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Tagged with ssd partitioning
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How to reinstall Windows 10 on new hard disk
I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview).
Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new ...
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Easiest way to move my Windows installation to an SSD?
I've taken the plunge and bought an SSD and want to move my existing Windows installation over. The current hard disk is 500Gb, but I've trimmed the contents down to about ~40Gb. I'm transferring it ...
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Disadvantages of partitioning an SSD?
A wise guy who goes by the name of NickN maintains a lenghty forum post on his views about building a powerful computer (directed towards playing Microsoft's Flight Simulator X, a very demanding piece ...
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What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways:
Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = 512 Bytes
Option 2: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = ...
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Can a 'system image' be restored to a drive with a different storage capacity?
I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, and found that the hard drive was at ...
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Will device-based “wear leveling” equalize access across both SSD partitions?
I can’t see that my specific point is covered by the “Wear Levelling” section in the answer to the earlier question Disadvantages of partitioning an SSD?
I’ve been booting Windows 7 from a 32GB SSD ...
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How to check the partition alignment on an SSD drive?
As I understand it, for SSD it's important to have partitions starting at the proper offset (i.e. correctly aligned). How can I check this offset under Windows Vista?
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Move EFI System Partition to another drive
I had a Windows 8 installation on an HDD, using UEFI as boot. The HDD has the following GPT table:
DISKPART> list partition
Partizione ### Tipo Dim. Offset
--------------- ----...
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Cannot boot Windows 8.1 after migrating to Samsung SSD using supplied software
I got a brand new Samsung 840 SSD. It came with "Data Migration" software from Samsung.
I am running Windows 8.1.
Here are my steps exactly:
Installed new SSD into secondary bay (Disk 0: HDD, Disk ...
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How to TRIM/DISCARD a whole SSD partition on Linux?
My partition /dev/sda3 on an SSD drive doesn't contain any filesystem, but it contains garbage. How do I do a TRIM/DISCARD operation on the whole partition?
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Do partitions on SSDs map to physical addresses?
One of the reasons that some folk partition hard drives is that certain parts of the hard drive are supposed to be faster than others. Considering that HDDs are a serial access medium, partitioning, ...
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Is partition alignment to SSD erase block size pointless?
Many people seem to have the idea (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) that aligning the start of your SSD partitions at a multiple of the SSD erase block size is somehow benefitial. I do not see the benefit; consider the ...
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SSD with multiple partitions - disk life implications
Each block on a SSD has a finite number of writes. This is mitigated on modern drives by "spreading" the writes around as you use the drive.
I'm wondering if you partition a SSD into several ...
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Are these partitions properly aligned?
I was recommended to use Ubuntu instead of XP to partition my new SSD. However, I didn't find diskpar, so I used GParted. The partition table type is msdos, fdisk reports the following:
Device Boot ...
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Moving files from one partition to another on an SSD
If a drive doesn't know about partitions and files systems why moving a file from one partition to another takes relatively long time, unlike the instantaneous move on the same partition? Is that file ...
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