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    Windows 7 Help with (re)-Installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64 on Samsung SSD.

    Ok, I have received at beat-down trying to install this ssd. Where I am at now. So, put in the ssd, but left my existing hard-drive in (wd caviar black 1TB) as I want to use the ssd for booting and the hdd for storage, etc. I did a clean install from my dvd of Windows 7. The problem I have now...
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    Windows 7 Problem With System Start Up. Caused By Recent Hdd Fault ? Please Help

    A couple of days ago my OS hard drive has failed. I was using Ableton Live and it crashed, so had to reboot the computer. But instead of loading windows, I got "0xc000000f -- The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible" error. In addition to this I have noticed that it...
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    Windows 7 Help with BSOD in MSI GX660r with new SSD

    I just recently installed a new Samsung 830 series 128 gb ssd into my MSI GX660r. It worked fine for about a day, then started BSODing, so I reinstalled Win7 64bit (through USB from the DELL website actually if that makes a difference). It worked for about another day and now it's doing it...
  4. Windows 8 No more upgrading for me!

    Hi I just ordered a new computer and it will come with Windows 8 Pro installed. I'm a pioneer whoo hoo! I was configuring my computer yesterday and it still shipped with Windows 7. Today I went back to go ever it again and they now list it as shipping with Windows 8! I ordered a new Falcon...
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    Windows 7 [BSOD] Windows 7 Profession X64 - ntoskrnl.exe

    Hey guys I just randomly started getting Blue screens now, once it happened while I was closing google chrome, and another happened while I was at work. I've attached both dumps from the BSOD's. System i5-2500k @ 3.3 ghz 8 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600 MHZ EVGA GTX 470 Asus p8p67 Pro (1.0)...
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    Windows 7 Virtual Machines On Different HDs

    I read on the VMware forum that installing the VM on a different disk from the host improves performance. I just installed a second internal HD a WD Caviar Black and then moved the VMs there. I think that they do run better once they fully boot up. I don't know it this would work with others...
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    Windows 7 BIOS Message ?

    I just installed a WD Caviar Black internal as a second drive with no OS on it. It works fine but when I boot up there is a message right after HP splash screen the pops up and down and has something about drives. It's black background with white print. It goes down to fast to read. I don't...
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    Windows 7 huge problem installing windows 7 on a formatted hard drive.

    alright. here's my problem. i originally had windows xp. i had tons of trouble installing windows 7 64 bit on a windows xp 32 bit system. i took out some ram as i saw that having more than 2g of ram on an older motherboard (i have a nvidia 750i). then i was told to make iso's of all this...
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    Windows 7 Mirroring through Disk Management

    Hardware based RAID setups are usually able to get double the read speed during a RAID 1 array (or triple or whatever depending on the number of hard drives in the RAID). Windows 7's disk manager has RAID drivers built into it allowing you to setup RAID 0/1/5/10 without the need of BIOS tweaks...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Mirroring Performance

    I setup a redundancy using windows 7 for the time being until I can afford a decent RAID card. My question is whether or not I will have near double read speed by using it. I know that since only some software RAID has this ability, I bet I don't... but I have no idea how to tell. For...
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    Windows 7 Win7 installation driver issues

    i recently just built my own computer and got windows 7, and when i try to install windows 7 it says there is not hard drive found to install it on. i know there are a lot of threads already about this topic but iv tried almost everything and nothing seems to work. my specs are- asus m4n78 pro...
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    Windows 7 Random lock ups on windows startup

    Ok I've had this weird problem for about 9 months now when starting up, on the window loading screen ( where it shows the windows logo on screen) my comp could just lock up on it randomly. this has been happening from windows xp to now windows 7. at first i was told it was caused by my video...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Raid 0 ICH10R install woes

    Worked on this for a few hours tonight and have become disheartened enough to ask for help. I cleared two of my 640gig WD caviar blacks in preparation of this fresh windows 7 install. I have a copy of Win 7 Pro x64 through my school (MSDNAA) and am trying to install it on to these disks...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 RC & multiple hard drives

    Hello everybody, I'm new here. I have a question concerning windows & and multiple hard drives. I have built a new PC to run Windows 7 on, it has a 60GB OCZ SSD drive that the OS is installed on & a matched pair of Western Digital caviar black 640GB hard drives for data storage (pictures, video...