to the login screen. I have ...
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