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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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