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Also, I just noticed that when I insert a USB stick it shows it as the Active Primary Partition. All others are Basic Data Partition.

Samsung EVO 850 SSD 250Gb - Disk 1 (drive D) with Active primary partition and a recovery partition. This drive is empty, has no Windows OS files and I have recently formatted it. Samsung EVO 960 NVMe 250Gb - Disk 3, current boot drive, selected in BIOS and works without 850 SSD connected. I'm...

It boots fine with the D drive unplugged. I plugged it in when it was on but it didn't appear anywhere. I looked in disk management with it unplugged and there were no Active primary partitions.

I don't think that's what I want to do. I want to make my current boot drive the active primary partition.. don't I? But the option is greyed out.

But it's already assigned a drive letter, all I can do is change it.

Is this normal? Disk 1 is an old SSD that I probably used to run an OS on, its MBR and is the Active primary partition.. but it has no OS on it anymore. My OS is running from disk 3 which isn't an active primary partition, is GPT and is a much faster NVMe. I am unable to make disk 3 (the C...

Ok, I've disabled Speedshift. It's still jumping around a lot but maybe less. At idle it went down to 0.99Ghz, still boosts to 4.3 as I look at it in taskmanager with only this window open. I read somewhere that disabling Speedshift might improve gaming but it was a matter of opinion.

To be honest I shouldn't complain, my system feels quite stable right now and I'm getting good performance with games and temps tend to be below 70C. GPU scheduling may not provide much performance gains anyway as my CPU is not bad.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/502444/geforce-grd-52225-feedback-thread-released-101222/ Turning off scheduling is their recommended work-around. Yeah I've tried that before, set the minimum setting to 5% and its still idling over 4Ghz. Strangely enough it...

I've flashed the new BIOS and installed latest chipset. Can't do a hard reset of BIOS yet as I have a cat sat on my PC seeking the warmth. I've noticed that it idles at 2.47Ghz in high performance mode, Balanced mode it ranges from 1.5Ghz to 3.9Ghz, Power saving much the same. Ultimate...

Thank you for all your replies. I don't think I've ever reset the CMOS after updating the BIOS, is that always necessary? Only just found that there has been another BIOS update released in October so I'm going to flash to that one. If there's no change then I'll reset the CMOS. I don't...

Hello, as the title says, my i5 11400F is only boosting when I use Ultimate power mode. I have a MSI B560m pro-vdh motherboard and have Intel boost enabled in the bios but it doesn't happen unless I'm on this power mode. It stays at boost and doesn't go down to 2.6 at idle unless I change the...

The original Win 7 boot drive is MBR partitioned but I presume the SSD is GPT (I haven't plugged it in yet). Would this still be a problem? It was a fresh install of Win 7 so cloning should hopefully have no issues. I realise I only have one license for Windows but I foolishly installed it on...

Can I clone Windows 7 to my Samsung 850 evo SSD from my HDD (using the migration software), then upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 on the SSD (with full OS on usb stick) and still be able to run windows 7 on the HDD in dual boot? I have the serial for Windows 7 but not for 10 as I reserved the...