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    Windows 7 SSD Samsung 830 enable disable AHCI

    I did a major rebuild last year which included Samsung 830 series 128Gb SSD as OS, apps and programs plus 1tb WD HDD as storage. Samsung Magician shows that AHCI is not enabled and suggests that this is slowing the PC. Device Manager shows IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers as; Intel(R) 7...
  2. Windows 7 iTunes/iPod: 1.8, almost 2 GB of "other"

    Not sure where to post this - also, since the forum doesn't allow double posting, IF I do post this in the wrong section please move it (admins, looking at you guys). So this is the deal: I have an 8GB iPod. iOS 6.0.1 (Not updated to 6.1, never) Capacity, 6.41GB (even though it advertises 8GB...
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    Windows 7 hard disc showing less capacity then accepted. #HBCD

    K.. so i got this problem for the the first time.. I had 2 partitions of my 500 GB Hard disc (408gb + 60Gb) in the 60 gb one. i installed ubuntu os couple of months back, and today i formated that partition, using HBCD. i formated that partition and deleted it and then i expanded my 408 gb...
  4. Windows 7 Swapping main hardisk? help!!

    I have formatted my Acer Aspire 5552 and Installed Windows 7. Previously, my ''main drive'' was my Local Disk (D: ) (450GB) and now it is Local disk (C: ) (20 GB) So there is no room for my programs, etc.. so how I swap them around? Have tried to save the programs on Local Disk (D: ) , but then...
  5. Network Maintenance: February 27, 2012, 11:00PM to 3:00AM CST (5:00AM to 9:00AM CST)

    Hello, This is a notification of planned network maintenance on February 27, 2012, 11:00PM to 3:00AM CST (5:00AM to 9:00AM CST) Summary of Maintenance: The goal of this maintenance window is to increase available bandwidth and improve our network capacity. During this process we will upgrade...
  6. The capacity of a Secure Digital (SD) card that is larger than 32 GB is reported incorrectly in Wind

    Fixes an issue in which the capacity of a Secure Digital (SD) card that is larger than 32 GB is calculated incorrectly. This issue affects computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
  7. Windows’ Support for Disks with Capacity Greater than 2TB

    The storage industry has recently introduced storage devices with capacities which exceed 2TB (2 trillion bytes). In order for a system to fully support capacities greater than 2TB, the device must be initialized using the GPT partitioning scheme to... More...
  8. Tainted water storage soon to reach capacity at Fukushima plant

    A nuclear waste disposal facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be filled up in several days with radioactive floodwater diverted from near its No. 2 and 3 reactors, officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, said Monday. The operator, known as TEPCO...
  9. High Court bans man with low IQ from having sex

    A man with a low IQ has been banned from having sex by a High Court judge after his local council claimed his ‘vigorous sex drive’ was inappropriate. The 41-year-old, known only as Alan, was in a relationship with a man and told officials ‘it would make me feel happy’ for it to continue...
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    Windows 7 C: is full and D: is empty; Can you help?

    My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...
  11. Intel SSD Firmware Update

    This firmware update tool provides the latest firmware for the following Link Removed SSDs in all capacities: - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8820 - Intel® X25-E SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8850 - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD...
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    What Is RAID

    The article covers Advantages of RAID, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 10 or 1+0, RAID 5, Software vs. Hardware RAID and Drive Selection What is RAID?
  13. Windows 7 Viking Modular Solutions Unveils First Solid State Drive in DIMM Form-Factor

    Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot -- Engadget Viking Modular Solutions, a division of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and leading manufacturer of innovative DRAM modules and flash solutions, today announced that its SATADIMM is available for immediate customer...
  14. Windows 7 Western Digital Cavier Black with 64mb cache

    I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...
  15. Windows 7 Mushkin Callisto 120GB SSD Review

    Back in early May of this year, Mushkin Enhanced released a new line of SSD named "Callisto" after one of Jupiter's moons, to go along with their earlier IO series. The following review is from OverclockersClub.com: May 24, 2010 Introduction: Mushkin has been a very well known and...
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    Windows 7 Windows Update does not download/install...

    Windows 7 ver 6.1 build 7600 shows windows updates available in the system tray but does not download/install any. It just hangs. Services.msc- Windows Update is set to Automatic. It was working but something obviously changed. Last successful UPDATE Was Optional on May 1, 2010. Important...
  17. Windows 7 Inside Western Digital: How Tomorrow's Storage Gets Made

    My first hard drive, entombed in a 1988 XT clone, stored 20 megabytes and clicked and chugged almost as much as my dad’s Buick. Back then, I worried about preserving 30KB text files. Now, I have to preserve, well, everything. Perhaps like you, I’ve lost count of how many terabytes of capacity I...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 OS Disk Space Usage?

    Hello! I just made a custom-clean installation of Windows 7 Ultimate 64x upon Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit and I want to ask the NORMAL disk space usage that Windows 7 OS requires! Supposed to have a 500Gb Hard Disk! However, in My Computer shows 465Gb total and after installing some...
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    Windows 7 Shrinking Partition Problem

    Hey guys, I'm having trouble shrinking a partition. When I check "Computer" it says that my "C: OS" partition has 350 GB of 700 GB space left. Yet, when I try to shrink the partition through the built-in Disk Management, it only allows me to shrink up to 150 GB when I want to shrink by...
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    Windows 7 Hard drive not showing full capacity

    Hi, I got a new computer today as it's christmas. Everything started fine as I installed windows 7 onto my pc but I noticed when setting up the installation, the hard drive only showed up as 74gb. My hard drive is 520gb hard drive and isn't showing up as it's full amount. Ive posted pictures...