Recent content by tarik5

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    Not sure what configuration to choose for gaming and editing

    Hello helpful people, So I am about to buy a new desktop PC and I'm not quite sure which configuration I should choose to optimize price and performance. I am an IT student so I need the PC to handle Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio and some other development software. However, I...
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    Unable to run installers after replacing HDD with SSD

    Hello to all the helpful bunch of Tom's hardware community, I have recently swapped my laptops (HP 250 G4) HDD for a 120GB Kingston SSD due to my HDD failing after an unfortunate drop. However, after replacing the old drive with the new SSD and installing my licensed copy of Windows 10...
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    Should I trade my new HP laptop for my sisters' ASUS?

    Okay, recently I bought a new HP Laptop after giving my 2 years older ASUS to my sister. Both PC I mostly use for education and the standard streaming stuff. However, I do like to play a nice video game from time to time and this laptop is somewhat inferior to the ASUS in specs. So here's the...
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    chkdsk stops at step 2 or gets interrupted

    Okay, so my neighbor gave me his desktop PC to perform a clean install cause it was super slow and I'm pretty sure it has some malicious stuff in it. It's a really old PC, but I still wanna make this work. However, when I try to perfrom a clean install of Windows XP in the middle of the setup I...