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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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How to solve boot in Laptop/Notebook after cloning Windows 7 64bits OEM from HDD to SDD?
I have cloned my HDD to SSD. The files can be seen when the SSD is plugged in as external device, but the SSD itself will not boot.
My original system:
Laptop Acer Aspire 5733-6432
Windows 7 64 bits (...
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"No Device Drivers Found" when trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD
I am trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD, but I have been getting "No Device Drivers Found" after I click "Install Windows." I have been using this guide for many years and have ...
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mSata m.2 SSD not detected on Windows 7
I have a Dell Latitude laptop. Its motherboard has problem and I cannot use that laptop anymore. I want to recover data from that HDD. It is mSATA SSD by Lite-On IT. I bought an Orico M.2 NGFF ...
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Can't partition my SSD because of an immovable object
I wanted to dual-boot arch with win 10, but I can't shrink my partition because of the file further down. I've searched the internet and found that it has to do something with Intel's Software Guard, ...
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SSD Speed Half As Expected
I have bought a SSD recently. I have checked its speed with several software but speed is only half as expected.
SSD is installed on SATA 3/6Gb/s and company informed SSD speed is about 550MB/s but ...
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Moving VM from hard drive to SSD
A hard drive was replaced with a much faster SSD. The contents of the hard drive, including a Windows 7 VM for VMware Workstation were copied over. Is there anything that must be done so the VM and ...
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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?
I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Internal Disk randomly becomes unmounted on Windows 7
I have several hard disks in my rig. C: is an SSD, so is D:. E: and T: are both HDDs. The issue I described in the title exists with D: (and only with D:). Sometimes, when I boot up my computer, it is ...
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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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SSD upgrade with adapter for HP ProBook 450 G3
Since I am not quite familiar with the insides of laptops I do need some help and so far my own research is far from conclusive.
I have a SSD drive:
Intel Solid-State Drive 660p Series - Solid state ...
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SSD read-write failure with large amounts of data
The software I am using sometimes requires, say, up to 36 hours of constant read-write (at max SATA II speed due to motherboard requirements) and CPU processing with a few gigabytes of program ...
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Non-system-disk error on Windows 7/10 restart
I have a very specific error with an HP Elitebook 8540w notebook into which I have recently upgraded the hard drive, from a Crucial 500GB drive to a Samsung 1TB SSD.
Via booting to a Ubuntu 14 live ...
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Windows 7 freezing occasionally, Windows update or SSD issue?
I recently switched to an SSD drive (as my OS drive) which has been working fine for about 2 months now.
Now last week there was a Windows update, after that update, I noticed that Windows would ...
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BitLocker-encrypting a 1 TB SSD: will it be long and/or bad for the SSD's health? Can I stop the process in the meantime?
I'm about to encrypt my D:\ partition (containing my documents) with BitLocker, so that if someone removes the disk (in case of theft) and takes it to another computer, it will be unreadable.
D:\ is ...
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How to remove the password from an SSD in a HP ProBook?
Apparently someone found it funny to password protect the SSD hard disk of one of our HP ProBook laptops, and now the laptop is unable to boot. Of course the password is unknown to us, but I'd like to ...
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New system drive boots fine but issues with Win7 backup, etc
I've decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas about this before I go any further.
Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a ...
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SSD Boot disk error
This is more just a general question about troubleshooting, as I think I know the answer already, but the behavior is a little odd so here goes...
I have two 60gb SSDs striped together (for more ...
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Sufficient assurance that defragmentation is disabled in Windows 7?
The vendor documentation for a hybrid SSD/HDD drive says to disable
disk defragmentation because it undermines the algorithms that
determine what portions of the conventional magnetic drive to store ...
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What are the best ways to make use of my SSD's extra capacity? [closed]
I recently bought a new SSD to replace an old one with less capacity. Previously I'd only used the old SSD as a boot/Program Files drive, but only half of the new SSD is taken up by the C:\ partition, ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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Also clone "invisible" partitions on laptop's hard drive?
I wanted to boost my old ASUS U32U laptop by replacing its Hard Drive with an SSD. Under Disk Management I shrank the Boot partition (C:) so it could fit on the new drive. However, I also noted some "...
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Windows WriteFile performance (SSD vs HDD)?
This question is tied to the following observation:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/09dd046e-8127-4550-8e26-5fba7a5a0743/performance-flaw-in-file-system-decreases-writefile-...
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I've had FIVE hard drives die in the past few days. Is it a power surge? Could anything else cause this, and can I trust my other components?
So I had 3 mechanical HDD's (all different), and 2 SSD's (one old, one new-ish)
Timeline:
2015 - 2 weeks ago - Homebuilt system works fine.
8-10 days ago - Multiple power outages during last few ...
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renaming C: after moving Windows 7 64-bit partitions to a SSD and keeping the old HDD
I bought a 500 GB (6-Gbit per second) SATA SSD to move my Windows 7 64-bit partition (and the 100 MB BCD partition) from a HDD. As that HDD has other partitions that I want to keep, the old HDD is not ...
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Make a 2nd hard drive "appear" as part of 1st hard drive's partition
On my Thinkpad laptop, I have a 1TB SSD (main computer's drive):
C:\ ~200 GB (system)
D:\ ~800 GB (documents)
I'm about to add a second internal 1TB SSD (buying a 2TB SSD is currently not an ...
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HDD MBR problems?
So, I installed W10 on an SSD with an HDD also installed. This HDD is WILDLY noisy, so I'm swapping it out for a different, quieter one.
Now, I plug the new HDD in, so there are now three drives and ...
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How to move Win7Pro OEM from HDD to SSD?
This is probably a generic question, but I could not find my specific case anywhere.
I am using hp elitebook 2570p bought from a refurbisher (?). it does NOT have HP recovery manager installed and ...
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Is it worth to delete files from SSD drives in order to free up disk space?
I want to delete many gigabytes of files on my SSD drive in order to free up disk space, so that this free disk space would help to reduce wear of the drive, but, on the other hand, I'm not willing to ...
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Recovery options on Lenovo with combo C: drive
I have a Lenovo Y570 with Windows 7. It recently crashed. It booted into the windows recovery screen. I let it go ahead and try to repair the filesystem and now the system does not boot (says no ...
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Could bad drivers be a reason for bad SSD perfomance?
Lately, I've cloned my HDD to OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD.
I disconnected the HDD and booted from SSD. Then the speed of SSD showed its beauty. But not really, because it took ages to load the Windows....
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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Fresh SSD whilst keeping HDD for storage
I am planning on updating from an HDD only system to a SSD (OS + Applications) + HDD (Larger storage of files and some Applications).
I currently have an HDD with Windows 7 on it, but am going to ...
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Windows 7 Disk Cleanup deleted 30GB of temp files but only recovered 10GB of disk space?
Windows 7 was reporting I had 9.49 GB space free on my primary C: (SSD) drive:
Windows Disk Cleanup reported I had 28.1 GB of "Temporary files" that could be deleted to get this space back (together ...
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Recover windows 7 from SSD after HDD fails
The title sounds strange, but let me explain it. I have Windows 7 installed on a SSD and the System Reserved partition on the HDD (I don't know why I did this or if the Windows setup did it). Suddenly ...
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Windows 10 doesn't recognize my 2nd hard drive
I have Windows 7 in a SSD, a 1 TB WD Blue hard drive and another SSD with Windows 10. I physically swap between win7 SSD and win10 ssd whenever I want to switch to another OS.
The Win10 does not ...
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Motherboard makes a beeping sound when hard drives are accessed
I have a total of 5 drives, 4 internal, 1 external. My system drive (C) is a solid state drive, the rest are HDDs. The external drive and the internal SSD are both fine. However, when I access (read, ...
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