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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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