Recent content by Chaz-Dave

There are 100s (47700) of these entries in the event view from the time I ran checkdsk "The device, \Device\Harddisk3\DR6, has a bad block." - whatever that means - but all other checks I have done say the drive in question is 'healthy' and without error - and it only affected one of the...

Thanks for your reply - in the end I used Treesize sofware and the files were tucked away in found.000 folders. Thank my lucky stars all the file names were still intact under parent folders that had weird names. I copied and pasted them to another disk and then deleted the files that were only...

I have an external drive of 8TB (7.27TB). It has 1.30TB of free space. I had 11 main folders but one has dissapeared and there is now only 10 folders which account for 1.10TB of space. The 11th folder was the largest which took up nearly 5TB (Video). My PC clearly shows that the data is still on...

Thank you for your response (johnbl), and for not presuming that the question was based upon a false premise, as was indicated in some of the responses above. I came across the following article https://thegeekpage.com/fix-destination-path-too-long-error-in-windows-10/ which outlines the...

As noted above "This has been obvious to me because I frequently transfer alot of files" It is because I frequently transfer files back and forth that I can ACTUALLY see the difference, hence the comparative difference ... If I may say (without sounding rude) you seem to be thoroughly...

Exactly! - so why I am I experiencing it more on Windows 10? I have noted in my preamble, that despite reducing some of the files by half I still get the error (I have mentioned this all above)

Path Too Long - Far more Frequent in Windows 10 I have just moved from using Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have found that the 'path too long' error is far more frequent in Windows 10 than in 7. This has been obvious to me because I frequently transfer alot of files. Over the years I have managed...

Thanks for all your valuable thoughts – I have decided to install win10 and stomach it :)

I know where it all is and how it works. The interface is simpler than 10 and shell over is a plaster. Iv never had it, but friends that have 11 have had issues with updates. I would have tried 11 out but I am trying to simplify my life. I dont want to spend loads of time fixing stuff.

cant say, If I have lost important data, day and night... it's just time and compatibility. I don't have the time, and some for the programs I tried to install on my laptop (win10) didn't install. If that did succeed, either cloning or moving the drive – would windows automatically search the...

I don't suppose I could just unplug the internal HDD and plug it into the new PC without cloning at all? I would have preferred the interface of Win11, but I have read that it can be problematic, and MS have released a few updates that caused a few problems. Win10, the interface, not my cup of...

Cloning my existing Windows 7 to a new gaming PC, will it work ? I am expecting a new gaming pc that doesn't come with an OS, and was wondering if I could just clone my present hard drive with Windows 7 (and all my stuff on it) over to the new pc? Would there be complications?

So, it seems unanimous that 1050 isn't going to make much difference, but the 1080ti, all being well in theory, could... however when I consider how much one is, which seems to be extortionate for the age I could for a few extra hundred pounds in the UK get a half decent gaming PC ...so it...

I haven't looked inside the pc, but it must be a 500w because I am running the gtx660 currently Model H77H2-EM CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 16gb Ram 2 x SSD

{On reflection of you saying that it won't make much difference to performance, I have the following question} I want to upgrade my GPU but don't want to spend too much nor do I want to upgrade any other components {I don't want to go beyond the parameters of my current power supply} on my PC...