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    Windows 10 Deleted a partition when i set up recovery drive

    Hi! I am in a shit siutation: I wanted to create a recovery drive. I plugged in an external drive with an M and an N Partition. Once i started the wizard, it told me to use either the M or the N drive. I took M, since on N there was the backup of quite a lot of pictures. Then the process to...
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    Moving Windows Server 2012 to SSD

    Hello I was hoping to move my windows server 2012 to my ssd instead of regular hdd. Would I just create a system image? Thanks
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    Mirroring Harddrives

    Hello I just recently mirrored 2 4tb hdds. If I where to add 2 more hdds to the mirror would that work ? Just trying to understand how to do that. Thanks
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    Hp 280 G2 Mt Not Recognizing Ssd

    Hi My HP 280 G2 MT does not recognise my SSD since a BIOS update a year ago. The BIOS version was A O.27. It won't even boot with the SSD attached. Now even with the latest A 0.48 BIOS things are same. The OS is in the HDD now . The SSD is a Samsung evo 850. The SSD works fine in another Dell...
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    internal drive too external one

    After I assemble an internal drive within the external enclosure with the cables are ready, do I create a simple volume, or just format or do both? I am hoping to salvage my other relatively new HDD into a portable HDD to contain photos etc. I would also like to image to this drive.
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    Windows 10 Upgrading to windows 10 on a separate new ssd

    Im on windows 7 at the moment and I think its about time I upgrade to windows 10. My concern is i've had the hdd my os has been on for like 7-8 years so I want to get an ssd to move the os onto. Omegle Link Removed https://pnrstatus.vip/ Can someone explain to me a way or point me towards some...
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    Windows 10 Cannot boot with 2nd HD plugged in. POST Windows 10 re-install

    Hello, Summary of problem: After re-installing Windows 10 on my SSD, I have to have my 2nd HDD unplugged to get it to boot to windows. As a test step, I did configure the HDD SATA port for hot swap mode. This does allow me to boot the computer with only the SSD plugged in and once it boots, I...
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    Windows 10 Cloned a hdd but does not show in bios for boot, only in Legacy

    I have a Dell xps 8700 pc with Windows 10 installed. I cloned my new wd hdd from a ssd card. In the bios under UEFI boot the hdd does not show up in the boot order, but does show up in the Legacy boot order. I played around for a few hours with this but to no avail. Any help to get it to boot...
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    Windows 10 Reduce windows freezing/lockup time on trying to access non existant folder?

    If I have a folder pointing to a network share that does not exist and I try to open that folder windows will 'freeze' that folder for about 30 seconds while windows tries to find it before telling me it can't.... Same thing happens if I know its not a valid shortcut and try to right click on it...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 OS always corrupted!!! help

    Hello everyone Im new here , Nice to meet you all. please do help me regarding issues on my PC . its been bothering for quite some time now ! my PC always encountered a PC restart with corrupt files! already did a sfc/scannow, chkdsk /r /f etc. please do help me! do I need to buy NEW HDD or...
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    Need Help formatting Linux HDD Using Windows Computer

    I'm hoping someone in this community can help me with a hard drive problem. Recently, I replaced my old laptop (it ran a Linux/Ubuntu OS). Before getting rid of it, I removed the laptop's hard drive with the intent to repurpose it into a portable hard drive. I then encased it within a plug...
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    Windows 10 New PC opens programs slowly and has a lot of lag issues

    Recently just rebuilt my workstation PC to be a lot better for this school year (I'm an engineering student). My hardware is as follows: AMD Ryzen 7 1800x CPU AMD WX Radeon Pro 5100 GPU Samsung 860 Evo 512gb SSD 2 WD 2tb HDD in RAID setup ASUS Rog Strix B350-F motherboard Corsair Vengeance RGB...
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    Windows Vista Varying free storage?

    In 2013, our Vista SP2 Business PC (that OS was pre-installed, and actually great. In our experience, Vista worked as great as Windows 7) with 1 TB HDD had 610 GB free. Suddenly, after a few days, 627 GB were free, then 598 GB, without doing much. Then back to 618 GB free. Not that I mind it...
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    Windows 10 Does Windows itself use the HDD in background?

    There is some backgorund I/O activity in Windows. I do not mind it, but I am just curious about what this activity is.
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    Windows 10 Unable to start real Windows HDD in virtual machi

    Not tested on Windows 2000. But if I attempt starting a working XP/Vista/7/8/10 HDD via VirtualBox or a different PC, I can only access the boot menu. Even safe mode results into BSOD.
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    Windows 7 Help with blue screen

    Friends how could solve this, is a new computer, I upload the WinDBg, since the .DMP file is very large Motherboard a68f2p-m4 Processor A10 7890k Ram 4 Gb HDD 500 Gb WD 7200 RPM disk Power source 350 watts real
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    Windows 7 W7 USB mouse and Keyboard driver myteriously stopped working (not installed)

    Dell XPS studio 8100 USB mouse and keyboard not working replaced HDD and reinstalled windows7 which has fully updated to SP1 and anything else associated. (not factory restore, but from OEM disk(as directed in dell community forum). windows installed and validated without issue been running fine...
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    Windows 10 HDD issues after updating windows

    hello, after latest forced windows update i noticed issues with my secondary HDD drives. when ever i shut down the pc, my screen goes black for a few sec, then HDD's need a bit more time and spin down resulting in whole PC to be shut down same second. now after this update, my HDD's spin down...
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    Windows 10 HDD or Motherboard failing?

    I have an Acer Aspire V 15 V5-591G-70s6 It has an i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 16GB DDR4 ram, Nvidia GTX 950m, and 2 drives: 128GB SSD that has the OS installed on it and 1TB HDD that just has other things like programs and games. A while back, the HDD stopped working for a couple days. It just stopped...
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    Windows 10 HDD accessed while PC unused?

    The HDD is active and every 2 or 3 seconds, it is being accessed. What does Windows do in the background?
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