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Swap Windows and Linux hard drives
Following situation: I have a laptop with a SSD and a HDD in it.
Windows 8.1 is installed on the SSD
The HDD holds a data partition
Some weeks ago is tried to work with Linux an installed it at the ...
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Cloning laptop HDD with two OSes to a SSD
I have a new SSD for my laptop. It's the same size as the current HDD in my laptop. What I would like to do is clone the HDD to the SSD. It sounds simple enough, but there's a twist.
I have two OSes ...
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Add unallocated space to free space
The Free space was a partition with Linux, so I just deleted the partition (didn't have a "Format" option) and it became "Free". Then I just shrank the D:// drive with some 50 GB.
Now I want to add ...
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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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Copy only OS which isn't partitioned to SSD
I am using Paragon Hard Disk Managment to move Windows 8.1 from HDD to SSD. The SSD is smaller (120gb) and the HDD is bigger. Both is installed and running on computer.
The problem is that windows ...
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Make a partition with only Windows 8.1 in it. Already installed. And move it to SSD [duplicate]
I just bought a SSD and would like to migrate the OS from HDD to SSD. I tried easeUS Partition Manager but it says that the disk (120gb) isn't big enough.
I think the problem is that I don't have a ...
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"We couldn't create a new partition..." error while installing Windows 8.1 on Samsung 530U
So I've been trying install Windows 8.1 on Samsung 530U, but I keep getting this error "We couldn't create a new partition...". I'm using 16GB usb stick that I made with Windows USB/DVD tool. I ...
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Clean Install of Windows 8 on Newly Installed SSD
I bought a new SSD for my Windows PC. Now I'm trying to install Windows 8 on it.
First attempt
Started installation from within existing Windows 8 installation by launching setup.exe
Installer says "...
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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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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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System does not boot from SSD after re-installation
I have an ASUS S56CM with UEFI firmware, x64, Windows 8.
Core i3 processor
500 GB HDD (496 GB and 4 GB marked as boot)
24 GB SSD (18 GB and 4 GB marked as OEM partition)
4 GB RAM
The system used to ...
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Windows 8 "ate" 100GB of my SSD [duplicate]
Yesterday I've done a completely fresh Windows 8 Pro install on brand new Samsung SSD. I recall that just after the installation Windows was taking about 10GB. I've installed all the updates and when ...
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Strange laptop partition layout
A friend of mine just received a new laptop, and it has a very strange partition layout. I normally advise that people format/reinstall Windows on a new computer, but this partition table is so ...
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Linux won't boot
I just installed my new SSD, and I put Windows 8 on it. Previously I had a hard drive with both Windows and Linux partitions. After finishing the installation of Windows 8 on the SSD I formatted the ...
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create hibernation partition on SSD (The drive cannot find the sector requested)
I try to create hibernation partition on SSD for expresscache purposes, but get error message "The drive cannot find the sector requested. See the System Event Log for more information." See the ...
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