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I tried switching the sata port the old drive was plugged into and it somehow boots now. Any idea on how to fix the issue where it doesn't boot if the old drive isnt plugged in?

Some years ago my hard drive was acting up and wouldn't boot, so I went and bought a new one. I just plugged in the new one without removing the old one and installed windows on it. Once I was in I realised all my files were still accessible on the old drive, which was great. I copied them over...

Getting terrible performance, not sure why? These are my specs Asrock 980DE3/US3 AMD FX-6300 G.SKILL Ares 2x4GB DDR3 1600 MHz EVGA GTX 970 SSC Antec NeoEco 520W PSU WD Blue 1TB HDD It’s a fairly old build, 2013/2014, and it used to have a gtx 650ti but I swapped it out for a gtx970 a few...

PC won't connect to my wifi network. Won't even show networks sometimes. If I forget the network and reconnect teetering the password, it works for like 30 seconds and then stops. Connected fine to my phone's hotspot. When I try to connect I get: unable to connect to this network. The only...

My hard drives been kind of buggy since I bought it, but it was cheap and it still worked. At one point, it didn't want to boot into windows (just a flashing underscore), but I reinstalled windows and it worked as it did before. It happened again, but this time I'm buying a new hard drive...

Thanks guys, he went back and tried one of the other drivers and it works now.

A friend bought a new Acer Aspire E1-570 laptop and it had a lot of bloatware so he borrowed my windows 8.1 cd and did a clean install, he told me he deleted all the previous partitions during the install (which I think erased the driver) and when it finished, there was no wifi. I looked in...

My PC shut down today while I was playing some games, and when I tried to turn it on, it booted, almost got to windows, and shut down. I tried twice, and then I gave up. I unplugged it, opened it up and saw a lot of dust on the fans and heat sink. I don't have a compressed air can, so I just...

I ran CCleaner for the first time today, and it's coming up with 146GB of System - Temporary Files. I'm not sure what exactly is causing it, but when I go on detailed results, most of it says After Effects, not sure why. I'm afraid of running cleaner in case it screws something up. It's also...

I don't think it's the hard drive. It was working fine moments before and it won't let me boot from the install CD either.

I had a problem where my pc would boot into windows and be stuck at a black screen with a cursor, but would work after a few tries. I followed this tutorial to fix it, http://blogs.technet.com/b/ouc1too/archive/2013/10/22/windows-8-1-upgrade-reboots-to-black-screen-of-nothingness.aspx And when...

Case suggestions? If possible, under $100.