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Hardware approach to dual booting Win 7 and Win 10. Will it work?
Here is a special device that fits into a 5.25 hard drive bay.
https://www.startech.com/HDD/Mobile-Racks/hot-swap-hard-drive-bay-usb-enclosure~S251BU31REM#
It enables you to swap SSD's by sliding ...
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EVO 960 M.2 SSD is not visible in Gigabyte GA-990x BIOS
I have erased everything and I mean everything on my Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD. Can it be made to work again?
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSD
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BitLocker-encrypting a 1 TB SSD: will it be long and/or bad for the SSD's health? Can I stop the process in the meantime?
I'm about to encrypt my D:\ partition (containing my documents) with BitLocker, so that if someone removes the disk (in case of theft) and takes it to another computer, it will be unreadable.
D:\ is ...
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Implications of cloning MS Win7 OS SSD
What are the implications esp. with resp. to OS / application software licensing, bootability when cloning the MSFT OS (win7pro64) carrying msata SSD onto a larger msata SSD?
Plan is to unbolt the ...
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How to remove the password from an SSD in a HP ProBook?
Apparently someone found it funny to password protect the SSD hard disk of one of our HP ProBook laptops, and now the laptop is unable to boot. Of course the password is unknown to us, but I'd like to ...
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New system drive boots fine but issues with Win7 backup, etc
I've decided to post here to see if anyone has any ideas about this before I go any further.
Recently I installed a new SSD drive to replace my old SSD drive as the Windows system/C: drive. After a ...
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Which windows folders can be moved by symbolic links?
EDIT: Reason for edit is to clear up some of the words that I used in relation to symbolic link that gave the impression I wanted to move folders and symbolic link, when I want to store the contents ...
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SSD Boot disk error
This is more just a general question about troubleshooting, as I think I know the answer already, but the behavior is a little odd so here goes...
I have two 60gb SSDs striped together (for more ...
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Sufficient assurance that defragmentation is disabled in Windows 7?
The vendor documentation for a hybrid SSD/HDD drive says to disable
disk defragmentation because it undermines the algorithms that
determine what portions of the conventional magnetic drive to store ...
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How can a SSD freeze a notebook's boot screen for half a minute?
My wife has a Toshiba Satellite C855D-11U and I got an idea that I'll enhance its performance, so I bought a Kingston SUV500 120GB SSD. I put it into the notebook then after power on the TOSHIBA logo ...
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What are the best ways to make use of my SSD's extra capacity? [closed]
I recently bought a new SSD to replace an old one with less capacity. Previously I'd only used the old SSD as a boot/Program Files drive, but only half of the new SSD is taken up by the C:\ partition, ...
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Blank screen before Windows login screen - is my SSD about to die?
I'm running a Windows 7 system with an ASRock H61M-HVS motherboard which boots from a 128GB Kingston SV200 SSD. The drive has been in use in this capacity since 2010, and until recently has had fast ...
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If I swap out a Bitlocker encrypted SSD to another one, then reintroduce the original SSD in the PC, will it require Bitlocker-unlocking to use?
I am wondering if it would be possible to take out a Bitlocker encrypted SSD from a PC, put in another one and use the PC, then swap the original drive back without it having to be Bitlocker unlocked.
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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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Also clone "invisible" partitions on laptop's hard drive?
I wanted to boost my old ASUS U32U laptop by replacing its Hard Drive with an SSD. Under Disk Management I shrank the Boot partition (C:) so it could fit on the new drive. However, I also noted some "...
