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Windows 7 System restarts unexpectedly during certain games, reading as a HDD error.
Hello, My computer has been restarting unexpectedly while playing certain games, but never does so during normal usage. Windows keep reading it as a HDD error, but I'm not too convinced it is. I've included the dump file from the most recent crash, so can someone tell me if I need to get a new...- Anthony Cavalieri
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- crash dump files error games hdd restart system troubleshooting unexpected windows
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Windows 7 black screen after "Starting Windows"
Hi I have a Toshiba L500-19X and It keeps rebooting all the time after the "Starting Windows " logo. I have reinstalled Windows 7 using the Toshiba Recovery Disk that I have but I can't get pass the starting logo at all. I have checked the HDD, RAM and CPU but they work fine. I have also tried...- Martin Hickie
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- bios black screen boot issues cpu hdd ram toshiba troubleshooting windows 7 windows recovery
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Trouble Accessing Windows After Deleting Temp User Folders: Need Help!
I lost power during a printer software install and had to use startup repair to get back to normal. Although I was using the Admin password (no other accounts present) windows would create a temp user for each login. I was not able to use my desktop. Using Windows explorer, I could see and open...- theboiy
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- admin password amd processor data loss desktop access hdd hp pavilion login issues printer safe mode startup repair system restore tech support temp user troubleshooting user account user folder windows 7
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Hard Drive appears empty
I'm having a problem with both of my drives (one solid state, one HDD) where when I try to browse files within any kind of program other than windows explorer they appear to be completely empty except for files under the "My Documents" directory. An example of this situation would be trying to...- Tanners
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- data recovery document issues empty drives file access file browsing file explorer hard drive hdd solid state windows issues
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 cant boot without cd (grub rescue)
Hello, I had a working 64gigs SSD + 160gigs (friends) HDD. Today, my new 1TB HDD arrived, so I switches the HDDs, but after I wanted to boot, weird thing happened. no partition Grub Rescue >> and something like that... Okay I tried some things I found on net, but then I just reinstalled my...- kubislav
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- boot issues boot manager bootloader configuration grub rescue hardware issues hdd partition pc repair reinstall rescue mode sata cable ssd storage system drive troubleshooting windows 7 windows installation
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Random freezing Please help
Hello everyone Im asking for your help because google cannot help me and I don't know what to do. So what happens is when ever I do something on my PC it randomly crashes/freezes with strange buzzing sound comming out from standard audio output. Freezing happends mostly on games and I have...- Alexandar Radovanovic
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- audio buzzing computer issues cpu crash far cry 4 freezing games graphics card hardware hdd league of legends memtest msi motherboard performance ram sata temperature troubleshooting
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Using Secondary HDD for Games and Movies: A Guide to Organization and Renaming
Hello! I recently recieved a hand-me-down laptop from my Uncle after it was restored to factory settings. Basically I have a 270gb main HDD, and a 400gb HDD. The second HDD is (presumably) used for restoration, and I'd like to use it for games and movies. This is what is currently on the drive...- bluestillidie00
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- backup drive factory settings file management games hdd laptop movies rename restoration storage
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Conflicting Storage Info
I've got an Asus T200 with a 32gb eMMC, 64GB sd card and a 500 GB hdd. My problem lies basically with the eMMC storage for which Windows seems to have conflicting data. The storage comes with approx 21GB assigned to drive C and 8GB assigned to a recovery partition. Computer Management and...- patcooke
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- asus t200 c drive computer management data conflict data size disk space disk usage emmc file explorer free space hdd partition recovery partition sd card storage system administration tech support windows issues
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Access to 2 WebDisk folders simultaneously
Hi, For my projects I crate a technical documentation DVD, what is a copy of the documentation on my HDD. The documentation is divided into 2 areas: C :\Paths\Documentation\CommonFilesPath\ (Datasheets and similar, common for all customers and projects) C :\Paths\Documentation\UserProjects\...- Rainer Bielefeld
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- access control common files customer service data management documentation file access ftp hdd hyperlinks maintenance project files project management remote access server software user projects virtual drive web server webdisk
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Website takes long time downloading
What causes Scripting? Why does it take forever for a Website page to finish downloading so that you can scroll down the page? One thing I did was replace my HDD 500G with a SSD 240G. Could this be a contributor to this problem? The SSD is great for fast boot up.- wilhelm1
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- boot downloading hdd page speed performance scripting slow loading ssd technology website
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 After HDD decompression many .pdf .docx. .xlsx files have .encryption after them and cannot be acces
Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 64-Bit Client System: Windows 8.1 64-Bit We operate a small office setup with a server and about 8 clients. The network drives we access have always been compressed: under HDD Properties>General Tab: 'Compress this drive to save disk space' is checked...- Danarus
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- administrative backup client-server compression data recovery drive properties encryption file access file extensions file format files hdd inaccessible files myob network drive office environment office setup technical issues windows 8.1 windows server
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Issues with Unwanted System Partition on Second HDD After Windows 7 Reinstallation
hi I've installed a new 3,5"" HDD to my PC for storage purpose, working together with my current HDD. Because of other reasons, I clean re-installed windows 7 again. During the partition section, I allocated new partition to the new HDD. However, after clean re-installing the windows 7 on the...- kenny1999
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- clean install data management disk management hdd installation partition reinstall storage system reserve windows 7
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows 7 home premium Bsod. Ntoskrnl.exe + dxgmms1.sys
Hello, I'm having a bsod issue with my PC that has been bugging me for a long while now. Apparently Ntoskrnl.exe continues to appear in all of my Bsod mini-dumps and is almost always paired with another exe or system file. This particular pair has shown up several times, And seems to happen...- Violet5100
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- 64-bit amd athlon blue screen bsod computer issues dxgmms1.sys error graphics driver hdd legacy hardware minidump ntoskrnl.exe os reinstall performance radeon ram system files troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Moving old HDD with Windows 7 to new PC with Windows 8.1
I'm building a new rig and planning to install Windows 8.1 on an SSD as the boot drive. I'd like to move over my HDD with Windows 7 boot from my old machine to the new PC to use as a storage drive. Do I have to format the HDD in my old machine first or can I just install it to my new rig as is...- clankfu
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- boot drive data transfer data wiping formatting hdd pc build ssd storage windows 7 windows 8.1
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Extreme slow with copying files
when i try to copy files ( amount 80GB ) from main HDD to seconed connected HDD not by USB but with case cable not sure its name sata port or something the copy progress speed average is 3mb/sec which very slow and by the way i have checked both HDD for enable write cashing and also both are...- ADN
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- defrag file copy file transfer hdd iso performance sata speed windows write caching
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Upgrading Windows 8 laptops to 10
I've been out of the PC market for a long time. Right now, I've got an old, assembled AMD/ASUS desktop from 2007, which my dad bought and helped me build for personal use. It's been running XP ever since and I've painfully upgraded the hardware over time. More recently, I've used Windows 7 at...- Widows95
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- amd asus blue screen desktop drivers hdd hdd issues laptop oem pc purchase security tech support ui/ux ultrabook upgrade vanilla experience warranty windows 10 windows 8
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows 8 sleep problems.
Symptom: I cannot toggle the sleep mode from either my keyboard shortcut or in the menu of windows 8. Both options, shutdown and restart, work perfectly fine but sleep won't work. Here is what happens when I toggle sleep: My screen shuts down but the fans still are blowing. Whenever I move my...- robin1436
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- bios settings command line cooling corsair custom build device manager fans hardware hdd logitech msi motherboard peripheral power management sleep issues sleep mode ssd system information troubleshooting wake settings windows 8
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Should I partition 1TB internal HDD?
Hello. Now I have two internal HDDs and one IDE 160GB and one SATA 2 500GB. I'll buy (for personal reasons) one SATA 3 of 1 TB. Questions: 1. Given that my motherboard only supports SATA 2, I'll be able to use (certainly not at the highest performance) the 1 TB HDD? 2. Do you recommend that...- gabiibag
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- capacity disk management hdd ide partition performance sata storage windows 8.1
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 8 New 8.1 user here, few quick questions?
So I think most of these are yes/no or simple settings, so I just compiled them here... Is there a way to link programs on a secondary HDD to the Start/Apps menu? Is there a way to view secondary HDD programs in the Control Panel? Namely when uninstalling programs? And ever since I upgraded...- Andrew G
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- control panel hdd hibernate monitor settings shutdown sleep uninstall user questions windows 8.1
- Replies: 26
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Urgent Help Needed: Data Loss After Partition Expansion on Crucial Drive
Hi all, I have a big problem with my partition. Using minipartition wizard software i separated my main HDD to 3 different partitions. The two of them are working correctly booting into windows 8.1 and xp. The third one is the most crucial cause it contains all the data from my university...- antros48
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- corrupted data recovery disk management file issues hdd minipartition wizard partition university data windows 8.1 windows xp
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Windows Help and Support