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In the digital age, where data drives function as the beating heart of our computers, ensuring their peak performance is paramount. For Windows 10 and Windows 11 users, optimizing and defragmenting these drives is a crucial task that many may overlook. This guide will walk you through the...

Have you ever found yourself staring at your computer screen, scratching your head in confusion as you try to decipher which drive is which? If you’ve ever wrestled with a series of long, cryptic serial numbers, you’re not alone. For many users, understanding which disk drive is currently in use...

Hello folks, I have an old dual boot Windows PC. One OS is Win XP which is on one HDD (has 2 partitions), the other one is Win 7 which is on another HDD (has 2 partitions too). I believe the boot manager was on the Win XP HDD since the dual boot menu was always shown from there. However, the Win...

Would like to include Ubuntu to my setup in Windows Dual Boot Manager, but to no avail. 3 pictures included, where I have the mix of Win10 and 11 in the manager, and Ubuntu can be found down in the options. Pic. 01: I want Ubuntu to show up here, within the selection of Win10 or Win11. Pic. 02...

I would like to install on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024. BIOS boot order has Disk 1 on top. I have rebuilt the partition table of both disks. If I have disk 0 be empty, the it...

Greetings! I have windows 11 pro running on a dell laptop i had an nvme storage upgrade few months ago so i cloned my windows onto there, which created two identical options for windows boot manager in the bios boot selection menu , yet windows will always load up from ssd.. everything was...

Hi guys, I need to clone a HDD to SSD? Tried some online software that claims to be free, however at installation stage, asks for payment of the licence. Is there a genuinely 100% free cloning software available??

Seagate-Barracuda-2TB-HDD-ST2000DM005 internally not showing the drive in my latest windows 11 I wipe my drive and even factory reset not able to find the possible ways.. in the bios i am to detect but not in the app itself.. Please i have gone through every commands and wipin gupdating the...

The hard-drive used by my PC is an HDD with a total of 903GB of space. However, I currently only have 79.1GB of storage space left to use on it. I opened disk cleaner and let it run its check to calculate how much space I can free up, and it (eventually after a long wait) told me that disk...

Hi there! My computer is frustratingly slow to boot when I turn it on, and i'm wondering if anybody could give me any tips on how to speed it up or what the issue might be. I have a feeling that it may be multiple things, like the RAM, CPU and HDD all being the issue, but I know that there are...

I usually use my laptop for work/study. However, recently, I noticed when I had a lot of tabs open, my laptop was lagging and becoming very slow. I was quite shocked because this had not happened before and my laptop always used to run smoothly (unless there was a majorly demanding software I...

Hi all, I have a Toshiba satellite laptop and I replaced HDD. The old hdd has recovery partition contains win7 installation files. Therefore, I want a procedure to do the same recovery partition and windows installation files of win10 So that when i to boot for recovery from the box to install...

Hello everyone, I'm not that knowledgeable on this so please bare with the details. I just brought a nvme to install on my motherboard. After taking out my original memory which was a 250gb nvme with windows installed on it. I cloned windows from the 250gb to a 2tb HDD drive. Im trying to...

Hello everyone, I'm not that knowledgeable on this so please bare with the details. I just brought a nvme to install on my motherboard. After taking out my original memory which was a 250gb nvme with windows installed on it. I cloned windows from the 250gb to a 2tb HDD drive. Im trying to...

PC : Acer aspire M5700, Windows Vista, I installed Windows 7 Pro. in 2009. CD: Bought Windows 7 Pro. DVD install disc in 2010 & install Win 7 on M5700. Use: Not much, 4 to 5 hrs a day, editing photographs, 2010~2015. Then a standby PC storing backup files. A moth ago, started having start up...

I received today the Zalman ZM-WE450 WIFI enclosure and planning to buy 4TB HDD for it. It works pretty well but since it is old it is limited to the speed of the WIFI 2.4GHz. I am trying to find a way to limit who can access it on the network. It is currently connected to the WIFI rounder and...

Hello, I have this old HP G62 that was on Windows 7 Ultimate. I recently upgraded it to Windows 8.1, and it's working fine. Now, I want to upgrade to Windows 10, but I'm not sure if the computer can handle it. Specs: 2nd Gen Intel Core i3 370M 6GB RAM 300GB 5400RPM HDD Can it handle Windows...

Hello I have a question i wilt try to make it as understandable as i can. I have 2 drives drive C SSD drive D HDD. In May I had my windows operating system reinstalled . There was a filed called file history which I saved on the D drive in there was desktop and pictures I found some picture in...

Windows 2019 Server setup keeps creating the System Reserved on one of the 5Tb HDDs instead of the SSD. I tried following this YouTube video but it Windows doesn't boot after I complete command: reagentc /info after 8 mins 57s Is this video applicable to Windows 2019 Server. The issue I...

Hey Guys, im struggeling since a few days with this issue i attach some images to my thread. I came to the conclusion i might have to change from raid to ahci but im not able to manage to do that in my BIOS. Greets Cem Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed