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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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Windows Thinks Internal Hard Drive Is Removable
I have an SSD and a HDD on Windows 10 Home prebuilt desktop PC. Windows is on the Samsung SSD. My internal Toshiba HDD shows up as removable:
I am trying to make this no longer be the case, without ...
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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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Windows Bitlocker - Two/Multiple drives with TPM
I have a Windows 10 laptop with two drives: an HDD that I use to store my data, and an SSD where the OS is stored allong with programs I use more frequently/require more performance.
I use Bitlocker ...
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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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Two Windows OS choices at boot; how to remove one?
I have added a SSD to improve the performance of my laptop. I replaced the existing HDD with SSD in the main slot and then replaced my optical drive with the HDD. Then I did a clean install of Windows ...
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Disk Optimization not available in Disk Defrag of Windows 10
I have 2 SSDs that have the Disk Optimization not available error.
Tried everything with defrag commands and SATA/motherboard drivers. Nothing worked.
I wanted to share how I fixed this.
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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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Dual boot on SSD and HDD (Windows 10 and Ubuntu)
I have an Acer Aspire S3 (20GB SSD and ~500GB HDD) and I want to install Windows 10 on the SSD while creating a ~400GB partion on the HDD for windows. I would use the other 100GB on the HDD to install ...
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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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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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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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Trying to Clone Hard Drive to SSD Using a Third Hard Drive
I've recently purchased a Samsung 870 EVO SSD to replace the HDD inside my laptop. To clone the drive inside my laptop to the SSD, I found that I can purchase a SATA to USB cable to facilitate the ...
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Should I worry about high ssd temperature?
I am using a new ssd and I installed CrystalDiskInfo, it shows good as health status but the temperature is very high it is 95 degree C. Should I worry about that and how can I solve this problem?
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