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How to clone a Windows 10 dell onto an SSD
I've recently bought a Dell Inspiron 3650, and would like to clone the disk onto a samsung SSD I have bought for it, in order to speed up boot times etc.
Samsung provide a clone tool called "Samsung ...
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Is "compress OS Drive" worth it on SSD?
My SSD is running out of disk space, and I see that "Compress your OS drive" is suggested as a means to save some disk space.
My questions:
I'm not sure whether there are any performance penalty ...
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Windows 10 Eating up Disk Space
I recently upgraded to Windows 10. It's been a pretty rocky road thus far. My current issue is Windows 10 keeps using up my SSD's disk space until it has none left and then complains I have no space ...
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Installed a new SSD, Windows still boots from the old one
I recently got a new 1TB SSD for my computer (a Lenovo ThinkPad P70). My plan is to have this disk as the main Windows 10 boot drive, and keep the old one (500GB) as a secondary drive.
I didn't want ...
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Internal hard drives showing as removable in Windows 10
My internal drives are showing for some reason as removable in windows (one is SSD and the other is an HDD) in Windows 10 Pro.
I read somewhere this can affect performance.
Why is this? Is this ...
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How to make my old hard drive non-bootable?
Frequently my BIOS for some reason tries to boot to my old hard drive instead of my new SSD. This is starting to get very annoying have to switch hard drive priorities every time I restart my computer....
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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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Spanning volume disk usage
I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.
Will the first disk ...
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Can I move windows 10 from external hdd to internal ssd?
I want to install the old windows version on my laptop instead of the cracked version which is installed now, the old version is in the external hard drive and the cracked version on the internal ssd. ...
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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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Disk Write Cache Feature and Limited RAM Usage with Windows 10 Pro - 256GB DDR4
I have a Windows 10 Professional workstation I use to simulate material flow in impressions. The FEA software I use creates large 50-100GB database files for each simulation I run. Copying these files ...
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How can I migrate my Windows 10 OS from an HDD to an SSD?
I have Windows 10 installed and running on a hard disk drive. I would like to migrate it to a solid state drive that I've recently purchased.
By this I mean that I'd like to copy both the OS and all ...
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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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windows 10 hard disk usage 100 %, computer hangs
I own a Dell Latitude E7450 running Windows 10 on a 256GB SSD (SK Hynix SC210mSAA).
Several times a day (in fact sometimes several times an hour), the disk usage jumps to 100% for 1 or 2 minutes, but ...
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Samsung PRO 950 SSD recognized as SATA instead of PCIe in Windows 10
I have a new ASUS G752VL-DH71 laptop and I installed a SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 SSD in it. The hard drive is totally usable in Windows (as drive G:) but there are three issues:
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