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HDD keeps spinning down in Windows 8.1 - hdparm and power options already set
I have an internal secondary SATA HDD in my Laptop, Windows 8.1 constantly spins it down.
I already set "turn off hard disk after" to never in power options.
I booted debian and turned off stand by ...
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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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Hard Drive noted as 'Failing' in Mac OS X and Other installations
Recently I tried to dual boot OpenBSD and Windows 8.1. Unfortunately for me, I was inexperienced in fdisk and accidentally formatted my hard drive :( I tried to install Windows again but it refused ...
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Is it woth for me to invest in SSD and RAM for my 3 1/2 years old laptop? [closed]
I have an Samsung Q330 Laptop that I bought in July 2011. The specs are:
CPU: Intel Core i3 380M @ 2.53GHz
GPU: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 310M
RAM: 4,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20)
Storage: ...
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My new laptop's harddrive makes this faint crackling noise. Should I be worried?
Whenever my laptop loads something, I can hear a very faint but rather annoying crackling noise coming from the hard drive (ignore the background hiss and ticking clock):
Heres what it sounds like: ...
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Why is my new laptop slowing down during file copy/move operations?
I bought a new laptop(Asus X555L) three days ago. It has a 1TB HDD, 4 GB DDR3L RAM , i5 4th gen CPU and a 2GB graphic card.
When I copy/move files into the laptop it gets super slow. If you try to ...
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HDD in optical bay spins down and up constantly [duplicate]
I've installed an SSD and HDD in the optical drive slot on my notebook. I'm using windows 8.1 x64, running from my SSD which is my primary drive.
My problem is taht HDD spins up/down constantly, in ...
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Laptop's disk usage is always 100% and freezes after few seconds
I have Acer 5755G laptop with following spec:
4GB RAM
750 GB WD HDD
Intel i5 2nd Gen
Windows 8.1 Update 1 64 bit
Laptop is 2 years old.
Previously I had Windows 7 64 bit OEM version.
Previously ...
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Install Old Computer's Hard Drive On A New Computer? [closed]
After my laptop got messed up I switched to my HTPC (Intel i3, HD Graphics 2000, 500GB refurbed WD HDD, Windows 7, and a P8H77-I mini ITX Asus Motherboard). I have the hard drive from my previous ...
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Tricky system recovery point scenario
Alright, I'll get right to it.
How do you create an active system recovery point in windows 8.1 on 1 hard drive covering 2 hard drives in a computer?
Basically I want my 1TB HDD continuously doing ...
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HP computer wont boot from bootable DVD and CD
My notebook is one HP 1000 Notebook having windows 8.1 installed.
Last night I was trying to split the partition C and add some spaces to partition D. So i was using PartitionWizard to do it but it ...
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Hard Drive buzzes and laptop fails to boot
I Have a laptop from nearly an year and for some time now I've been experiencing a problem with it. Sometimes when I try to power on the laptop the loading screen of Windows freezes and the hard disk ...
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