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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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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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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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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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Unable to boot Windows 10 after cloning to SSD
I used AOMEI Backupper to clone my original drive to a new SSD. When I try to boot I get a blue screen that says:
Recovery Your PC/Device needs to be repaired A required device isn't
connected or can'...
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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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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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How do I know whether my disk C: is on the SSD or on the HDD? [closed]
I bought an SSD and I cloned the system from the HDD to the SSD using the Minitool Partition Wizard, then changed the boot order in the BIOS and rebooted. I have two disks called OS visible in the ...
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File moved from SSD to HDD in splits of seconds
When moving big files from a SSD to a HDD on my local computer, I sometimes see the first part of a big file (several GB) being moved in literally milliseconds. However, I haven't been able to make a ...
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PC Won't Boot Unless I Manually Select Boot Drive - "New CPU Detected"/BIOS Reset Occurred Randomly
So, my PC is in an odd state right now. I'll try to outline the order of events that led me here:
I updated Windows 10 x64 to the Creators Update. This occurred without problems.
The next day (I'm ...
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How do I measure the time taken for Samsung's Intelligent TurboWrite buffer to be empty again?
I have a 1 TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD which is Samsung's QLC NAND SSD offering.
It has an SLC cache used as a buffer during writes and I observed speeds of upto 520 MB/s for up to 10 gigabytes of ...
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PHP File access very slow in windows
I recently noticed, that my development server set up on Windows 10 is slow as hell.
I did some debugging/profiling (Prestashop 1.6) with xdebug and culprint was file_exists. Script load time was ~43s ...
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Shrink volume - Error: parameter incorrect - Window 10
I've just buy a new HP laptop (PC) with 256Gb SSD storage running Window 10, and I'm trying to split my C drive into 2 partitions.
In the Computer Management window under Storage >> Disk Management ...
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