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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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