Recent content by dbaldwin

suspect that it why my laptop suddenly developed problems.. fortunately not fatal ones.

just checked the executive tool, I am both right and wrong.. you are right that the momentum feature uses ram, but over provisioning uses a new partition.. What is Over Provisioning? Over Provisioning (OP) is a feature of Storage Executive that allows you to allocate...

Hi, not when I enabled it, using crucial's software tool, it actually created a new partition on free space.. right next to the main drive.. i think it was the momentum cache, eitherway crucial SSD software created a new partition.

i suspect an update might be coming quicker than normal, if many other laptops are doing second by second error reporting to microsoft, and people don't know or don't wish to turn it off.

exactly and not even right next to the C drive, crucial SSDs have a feature called 'momentum caching' were a reserved partition is used to cache read/write data.. (optional).. this also tends to be right next to the main C partition.. also to say on an install error it causes no problems is...

not on my laptop unfortunately, the update security patch failed, and left my laptop with near constant error reporting.. about every second the mouse icon would go busy as error reporting kicked in.. microsofts server must be getting filled up with error reports if my laptop is anything to go...