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Does Windows trim unpartitioned (unformatted) space on an SSD?
Laptop with Windows 10 Pro v1511 x64, with 512 GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO as system drive.
In an attempt to overprovision space on the SSD, I just shrunk the system partition from about 475 GB to 400 GB. ...
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How can I tell if my SSD is really secure erased, with a huge $BadClus file on it?
Backstory: almost a year ago, I bought a Silicon Power Ace A56 256GB SATA SP256GBSS3A56B25. After 4 months, it suddenly went into Satafirm S11 mode, which meant I couldn't boot a system from it, ...
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Can't Boot From Hard Drive Turned External Drive
I had been dual-booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I recently got an SSD, so I removed the HDD and made it an external drive. I am unable to boot from the now-external hard drive, and I'm not sure why. ...
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Set a full drive that only Windows can use
I have a 250gb ssd and im looking for a way to lock it so nothing else can go on there only Windows 10 updates temp files etc no downloads, games or media. Basically i dont want that drive to be ...
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Corrupted hard drive in external hard drive bay
I did something very stupid and unplugged my USB3 Hard drive dock from my machine while it had a Samsung SSD attached. Unfortunately the drive seems to have some tables corrupted.
When I run chkdsk ...
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Can I create a bootable USB drive for BOTH Windows 10 and Linux?
I am seeking to create a bootable USB drive which will allow me to boot into either Windows 10 or Linux, as needed.
I have a 512Gb WD MyPassport SSD and a MacBook Pro. I currently have my 128Gb ...
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Kingston SSD appears as two drives?
Very similar issue to this post, asking in anticipation of installing Arch for learning and whatnot.
SSD Showing as two drives not one in GParted
Acer Aspire S7 with Kingston SMSR150 SSD, advertised ...
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How do I clone a larger disk to a smaller disk, but retain sizes of the system partitions?
I recently bought an SSD, and I am attempting to move the contents of my current drive to the new one. Using Todo Backup, I am able to do this, but the system partitions ("System Reserved" and "...
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Can I recover my HDD data after clean installing Win 7 on SSD, after the installation created System Reserved Partition in the HDD instead of the SSD?
I can't find the solution by searching the forums because I lack too much knowledge about partition tables functioning.
I've found this quite similar situation Recover or recreate partition after &...
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SSD seems to be read-only, nothing can be written to it (linux ext4 filesystem)
After two week of normal use my new SSD began to work strange. Now it seems that no file is written to it.
An example:
root@hooker3:~# mount |grep ssdhome
/dev/sda3 on /ssdhome type ext4 (rw,nosuid,...
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Disk Image Clone Issues
So, here's my situation. I have a 1TB HDD that I want to clone onto a much faster 120GB SSD, without particular partitions. The software which came with the SSD, Acronis True Image HD, keeps running ...
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Clone Hard Disk except got One Partition
I would like to replace a hard disk in my desktop with a smaller SSD. This hard disk has the following partition setup:
Linux ext4 partition (and related swap partitions)
Windows 7 NTFS partition
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Partition layout for SSD + 3 HDDs
Yesterday I got my new workstation featuring:
120 GB - OCZ Vertex3 MAX IOPS
300 GB - Western Digital Velociraptor (10k RPM, about 4ms avg. seek)
2x2TB Samsung Ecogreen F4
The system will be running ...
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Will 4096 bytes alignment benefit on SSD with 512 bytes sector size?
My SSD physical sector size is 512 bytes. Will 4096 byte alignment benefit in IO operations? Currently the 1st partition (Recovery) has starting offset at 32 256 bytes according to msinfo32. The ...
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Can a bad block from one partition affect other partitions?
I have an external SSD 1 TB plugged in to Linux-Laptop. I have created a small new partition - 10 GB size on it, so now I have 2 partitions on that SSD.
Both partitions are formatted with ext4 file ...
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