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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...
  2. 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...
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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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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\...
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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.
  7. 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...
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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...
  9. 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...
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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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
  17. Windows 7 HDD usage very high even on idle

    It appears my HDD usage is very high even on idle. What information do I need to provide in order to receive help?
  18. Windows 8 Finding installer for windows

    Hello I'm building a new pc, which currently have no operating system. I need an install for windows 8.1, which will allow me to install and try out windows 8.1 without having a operating system previusly installed. I can transfer it between computers without problems, with both dvd's, usb's...
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    Windows 8 New PC win 8 installation error restart loop

    so, i built my computer yesterday. when i tried to install windows 8 this morning, i got stuck on a loop. it says that there was an unexpected error and it needs to restart, because when it boots up...after about 15 seconds, my computer restarts (in like 3 seconds) thus causing this? im not sure...
  20. Windows 7 Affordable GPU and SSD/HDD Options for a Budget Gamer

    Imma 10 year old gamer who frankly, doesn't have a gaming computer. I've been wanting to buy a new GPU and a new SSD/HDD for a while, but I can't find anything on a $40 budget. So These are the things I need help with: GPU with DirectX 11+, Pixel Shaders 4.0+, and 512mb+ of Dedicated VRam And...