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SSD and corrupted master boot record
I have a 120GB INTEL X25-M SSD as the main drive which boots windows 7 (about 2 months old). Recently my pc would hang randomly and boot only in repair mode. No automatic repair or recovery image ...
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SSD Becomes Unbootable after a few Days
As Mr. Atwood wrote this week, I need to come to accept that my SSD will be a little problematic, as seems to be norm for this generation of drives. My motherboard is an X58 Sabertooth, and I'm ...
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BSOD on windows 7 with SSD during boot after improper shutdown
I have a BSOD on windows 7 with SSD during boot after improper shutdown (while windows animation logo is moving). The computer restart imediatly after BSOD, and windows proposes to launch startup ...
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What causes Windows Boot to stall?
For about 6 months now I have been having this weird problem where Windows 7 fails to fully boot correctly. What happens is this.
Starting Windows shows up on the screen.
Then 3 out of 4 times ...
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Should I write the MBR to my SSD?
I'm planning to install a SSD soon, and I want to make sure I get all the boot time benefits. Right now, I have Windows and Ubuntu installed on two separate HDDs. The Windows drive contains the MBR. ...
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large memory: wakeup slower than boot
I've upgraded my Windows 7 machine to 24GB.
As described here, I found out that 24GB of my precious C: SSD were taken for swap file. To solve this, I moved the swap file to my 2TB non SSD E: drive.
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Mac Pro powers down when starting up from SSD
I installed an Intel X25-M SATA 80GB SSD in my Mac Pro.
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
CPU: quad core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 12MB L2 Cache (per processor)
RAM: 6GB
Bus Speed: 1....
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Is a SSD suitable as root disk for an always-on server?
Since an SSD has no moving parts, it seems to me to be perfectly suitable as the root disk of a server that is always on.
Is there any reason that you would suggest not using an SSD for this purpose? ...
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Windows 7 boot animation slows down startup by default?
I just upgraded my HDD to an SSD drive. I am running a completely fresh install and enjoy the short boot time. I tweaked the startup to be as fast as I could by removing unneeded apps and such. Nor am ...
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New SSD, is the MBR broken? DISK BOOT FAILURE
I've been running Windows 7 on a WD 500gb SATA single drive, single partition setup for some time with no issues.
I've just installed a new Kingston V Series 64gb SSD and performed a clean install ...
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What could explain my partitions disappearing on a new SSD with Windows 7?
So this morning, I had a fresh install of Windows 7 pro, on a new SSD (Patriot TorqX 128gb), which I just put in to a new Dell Studio XPS 9000. Everything was fine. I booted to windows, no problem. ...
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