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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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Transplant Windows 7 Partitions to new hardware [closed]
I have several partitions on an old Windows 7 laptop (2010) that I want to transfer to newer 2019 hardware. I understand there is a mismatch of driver configuration but I would like to see if Windows ...
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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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computer booting then reporting no drive
Im having a very odd problem with a windows computer.
bios reports 2 nvme ssds in raid 0, leaving bios the computer will boot into windows and will fully enter windows (past sign-in page) but after a ...
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
Introduction
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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How to add NVMe drivers to an SSD to a cloned Windows installation to use in new computer so the system can boot?
I used a disc cloning software to clone a non-nvme drive into an NVMe drive.
The problem is that I need to add a couple drivers for Windows to boot. Namely, the NVMe drivers. This includes 2 hotfixes ...
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Slow performance on Windows to Go installation
I Windows 10 installed on an external SSD that is connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, which I guess used to be called USB 3.0 and has an advertised speed of 5 Gb/s. The SSD has a speed of 20 Gb/s.
I ...
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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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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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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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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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Should I replace my SSD when it has 8 KB of bad sectors?
I have 8 KB in bad sectors. When I first found it I didn't do anything about it and checked 2 months later, but the number hasn't gone up, it remains 8 KB.
Free space verification is complete.
Windows ...
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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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USB SSD drive corruption when moving it between Windows 10 and Windows 7 machines
I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 (500GB) which has been formatted as an NTFS volume and contains my iTunes music library.
For the majority of the time, I am using it on a Windows 10 system where I ...
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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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My cloned HDD (win7) boots on new hardware, but USB doesn't work in Windows. Works fine in BIOS. How to fix without working mouse/keyboard?
I guess this is not 'best practice' but I was hoping to make it work. I created an image of my old Win7 system, then wrote that image to a new SSD. (used Macrium reflect and booted into WinPE to write ...
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How can I combine two existing Windows installations on different partitions, one disk to make a dual boot system?
I want to create a dual-booted system, combining one existing Win10 and one existing Win7 installation. So far, I managed to
copy them both to one SSD (GPT) with partition software, the Win10 ...
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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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How to setup dual boot when the second OS is copied from another system?
I have PC#1 with Windows 10 installed on its SSD drive. I have PC#2 with Windows 7 installed on its SSD drive. What I want to do is combine those 2 already-installed OS on 2 partitions of the same SSD....
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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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First experience with new SSD - slow, resource hog?
I just bought my very first internal SSD and installed it into my desktop PC. I was running out of disk space and want to use it for data storage. The OS is installed on the first disk, which is a ...
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Use a Flash Device for ReadyBoost with SSD
I have a rather old computer - an Asus Zenbook with just 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD.
Using Firefox, running a few tabs simultaneously, I sometimes get a notification telling me the system is running ...
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How to discover when HDD/SSD was detached?
I would like to check when was the last time (with date) a particular SSD was detached from my computer (Windows 7).
I know that I can find some information on the registry and on the event log, but I´...
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Deleting SSD partitions fail, after initializing restores old partition table
I have an SSD that worked with Windows 10, but after an update, it did not open again. I tried to restore the system but it failed, I tried to format it as an external disk but always failed, I have ...
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How to resolve Hard disk failure with new external SSD
BIOS Boot Order
I have an error message on startup (SMART Hard Disk Error has detected an imminent failure, run the Hard Disk test in systems diagnostics). I can't even get to the login screen. I have ...
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How to solve boot in Laptop/Notebook after cloning Windows 7 64bits OEM from HDD to SDD?
I have cloned my HDD to SSD. The files can be seen when the SSD is plugged in as external device, but the SSD itself will not boot.
My original system:
Laptop Acer Aspire 5733-6432
Windows 7 64 bits (...
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Is it safe to move Apps like WhatsApp/MS teams stored in AppData/local folder from C: drive to D:?
Like suppose if teams folder is located in AppData folder. If I directly copy this folder to D drive and then use the application file in the folder to launch teams? Is this safe or I will break my ...
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Can i Install an operating system in SSD?
I have only 250GB SSD in my laptop. There are already 2 OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Now I want to install kali Linux. Obviously I can't install it in this condition of my laptop. So I decided to Buy new ...
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os-prober fail to find Windows 10
I got 2 hard drives
Samsung nvme SSD (Linux)
Kingston SSD (Windows 10)
Boot options:
Storage: UEFI
Fast Boot: Disabled
Firmware options
Boot menu
This is working:
Fist I installed Arch Linux to ...
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Clone of laptop HDD to SSD fails
I recently decided to update my wifes old Compaq laptop by adding more memory, which was very easy and now want to replace the clunky old HDD with a Crucial BX500 SSD.
Using the Crucial version of the ...
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What will be the best to increase the speed of the computer i.e. RAM should be increased or SSD should be installed in the computer [closed]
I have Dell,i5 laptop 7th generation windows and I am a android developer and we know android studio requires a lot of memory. So, to increase the working speed of my computer what should be done. I ...
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"KB2990941" "The update is not applicable to your computer"
I got an NVMe SSD. I intended to put it in my Linux machine but the only PCI Express slot that's free is too small. I put it into another machine, the problem is the one I put it into is my Windows 7 ...
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RAID 5 with SSDs; how many and what class of SSDs to use?
I have a 850 EVO 250gb as win/programs/games disk and I am thinking buying more SSDs to go with RAID 5 in order to gain more speed. I know the pros and cons of RAID 5.
The question is:
5 cheap 120gb ...
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"No Device Drivers Found" when trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD
I am trying to install Windows 7 onto a Samsung 860 Evo SSD, but I have been getting "No Device Drivers Found" after I click "Install Windows." I have been using this guide for many years and have ...
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What are the causes behind SSDs displaying less available space than there actually is?
I have a Kingston A400 128Gb SSD as the boot drive. It's almost brand new. And for a while, I had had a problem of runaway drive usage by an unidentified source and the drive would be permanently out ...
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mSata m.2 SSD not detected on Windows 7
I have a Dell Latitude laptop. Its motherboard has problem and I cannot use that laptop anymore. I want to recover data from that HDD. It is mSATA SSD by Lite-On IT. I bought an Orico M.2 NGFF ...
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Is hiberfil.sys used for anything other than hibernation?
I have a desktop PC where hibernation is enabled, but it is never used (AFAIK it has never been used).
However, there is a 12GB hiberfil.sys file in the root directory of drive C: (SSD).
I was ...
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Motherboard blew a few capacitors. How should I migrate the system?
So, the motherboard of a customer’s system blew a few capacitors and replacing the motherboard with one of the same model is not an option as it is out of production now. The system won’t stay turned ...
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Recover files after deleting and merging partitions on SSD
In the Windows Installer's Partition Manager I hit "delete" on the two logical partition reserved for the system (the first is the ~100 MB which was created by windows and the other was the rest of ...
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Can't partition my SSD because of an immovable object
I wanted to dual-boot arch with win 10, but I can't shrink my partition because of the file further down. I've searched the internet and found that it has to do something with Intel's Software Guard, ...
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Misterious slow performance on Windows 10
asus zenbook ux32vd
Windows 10, Windows 8.1 , At first, they both work fine, but after several months of using I experience terrible lags when I:
Play youtube
Edit photos
Edit videos
visit website ...
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One folder in Windows 7 very slow on SSD
I have one folder, in particular my 'Downloads' folder, that windows is struggling to read. It gets there in the end but even sorting the files by date takes a could of minutes. It is only about 500 ...
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SSD Speed Half As Expected
I have bought a SSD recently. I have checked its speed with several software but speed is only half as expected.
SSD is installed on SATA 3/6Gb/s and company informed SSD speed is about 550MB/s but ...
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Moving VM from hard drive to SSD
A hard drive was replaced with a much faster SSD. The contents of the hard drive, including a Windows 7 VM for VMware Workstation were copied over. Is there anything that must be done so the VM and ...
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Why Windows 7 will not install when using Marvell MST644R HyperDuo?
I recently wanted to upgrade my desktop by adding a VANTEC (Marvell) UGT-MST644R (2mSATA + 2SATA) Raid card with HyperDuo capability. I also purchased two 240Gb SSD cards that fit directly on the ...
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Upgrading to Windows 10 Pro from Windows 7 Pro and migrating hdd to ssd
I'm upgrading to Windows 10 Pro from Windows 7 Pro and migrating my hdd to ssd.
Which should I do first.
The hdd has 221GB free out of 465GB.
The ssd is 1TB.
And I have a 2TB USB external drive.
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Can I clone windows 7 with standart widows 7 tools?
I tried xcopy c:\ f:\ /s /e /h /i /c /y in cmd to no avail.
I set up new ssd as boot1 priority, to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?
I read that somehow I need to copy reserved by the system 100 mb ...
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Internal Disk randomly becomes unmounted on Windows 7
I have several hard disks in my rig. C: is an SSD, so is D:. E: and T: are both HDDs. The issue I described in the title exists with D: (and only with D:). Sometimes, when I boot up my computer, it is ...
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How to enable Hardware Encryption on Crucial MX500 SSD?
I have bought a 2 TB crucial MX500 SSD drive, and just installed it on a Windows 7 x64 machine, motherboard Gigabyte EP45-DS5 as a data drive.
Using the crucial Storage Executive software, I can see ...
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