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Boot drives

Forum discussion tagged with Boot drives.
  1. ThePiePieper

    Question 3 dead Kingston NVMes in 1 year...why?

    I built a new AMD rig back at the end of 2022, all my specs and parts below. And since then, I've had my boot drive die 3 times. I have been using the Kingston KC3000 1GB as my boot drive and can't find anything, anywhere as to why or how it would die 3 times. I've OCed the CPU through BIOs (3.5...
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    [SOLVED] Boot drive priority keeps on resetting when restarting PC?

    I've noticed a problem where my boot drives will reset configuration whenever I manually reset my PC (its a ~1 week old one). I have to reenter the BIOS and reconfigure the priority to my Windows Boot Drive every time it happens. It only happens on manual restarts. Auto restarts by updates or...
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    [SOLVED] My partitions aren't acting right?

    So I had a 500GB HDD and a 1TB HDD, I got an 1TB m.2 ssd, cloned my Windows OS and other stuff from my 500GB HDD onto my m.2. it all seems to work now, but there was like 480 GBs of unallocated storage. I made a new volume with it, and it works, but it seems to be showing up as another drive. Is...
  4. GamerCyclops

    Question To a beginner in PC upgrades, would you recommend changing boot drives by OS migration or clean OS install?

    I've been looking into using EaseUS to migrate the OS from my hard drive to my new SSD so that I can use it as my boot drive, but it sounds almost too good to be true. I'm looking for a second (and more educated) opinion: what are the pros and cons of each approach, and which would you...