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How can I move the page file to another physical disk location?
I would like to know exact instructions for moving the page file from 1 disk location to another disk in Windows 7. I.e. from an SSD to a non-SSD drive.
I've spent about two hours searching - Google,...
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How can I move or force a program installation to another location, even when unsupported?
I have an SSD as my main Windows drive, with a 640GB 2.5" HDD, partitioned to store programs and user settings, and also to act as backup (it's the only thing I had lying around at the time of ...
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Can a 'system image' be restored to a drive with a different storage capacity?
I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, and found that the hard drive was at ...
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Why does performance of a regular hard drive decrease over the duration of a benchmark while SSD doesn't?
I use HD Tune to measure performance of the hard drive. The tests typically take 2-3 minutes and the transfer rate of a regular hard drive decreases dramatically as the test comes to a close.
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Dual Boot Windows 7 + Linux on 2 separate SSD + Data HDD
I'm about to build myself a new machine (to replace my old Celeron, yes you can laugh :P) and I want to be able to dual boot on Windows 7 (mostly for games) and Linux (development/programing). I'm a ...
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running low on disk space
I am using Windows 7 installed on a 120 Gb SSD.
Today I have noticed, that there is only 2GB of free space left on it, so I started to clean things up.
I realized that only my user profile takes ...
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Does Windows 7 actually defragment an SSD drive if you tell it to?
Defragmenting an SSD drive is a bad idea and Windows 7 is (should be?) smart enough not to schedule defragmentation on such drives.
However, I've opened up Disk Defragmenter on my system and found, ...
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Change Recycling Bin Location
I have a SSD as a primary hard drive, and one HDD for storage. I want the recycling bin to be on the HDD. I want is so that even if I delete files from the SSD the end up on the HDD's recycling bin. ...
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Steps of manual HDD to SSD migration
Ok, I want to do a "paranoid" migration from a a HDD to a SSD. There will be no shrinking involved.
For the moment this is what I know/have:
Connect SSD and create an 1MB aligned partition, at least ...
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SSD drive filled up in drive D - mysterious file usage
This is from my thinkpad t450s which has a Samsung 240GB SSD. It has been running fine (and still is). But I suddenly noticed one morning that my D: drive had filled up overnight. This is a surprise ...
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
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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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Hard Drive Remaining Space Not Matching up With Current Space
my hard drive is reported to have 65GB left out of a possible 223GB, however running WinDirStat and doing it via Windows, the hard drive only has about 60GB of used space. Where has the other 150GB of ...
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Reinstalling a fresh Windows 7 on a SSD while its original HDD version was upgraded to Windows 10 [duplicate]
Many posts around that subject, but this case is a bit specific (I think) since it's not about a migration nor a cloning.
Initially Windows 7 on a 500GB HDD (OEM)
then upgrade to Windows 10 (offered ...
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Windows shows smaller size of hard drive after cloning partitions
I upgraded my Windows hard drive, and now have a space problem.
I inserted a new 240GB SSD, used CloneZilla to clone my old 120GB Windows C: drive SSD to this new one, switched the SATA cables, and ...
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Load Dialog disk access slowdown on Windows 10
TL;DR my hard drive combination is causing load dialogs to take ~6 seconds to load, which is also confirmed via code, and I can't find any relief.
I had Windows 7 for a long time, ignoring 8 entirely....
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