Recent content by jordawgg

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    Installing AHCI on a motherboard?

    Thanks for the help guys, I got it figured out!
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    Installing AHCI on a motherboard?

    Hello, I have recently bought a Samsung EVO and transferred my OS to the SSD. Opening Samsung Magician I get lower than optimal speeds because it tells me I do not have AHCI enabled. I am not sure what this is and how I get it enabled. I am not sure I even have it. My motherboard is a...
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    Installing AHCI Drivers on Win 7 (Need help)

    Hello, I have recently bought an SSD to use in addition to my two hard drives. I have got the transfer done and everything, and I went to test its performance in Samsung Magician. It said I need IDE/AHCI enabled. I cannot find anywhere in my BIOS that allows this, and the latest driver for my...
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    Manually Clean all but OS

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    Manually Clean all but OS

    Hello, I have been on toms the past few days here asking for help with installing a new SSD. Thanks to all that have been helping me so far. I have acquired a 120gb EVO 850 to transfer my OS to and one or two programs. I would normally just clone but I have 700+ GB of data on my HDD I really...
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    Migrating OS to SSD but keeping HDD (need help)

    Please, I need help haha. The current situation is: I have all my data backed up on the new HDD. I want to reinstall windows fresh on the SSD and keep the two HDDs as extra storage. However, I have an OEM copy of windows 7 and no idea where the install disk is. What do I do!?
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    Migrating OS to SSD but keeping HDD (need help)

    Hello, So I have recently bought a Samsung 850 Evo SSD and a Seagate 1TB Hard Drive. I have both of the hooked up to my computer (connected and everything) but I would like to move the operating system, and maybe Battlefield 4, to the SSD. I am not completely sure of how to go about this, as...
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    Looking to upgrade HDD, need help

    Thank you so much everyone. You answered all my questions. Thanks for your help.
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    Looking to upgrade HDD, need help

    Thank you all for your answers. I was wondering if perhaps these would be decent choices in addition to the ones described above. Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive According to PCPartPicker they would be compatible...
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    Looking to upgrade HDD, need help

    Hello tomshardware users, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I have a computer that I built about 3 years ago. Most of the components were new/newish at the time of the build, except for the Hard Drive. I was trying to build on a budget so I used one I had lying around. Fast forward to...