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Is the Lenovo U430 Touch Model a 64 bit or 32 bit processor?

Is the Lenovo model U430 touchscreen come with a 32 or a 64 bit processor?
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What should I do first? Add more ram or upgrade windows?

So hi, I have a Windows 7 Home premium 32-bit with 2GB ram and Core i5,(I've had this since 2015) and I want to add a 4GB ram to it because it started getting slower. I know that 32-bit OS won't fully ...
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Can I trust an SSD drive which failed suddenly [closed]

Recently I had a 250GB SSD, Windows 10 system drive fail suddenly. When I looked for it using Acronis Disk Director it listed it a undefined and that no data could be recovered from it. OK, now I ...
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Will any damage occur if I remove or plug in a device to SATA port with computer switched on?

Is it likely that there would be any physical damage if I did this: First I removed a hard drive from a SATA port but still had the power supply pluged in to my hard drive. I turned my computer on. ...
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Win 10 Home - change drive for System Volume Information

I have several external hard drives and I wish to move a System Volume Information folder from Drive G to Drive F, however that is being prevented by system protection. Any attempt to Delete, Move or ...
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Creating a Linux installation on external SSD with both 32 and 64 bit boot options

So, my old 60G SSD now lives in an external USB enclosure. I want to install Linux in it, but I want to have the option to run on older hardware if necessary, so I would like to have both 32 and 64-...
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Can't boot 64-bit iso images?

My friend ordered a new hard disk recently and asked me, if I could put them in and then install new Windows 10 on them. Everything went OK, except for installing Windows. When I tried to install 32-...
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Weird disk name after restart in Windows 7

Just hit a restart after 24-days-and-something uptime of my Windows 7 x64 based laptop and at boot time saw "Installing device driver software" systray message, then got "You must restart your ...
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Upgrading to a 64 bit computer

I used a 32 bit computer with a 32 bit version of windows 7 until very recently, when the motherboard failed. I purchased a new computer, which is 64 bit. I would like to use my harddrive from my old ...
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Can I use an asus MB with a sata 5-port multiplier?

I have an Asus M5A99FX Pro R.2 and all the available SATA ports are being used. From the user manual of the MB it seems it uses the AMD Chipset 990FX/SB950 (see picture below), yet even after reading ...
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Instead of Disk, may just BURN my computer [closed]

I have an old HP Compaq 6710B laptop which ran XP-PRO-SP3 32bit (x86) as sole OS. It has an un-bootable 160gb HDD and a HP (2008) Model No.UJ-861 HHC-A DVD=RW Drive. I also have a Dell Latitude E6430 ...
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As a Windows 7 x64 user with a 4TB GPT-initialised disk, why is it showing as 1677.90GB?

I have a new 4TB internal hard drive that I would like to use solely for data. I am using the popular (but old) Intel BAD AXE 2 (D975XBX) motherboard, Windows 7 x64 and a GPT-initialised disk that is ...
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HDD activity causes lag

Whenever there is activity on the main HDD, my PC starts to lag. Most noticeably, the audio starts to stutter and slow down, and the fps in games drops by over 50%. It gets worse as hard drive ...
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dvd drive stopped working in windows 8 64 bit

I have a lenovo ideapad y510p windows 8 64 bit for one year. The optical drive is a matshita dvd ram uj8db by panasonic with the latest driver installed It suddenly stopped reading cds and dvds. ...
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Possible corrupted userprofile

I think my user profile is corrupted. When I log in, my desktop goes black and all my icons on desktop and shortcuts on the taskbar are gone. Did system restore several times, but I don't think it ...
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