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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it.
When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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Can anyone make sense of the G-sense error rate?
Before I get to my problem, I have to ask this question. Can the normalized value ever be 0, and can it ever be a negative number? I read many sources saying that there is no such thing as a ...
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Asus laptop clean install
The title might be a bit low on information but I couldn't make up my mind on how to explain the issue in one line.
I want to install a clean Windows 8.1 on my Asus laptop. Everything is ready to go, ...
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Windows 8.1 fails to optimize System Reserved partition
I have Windows 8.1 Professional x64 running from a 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD.
Windows has divided the drive in to two partitions:
System Reserved (350MB NTFS)
C: (238.13GB NTFS)
Whenever Windows ...
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Why is size on disk so large for a single file?
I've read a couple posts explaining that when you have many small files, the "size on disk" reported by windows can be much larger than the reported "size". This makes good sense to me, but from what ...
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Manually controlling hdd sleep
My question is about controlling and getting info about HDD sleep (or HDD hibernation) in Windows 8.1. I am not referring to system hybernation.
How to manually put hdd into sleep
How to check, if ...
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Slow reading file data
I've worked on systems for quite a few years now and this one has me pretty baffled. I'm running Windows 8.1 and recently (I know for certain this problem didn't occur 1 week ago at least) all ...
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SSD Won't Initialze
I bought a bare bones computer with 1TB HDD and 250GB SSD in it. I would like to install windows on the SSD and leave the HDD for files. When I installed windows it asked me what disk I would like ...
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Ways to shutdown internal drives completely?
Are there really no ways to completely shut down a hard drive in Windows without pulling out the power cable? Sometimes having too many drives and not enough money to buy a NAS can be a little bit too ...
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Shrinking/Extending partitions in Windows 8.1
I have a 4TB HDD and it was partitioned like
Partition 1
Unallocated 503GB
Unallocated 4GB
Partition 2
and I decided to extend second partition with these unallocated ones, BUT, such a problem ...
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Why is computer slow in switching between opened applications?
I like to open a lot of Chrome tabs, but when I try to switch between open tabs, the tab tends to re-render. When I have some other applications open alongside with chrome, those applications also ...
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Fixing my external hard drive partition map
Okay, so something really strange has happened, and it's a doozy, so please bear with me.
Problem: I need to fix my hard drive's partition map
So let me fill you in on what happened here.
I have an ...
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Why Superfetch and Prefetch on Windows 8.1 cause high disk activity on Pagefile disk?
I have an SSD running Windows 8.1 Pro x64, which only has 128GB.
To leave it a little more free, I have left only 200MB of Pagefile in it.
I have another HDD which has 1TB.
In it, I made a new ...
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My Passport HDD didn't get enough power, then wouldn't initialize. Now, it won't even show up
My WD Passport didn't get enough power, so it wouldn't load anything. It showed up in Disk Management and Device manager as a 0MB drive that was "Not initialized". When I tried to initialize ...
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Dual boot, 4 disks, raid0
I have windows 8.1, and ubuntu 14.04 on the Disk 0. On ubuntu the four disks are merged. on windows i want to merge disks 1,2,3 (the windows half). but when i click to new striped volume, it says "...
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