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    [SOLVED] Do I still need to manually overprovision a new SSD in 2024?

    I will be moving some of my games into a new SSD, but with their rising prices recently I could only afford a smaller drive than I had hoped for, so if it's not necessary I'd prefer not to do it. If you need to know, the SSD is a Teamgroup GX2.
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    Question How to get rid of this error message?

    View: https://imgur.com/a/uGAx9DF I have already uninstalled it using "add or remove programs" and deleted all residual files that I can find. Well it's not machine-breaking or whatever, just kind of annoying every time I start up my PC. Thanks in advance.
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    Question PC starts up with no display, shuts down briefly then auto restarts, still with no display ?

    This started happening after I ended up gaming for longer than usual, maybe 6 or 7 hrs straight? At the first two or three occurences, doing a power drain fixes it, but now it's just a hit or miss. This happens usually once a day when I turn it on for the first time for the day, but sometimes...
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    Question Unwanted Items in Windows Update

    So I finally felt compelled to update Windows again after almost half a year. But when I hit "update", I noticed some strange items being downloaded that could potentially cause trouble for my pc if they get completed. These include: what probably looks like an old NVIDIA display 27.21.14.5751...
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    [SOLVED] Inexplicable GPU slowdown

    Update: I yanked out the ssd and plugged my old hdd back in, and the problem mostly went away, but is still a little perceptible. Guess I'll stick with my good ol'spinny drive for a while longer and just sell off the ssd since it's still new.
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    [SOLVED] Inexplicable GPU slowdown

    It's a brand new msi mag 550w psu. And the RAM combo was 2x1 and 2x4 GB in triple-channel. Was 18GB previously but that major issue I had left the last two 4GB sticks(or their slots) unreadable.
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    [SOLVED] Inexplicable GPU slowdown

    My PC just went through what's for me a quite stressful experience when it suddenly just had a DRAM failure that I frantically scrambled to fix to no avail. Somehow though, after a few hours it managed to fix itself. But afterwards, my graphics card that was easily running my favorite game at...
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    [SOLVED] BSOD: Inaccessible Boot Device when switching to AHCI

    So I finally made the jump to a new SSD to re-energize my ancient Intel X58 system. Cloning went fine, fired up the new drive and... meh, I didn't feel that much improvement. Heard that ssd needs AHCI to run at full whack, so into the bios I went (non-UEFI btw, just the good ol' legacy) and...
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    Wait nvm, you mentioned MBR in your instructions so I guess it really needs initializing first
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    Just video shows I collected and some installers that I probably don't need anymore.
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    I see, thank you I guess I'll just find a way to merge them after cloning. Before I proceed, can I do so even if the disk is not yet initialized? Edit: the ssd I mean.
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    Here's the setup of both partitions before I proceed. Will that result in a partitioned ssd after it's done cloning? View: https://imgur.com/a/VSveqDS
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    I mean I still want the contents of D to be cloned also, but I don't want to end up dividing the ssd into two partitions again if possible. It only contains videos btw.
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    Can you pls help again? I forgot to mention that my hdd is partitioned in two as shown in this setup of Macrium, but I do not need those partitions anymore. Will it still divide the ssd into two if I inserted all my partitions in there? View: https://imgur.com/a/VCDC82P
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    [SOLVED] HDD to SATA SSD cloning without USB

    I'm having trouble with downloading macrium, it went way over 100% download progress and then hit a MD5 check failure (error code 2), but the installer did download successfully. Do I still need those appropriate PE components tho? I have windows 10 20H2