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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?
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    Windows 7 Back to Out of Box

    I just stated to get my Toshiba back to Out of the Box condition. Well, since I changed out my hard drive to a Solid State one, with just the first disk of three, it has taken me 3 hours and 40 minutes to get the Hard drive deleted 50%. So much for SS Drives being in a hurry. I am on my...
  3. sammytruck

    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...
  4. whoosh

    Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days

    Storage. It's not a sexy topic. But everyone uses it in some way or another. You have iPhones, you have computers. Everyone knows how important a person's data is. But it doesn't just "disappear." Or does it? New research suggests that newer solid-state hard drives, which are faster and offer...
  5. J

    Windows 7 Trouble Activating Windows 7 with Original Product Key After Upgrading Hard Drive

    I purchased a used E machine ER1402-05 and it had a 160 GB hard drive so i bought a upgrade 1 TB hybrid solid state drive and installed it i then installed the windows 7 home premium OS on it and used the original product key that was on the side of the mini desktop but it is not accepting it...
  6. whoosh

    VIDEO ULTIMATE SSD Upgrade Guide - So Easy a Zombie Can Do It!

    :eek: :razz:
  7. serpJedi

    Windows 8 Windows 8 on an older Netbook? (Dell Inspiron 910 "mini")

    I'm considering loading Windows 8 on an older Netbook - it has an Atom N270 1.6ghz cpu, 2GB of ddr2 and a solid state disk, so I'm thinking while far from a beast, it should be able to keep up? http://www.cnet.com/laptops/dell-inspiron-mini-9/4507-3121_7-33240837.html this has more info on it...
  8. Kemos

    Windows 7 Weird sound circumstances

    Okay, so, I have issues dealing with the fact that I have windows 7 installed on a 32 gig Solid State, meaning that I perpetually don't have enough space for anything, but that's not my problem, it just might be related to my problem. My problem is that I turned off my computer, and it...
  9. Mike

    VIDEO How To Make Your Laptop USB3 Compatible

    "In this video, I will show you how to make your laptop USB3 compatible, even if your laptop did not come with USB3 ports. The key to making this change is simply to use an express card in order to benefit from the new speed of USB3. The throughput and bandwidth capabilities of USB3 far exceed...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Pro X64 with 2 BSODs happening

    First of al, hello to everyone!! I jut finished building a custom pc and am having BSOD's happening. The main one I'm getting is the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and the other is MEMORY_MANAGMENT. The PFN occurs more frequently then the other one does though. There's no one or two things that I'm doing at...
  11. P

    Windows 7 I marked my external hard drive as active and now windows won't boot

    Hello I'm new to these forums. What happened to my computer is, I kept getting the BSOD, I went into safe mode, removed the most recent programs I had installed, and it stopped happening. I then proceeded to plug in my external hard drive. It was not recognizing it for some reason, so I went to...
  12. B

    Windows 7 Moving Favorites folder for IE to "D" drive

    Using Windows 7, my "C" drive is a small solid state drive and all I wish to have on it is my Win 7 operating system. My "D" drive is mechanical and 500 Gig so I would like to have as much as possible on that drive. How do I move my Favorites folder to my "D" drive and have it always...
  13. B

    Windows 7 BSOD After About 1h Of PC Use

    Hi, for some strange reason my PC started to give me these random BSOD after about 1h of run time. It started doing this a day ago and have never stopped since. I have tried inserting the ram one by one, leaving only my OS drive installed, still no luck. Can someone please take a look at my dump...
  14. Mike

    VIDEO When Solid State Hard Drives Fail

    In this video, “When Solid State Hard Drives Fail”, Microsoft MVP and 7x Certified Information Technology Professional and Consultant Mike Fara, from Windows 7 Forums, takes a look at the frustration of identifying a SSD failure, the response from retail outlets, and the exceptional response of...
  15. whoosh

    VIDEO 2011: A Year of Solid State Hard Drives

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  16. D

    Windows 7 Not your typical "BOOTMGR is missing" problem

    I added a solid state drive last night. I then used Norton Ghost 15 to copy my old drive to my new one. I started the copy process and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning the PC was off. I unplugged the old hard drive and turned the PC on. I then saw the BOOTMGR is missing message. I...
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    Windows 7 BSOD Memory_Management on Lenovo Laptop T410 : how to debug ?

    Hi All, googling for BSOD memory_management brought me here -- it appears that this forum has the right kind of engineers (helpful and knowledgeable). Lenovo Laptop T410 (about 1 year old). CORE i5 M520@2.4 GHz. 4 GB ram and windows 7 enterprise 64-bit. 100 GB solid state disk only (no...
  18. Mike

    VIDEO 2011: A Year of Solid State Hard Drives

    This forty minute video demonstration examines the impact of solid state hard drives on various laptops, new and old. A Dell XPS 15z and Dell XPS M1330 are compared through boot tests, benchmarks, and actual gaming experiences. A solution to a problem with SSD installations and Sandy Bridge...
  19. J

    Windows 7 Is it possible to access a different Hard drive?

    Hey folks, I was wondering if it was possible to access a different hard drive on a computer via the network option on windows? All the computers on my home network are windows 7 and i'm always accessing stuff from a desktop file on my main computer to my laptop or onto my flat mates...
  20. News

    The Great SSD Migration, Part1: Migrating a Windows 7 Desktop to SSD

    Supersite </br/> I'm upgrading many existing PCs from hard drive-based storage to SSD (solid state drive) storage. I'd like to discuss the beginnings of that effort now, with a look at my first desktop conversion. ... Link Removed - Invalid URL
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