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A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage
I am getting "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage during Gparted (resize/move) process of C partition.
I was trying to resize and move my C ...
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File showing permission denied
While changing Windows from HDD to SSD, I accidentally deleted the 500MB disk that contains some HDD Windows files. Now after installation of Windows onto a SSD. I tried to open some Word files, that ...
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How to permanantly disable CHKDSK
I have a 128GB flash drive with Windows 7 installed on it using WinToUSB. I use my pendrive in my home PC to sync my files and also in another PC where there's no keyboard. The problem is, on every ...
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Why sometimes the whole system crashes?
Sometimes when I work with Google Chrome, the whole system suddenly locks and the mouse and keyboard stop working. This usually happens when I'm working with Wampserver. Even once the local database ...
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Recovering Windows 7 on new hardware without resetting
I have Windows 7 installed on a hard drive I haven't used since I switched computers (motherboard was Dell Inspiron 580), and tested it only very recently, with it showing "Starting Windows",...
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Moving a hard-drive that has Linux and Windows 7 installed
My memory is that if one removes a hard-drive running Windows and re-installs it in another computer it immediately craps-out, until one can go through Microsoft to reauthorize it (I hope this makes ...
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Primary vs secondary HDD slots, what are the performance effects
What's the difference between the primary and secondary HD slots in a laptop?
On a clean OS install. If I have identical 500gb SSDs in the primary and secondary Drive slots on a M6500 workstation, ...
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Disk corruption when using Windows 7 and Windows 11 on the same computer
First let me describe my setup. I installed Windows 7 onto a harddrive, then disconnected it and installed Windows 11 onto another harddrive. With both drives connected I can boot into any system by ...
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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
WD 4 ...
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External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY
External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY:
I've been a tech 30 years, I've NEVER seen this before. This is not a question I have ever encountered. Toshiba Canvio (Nightmare) external 3tb drive ...
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
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I have decided to upgrade my old Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10. I downloaded the ISO file from the official Windows 10 download page as the installation media creation tool did not ...
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Windows 7 Broken Boot (Complicated Issue)
I have an issue with my old Hard Drive, I got the issue by using CCleaner Registry Cleaner, I thought it could improve my PC's performance but it made it worse.
Whenever I boot/start the PC, it never ...
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SSD drive prevents Windows 7 from booting
An apparently random recent failure on my Samsung 870 EVO drive is so bad that it seems to be stopping my Windows 7 install from booting when it's plugged in. This drive is my backup drive so my OS ...
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Windows 7: Merge network drive and local partition
(When I speak of "distributed data storage" in this question I mean literally distributing the data so half is on one disk/folder and half is on the other)
Both computers in my situation are ...
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Windows 7 checkdisk deleted my folders. Can someone please help me recover it (am desperate)?
I have a windows 7 system. Restarted the system and it said the HDD might need a disk check. So I let it continue. The checkdisk completed. But as I log in I see it has deleted a folder and all the ...
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How to access Windows 10 partially encrypted BitLocker drive in Windows 7 or Linux?
On my Windows 10 second PC I have an additional SSD which was encrypted by default with Bitlocker using no password or secure key.
Because that PC started to show some other hardware problems I tried ...
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Can I create a RAID 1 array with a drive that already has data?
I am moving an IDE drive from a customer's old desktop into his new one. I want backup the old drive (drive 1) to a new drive (drive 2) before moving it to the new computer. Afterwards, I want to ...
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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Windows 7 setup could not see HDD
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo Desktop Core i5 PC, which originally came with Windows 7 installed, I bought it used and hard disk was cleaned.
When I run the Windows 7 setup it could not ...
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Use Rufus to create an image of a partition + restore this partition to disk on Windows
Can we use Rufus to save a local disk partition into an .img image file? Basically the Windows equivalent of:
dd if=/dev/sda4 of=output.img
Also can we use Rufus to write an image, not to a whole USB ...
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How to disable CHKDSK permanently, windows 10/11
I want to completely and permanently disable CHKDSK on windows 10 and 11, reason is a long story but as a summary: I work with complex custom builds having multiple SOs(mostly Linux) and 2 NTFSs ...
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Using "clone partition" of DiskGenius to transfer data from HDD to SSD copies nothing
My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) had a broken HDD. So I bought a Samsung SSD (with SATA). I inserted the SSD to my laptop and installed windows-11.
Then I took the SSD out of the laptop and connected it with ...
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How to clone only the Windows 7 system drive C: to new bootable SSD without cloning the data from separate drive F:?
This question is similar to my situation but does not provide a definitive answer:
How can I transfer Windows from a partition of an existing hard drive to a new (smaller) SSD?
It says clone the C: ...
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Windows 7 unbootable HDD - is office installed?
I have an old HDD with Windows 7. I cannot boot from it because its original mini-PC is not working. I can read all of the files on the drive. I would like to know if office is installed and, if it is ...
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Windows 7 : How to remove option to "Save Windows on external hard drive" upon plugging the drive
Small question for an annoying issue :)
I have an external 3TB hard drive I use for storage (Western Digital). I use it with an older PC, Asus, on Windows 7.
When plugging the drive, there's a small ...
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Video files corruption
A few months ago I copied a lot of video files from my laptop to an external HDD, replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD and copied back those files from external HDD to my SSD.
Now some of the video ...
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Is my HDD on its way out?
The other day I happened to notice my Event Viewer showing numerous Error 7s. "The disk...has a bad block". They have been showing up rapidly over the past couple days. So I installed HD ...
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Does anybody know how to boot a PC Desktop CQ 1010LA from a pen drive?
This PC, released in 2011, originally came with Windows 7 Starter 32 bits and now is updated to Windows 10 Home. Its motherboard is Foxcom 2ACA with Legacy BIOS, AMI 7.07 from 2011. BIOS interface is ...
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Windows 10 can not see HD SATA after ssd installation
I had a setup as below
1 SATA 160 gb Bootable (windows 7)
1 SATA 160 gb
1 SATA 350 gb
1 SATA 500 gb
I decided to buy an Samsung evo 256 gb SSD in order to replace the bootable disk
and i performed a ...
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Cannot resize NTFS Partition
A family member recently asked me if I can "make their laptop run fast again".
When analyzing potential problems it was pretty clear that the storage is the biggest concern.
Almost 0% free ...
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How do I clone Windows 7 offline? [duplicate]
I have an offline Windows 7 PC whose drive is failing. Rather than reinstalling, which takes some time for this PC, I'd like to clone it.
Are there any tools or methods to reliably clone a drive with ...
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PC restarts because HDD issues
There is an old PC which keeps restarting after the Windows 7 loading screen.
What I tried:
Startup Repair with the original installation CD (from USB)
System Restore. It says there are no changes ...
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Random bsods and freezes on new hdd
I recently got a new HDD, installed Windows 7 64 bit, and after usage I noticed some issues. I was getting random BSoDs, with error code 0x24 and 0x3b. Sometimes Windows hangs and freezes for some ...
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BSOD, failed automatic backup and internal drives suddenly showing up as "removable" on Windows 7
I've started experiencing BSOD on my Windows 7 computer.
Usually the BSOD does not have any details but one of them had the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE error.
I thought it was probably a disk or the RAM so I ...
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I have a secondary OS running on my "D:\" drive, but when I switch to the secondary OS it becomes the "C:\" drive. Is this a real issue?
I've done dual booting before, and every time before it's always been that the secondary OS would show the hard drive it's installed on as the assigned drive letter on my main OS. However I've ...
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NTFS, can the files set to be placed in the inner-most part of the HDD platter(s)?
Without setting multiple partitions (this is a well-known workaround, but I preffer not to) or using a defragmenter after the files are written (hence 2x more activity for the HDD), is it possible to ...
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"Bad" read error rate for SSD?
My Windows 7 laptop is reporting that
Windows detected a hard disk problem.
Back up your files immediately to prevent information loss,
and then contact computer manufacturer to determine
if you ...
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How do I partition my hard drive for a Kubuntu installation on a notebook which already has a Windows 10 partition?
Lenovo V145-15AST model 81MT000QED with 4gbs of ram and 500 gb hard drive
I had windows 10 installed on it in legacy or bios mode and it crashed on me so i had a fresh kubuntu USB ready 21.04 not LTS ...
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Computer works only in Safe Mode, does not boot in Normal mode
While I was using my PC, the screen suddenly entered sleep mode, then said "No Signal" and refused to accept any input, while the screen remained black. I restarted it and Windows said there ...
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How to transfer just OS (Windows 7) from bigger hdd (1TB) to smaller ssd (240GB)
I want to move just the OS off a bigger HDD to a smaller SSD. My plan is to make the HDD a storage device and the SSD the OS bit to speed up the system and eventually upgrade to windows 10. Please ...
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Can I fix a windows 7 booting issue with ubuntu?
I had a windows 7 machine working fine. Then it crashed and wouldnt boot, it wouldnt even post. So I assumed the motherboard went so I bought a new one and replaced it. Still nothing (i gave the ...
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How to troubleshoot sata problems?
I got this issue where when the computer boots, sometimes it waits up to 30 seconds detecting the one sata drive, and sometimes after this period it just says that the sata drives are empty.
At first ...
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Hard drives seemingly no longer has bad sectors on it after erase and reformat
I have a Seagate SSHD laptop hard drive. When I use Seagates Software SeaTools. The drive used to fail the short drive self-tests and the long generic test. When it failed tests sea tools would warn ...
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How to read data from a single RAID-1 Harddisk
I had a HP Gen8 Microserver with Windows 7 and two SATA harddisks in a RAID-1 combination.
Now this server is broken and I want to read data from one of the hard disks in a normal Windows 10 PC.
The ...
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How to repair boot info from Kali Linux to get Windows 10 booting again?
I have a laptop in which Windows 10 war pre-installed. I made a USB stick boot of Kali Linux and tried installing it on a partition of my disk. During the process of "Installing Base System" ...
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What should I do first? Add more ram or upgrade windows?
So hi, I have a Windows 7 Home premium 32-bit with 2GB ram and Core i5,(I've had this since 2015) and I want to add a 4GB ram to it because it started getting slower. I know that 32-bit OS won't fully ...
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Is there a safe way to extend size of a system, boot, active, primary partition in Windows 7 Home premium?
Disk Management System Drives Clip
Is there a safe way to extend size of a system, boot, active, primary partition in Win7 Home premium?
When I right click on C drive Extend Volume is greyed-out.
This ...
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i am using asus k501u and i lost my password [duplicate]
My Asus K501U was running Win10 and i forgot my password and could not login.
I do not know how to setup the laptop to bootup from the external CD ROM. The external CD Drive is SAMSUNG.
I had done the ...
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2 SSD, 1 HDD, why is second SSD much slower when copying data HDD -> SSD
For nearly 2 years I've been using 250GB SSD for system (drive C), and 500GB HDD for storage (drive D).
Today I added a second SSD (drive E, 1TB) to my PC, so I don't have to keep moving games between ...
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How to turn off Windows caching on a container file?
For a regular disk/partition, it's easy to turn off caching (useful in the case of an external HDD: you don't want to postpone writing).
But in the case of a Veracrypt encrypted container file H:\...
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