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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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