hdd replacement

  1. How to Transfer Windows to a New Drive: Complete Guide for Safe Migration

    Transferring a Windows operating system to another drive is a common requirement, whether you’re looking to upgrade storage, replace a failing disk, or simply capitalize on the improved performance of modern SSDs. Despite the ubiquity of this task, Microsoft itself offers only limited, often...
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    Upgrade of two old laptops.

    I have successfully installed Windows 11 on a more than 12 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop with FlyBy. Startup was a bit slow, but I have replaced the hard disk with a SSD and now the Laptop is running fast and smoothly, and I even have installed all the up-dates. My 13 year old Sony Vaio was...
  3. Upgrading disks on a legacy Win2008 R2 server

    Hi all, We have a legacy Fujitsu Server with just 4x HDD bays (4x disks) - we have 2 mirrored arrays and one of the array is small and we need to upgrade the disks with larger disks but retaining all the data inside. As far as I know the below procedure should work well: - TAKE A FULL BACKUP...
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    Windows 8 0xC004F012 after "repairing disc"

    Hello and welcome, Today my beloved Win 8.1 gave me a surprising license deactivation, meaning the license just suddenly became void despite working properly for some few months. I suspect two reasons: - I changed GPU the day before (but it's not like the problem occurred right after changing...
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    Windows 7 Trying to replace windows vista with windows 7

    Hey guys, not so sure if this is the correct section to post it in. But my HDD broke not long ago, it had windows 7 on. My friend gave me a HDD he isn't using anymore and it fits well into my laptop. The HDD he gave me has vista on it. I started up my laptop with my windows 7 CD and it came...
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    Windows 8 Intermittent BSOD Issues on Windows 8 Despite Hardware and OS Reinstall Efforts

    Ok i have had this problem since last November when i was still on Windows 7 i would randomly get BSODS at first it was large downloads and torrenting got corrupted but than it was just BSODs here and there. There doesn't seem to be a common theme in it sometimes i'm watching youtube others just...
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    Windows 7 Win7 Auto-restart Trashed my MS Word File

    I had an MS Word 2007 file on my system. I had it opened for a couple days, and during this time, Windows decided to FORCE a restart of my system (beautiful idea to default to this behavior, btw), and while doing so completely lost (how?) my saved copy of the aforementioned file. This file is...
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    Windows 7 Installing Replacement IDE 0 Hard Drive

    In my 8 years of serious computing, I have never had to replace a HDD but I am going to have to do it for the first time sometime earlier next week when the new one along with the recovery media from Acer gets here. I have managed to locate a service manual for my Acer Notebook model series...
  9. Windows 7 Win7 won't boot, disk error?

    Hello everyone, I am experiencing a very strange and annoying problem. Specifically around 1,5 month ago my netbook turned itself off because of the empty battery, and i received a bluescreen when i've tried to start it again. First thing i've attempted to do was startup repair (worked like a...
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    Laptop HDD Replacement Choice

    Hey Guys, just trying to get some info. I need to change a HDD in a Vaio VGN-N130G The system came originally with a 80GB with a 1.6GHz processor I ve narrowed down the HDD to the following 2: ( to be honest mostly due to budged restraints!!) Western Digital Scorpio Blue (WD1600BEVT)...