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Can't boot windows
So I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7537 laptop for about one and a half year, it has performed quite well over the years. But yesterday when I started it, it got stuck in the Dell logo. I ran the ePSA and ...
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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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If I get a second SSD will there be a performance change by moving the operating system?
I have my OS on an SSD with a HDD storage drive as a secondary.
I've had the SSD for about half a year now, and it is starting to get full.
If I get a second SSD will there be a performance boost ...
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Always need to assign USB storage device drive letter
I upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
In Windows 7 my USB hard drive was automatically assigned a drive letter. Since the upgrade, I now need to do this myself.
I have read answers here:...
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Diskpart assign letter to partition that is not associated with a volume (windows 10)
I used to have 3 volumes on my disk before something happened to the MBR that messed up my boot.
Now i'm trying to rebuild the boot environment to save all my data but it seems it is all lost. I can ...
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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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UEFI bootable usb on a MBR disk (Windows 10)
I am trying to install windows 10 from an EFI bootable usb I have. However, I get the error Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, ...
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Win 10 won't boot without SD card inserted
My girlfriend installed windows 10 without any issues aside from the fact that her PC would no longer read any SD card inserted in the slot. (We had just returned from a trip to Italy and were ...
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Access denied to RAID disk after upgrade to Windows 10
I have 3ware hardware RAID 5. It all was working fine with Win7.
Today I upgraded to Windows 10, now the drive is no longer accessible:
Drive X:\ is not accessible.
Access denied
The drive is just ...
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Broken and Mysterious Partitions
I have made a broken partition called safasf a long time ago when trying to fix my 400gb external hard drive (RIP broke from quick format lulz).
I need safasf deleted or something my knowledge isn't ...
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Samsung SSD and Windows 10
I have ordered a Samsung 850 pro 512gb SSD, after searching online I have read a lot of trouble with Windows 10. I would like help with a trouble free install process. The way I have it planned is to:
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Can't boot Windows 10 after connecting second SATA drive with Windows 7 on it
My Windows 7 drive just crashed. Tried connecting it to my roommate’s PC (Windows 10) in order to look at the drive, but when I do Windows 10 fails to boot. It goes to this screen saying there is some ...
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Windows 10 quick access feature still shows “ghost folder” from removed hard drive
I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 on my PC, along with a brand new solid state C: drive.
After the install, I reconnected my old C: drive to copy over some of the few files I wanted to ...
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Unable to format hard drive and partitions
I remember messing around with partitions in linux a while back and I clearly did something wrong at that time and now I can't seem to format my hard drives in Windows 10. In the screenshot below you ...
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Blue screen when trying to optimize drive
Found out that while I was away my PC had crashed ("Your PC ran into a problem...") and got the helpful tip to look for REGISTRY_ERROR.
Given that I have an SSD drive, I thought of running the ...
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WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive
I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help identify how much space each file was taking up. ...
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How do we check the hard disk health on a Surface Pro 3?
I am running Windows 10 on the Surface Pro 3. I would like to check the health of the hard disk, because some WinSxS files have become corrupted. How does one do this?
I have read Tool to test HDD ...
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diagnosing 100 percent disk usage in windows 10
Since updating to win 10, I'm experiencing issues with my disk usage. From time to time (sometimes every 10 minutes, sometimes once every few hours) my system becomes unresponsive because the disk ...
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Will upgrading to Windows 10 mess up my SSD+HDD setup?
So after about an hour of registry editing and Users folder moving, I finally set up my SSD and HDD system. I bought Windows 7 Home Premium, not knowing that it only supports 16GB of RAM when I have ...
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All hard drives spinning up even though only accessing system SSD
This problem is quite annoying. I've just upgraded to Windows 10 and although I experienced it a bit in Windows 7, it seems much worse in 10. I have 2 SSDS (one C drive for Windows and another for ...
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Is there any drawback for having one large (e.g. 512 GB) hard drive partition for Windows 10 instead of having two smaller ones?
I just got a new laptop ( Asus ) with one 512 ePCI SSD harddrive.
From the factory, the system comes with two partitions:
the one with windows on it, size ~190GB
a second one called "data", size ~...
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Upgrading laptop hard drive to ssd
I'm upgrading my old Asus Q200e laptop's hard drive to a PNY SSD http://www.pny.com/ssd-cs2111?sku=SSD7CS2111-240-RB , following this tutorial. (As an aside, I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from ...
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Will OneDrive sync with my laptop that has less storage space?
I have 1GB on my PC hard disk which I am syncing to OneDrive. If I now login with OneDrive on my Laptop which only has 250GB space, will it sync all my OneDrive contents and run out of space or only ...
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How can I choose where windows makes the "System Reserved Partition" during a clean install?
I have two disks, a HDD and a SSD - I want to do a clean install of windows onto the SSD, including the system reserved partition - but the installer doesn't let me specify that partition, and when I ...
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Does Windows 10 File History protect against damaged drives?
I'm setting up a backup solution on a sibling's home computer. I have an external hard drive for backup roughly 300GB in size. I am backing up no more than 75GB of pictures and miscellaneous ...
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Windows 10 and Linux Dual Boot on SSD and Data on HDD
So I am planning to do this dual-boot configuration:
SSD (120 GB)
Windows Boot Partition. Would contain all system folders. This is effectively the C:\ partition.
HDD (1 TB)
Linux Partition(s). My ...
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GPT disk created in Windows 7 not properly recognised by Windows 10
I have an internal 3 terabyte WD Black disk that was set up as GPT (presumably?) and formatted with one NTFS partition spanning the entire disk under Windows 7.
After upgrading to Windows 10, the ...
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Can I use mSATA partly for OS and partly for Intel rapid?
I have the following setup now: Dell XPS 15 with 32 GB mSATA SSD and 1 TB HDD 2½ standard disk
Atm, my pc is set up with Intel Rapid to use SSD as some kind of cache (do i get this right?) ...
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Can't enable BitLocker auto-unlock on drive ("invalid function")
I just upgraded my computer to Windows 10 by doing a clean install after formatting my boot drive. My boot drive is an SSD, and all my files are on an HDD that I didn't erase. I have all my volumes ...
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Dynamic Disk (software RAID) not accessible after windows 10 upgrade
I have two 2TB drives set up as a single volume in Windows. In Disk Management these physical drives are listed as Dynamic. I set them up in Windows 7, and they continued to function fine when ...
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