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Windows 8 Booted from external device and now it won't boot anymore
Hi! My laptop was in the shop but i had the internal ssd. I attached it to my wife's laptop(win8) via sata-usb and continued booting from the external ssd(win8.1). It worked but now my wife's laptop won't boot windows from the internal drive. I tried automatic repair and it gives me a black...- noblink
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- automatic repair black screen boot issues boot manager data recovery external devices fix hard drive internal drive laptop reinstall repair tools sata ssd tech support troubleshooting usb windows 8 windows 8.1
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Disk Defragmenter Detects Hard drives as solid state instead of regular
I converted from Windows 7 Home to windows10. When I go to Disk Defragmenter it tells me I can't optimize because my drives are solid state. My Drives are Hitachi SATA. How can I make Windows 10 redetect my Hard Drives?- Doug Bordell
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- defrag hard drive hitachi optimization redetect sata solid state drive windows 10 windows 7
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Marvell 91XX Sata Controller 6GB Driver for Windows 10
Mike submitted a new resource: Marvell 91XX Sata Controller 6GB Driver for Windows 10 - WHQL Driver Date 4/30/2015 Read more about this resource...- Mike
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- chipset controller download drivers installation intel marvell motherboard resources sata support upgrade whql windows 10 x58a
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Software Updates
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Marvell 91XX Sata Controller 6GB Driver for Windows 10 1.2.0.1248
This is a Windows 10 WHQL certified driver, which is not provided by default on some systems, for Windows 10, including the X58A chipset and other older Intel chipset motherboards. This will upgrade the SATA3 Controller from Marvell, on your motherboard, to the latest Windows 10 drivers. These... -
Windows 7 How can I delete a "local disk"?
How can I delete a "local disk" on my hard disk drive that I never use or need? I plan on replacing my SATA drive with an SSD and want it a single disk prior to the transfer.- Clanofwolves
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- computer delete disk management drive hard drive local disk sata ssd storage windows
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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General hardware forum
I would like some input on drive configuration but, of course, these would not generally be Windows-specific questions. Does anyone have a favorite hardware community where I could post such a question as that below? I am looking at disk performance in my current system and trying to determine...- RodBarnes
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- drive hdd sata ssd
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 freezes when multitasking
I've recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard, cpu and ram and chose to install windows 8 over the old windows 7. Then I deleted the old windows files. I used to be able to run many applications at the same time on my old system, for example itunes, firefox and a game, but in Windows...- Tezalus
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- amd asus background processes cpu freezes game updates hyperx loading state low-spec games motherboard multitasking performance performance issues ram sata system crash system specs troubleshooting upgrade windows 8.1
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Capitalising on my ram...
Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...- sammytruck
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- 16gb all_cpu_meter computer science customization gadgets memory usage page file performance ram reboot sata solid state drive storage system resources tech tips testing windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Windows XP Hard drive issues
I purchased a Windows XP desktop because my old XP desktop motherboard died. I wanted to be able to put my old hard drive (SATA100 7200RPM 160GB) in it and keep on using it. The new desktop has a smaller (looks like 80GB) hard drive that I would like to make a slave out of. I think it is an...- Wrong Way Willie
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- compatibility data access desktop hard drive ide installation motherboard sata slave drive storage troubleshooting windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Check if an external hard disk case support SATA III or only II ?
Assume I have a hard disk which supports SATA III (=verified). I want to put this hard disk into an external hard disk case and connect it by USB v3.0 to my computer. Later I want to use case and hard disk as backup storage. Now I doubt that the case supports really SATA III. My guess is that...- pstein
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- backup compatibility external drive hard disk case performance sata storage usb 3.0 windows 7
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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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 8 enable AHCI mode
I Just found and tried this, it's so simple and works great. No need to change it in BIOS and reinstall OS or do the regedit method. To change IDE/SATA mode to AHCI from with in windows. Run msconfig (right click far left bottom corner of desktop then left click run, type msconfig). Click...- Jimbo22
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- ahci bios boot configuration ide msconfig registry safe mode sata windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Trying to change AHCI to ATA and can't because F2 boot doesnt work
When I hit the "F2" key to boot, it is forever stuck at the initializing system diagnostics screen. I tried running it in safe mode as well. Am I going about this wrong? Can I change the SATA settings in a different boot menu? I'm running the newest update of Windows 8, HP pavilion envy dv7 8 GB...- Jared Beeks
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- ahci ata boot diagnostics hp pavilion safe mode sata update windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Installing Xp Pro from ubuntu 14 help please :(
Hi basically i was using my computer and all was fine it was running windows xp pro i read about ubuntu and decided it was a smart idea, obviously it was and my system can handle it now its a useless pile of junk i had an xp bootable usb drive but it starts to start the setup then i get a blue...- danbatto
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- bios blue screen bootable usb compatibility ide installation sata troubleshooting ubuntu windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Where's my drives (partition)
Awhile ago I had a booting issue. Finally got to a point where my PC would boot, but noticed I totally 'lost' 1 of 3 1TB SATA drives I have installed PLUS a partition on my C drive is gone. About 1 week or two ago there were several updates to install. After rebooting my drive and partition...- digitaldavers
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- boot configuration drive partition sata storage troubleshooting update
- Replies: 5
- 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
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 No operating system found, then it is after I press space
When I power up my machine, after BIOS the computer beeps with the 'no operating system found, press any key to continue.'. I press a key, and the machine boots no problem. This happens even with only the boot drive in the machine.. I've tried it with the drive in several different SATA plugs...- Richard Manulkin
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- beeping bios boot drive boot issues hardware compatibility sata ssd troubleshooting
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- 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 XP BSOD, Windows won't boot up.
I literally have no clue why or how did this happen. One day, I got home and boot up my laptop to finish a project for school. Then, while the Windows boot screen was loading, it suddenly flashed the BSOD and rebooted. I am quite experienced with these kind of problems. Sometimes, an error like...- Ephraim Jacinto
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- ahci blue screen boot bsod cmos disk error hardware ide installation laptop memory recovery repair sata tech support troubleshooting windows
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 8 The OS can be installed on any HDD???
Hello. I have a big problem and I would like very much if you can, to have patience to read the entire post. I'd like to give me the solution of this problem only if you are really sure and you had such problems. PC configuration: OS: Windows 8.1 x64 CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200@2.5...- gabiibag
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- ahci bios settings configuration cpu disk activity drivers hdd installation ide nvidia pentium performance issues power plan ram sata storage system freeze virtual machine windows 8.1
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support