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Hello, Been having this problem for a couple days. Upon every reboot, two out of my three drives keep disappearing from file explorer. They do appear in my Device Manager and always come back as "Unallocated" space. One is an off brand HDD that's worked just fine for the past 4 months, and one...

I recently upgraded my PC and with this did a fresh install of windows. I wanted to temporarly connect my old HDD's to transfer the data over to the new m.2 that I have, but the HDD isn't showing in the file explorer. It is however showing up in disk management but as "unallocated". I have...

So I want to install Pop!_OS and I need to select either of these 2 drives. I'm sure the top is HDD and the lower is SSD so what do I choose to install the OS? Personally I thought I'd use the HDD for backups. So where does the OS go? Btw win10 is installed somewhere and I don't mind overwriting...

I have a western digital 1 TB har drive 3.5 in and I have the drive trays that were advertised as 3.5 in ones. The tray does not fit around the drive though it seems about half an inch short, don't know why they don't fit because I specifically searched and checked for 3.5 in, anyone know...

My PC has 5 drives: a system NVMe M.2 SSD, two SATA SSDs, and two SATA HDDs. Once in a while all the SATA drives would suddenly disappear from the explorer. Disk Manager shows them as unallocated with seemingly empty MBR partitions. While the partitions on the disks can be recovered and...

Hey guys, will this M.2 drive fit this laptop? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-wd_black-sn750-nvme-500gb-internal-pci-express-3-0-x4-solid-state-drive-for-laptops-desktops/6338994.p?skuId=6338994...

Hello, So long story short I was irritated about hearing my mates pcs' boot in around 15 seconds (2 drives) and 25 seconds (3 drives) and after research I realized my 5 drive system takes longer (34 seconds) due to having so many drives and it taking longer for the I think mobo to read them...

Hi everyone! Recently i bought the samsung 970 evo 1TB SSD card to upgrade my laptop. I wanted to remove my old 128GB SSD and put in this new one and then transfer my OS to the new drive and use my 1TB HDD as storage. I unplugged my current SSD which came with the laptop when i bought it in...

hello, i am a tech enthusiast but know little about component power. i recently received an mSATA SSD and my old pc has a mPCIe slot. i know that some motherboards support both types of cards interchangeably but mine probably doesn’t and i’ve read that the powering is slightly different. .. is...

Hi, My server has a 180gb SSD (R-480MB/s W- 72MB/s ). Both my desktop and the server are on a one-gigabit connection. When I transfer a test file, I am only getting, max 115MB/s. Is this because the drive is a bottleneck? The same thing happens when I test another drive in the server 1tb HDD...

I want to buy 2TB hard drive. Despite not really wide choice, i'm unable to find any info that would ensure me which drive is correct. I want to use it as an external drive in HDD hub. It will be used for backups and "data not worthy of being on internal drives". It will be accessed every few...

Very sorry for the stupid question, everyone. Not much of a tech person. My laptop was giving me the ‘no bootable device’ error so I decided to try unplugging it and plugging it back in. The drive itself is on the plate that lifts up so it automatically got unhooked when I opened my laptop. I...

Hi everyone! I'm soon getting a new gaming PC, I've decided on two 1tb m.2 SSD drives for storage. The questions I have today are about where to store each kind of data: OS, Apps/Games (Now referred to as Install), and Data (Documents etc). It's the apps and games ("Install"), that I am...

Hey! My computer has been running on a single SSD and everything is installed on it, but now that I bought an NVMe M.2 drive to expand the storage I want to install it the right way, so I have a couple of questions regarding the correct process. I'll be using my computer for primarily for...

So recently on this PC I wanted to dual boot install Kali Linux, so I shirked my D- Drive 20GB and went to create a new simple volume and went on to create a new simple volume and this error came up : I tried all the available solutions on the internet which says to change my drive to MBR, GPT...

To all on community, Looking for any help as to why a drive is not showing up on my PC. Bought a brand new 5TB Seagate external HDD. When I plug into my desktop, the computer makes the "ding" sound when it is is plugged in, but the drive is no where to be found. The drive shows up in the device...

Hi, I bought a second M.2 (Crucial P5) for my build but Windows won't recognize the drive. I haven't installed anything on it, just plugged it into the port on the motherboard. In BIOS it will show up under boot priority. In Windows, however, the drive is not displayed in Explorer. I also...

Hi all, My friend is having a problem with his system, his system currently has os(windows 10) installed on ssd sata, and then he bought a WD Green NVME M.2 480GB drive, he installed it on his motherboard(m2a socket/top socket), on his system bios we can see the nvme drive, but we cant see it...

so i got RATS (maybe, at least im paranoid enough to reset win10) i know without knowing the type/kind of RAT, it would be hard to answer this, but what is safe to backup before reset let me ask more specifically 1. can virus/rat attach to random text and media and program files in my hard...

Hello, Back in high school when I had a gaming laptop, I got myself a 970 EVO NVMe M.2 drive. After a few months, it died on me. It was RMA'd but the problem persists. I assume it's the heat so I shunned NVMe's and never looked at them ever again. Now I want to get back into having...

the problem arised when i didnt do the "safely remove usb" and disconnected when a video was being played from the hdd. now when i connect the hdd, it shows in the device manager however it doesnt appear in the disk management and after 2-3 minutes it disappears from device manager also and...

Hello. I wanted to install windows 10 on my laptop and I needed to change my drive from MBT to GPT. So I did that by connecting my H.D.D to another PC. I copied all my files to that PC, converted my H.D.D to GPT then copied my files back to my drive and then installed windows 10 on my laptop no...

I have a Samsung 860 QVO, and i've noticed that my idle temps are bit higher (maybe it's because of summer temperatures?) but while just browsing with chrome I sit at around 40-45c idle, and earlier today I noticed that it peaked at 55c while I was playing in VR.

I want to move 100GB from E:\ to C:\ but Minitool gives an error for every action I perform with these drives. I even tried to change E:\ to Logical drive but errors and nothing else. What's wrong with my drives and how can I fix it? Here is the screenshot.

I am aware of the old adage "Molex to SATA, lose all your data." but I don't have enough money for a good PSU at the moment, so I have no choice but to use one of these adapters. I understand that I should buy the punchdown-type cables instead of the molded ones since the latter always ends up...

Hi, I have two CD ROM Drives. Following information is available in device manager: 1 - PLDS-DVD+-RW DU-8A5LH usb device 2 - TSSTcorp DVD+RW SU-208GB upon some search i found that TSSTcorp stands for TOSHIBA SAMSUNG STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION. Does it mean that this drive was made with...

Hey Guys & Gals, My old LG blu-ray died and need a new model. My problem is I do not know what is best internal LG Blu-Ray writer. I only use LG drives ever. I want to be able to play 4k blu-rays and also large capacity Blu-ray disk. My problem is i have no idea anymore what is the best...

There were previously 2 partitions on this drive but I've moved everything on the other one somewhere else and erased it, expanding the other volume step by step. Now it seems as is every time I did that, instead of enlarging the current region, it kept adding more and more regions. Does this...

Hello, So essentially, I've had the SSD for quite a while now and haven't noticed any problems until I tried to fix my intel optane 16gb module. So my optane module broke a while ago and I hadn't been bothered to fix it until recently. This led me into my bios to attempt to get it working...

i have dell laptop xps 14 L421x and I want to install window 10 with Intel Rapid Boot Technology (IRBT) and Intel Rapid Storage Technology IRST) but in my laptop i have 2 hard disk 500 GB HDD and 32 gb SSD with bootable USB drive in which hard disk i installed and unzipped the Intel Rapid...

Hello, I had a fan that was not working so i had to see which one it was, after i realised and fixed which one it was. I booted up my PC, somehow it went direct into the bios settings and i saw that the SSD was not there as an option to boot. I tried to shut down my PC manually but it wasn't...

I have little experience with legacy hardware, so please excuse my confusion. So long story short, I don't want to buy a new DVD drive. I'll never use it and it's not worth my investment. I do have an old, legacy Sony DVD ROM (circa 2006). The older DVD drive utilises an IDE connector (of...

Hi guys, Hope you guys can help me out, so I've got a 5tb WD Elements External Drive that was plugged into my pc, however I've changed my setup around and put my desktop under my desk, I've re-cabled everything back up and now the external drive is showing as unallocated, I have quite a bit of...

Hi im trying to fix a acer laptop that has its operating system deleted and the drive is saying it has no space im in command promt the drive doesnt show up while i do list volume in diskpart i have also tried to partition the drive with create partition primary but it gives me a error code...

Hi all, I plan to buy a Samsung 970 Plus 1 TB as storage drive and maybe an additional Samsung 970 Plus 240GB or 500GB for boot drive. I know SSDs do not function like HDDs. Nevertheless, I am wondering if there is any advantage to use multiple M.2 SSD (boot and storage drive separated)...

So I have this Acer Laptop, you could use it for like 5-10 mins and screen goes dark for just a split second and comeback and everything is frozen, no key nothing works. And when I listen to the hard drive I can hear a repetitive sound like its stuck, and trying to access something. But if I put...

SSD: Samsung Evo 830 120GB Windows stopped working on it recently so I had to install it on a new HDD, which is being used now. I still have the SSD connected to the m/b, and it appears in the file system, but it says "Access is denied". Permissions are all set to full access All tests and...

Hello All, Long but interesting story: I saw that my machine was in a "hibernated' state and upon "waking up" my computer, I saw that it was in a Windows 10 update cycle ("Working on updates 30% completed"). Upon an automatic reboot done by the update, my machine received "Bootmgr is missing"...

Hello. I bought a 500GB external SSD - Samsung T5. It says it supports speeds up to 540MB/s. I have tried to transfer large video file on two different laptops(Dell 3552 and Acer aspire s7), but on both I get 22MB/sec write and about 40MB/sec read. We even tried to transfer file to phone...

I currently have a 860 EVO SSD 1TB M.2 860 EVO SSD 1TB 2.5 Inch Sata 860 EVO SSD 500GB 2.5 Inch Sata is it possible to have all 3 of these as a Raid0? I'm not getting reliable information as some people told me it won't work with M.2 and Internal SSD but others tell me it will work. How do I...