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    Question Can hard drive failure affect cloud storage?

    If a hard drive fails, can it affect files stored in the cloud when syncing was enabled with a folder on the hard drive? Could the hard drive fail in a way that deletes these files from said folder, and hence results in their deletion from the cloud? More generally, is there anything besides...
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    Question okay to keep display adapter permanently disabled?

    I made many other attempts at solving the issue, but hardly any had seemed to work like just disabling NVIDIA Quadro P2000. Uninstalling it also worked, but I felt that just disabling it would be less extreme than uninstalling it.
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    Question okay to keep display adapter permanently disabled?

    To cut it short, I have a program which does not work properly when the display adapter, NVIDIA Quadro P2000 is enabled. When I go to device manager and disable it, the program works fine. The question: Is it okay for me to keep it disabled all the time? Is it safe? Should I expect any adverse...
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    Question Fresh install of Windows 10 - what do I need to reinstall

    I swapped out the HDD that came with my Lenovo thinkpad P52 for an SSD and did a clean install of Windows 10 on it, and I am wondering what programs and applications should I reinstall. The following were previously listed under programs in control panel before the clean install: NVIDIA HD...
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    [SOLVED] Is a clean install necessary after a motherboard change?

    I sent my thinkpad P52 to Lenovo after an issue occurred at boot up (I think it was to do with Intel ME). I was informed that they changed the motherboard. They probably did a factory reset on the HDD that was in the thinkpad when it went for repair, but after receiving it back, I removed the...
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    laptop repeatedly switching on and off at startup, and other problems

    (NOTE: SKIP TO THE 4TH PARAGRAPH FOR THE MAIN ISSUE) I restored to a system restore point on my thinkpad P52 (the drive of which is a Samasung 970 Pro SSD), and after the PC restarted, I saw a black screen with the spinning circle in the lower middle part of the screen indicating that...
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    Can't create recovery drive - What next?

    I tried to 'Create a recovery drive' on my new releatively new thinkpad P52, but I got the following error message: 'We can't create a recovery drive on this PC Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can't start, use your Windows installation disc or media.'...
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    [SOLVED] Leaving Hard drive cable and bracket in pc?

    Okay, thank you for the information. A somewhat related question: what if you were to remove the HDD and store it away with the cables and bracket still attached to it? Would it affect the drive in any (positive or negative) way?
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    [SOLVED] Leaving Hard drive cable and bracket in pc?

    Excuse me if this seems like a silly question, but does it make any difference if, after removing the HDD from a PC, you leave the bracket and cable (by which it was connected to the PC) in the PC?
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    [SOLVED] BIOS order for booting into SSD?

    I have cloned my 500 GB HDD to my Samsung 970 Pro SSD, and now I want to boot from the latter. I have gone into the BIOS to change the boot order, but it was not clear to me specifically how I should cahnge it, here is an image of the current boot order...
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    [SOLVED] EaseUS Todo Backup MBR clone?

    I used the cloning tool on EaseUS Todo Backup Free to clone a 500 GB GPT HDD to a 1TB GPT SSD. Near the beginning of the cloning process, it read: 'Start cloning MBR MBR clone completed' and then continued in the process, as shown in the image...
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    Check for data on uninitialized ssd?

    I have just installed a new Samsung 970 pro ssd into a new laptop, but it is appearing as uninitialized. I understand that initializing it reuslts in its data being erased, but I am not sure whether there is any data that the manufacturer put on it or not (like warranty information etc). Is...