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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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New SATA expansion card 'bootmgr is missing'
I recently installed a new IO Crest 4 Port PCIe SATA III expansion card, because I was out of sata slots, and hooked up an older 100gig SSD I had as a third storage drive.
Installation went OK, I ...
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Can't install Win7 on Intel SSD X25-M - no driver found in installer ISO
Exact SSD model: Intel SSDSA2M080G2GC 2.5"
Laptop I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro x64 on is a Dell Latitude E5430
With this being an older laptop I thought the small SSD (it's 80 GB capacity) ...
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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Dell Inspiron 11 3162 windows 7 installation issues
I have the Dell Inspiron 3162 laptop (Pentium N3710 Quad-Core + 128GB SSD).
Basically, I can't find the SATA drivers needed for the laptop to recognise my SSD when booting from a windows 7 pro usb ...
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Installing a new SSD (to replace my HDD) But not working
So recently my HDD had a failure and I had to replace it. I bought a new SSD and it arrived today.
I took out my HDD and put in the SSD and when I went to boot up my computer (to install windows and ...
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IDE HDD not showing up after installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Okay, so that title is really messy and non-linear, as least to me, and that's because I don't know how to properly title it, but I can describe it.
Essentially I have 3 hard drives in my machine. ...
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Windows 7 Install SATA AHCI controller driver "could not be installed"
I'm attempting to install Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit from a USB flash drive on my new PC, but my SSD is not being recognized and the AHCI driver is failing. Whenever I boot into the Windows 7 ...
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Harddrive disappearing intermittenly
Thanks in advance for helping
I am currently facing a problem with my hard drive that I had for over two years now. It is a WD green 3TB running on windows 7 as a secondary to a Samsung SSD that have ...
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Is it safe to connect an SSD to a PC via a SATA-USB adapter?
Due to a motherboard short, I’m concerned about the health of my SSD. I want to read the contents of the SSD via an SATA-USB adapter on my laptop. I have already verified my mechanical hard disk ...
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Unable to locate or see a hard drive
I'm decent enough on the computer but have not encountered this problem before.
I currently have one SSD and two SATA hard drives on my PC.
The SSD is the C: drive. Then, I have a D: and J: drive.
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Windows 7 will not start with SSD
I have a Windows 7 Desktop, with a 320GB HDD. I recently found an old SSD in my garage, and out of curiosity tried to connect it to my PC to see if it still worked.
After plugging in the SSD to SATA ...
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Will A PCIe Sata Controller help me circumvent AHCI woes?
I have re-purposed an old machine to be a home server.
The first thing I did was install Windows 7 to a spare C300 64gb Sata 3 SSD that I had.
I realised after setting up, and updating windows, that ...
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Hard disk drive (SATA) slowed down but SSD still works fine on Windows 7
I currently have two hard drives, one is SSD (in which my OS is installed) and the other a SATA connected hard drive.
I recently travelled for a week and left my computer turned on.
When I came back ...
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AMD RAID controller sees drives & RAID 1; Windows & RAIDXpert don't
I've got two SSDs I'm trying to work in RAID 1 on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5.
Here is the weird combination of all the different variables with a fairly ideal testing scenario (plenty of spare parts)......
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Is my SSD runing AHCI mode?
So I switched my BIOS setting from IDE to AHCI, and when I booted up in windows 7 it reinstalled the drivers for my SSD. But I can't seem to find if it's currently running in AHCI mode or not. I've ...
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Windows 7, Detecting hard drives; Done; No drives found?
I recently reinstalled windows 7 on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (revision 2.0) motherboard with an SSD hard drive. I was reading about IDE vs AHCI and the consensus seemed to be that AHCI was better ...
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Remove Backup Drive, Windows 7 Fails to Boot?
I have 3 drives, 1 SSD (Letter E primary OS) and 2 backup SATA drives (C and D). In BIOS when I disable either or both of the SATA drives, the computer will fail to start. From what I have read, it ...
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SSD & HDD - which should get 6Gb/s port
I have a PC with a single 6Gb/s SATA port, I have a 7200RPM HDD that is my primary drive (i.e. the OS is installed on it), I also have an SSD (450MB/s Sequential R/W, 85K Random Read, 55k Random Write)...
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How to know (without unscrewing the casing) if my laptop is capable of supporting Solid State Drives (SSDs)?
I have a lenovo V470 and as an Xmas treat I am thinking about upgrading to Solid State Drive (SSD) to utilise the benifit. However, I don't know if my laptop's motherboard is capable of supporting ...
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Is my disk drive (SSD) failing?
Just wanted to confirm my suspicions that I have a failing drive on my hands. So far here's what I've experienced:
I initially got a BSOD while doing normal web browsing
After rebooting; said there ...
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Are special drivers required for Gigabyte SATA port on GA-P34-DS4 v2?
After upgrading to a Samsung 840 SSD drive, I have problems with image backups failing verification when the SSD is plugged into any of the ICH9 SATA ports in AHCI mode.
The motherboard also has two ...
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SSD install - what do I need to watch out for when reconfiguring SATA ports?
I installed a Samsung 840 SSD in a Windows 7 machine. It seems to be working fine, but I'm not seeing the expected performance. The AS SSD benchmark gives 76 for read and 138 for write. At the upper ...
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Windows start up failing to pass ahci driver init
I have build a custom pc and used for a few months now without problems. One day however, i got home and the he was shut down because of some error. Started windows normally and I got two error ...
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How do I stop an INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED on my mv91xx.sys driver?
I have an EVGA motherboard with a Marvell MV99SE91 SATA 6 driver. When I go to their driver downloads page, navigate to Intel X58/ICH10R / 141-GT-E770 - EVGA X58 Classified3 / All / Windows 7 64-bit, ...
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How do i install Windows on SSD?
I've purchased this SSD: CRUCIAL M4 CT256M4SSD2, 256GB, SATA III.
And i have a following MB: ASUS P8P67 EVO REV 3.0
MB and SSD are updated to the latest version of BIOS and firmware.
When i start ...
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Trim on SSD on windows 7 with ide mode
I have an ssd on ide mode in windows 7. (its a clone of the hdd and that was in ide mode). I just turned on ahci mode (after using it 2 months in ide mode) and it works faster. I was wondering if ...
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SATA-II SSD Raid 0 slow on Windows-7
I have 2 SSDs and made a RAID 0 with the on-board controller of my mainboard.
But i only get 130 megabyte/second average read/write speed which seems to be pretty slow for me even for SATA 2 which ...
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Would a high quality USB 3 SSD beat the speeds of a SATA II internal 7200rpm for gaming? [closed]
I have a gaming laptop and a desktop that I switch between pretty regularly due to not being home often. Rather than purchasing two SSDs, I was considering whether I could get away with getting a ...
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How can I copy the data of one SSD to a different SSD
I wish to mirror the data on my Crucial M4 128GB to a Samsung 840 Evo 512GB because I don't want to reinstall Windows 7 and reconfigure & reinstall everything from scratch.
What do I need?
How do ...
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What to change in the registry to boot Windows from a PCIe Sata controller?
What to change in the registry to boot Windows from a PCIe Sata controller?
I have an intel mainboard that supports only 3GB Sata. I want to upgrade it to 6GB Sata with a controller like this:
http:/...
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How do I disable the "SECURITY FREEZE LOCK" on my SATA hard disk?
I am sending ATA commands to SATA HDD using IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in windows. IDENTIFY DEVICE (ECh) ATA commands returns 256 words of data.
Word 128, Bit 3 is set in the returned data, and according ...
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Make ReadyBoost use SATA instead of USB drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enable ReadyBoost on a second internal HDD?
As far as I know, ReadyBoost only works on USB flash media. I have a 4GB SATA SSD, and I thought it would be interesting to use it ...
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Added extra SATA 6Gbit/s SSD drive, Windows 7 doesn't detect device, USB 3.0 device now runs slow
Added in an extra SATA 6Gbit/s SSD drive to my Windows 7 machine. Now two 6G/s SSDs - main one 64GB and this new 256GB. BIOS can see both. However when I run Windows 7 disk management tool it doesn't ...
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How to find SATA controller version on custom built PC. Do I have SATA 2, or 3 (II, or III)?
I've got a custom built PC sitting at home with the following specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor (3.2 GHz Quad)
8.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 (4GB Graphics Mem)
64-bit Windows 7 SP1
466 GB ...
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Move an SSD with Windows 7 to a new PCIe SATA controller card
This is my current setup:
Abit AB9 QuadGT motherboard which has an Intel P965 chipset with Intel ICH8 SATA Rev. 2.0 controller
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD which supports SATA Rev. 3.0
Windows 7 ...
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What could cause a computer to boot from a secondary SATA drive instead of the primary?
I have an SSD with Windows 7 on it as a primary drive, and a secondary HDD with an old Windows XP install still on it. This system has been working fine for a few weeks, but suddenly the computer ...
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Windows 7 setup doesn't recognize my Intel SSD 320 series drive
I have replaced my hard drive with a Intel SSD 320 Series (120Gb) and changed the SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS. But the Windows 7 setup doesn't recognize the SSD drive. I tried to install a driver ...
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SATA3 (P67 Chipset) VS GSATA3 (Marvell 88SE9128)?
I just bought a Gigabyte P67-UD7-B3 and it came with support for SATA2 SATA3 and GSATA3.
I have 1 SSD, and 1 HDD. I don't know which SATA I should connect them to. I don't wish to make a RAID because ...
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Making an SSD drive the primary boot/system drive
[Not much of a hardware guy, so please excuse my ignorance :)]
I just ordered an HP Pavilion Elite HPE-450t (desktop), which came with Win7 installed on the hard drive, using two partitions (C: and D:...
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit not finding my SSD, any ideas?
So I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on my new SSD (Kingston SNVP325-S2/64GB) and I have unplugged my other drives (for the install only).
The SSD is detected by BIOS, I am running the ...
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How can I verify that my SSD is performing as it should?
I've got a brand new 256GB SSD (Crucial CT256M225) which should have stellar performance. However, on my (also brand new) Dell Studio 1557 with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, it's only giving a ...
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CPU Usage in Drive Benchmark
I have a desktop with an e8500, XP, and an Intel SSD. I have a laptop with a T9600P, Windows 7, and a Corsair SSD. Each has 4gb memory. When I run HD Tune benchmark on them, I get a speed of about 225 ...
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Dell Inspiron 530 - SSD Worth it? [closed]
I'm going to be upgrading my Dell Inspiron 530 (2.0 Ghz Intel Dual Core CPU, 3 GB RAM) to windows 7 soon, and rather than backup and reformat my existing drive, I'm planning on getting a 2nd drive to ...
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