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Discussions tagged with drive upgrade cover scenarios such as replacing a hard drive with a larger one, swapping a RAID card and migrating to a new OS, and troubleshooting boot errors after a drive upgrade. Common themes include compatibility concerns with service partitions, RAID visibility after hardware changes, and resolving BOOTMGR errors when upgrading to a bigger drive. Users also share experiences with optical drive upgrades for better read/write performance in Windows 7. The tag reflects practical challenges and solutions for upgrading storage drives in Windows-based systems.
  1. ws1960

    Troubleshooting LSI MegaRAID SAS Visibility Issues in Windows Server 2019 After Card Swap

    hello i have swapped my LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i with an exact replacement . because my disks raid was not running correct and would start or keep asking to update drives. saying drivers needed update but the best and only driver are installed. so i was thinking raid card was bad...
    • ws1960
    • Thread
    • drive upgrade drive visibility driver issues hardware swap intel xeon lsi megaraid megaraid software motherboard optimization raid raid configuration sas 9260-8i server upgrade storage windows server 2019 windows server 2022 windows server 2025
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Server Forums
  2. seekermeister

    Windows XP What Is The Purpose Of A Service Partition?

    My IBM ThinkCentre M52 has a small (3.46GB FAT32) partition labeled IBM_service (EISA Configuration) placed after the C: partition. Exactly what function(s) does it serve? The drive that it is on is quite small (80GBs), so I'm considering replacing it with a larger drive, but I'm wondering if...
  3. F

    Windows 7 BOOTMGR is missing

    I've been getting the error (BOOTMGR is missing) I tried everything but nothing works for me. I'm using a HP desktop PC, I tried to upgrade to a bigger drive and then I started to get this error, so I put my old drive back in and the same error :((( Please help, Frank
    • franktheman7
    • Thread
    • boot issues bootmgr computer help drive upgrade error hp desktop missing troubleshooting windows issues
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  4. R

    Windows 7 LG GSA-H55N problem (DVD-RAM)

    In Vista these two worked as expected but once in W7, they've been acting up since. Since using W7, looking in Nero 9 InfoTool showed the first drive - Read Speed 48x and Write Speed 16x while the second drive showed up as Read Speed 12x and Write Speed N/A. I've flashed them both to the latest...
    • rbridgeman
    • Thread
    • burning issues disk performance drive upgrade dvd dvd-ram firmware hardware issues image files lg gsa-h55n nero optical drive read speed samsung sh-s223l sata software tech support user experience vista compatibility windows 7 write speeds
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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