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Hey y'all, My PC has a multiple-disc layout with a Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive, Crucial MX500GB SSD, and a 1TB 970EVO Samsung EVO NVME SSD. Due to the order in which I got these drives (HDD -> SSD -> NVME), all three drives boot Windows; however, the NVME has been my primary use drive. I...

BACKGROUND: I sometimes need to backup and restore drives to/from a USB external drive. Sometimes it's a simple file backup/restore and sometimes I need to create and restore an image. I recently had to rebuild a 2TB array where I performed a file backup/restore (VM's) and it took FOREVER...

Hi everyone! I'm planning a new build in a few months, and I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on something I've been wondering lately: In my my current system, I have Windows and all my non-gaming software installed on an SSD, with my games stored on a HDD (I know, I should have...

Hello, i bought UGREEN Adapter PCIe 4.0 x16 do M.2 M-Key NVMe and Lexar 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe NM790, inserted this in one of slot in Dell T5810, updated BIOS to A33, and I tried most of the solutions from the internet and still the drive does not show up in “my computer". In the device manager...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my disk management in Windows 11. A few months ago, I bought a new M.2 SSD from Patriot (Viper VPN100) and reinstalled Windows on it. I used to have it on an old SATA SSD from Corsair (Force GS 240GB). Now I've been updating BIOS, drivers etc. and the thing is...

Hello everyone, recently I've noticed a quite uncommon behavior on my laptop, it started with an old M.2 SSD I had which was quite bad and I thought maybe the SSD was the reason so I switched to a Kingston 1TB NVMe SSD. It started off nice but then when I unplugged my laptop the usage got...

Hi, so I torrented a file containing Adobe Master Collection from one of our teachers in a university. Installed only InDesign to test the program. After a few days I started to feel that my PC is slower than usual. After looking at Task Manager, I saw that my disk, and sometimes CPU consumption...

Hi, I have recently reinstalled windows on my disk. And I wanted to create a backup of this disk in case I need it in the future. I am using macrium for this, but upon opening it, I have noticed something weird (see image). It seems as if my HDD (Disk 1 - D) has a Windows EFI Partition, for some...

Hello, I have the ability to upgrade to windows 11 from the update menu of windows 10 but won’t give me the option to select a specific drive? If not how do I do this? I want it on a different drive so I can test it and I don’t want it to overwrite current OS disk

I am not sure if thats the right category Alright so like 10 days ago my windows7 pc was lagging a lot and it took like 2-3 minutes to open anything(it still does) I upgraded to windows 10 but it got worse and on task manager it said hard disk usage 100% I tried solutions I found online but it...

For context, recently while updating windows my power had gone out and corrupted the OS on my HDD. I've had an SSD on standby for awhile now so I figured I'd install windows on the new SSD. Since then, my SSD doesn't appear in BIOS but my HDD does. BUT my SSD appears on windows (file manager/...

Hello, I hope some can help me or give me some advice. I bought a new SSD (Kingston M.2 NVMe NV1 1TB S8H40104) for my Laptop but the new SSD is very slow (around 500 mbps). It's slower than my 2nd SSD (around 2000 mbps). View: https://imgur.com/3e5ZPfY I tried already some things like...

My SSD shows around 70 degree C temperature on CrystalDiskInfo, Could it be a cause of FPS drops in games? And How do i prevent it? Do i need to put thermal pad or additional fan? Or should i keep my case open? (I have at least 5-6 fans in my case, and fan outside in the room.) On the picture it...

I recently installed a new SSD (Seagate BarraCuda 2TB) and PSU (MSI MPG A1000G). On my SSD, I am dual booting Ubuntu and Windows. At the beginning everything was running perfectly fine, but then all of a sudden after about 2 weeks or so my computer has drastically slowed down. I took at look and...

I have my windows installed on my NVMe SSD and my HDD doesn't show up in Windows (disk management, device manager, etc) but does show in BIOS. To get my HDD to show in Windows I have to boot into BIOS and exit out and then my HDD shows in Windows (file explorer, etc). Normal boot up without...

Hi, my friend has some problems with his PC, games load very slow (if they even load), his pc freezes every 10+- minutes. Crystal disk mark shows BAD disk state and some sectors being bad. We tested it through Sandisk apps (we got around 16 000 ms response times at many moments in task manager...

Hi, I ran an app called Recuva, found a bunch of pictures to recover, ran it again in deep mode and the OS would not start afterwards. I took the disk out and put it in a USB cradle and I get a drive letter but no volume information. It also causes Windows Explorer to hang. Disk Drill just...

Hello. My WD80EFz-68UW8NO crashed in my NAS and my data was lost within the NAS, i was able to recover it with disk recovery program in windows. I got an RMA for the disk from the shop, as it still has exteded warranty (5 yeas) in my country. I have screenshots of the the disk crash from within...

Hi, So i had problems with my O.S drive, an M.2 NVMe SSD. I had to reinstall OS on a different drive, and was able to run a check of the disks. though the M2 is only showing in the Bios as "PCIe remapping" it shows in the crystalDiskInfo as you can see with 2 errors Can anyone tell me what...

Does anyone know about how many gigabytes a sfc scan does? Does the size equal the system file size of ALL windows installation files, and if so how big/what portion is it? Will it only scan the OS drive?

Quick breakdown. Important info: I have 2 drives. A 1TB Samsung 970 NVME .m2 drive and a WD 500GB m2 drive. Background Computer blue screened out of nowhere. Tried all day to fix BCD error on bluescreen of death to no avail. (Created a Windows USB bootable drive to troubleshoot with and use...

This is a home PC with 2x SATA SSD RAID 1 and 4x SATA Hitachi managed by Intel Rapid Storage Technology RAID controller. Windows 10, fully patched. Task manager / Performance monitor show low activity, but nothing that would warrant permanent, constant full-on noisy disks This has been going...

Recently, I've decided that I wanted to clear up one of my SSD's (Disk 2) so I can move my files from Disk 1 to Disk 2. This is so I can fully install Linux on Disk 1, since I've been using it for my school work, development, and some gaming. Unfortunately, there is a "System Reserved" on Disk...

Hellloooo, Apologies if this isn't the correct forum. We currently use a Dell PowerVault MD3620i as a disk array for our Proxmox environment and we've recently purchased some more disks to expand the storage capacity. The Disk array is setup to use a virtual disk and is using Raid 6 As...

Hello, so some time ago I installed ubuntu with windows for dual boot, now I'm getting low on free space in windows, but I have 200gb available on the ubuntu partition that I probably will never use. My question is, how can I get that memory back on the other partition? I have one SDD where I...

Any weeks ago my nephew come home for vacations and used my PC to play some videogames, he installed many programs and after he left my PC, it stopped working and the disk missed his format. Now every time I turn on my PC I have to format the disk and reinstall windows because every time I...

Hello! I am new here. I have a problem with the convert. Windows component not worked so I useded aomei partition assistant but when I try to convert I get this message: I have 2 disks so I need to convert both disk now or what?

The problem is in the title. I had many problems with my disks (like it running at 100% in games) i fixed this problem by uninstalling Geforce Experience and disabling SysMain. To try to fix the download speed, i reinstalled windows (not formating it) and the problem still occurs. I think it's...

My PCs has had a problem for months now where when it's doing any loading or anything really the fans go crazy and in the task manager my disk, memory and cpu usage go up really high and sometimes they go up to 100% and it crashes. Sometimes it gets better after a while and calms down or my PC...

Hi, Lately I've been having this issue of explorer.exe having very high CPU usage (~30%), restarting explorer.exe fixes this - temporarily - I want to fix this permanently, I've already done a few things, here's what i've done so far: Create new User account to see if CPU usage still high - it...

Hello everyone! I'm in the process of deploying a new server (running Windows Server 2019) that I plan to host multiple VMs on. I have a RAID and/or Intel RST related question I was hoping someone could help me with. Before I get too far, let me break down the key storage specs of the server...

Hello, I have recently got a new case which came in with a 240gb gigabyte sata ssd that had windows in it. Booted fine for a few times, suddenly stopped being recognized as a bootable drive in BIOS. The thing is it is sometimes recognized and boots fine but %80 of the time it doesn't. I have...

I have this old IDE disk from 1997 which still works. When I plug it into a more recent motherboard (ASUS P5Q3 from 2008-9) it does the "Detecting Drives...." and it shows up there but the name flashes red a couple of times, with the size and all that and then the boot proceeds as normal. What...

I had recently wanted to secure erase my SSD using parted magic and attempted to do so last night, but I accidentally secure erased my hdd instead, which isn’t a big deal since it’s not my Windows drive. After I realized I did that, I went back and secure erased the SSD that I wanted to...

I recently purchased a Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 SSD, I installed it and it shows in my bios and device manager. But when I go to Disk Management it doesn't show up at all. I've tried several solutions and none have worked. specs - MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max...

Ok, so, I formatted my pc a few days ago, and my disk usage was higher than before, before formatting the pc, Windows would always use 0% of my ssd, after formatting, windows started to use 1/2/3% of my ssd. I even bought a new ssd, and after installing Windows on the new ssd, the disk usage was...

Hi, I've got a 1GB Seagate Expansion portable SSD. I have used it for over a year with this laptop and It was working fine until last night on my MSI GE62VR Apache Pro laptop. I was downloading something on the Microsoft Store to the external drive last night. I was at the same time trying to...

Hey guys i've been having weird issues with my new laptop. I upgraded and while im getting higher fps in gta 5 and arkham knight, i'm also getting a whole lot of stuttering. I used to be able to run these games on 4 gigs of ram and a worse gpu with no stutter at all (albeit lower fps) but now...

I had attempted to insert an SSD Nvme card into my pc but in the end I couldn't get it to work. My HDD at the end was even acting strange and not detecting my ethernet cable. I put my build into a new case for the first time since I build the pc in 2015. My build is CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K...

I am trying to analyze what is going on with my disk and laptop, but i dont know where to start. Whenever i try to run "check for disk errors" in the properties menu. It gives me an error, when i try to run CHKDSK it gives me errors too. I want to reset my laptop but that doesn't work either...