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I've had FIVE hard drives die in the past few days. Is it a power surge? Could anything else cause this, and can I trust my other components?
So I had 3 mechanical HDD's (all different), and 2 SSD's (one old, one new-ish)
Timeline:
2015 - 2 weeks ago - Homebuilt system works fine.
8-10 days ago - Multiple power outages during last few ...
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Unaccounted for space on SSD
I have a fairly new install of Windows 7SP1 and applications that hadn't changed much on a 500Gb (ok, 465Gb) SSD. All told, these used about 270Gb. The disk is a Samsung 850 EVO SSD, 500Gb purchased ...
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Dualboot Windows can't boot after cloning partitions to new SSD
I have a dual-boot system with Kubuntu 16.04 and windows 7, both systems spread over multiple partitions, when I added a new SSD to the system.
The plan was to copy the windows system-partition, the ...
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renaming C: after moving Windows 7 64-bit partitions to a SSD and keeping the old HDD
I bought a 500 GB (6-Gbit per second) SATA SSD to move my Windows 7 64-bit partition (and the 100 MB BCD partition) from a HDD. As that HDD has other partitions that I want to keep, the old HDD is not ...
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Make a 2nd hard drive "appear" as part of 1st hard drive's partition
On my Thinkpad laptop, I have a 1TB SSD (main computer's drive):
C:\ ~200 GB (system)
D:\ ~800 GB (documents)
I'm about to add a second internal 1TB SSD (buying a 2TB SSD is currently not an ...
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BSOD after hardware and software install
I recently changed from an HDD to an SSD to resolve some lagging issues I was having. Very frequent stuttering. Anyway in the process of changing over there was some issues with my file system on the ...
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HDD MBR problems?
So, I installed W10 on an SSD with an HDD also installed. This HDD is WILDLY noisy, so I'm swapping it out for a different, quieter one.
Now, I plug the new HDD in, so there are now three drives and ...
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Wondering how much space would I need for reinstalling Windows on my PC?
I'm planning to reinstall my OS on my computer - upgrading and putting a new SSD drive (as c drive) and installing on it Windows 7 ultimate x64 (and than mt current 1TB drive would become designated ...
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How to move Win7Pro OEM from HDD to SSD?
This is probably a generic question, but I could not find my specific case anywhere.
I am using hp elitebook 2570p bought from a refurbisher (?). it does NOT have HP recovery manager installed and ...
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Is it worth to delete files from SSD drives in order to free up disk space?
I want to delete many gigabytes of files on my SSD drive in order to free up disk space, so that this free disk space would help to reduce wear of the drive, but, on the other hand, I'm not willing to ...
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Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 while replacing SSD
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1C 5th Gen with Windows 7 Professional 64 preinstalled through downgrade rights in Windows 10 Pro. I am going to replace the SSD and would like to upgrade from Windows 7 to ...
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Recovery options on Lenovo with combo C: drive
I have a Lenovo Y570 with Windows 7. It recently crashed. It booted into the windows recovery screen. I let it go ahead and try to repair the filesystem and now the system does not boot (says no ...
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Unable to format 240GB SanDisk SSD after failed windows 7 install
My 240GB SanDisk SSD will not format. I am unable to do anything with it. I had windows 7 installed on it and attempted to do a fresh install of windows 7. An error occurred during the installation (I ...
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Is 60gb SSD big enough for Win 7?
Wondering if I could do an ssd upgrade at my school. The students have Win 7 as OS, and only use the web browser for checking assignments (chrome), and MS Office, nothing else. Could I get away with ...
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400GB IBM SSD (98Y4042) on standard desktop PC
I have one 400GB IBM/STEC SSD (fru 98Y4042) that I can not gain access to from my windows pc.
My SAS controller can (from BIOS) "see" the disk but is unable to perform a low level format on it.
The ...
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