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Can i Install an operating system in SSD?
I have only 250GB SSD in my laptop. There are already 2 OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Now I want to install kali Linux. Obviously I can't install it in this condition of my laptop. So I decided to Buy new ...
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What will be the best to increase the speed of the computer i.e. RAM should be increased or SSD should be installed in the computer [closed]
I have Dell,i5 laptop 7th generation windows and I am a android developer and we know android studio requires a lot of memory. So, to increase the working speed of my computer what should be done. I ...
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What is the best partitioning and its sizes for SSD, to contain everything related to Mint 19.1 [closed]
++ For a Laptop, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, USB2, with Win7.
++ To install Linux Mint 19.1, with a dual boot with Win7.
++ In the case of installing Linux Mint 19.1, on a 120GB SSD, mounted in a Caddy DVD.
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Is there a way to fixing my slow computer without SSD, Lightweight Linux. and RAM and CPU upgrade?
I start a my old acer veriton m420 computer. and now open chrome on windows 7 computer. it slow for 1 minutes. and then page unresponsive.
I have tried:
Uninstall unused programs. (AP)
Delete ...
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Windows 7 and Linux fedora do not recognize my Samsung 850 evo SSD, but the BIOS does
A few days ago I got a blue screen in windows, and my system restarted. After that, when I try to turn on my computer, the ASUS logo stays up for a long time (like 2-3 minutes) and then goes into a ...
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Removing User Accounts in Linux Mint/Windows 7
I am preparing a laptop for sale. Instead of wiping the whole drive, I just want to delete the personal information I have. I have an ssd by the way with TRIM support so even if I delete the files ...
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SSD is recognized by linux liveUSB but not by Windows on Asus G73JW laptop
I have an Asus G73JW laptop, which has two hard drive slots. In the first slot, I have a HDD containing Windows 7. In the second slot, I just inserted an SSD (OCZ Vertex 4) with linux formatting that ...
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How to to boot Linux from external USB SSD drive, attached to Windows 7 machine?
Is there way to boot Linux from external USB SSD drive, attached to Windows 7 machine?(without altering or modification the Windows Boot Configuration Data(BCD)) The same way as boot with bootable ...
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RAID Configuration 'seen' through
I have a RAID0 (striped) configuration with the following:
64GB SSD
128GB SSD
640GB HDD
I'm turning my PC into a hackintosh, and the installer loaded properly, BUT
The installer saw the individual ...
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Properly aligning partitions for Linux on a 1536KiB Erase Block SSD
Attempting to set up dual boot Windows 7 and Arch Linux.
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD.
Erase Block Size: 1536KiB. Sectors: 3072 (512 * 3072 = 1572864 = 1024 * 1536)
This appears to be straightforward ...
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Windows (7 or 8) does not detect SSD during installation, Linux does
Since a few days I'm trying to install Windows (tried 7 and 8) on a new SSD (Crucial M550). However, the disk is not listed in the target device selection, nor is it listet when using diskpart -> list ...
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Cloning Linux and Windows from two separate disks to a single SSD
Backstory TL;DR: cloned OpenSUSE from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sdc1, Windows 7 from /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdc2; formatted /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb1; reconfigured GRUB2 and installed it on /dev/sdc; OpenSUSE loads, ...
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Setting up dual-boot on 1 drive and storage partitions for 2 drives
I have a 120GB SSD and a 2TB HDD.
I want to install Windows 7 Ultimate and Linux (Ubuntu) on the SSD, split it by 60gb each or however close to evenly as possible.
Then the storage HDD I want to ...
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How to unmark an NTFS cluster as bad?
How do I unmark clusters as bad in NTFS?
Background
I mistakenly ran
>chkdsk /R
on my SSD, where
/R: Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F)
/F: Fixes errors on ...
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How can I fix an inconsistent NTFS file system without Windows?
I have a Dell laptop that came with Windows from the factory. Since then, I have installed Linux and replaced the hard drive with an SSD. The NTFS partition is inconsistent (a result of bad sectors on ...
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