Over the years I’ve built a compact, free toolkit of Windows utilities that quickly expose the usual suspects when a PC slows down: low disk space, runaway background processes, flaky RAM, overheating hardware, or an aging storage drive. The MakeUseOf piece that started this conversation lays...
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I was getting the error "The Recycle Bin on D:\ is corrupted" (external). Then, when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was unlabelled, and I can't access the files anymore. The error message says, "This volume does not contain a recognized file system." Yes, the disk shows good health on...
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Hi everyone,
I plan upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. But, there is one small problem.
Nearly three years ago I noticed my computer does not launch Windows. It showed an error with "Your computer was unable to start". Okay, after few minutes of startup repair my computer finally made it into...
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Hello,
i have issues with my computer. Last week my computer crashed with a bluescreen caused by a damaged ram (BSOD > Memory_Management) (was using 2x4gb). With the help of Memtest i found the broken ram and bought a new package of the exactly same (modelnumber is same!). Now I have - due...
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windows
Hello,
I'm running Windows 8 on my laptop, and I've started getting very intermittent Blue Screens, with a different error code every time. I'm not ruling out hardware, but running linux off a bootable usb runs totally stable. Maybe hard drive? I'll be upset if it is, it's a 750 gb SSHD I bought...
Hello guys,
I got BSOD every time I boot up both normal and safe mode. I cannot get on laptop anything. I removed hard drive from laptop, plugged into my desktop (hot swap) and scan the virus using MalwareBytes, no virus so far. I check hard drive health using Crystal Disk Info, so far hard...
In the past I've post an issue I had were I was getting a B(Blue)SOD but now
this is something different, I hope.
When I launch either of 2 games (Borderlands and The Secret World), after a
while, the screen will go dark and most of the time I'll hear a high pitched
wine, I'll restart the PC...
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I used CrystalDiskInfo to see if my hard disk is working fine and it shows the message as 'Caution'.I am attaching a screenshot of it below.Is my harddisk safe or i risk losing data???
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Thanks in advance.