Recent content by evelynre7

My son just bought a Dell Vostro 15-3578. Dell Business Sales has been giving us different answers as well as lying about it coming with an optical drive. This was a Cyber Monday deal, and it came with a 1 TB HDD which we were fine with as long as we can add either an SSD or an M.2/NVMI SSD to...

I almost gave up there, since we don't have enough time to run the desktop with the SSD and old HDD instead of the new HDD for a day or two. The new HDD is needed for work. But instead, I double checked and did a Read scan on the SSD with HDDScan. Nothing went wrong, from what I could see...

I'm going to stick with the trial for now. I'm doing a Verify Surface scan with HDScan right now on the HDD. I'm hoping it will take less than the 40 minutes that I have for today...I will update when it's finished. It works for the SSD as well? Should I be running all of the types of Surface...

The other setup is a home-build with an ASUS motherboard, but we lent it. Seems that I didn't mention this, I thought I did- ACHI was enabled automatically on the Dell as well. Or at least it was enabled a long time ago. I found it set to ACHI already. The broken HDD was clicking more than...

I am going to try to replace the broken WD HDD- That way if something happens, I'll have another hard drive to use. Are you saying it should be safe to use the SSD with the new HDD now? Or should I just RMA both the HDD and SSD? It is very possible that Windows 10 was doing the Defrag without...

Hi, I finally got around to putting the SSD back into the PC. Sorry about the delay. Malewarebytes came up with no viruses, only some spyware. It still could be something Malewarebytes didn't detect, which does happen from time to time, so I'm not ruling that possibility out. I reinstalled...

Windows Update is doing a good job at the driver detection so far- I just got one called "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc driver update for AMD SMBus". I'll try the software you suggested to be sure (and to look for the SATA controller driver). Yeah, Windows 10 does have a few downsides to it as...

Hi, sorry for the delay. I've been very busy this past week as well. I will do that ASAP- But I will need time to test out the SSD again with the AHCI settings. I will let you know as soon as I do that. I loaded the drivers from Dell's website. I didn't do that this time, though, with the...

Sorry about that. Just kept trying things and updated as I went. That would explain the speed...So it isn't really worth it to get an SSD for this machine, from that information. This HDD is definitely better than the original, by far. Probably because it's 7,200 RPM. About the files...

The issue is seemingly fixed. I tried to install Samsung's Magician software, but the installation kept getting stuck. So then I went to This PC-->C:-->Properties-->Tools and ran a disk check on there. The SSD now says it has problems, although it was fine before. It froze whenever I tried...

Sorry, I always just clicked reply and it would put in a quote. 1. Ah right, totally forgot. Yes, it is a clean install, on the SSD. 2. We have had power outages before, but not since the newer HDD was installed. I have no idea how many outages. We don't get them often, maybe once or twice...