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Video game taking up 4TB of disk space
For context, I do own a 4TB HDD but this game is stored on my 512GB SSD and was running smoothly up until recently. Now my HDD is showing as almost full even though I am still able to store large ...
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Cloning windows to another partition in a different ssd drive [duplicate]
My windows 10 is installed on "Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB" and after checking crystaldiskinfo, it's health is at 1% with 38 tb written. since it's on such a low health I'm planning to clone ...
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SSD/HDD connected to windows10 via usb comes up as readonly but writable in linux
I've bought a new SSD (Acer SA100 480GB MAS0902+3D NAND SATA 2.5 inch). I want to clone my older HDD (running win10) to the SSD. I've also purchased a SATA to USB connector (Cablet 2.5 Inch SATA USB 3....
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
I lived 8 years with HDDs. Every time when there was a power outage, or for whatever reason I had to force-shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy-yet-dangerous restart ...
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How to upgrade my sata hdd 1tb to sata ssd 512gb with the same windows os that is installed? [duplicate]
Constraints:
My laptop has only 1 slot for storage space.
Requirements:
I need the same windows os 10 to be present on the ssd with all the settings and apps without loosing the genuine windows key....
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Dell keeps booting to old SSD
My Dell G5 5590 has a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I bought a Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD, and used Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone from the 250GB to the Evo.
Then, I opened the laptop and installed ...
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Can i change my C drive from my SSD to my HDD?
Like the title says I want to move my OS from my solid-state to my hard drive. Are there any drawbacks to this is don't mind the slower boot speed but will it affect anything else and is it possible ...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
I've recently bought a new SSD and successfully cloned the old HDD and all it's partition to the SSD resulting in a C: and D: drive.
I've added a new boot entry with bcdedit by copying over the ...
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If a hard drive is dying, is it a bad idea to use a backup created by its (Windows 10) OS?
I believe my hard drive (let's call it C1) is dying: chkdsk /f on my C drive freezes/locks the process at a certain %. A few months ago I ran this process successfully and it found and fixed errors. ...
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Copying user folder from a crashed Windows 11 laptop
I had a Windows 11 laptop that crashed. I had some very important files in my user-folder. So I left the laptop to an Italian computer shop and they removed the internal SSD hard drive and copied the ...
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How to replace dual boot HDD with SSD?
I have a Dell Inspiron 5567 that came with mechanical HDD of 1 TB that has Dual boot (W10 and MX Linux) for which I want to change to a SSD (they told me that is faster, I don't know in which ...
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Cannot read uncached files from SSD
I have an NVMe SSD drive for games and some files.
Sometimes the drive just stops giving previously unread files - any files I used today are still there and games continue running until they have to ...
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Windows 10 not recognizing my second NVME drive
I recently installed a second NVME SSD drive and can't get Windows to recognize it. My setup looks like this:
System: AsRock X470 Taichi, Ryzen 5 2600X CPU
C: - 250 GB Samsung 970
EVO (M2_1 slot)
D: ...
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Windows on a SSD recognized on one computer but not on another
A friend of mine asked me to install Windows on his new SSD. I use a dual boot system, with Ubuntu and Windows 10. I made a bootable flash USB of W10 so I could install it on his SSD, connected to my ...
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Change boot system from Legacy > UEFI and set hard disk from MBT > GPT
There are many questions I need someone can help me answer it. Let me explain first... Longtime ago, my laptop only have 1 HDD and 1 CD-Drive. I have been using around 3 years, and my hard disk is ...
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I cloned my old boot drive to a new SSD and deleted a partition. Now I cannot boot from either drive
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I cloned the contents of my old (boot/OS) SSD to a new SSD. I then attempted (and failed) to edit the contents of the new SSD, and this has made me unable to boot from either drive.
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?
I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every ...
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What happens when a file in the D: drive that is larger than the free space in the C: drive is deleted?
So imagine there is 100MB of free space in the C: drive, where the recycle bin is held. If I want to delete a file that is 1GB located in the D: drive, what happens? Is the recycle bin like any other ...
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Dual Boot on different SSD, I want my 2 HDDs to be assigned to different 2 OS each when I boot one OS
I am trying to create two environments. I want both OS to be Windows 10. One OS on one SSD and a second on another SSD.
One SSD will be for Games and the other for Work. I have two HDDs. I want to ...
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Is BitLocker safe to use on SSDs and can't we unlock the drive on other Operating Systems? [closed]
I am already using BitLocker and have already encrypted my PC SSD and HDD and even thinking of encrypting all my external drives with BitLocker. But today I read this article from DiskCryptor and I ...
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How can I change Windows 10 drive letter assignments outside a full load of the OS?
I have the following disks:
C: SSD, disk 1, boot disk
D: HDD, disk 3, partition 1
E: HDD, disk 3, partition 2
F:, G:, H:, I: HDD, disk 2, partitions 1-4
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Computer hardware
I have question related SSD. My laptop is HDD, Window 10 . I need to download a IDE which is not working in my laptop and it is continually hanging, when I asked my teacher he said this IDE will work ...
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Disk usage spikes to 100% on windows
I recently bought a new laptop. Its Acer Nitro 5 with Intel Core i5-11400H @2.70GHz, GeForce GTX 1650, 16GB RAM and 700 GB SSD.
I manually installed windows on it by myself and used Microsoft ...
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Hdd Showing Only few Minutes in windows 10
I have SSD, HDD installed and HDD in the caddy, SSD has an os that boots the system. when I turn on the laptop I get all the partitions in the hard drive and SSD after 1 minute it only shows SSD. any ...
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Ssd usage shows 100 percent for 0.1 Mb/s
I have searched this question a lot but all were saying, need to upgrade to ssd. But I have m.2 ssd and I have that problem, I also have two hdd connected to sata, primary os is in ssd. 100 disk ...
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Make Windows wake up from SSD before HDDs do
I have a PC running Windows 10 and all the programs off an NVME SSD, with two additional HDDs for storing media and other files. When the PC wakes up from sleep, I hear HDDs spinning up and then it ...
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NVME SSD disappears from BIOS during Windows operation, but never on BIOS load
I have an SSD (ADATA SX6000LNP) which contains a full-disk C: partition for Windows 10 and is installed in an NVME slot on the motherboard (ASRock X370 Pro4 with P6.30 UEFI). I also have an old HDD as ...
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How do I format a Hiveos drive to instead be used by Windows 10?
I had an 870 EVO SSD running Hiveos and now I want to install Windows on it. I tried doing so but the Windows installation media wouldn't let me select the drive to use it, I forget what the error was,...
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SSD not recognized in bios after Ubuntu crash
I install zorin os on my hdd but due to some mistakes my hdd crashed along with zorin...when I bought a new SSD and replace it my ssd is not being detected..and my battery light keeps blinking...I ...
