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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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