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  1. 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...
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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?
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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.
  6. 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...
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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...
  8. 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...
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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...
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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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
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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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
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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...
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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...
  19. 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...
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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...