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Virtualbox guest OS running too slow on a Windows host OS
I have a toshiba laptop with a samsung ssd 860 evo 500GB in which I have installed Windows 10 64 bits.
This is the main hard drive. Also I have a second hard drive (not ssd) into an optical drive ...
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Is it possible to install two SSD M2 drives using only 1 SATA port?
I have a six years old Toshiba laptop computer. It has traditional mechanical hard drive with SATA3 interface. It has no M2 SSD interface.
I am wondering if it is possible to install 2 SSD M2 using ...
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Windows 8.1: Non-system disk slowing application switching
Setup:
1. SSD with the system and all installed software
2. 'Old-school' disk with data
Problem:
Very often, it happens that when I alt-tab to another application (typically to Chrome web-browser), ...
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Notebook with SSD: Added a HDD and now hibernation and shutdown are slow
I have an Asus N56VZ notebook. It have a 1 TiB SSD on which I installed windows 8.1. I used this configuration for about 2 years. Yesterday I added a 2 TiB HDD and now the hibernate is very slow and ...
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Windows 8: 100% SSD Activity, 0 R/W Speed: System Hang Issue
Experienced a weird issue with my Windows 8 system where it hangs and it is very unresponsive at random intervals of time (in fact, the first clue that I had an issue was when boot to desktop time was ...
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Instead of SSD, found HDD
I bought a ASUS laptop and it is mentioned that disk is 256 SSD.
After buying when I checked I found the following, not why it is mentioned hard disk drive.
Insight is highly appreciable.
Update 1
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Is it possible to move the OS from to 1TB hard disk to a 240GB SSD?
I have an ASUS X555 notebook with 1TB hard disk. The disk has 2 visible partitions and 3 more hidden, that seem to be some sort of backup/restore for the OS.
Now I want to clone the OS partition (C:\)...
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Is there any drawback for having one large (e.g. 512 GB) hard drive partition for Windows 10 instead of having two smaller ones?
I just got a new laptop ( Asus ) with one 512 ePCI SSD harddrive.
From the factory, the system comes with two partitions:
the one with windows on it, size ~190GB
a second one called "data", size ~...
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Restart to repair Drive errors
For a few months now I keep being bugged by Windows about restarting my PC to repair errors the most annoying thing is that even if I restart nothing happens(didn't try this with the SSD yet) I even ...
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Moving a Folder with Content from SSD (C:\) to HDD (D:\) Windows 8.1
I was wondering if there are any issues I should be aware of when moving a folder (in my case it is Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn) from my "Program Files" on my C:\ (SSD) to my HDD (D:) on my ...
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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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Cloning windows from a hard disk drive to a m.2 ssd
I'm looking at cloning windows 8.1 which is on a hard drive onto a m.2 ssd. My understanding being the process would be installing the m.2 ssd, cloning the hard drive onto it. Then going into the bios ...
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SSHD with Win8.1: Write caching necessary for performance improvements?
I bought a new laptop with a SSHD drive. I usually disable write caching on all my HDDs. Will disabling write caching prevent the SSHD from reaching its full potential?
I tried copying some folders ...
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Hard drive stopped working after trying to delete a partition
So I recently got an SSD, put it in my machine, installed my OS on it which is Windows 8.1 64bit, and after booting everything was perfect. I had an older hard drive of 1TB, and an SSD of 120GB. The ...
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Win 8.1 turns off at start after I removed secondary HDD
I have SSD drive, on which Win 8.1 is installed, and booted from.
I also have 3 other HDDs connected, not RAID or something.
I have removed one of them, and after next start PC turned off unexpectedly ...
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