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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
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How can I clone a Windows 10 disk onto a larger disk?
I have bought a larger SSD for my Windows 10 machine and an external USB enclosure and now I would like to transfer the content of the Windows 10 system disk onto the new SSD and eventually replace ...
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50'C HDD S.M.A.R.T info and HDD temps invisible on windows 10
I have migrated SATA HDD's from a Windows 7 PC (AMD FX) to a build Windows 10 21H1 (Ryzen + Gygabite 399 designare). All 5 disks are have no S.M.A.R.T. info and temperature. The disks are accessed OK ...
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Test whether sluggish Win 10 laptop is due to SSD speed reduction due to getting full
I have a Dell Win 10 Laptop with an SSD and I have noticed its responsiveness has slowed down over the past few months. Things like opening files, saving files etc. are slower than they used to be on ...
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Explorer crashed while moving files to external drive, amount of free space after that is wrong
During the weekend something strange happened, which I don't understand.
Maybe somebody smarter than me can help me out here.
Last weekend I had the idea to move some movie files from my internal D ...
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Is my hard disk about to fail? (Tests seem inconsistent)
I have a secondary hard drive in my Windows 10 machine which has not been given any problems until it suddenly disconnected today. After a shutdown and restart, everything appears to be working and ...
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Windows Fails to Login when Media HDD Removed
I have an interesting issue and Googling it hasn't brought up anything significant.
I have a media drive (P:) on my Windows 10 that I tried to remove as I had copied all contents to a new drive.
I ...
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How do I fix an issue with Disk Manager that is causing a Windows Boot Manager Error?
A user of my desktop erroneously clicked 'make drive active' on the C: drive in Disk Manager. This has caused a Windows Boot Manager Error when I try to restart the computer. Here is what I do not ...
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Is there something like a "mile count" for HDDs/SSDs?
All my internal disks (3 SSDs and 1 HDD) are aging. My external USB ones (used for a complex backup scheme) are even older.
Through built-in Windows command-line mechanisms, I am able to extract an &...
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USB disk always mounted as offline. Anything that I can do about this?
My 2 TB 2.5" USB 3.0 external disk is never found by my TV. When I plug it to my Windows 10 Pro, it is mounted properly (Disk Management can see it), but "offline" (i.e. without any ...
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Is it possible to restore/read any data after a system imaging?
After you image a system, is there any single remaining 1 or 0 in the entire drive pertaining from the original system? Or is it entirely a new system. What if the new system image is 50GB smaller ...
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When external HDD READ speed only varies dramatically with 100% active time, is this a logical or physical issue?
I have a WD Elements 8TB External Hard Drive that I purchased six months ago. During the past few weeks, it has been experiencing difficulties with its read/write speed, so I decided to investigate. (...
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Fedora refuses to install next to Win 10
So I'm trying to dual boot Fedora 35 with Win 10 on the same SSD.
I have created free space on my disk worth 50 GB and tried to install Fedora from a bootable USB. The system always boots into live ...
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Extremely slow HDD speeds (< 1 Mib/s)
Update: I mistakenly thought it was my SSD that was acting up, but it's actually my HDD. I have corrected everything below.
Update: This HDD is 18 years old. I guess it's a bit dumb of me to even ...
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USB disk drive fails after sleep, but only some folders
I have a Seagate Backup Plus Drive connected via USB to my Windows 10 computer. I use it to save my backup files from Macrium home. After my computer has been in sleep mode and then restarted, I find ...
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swapping between Hard drives with OS in a laptop
I'm about to do some tinkering/experimentation with my laptop and looking for some options to keep my system safe from any wrongdoings that I may trigger.
Therefore, is it possible to take out my ...
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Two EFI partitions, one broken, one fixed; Can replace or salvage the old one with the new one?
I have a Windows system disk that looks like this:
The first EFI partition broke when I tried to get this cloned version to boot. The second EFI partition was created in my attempt to salvage both ...
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windows: Is the term "basic disk" the same as "Simple Volume"?
While doing some disk management operations with 4 SSD drives on my windows-10 machine, I read some Microsoft documentation 2022-01-10 that says "dynamic disks" (i.e. Disk Management's "...
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Problems with windows drive not booting
I had a problem after tyring to install Ubuntu and I kinda screwed some things up, so my Windows 10 wouldnt boot, luckily I had a drive with nothing important on it so I installed Windows 10 on it, ...
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Limited disk space keeps being filled on Windows 10
I'm having problems on my PC due to a lack of disk space. Now, I do have a lot of disk space on the computer, on the HDD where I store files and programs, mapped to the D: drive. The operating system ...
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Windows 10 on 2019 model laptop running in ATA mode instead of AHCI
I have a Lenovo V-Series Laptop 81HN V130-15IKB. It is a 2019 model laptop and should support AHCI. However the information from HD Tune seems to indicate that it is using UDMA Mode 5:
I think the ...
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Window 10 Hard Drive encryption without BitLocker
I discovered today that if I plug my Windows 10 SSD hard drive (which is protected by a windows password) using a SSD-to-USB adapter to another laptop. That laptop is able to read the entire content ...
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How to clear drive names/labels from windows?
I renamed a drive to m500 and another to m600 and now every time I plug in ANY external drive, windows will label it to m500 or m600.
I've tried 4 different drives of varying sizes (130gb - 5tb), same ...
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Is it possible to install Windows on a hard drive on one computer, then activate it on another?
To clarify, I have a machine which I generally use Linux on; but I develop for multiple platforms and will eventually need to test on Windows 10/11. This is an amazing machine but installation of ...
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MSI B550 Tomahawk + Ryzen 5800x: straight to Windows, no Access to Bios
Setting: I have a M2 drive that contains a Windows 10 x64 installation that was working just fine on an older system. This morning, that drive was dropped into a new system with
a MSI B550 Tomahawk ...
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How to wipe all data on HDD (Windows 10 system partition)?
I am a bit surprised that I didn't found a canoncial (= recommended by Microsoft) way of doing this by searching Google but here we are:
I am tasked to delete all data safely from a Windows 10 ...
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Reformatting old m2 nvme ssd with windows OS with active partition
I have recently installed windows 10 to a new M2 NVME SSD, I didn't use the previous one with OS boot as I also installed it into a new motherboard. When everything was up and working, I also ...
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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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Windows update issue: can't find Program Files and my user folder from linux bootable cd
during an update windows doesn't start anymore: it keeps trying "recovery actions" but it is stuck in a loop.
For this reason I created a kubuntu bootable disk and started it on my laptop, ...
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How to recover edge passwords from SSD
I have my SSD from my broken PC, I bought an adapter so I can plug it into my new PC via usb-c. How would I go about recovering my passwords from edge on my old SSD?
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8 TB Disk dying - or is it the Controller?
During the last copy operation of my Seagate 8 TB disk (connected via USB 3.0), the speed of my disk dropped dramatically (from 90 MB/s to 100 kB/s). So I took CrystalDiskInfo to check the SMART ...
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Option to extend volume on windows 10 disk management greyed out for no reason
Alright, I was trying to use this external 4TB HDD as a live disk for Linux, it worked but now I have to reformat it. However Disk Management, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided to grey out the ...
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Disc clone failure - Software says destination drive is in use when it's not
I am trying to clone my C drive (120 GB) to my D drive (2TB). My AOMEI Backupper Pro is saying that my cloning destination drive is in use, and keeps asking me if I want to 'continue' in 'restart mode'...
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6TB harddrive shows two 2TB unallocated partitions
I am adding a new 6TB "WD Black" Western Digital drive. It shows two 2TB unallocated partitions.
I have re-initialized both the partitions to GPT. It should have done the trick but it did ...
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My pc stuck at blinking underscore
While I was using my pc suddenly a bsod stating inaccessible Boot drive came and my pc restarted and came to a black screen with blinking under score
I then gone to the bios and saw whether hdd was ...
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Finding a disk drive missing after a routine Windows 10 update
I just installed the latest Windows 10 update on my laptop, and my D: drive has disappeared. This is an internal hard drive where my Desktop, Downloads, and Documents drives all live, along with ...
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New Simple Volume with greyed when add a new Hard Disks
On the Disk Management panel that cannot choose "New Simple Volume". How to fix this issue?
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Does a Typical DELL XPS Laptop Feed Enough Power Through its USB Ports to Keep an External HDD Running?
I want to recover my files on my 2.5" 4TB HDD, because I have broken system files that keep me from booting in Windows 10. To do this I bought a SATA→USB adapter that includes both the power and ...
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PCIE SSD Raid0 not bootable but everything is OK on it
I have a MSI GT72S 6QE laptop where the OS (Windows 10) is installed on a PCIE RAID0 SSD (I know, Raid0 sucks, I won't make that mistake again when buying a laptop).
On of the two SSD's in the RAID ...
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Installing a windows 10 OS on a previously used SSD; Do I have to format the previously used SSD?
So previously I did a cloning job from an old HDD to a new SSD. Simply put, I botched it by immediately booting using the SSD without removing the old HDD (first rule of cloning: don't do that).
So I'...
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How do I know which process is accessing my hard drive when my Windows 10 was idle?
Many times I leave my Windows 10 idle on my PC, I notice that the HDD led is constantly on, indicating intensive access to the HDD.
But when I move the mouse or press any key, the led turns off, ...
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How to merge two Partitions which is separated by a recovery partition?
I recently reinstalled Windows 10 due to virus attack. Everything is fine yet. I also used Linux in dual boot, but now I no longer need Linux so I deleted its partition.
Please see the Picture below..
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Windows 10 not recognizing hard disk after reconnection
For some testing purposes, I opened my laptop and removed my HDD (which is a data store, my Windows is on my SSD). After reconnecting, computer itself recognizes the hard disk. From my bootloader menu,...
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There's any way to know what backups and or disk images Windows have?
I want to know from what dates are backups availables.
If I remember well with Windows 7 you can see the dates from where you can revert the PC to a know state. I can't find that in Windows 10 21H1
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How can I tell whether a program is on my HDD or my SDD (Windows 10?)
This may be the dumbest question on this site, but...
I have Windows 10. When I put my computer together like 3 years ago, I was pretty sure I did it all right, but I never saw any evidence that my ...
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Set correctly size allocation unit
I have a SATA 320GB 16Mb cache hard drive running at 7,200RPM. I want to use it to store various .vdi virtual machines and access sporadically. I'm not going to do heavy tasks with them either, I'm ...
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Why is my SATA Harddrive not being detected by Windows?
I recently upgraded my Windows 7 PC to windows 10 which caused all sorts of problems. I've solved most of them, but my WD10EADS-00M2B0 Western Digital Caviar 1tb 7200rpm 3.5inch harddrive is not ...
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How to un-mark a SATA HDD “as spare” in Windows 10
I have a desktop computer with an extra HDD connected to it via SATA port, and I have done "mark as spare" to the drive, but I don't remember where I got to that setting, and I want to undo ...
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Should I replace My internal hardisk to a new external one? [closed]
My old internal 1TB HDD becomes so slow suddenly, and I'm afraid that it's about to die, so I will try to copy my data to external HDD.
I have two Questions:
What's the best tool to copy all the HDD ...
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Trying to recover files and programs after Windows update
I tried to carry out a Windows 10 software update but when I came to restart my laptop, it would not work and kept restarting indefinitely. Eventually, I had to reinstall Windows 10 using a USB but it ...
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