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I am trying to clone my hard drive which has only 256gb on it with Macrium Reflect but it keeps telling me there is not enough space!! The Source drive is a 512gb ssd with only 256gb used, the target is a 465gb external HDD. Whats the deal? I assume a clone is a bit bigger than whats just on my...

I am currently in possession of an m.2 that I have been tasked with saving the data from, here is all the info I have gathered: It cannot be seen by Windows 10 in any way that I've tried other than through Disk Part in command prompt (can't be seen by disk management). Command prompt can't...

I build 2 PCs quite some time ago and have been using an SSD for years. I never knew that drives will eventually loose their information if they go too long without power. Even USB drives? How long is this period? Also, SSDs have a finite number of times they can write? And apparently its bad...

My Acer laptop no longer recognizes the internal 2.5" 2 TB Seagate HDD that has worked for the past year. I had a 500 GB Hitachi scrapped from a previous computer that I inserted into the exact same Sata input and it read no problem. So I concluded I must have ruined the hard drive and...

I have a long story of problems happening on my laptop DELL LATITUDE E6410: A week ago my laptop fell from the table and one of the RAMs (I didn't know) wasn't working anymore, so I was working with 2GB RAM for a week and I felt the laptop was going slow. I thought it was like that because of...

Is it ok to use a 4TB seagate skyhawk hard drive for this use case? I heard that it has a lower read speed versus the ironwolf or traditional hard drives, since it is designed for 24/7 writing. Is it really that detrimental for my specific use case? Or is it not what they say it is? Considering...