Formatting

I have a Sony Vaio SVS131A12W laptop that I formatted over a year ago, and I'm curious about the possibility of recovering the formatted data. I understand that formatting typically erases the data on a device, but considering the time that has passed, I'm wondering if there are any potential...

I'm awaiting the arrival of a new motherboard, CPU and cooler in the next hour - I'm currently prepping a Windows Creation stick to reinstall Windows - however, how do I go about formatting the SSD that I'm currently using for Windows so that it's nice and fresh for the new install?

Hey guys. Hopefully this is the right forum to post my question so here goes! I have watched various YT videos prior to reaching out here but am having some difficulties with this. I am trying to format a 500gb external hard drive to use in conjunction with my Sony PlayStation 3 console in...

So, I have a 250GB 960 EVO and I just installed a 1TB WD black SN750 SE that came with Battlefield 2042 I used acrontis true image and cloned the disk, I then went to BIOS and put the new M.2 as the only bootable device. My 960 EVO used to be C:/ and the WD was Z:/ NOW, it has made the new M.2...

(Sorry for the bad english, not my first language). I bought a new Crucial MX500 SSD and I replaced my TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 with it. I then put the HDD in the optic reader slot, in a caddy. Premise: before this, my DVD reader didn't work. I installed the OS (Windows 10 64b) on the SSD via USB...

Okay, so I have many components from laptops I have disnantled. I want to use the drives in a full tower build I want to put together, and some I don't care if the data gets wiped, but there are 2 drives though from my gaming laptop that the motherboard recently failed on that I don't. One has...

Hi! I recently had some problems with my computer and decided to do a fresh install of Windows. I installed it on my SSD (C:). But when I did, many of the programs installed on my secondary drive, a 1TB HDD (F:) stopped working, but still took up space. For example I installed Halo MCC from the...

I've just had a HDD die on me today and I lost everything on it ,but the one saving grace was I have a unused 2 tb HDD to replace it. So I plugged the new HDD in and formatted it but after it was done formatting it said It ran into an error. My HDD's name and letter was showing up but It wasn't...

Here's the rundown: -I have three laptop computers, two Dells and a Lenovo, all of which I've installed (or tried to install, prepped the BIOS for) Linux Mint on -the SD card readers work, for low-capacity cards, including SD and Micro-SD card-with-adapters -I have used several Samsung EVO...

Hiya, I have run into an issue where i can't format a string to be printed. The function is suppossed to convert Binary into Text which is does brilliantly but the printed out result is formatted all the way the right and not the left. I have tried resolving this by looking up how to format the...

I opened a pc after 2 months there was windows repair error. I tried but it sucked at detecting error. I formatted and reinstalled windows 7 but it again after 2 days started giving same windows repair error. If i select start windows normally it goes into rebooting loop. Please suggest is the...

I am recording some home videos from VHS tapes to a digital copy for a friend. She wants to be able to play them on the tv with flash drive. I am having trouble figuring out why I cannot play these videos on the TV from the Flash Drive and needs some help. I can play the video on the computer...

Basically my mate has a pc that won't format, he begins a complete wipe and it fails everytime, hes done a virus scan and a few came up and he deleted them, what would possibly be stopping. Hes on windows 10.

Ok so i really hope somebody can help me with this. I bought a pre built pc a few days ago. This is a "demo" pc so i go it cheap, pretty much meant the pc was returned and not picked up again so they sold it very cheap. Now the first thing i did when i got it was check for issues, used windows...

Hi everyone! I'm by no means a computer expert, so here I am asking your help. My laptop was running pretty slow, not fluid, so I tried formatting it (following the Step-by-Step option in "Settings"). It got better, but STILL feels like a fresh clean Win10 laptop should run better. It's a...

So Veracrypt has left me with an unusable drive with a lot of important files on there. It was most of the way through the process and now will not continue. I cannot figure out how to get it to continue or even why it isn't working now. I did not stop the process without deferring. Operation...

Hi there! I just installed a brand new AMD FX 8350 yesterday, was mega super careful and all! It's in correctly and I'm using stock heatsink. I did not mess with the BIOS or overclock at all, and have no intention of overclocking at this time. Idle Temps: 45-50 Basic / Light Use Temps: 50-60...

Hi, I saw that there's an offer now for the rx 590 at 229€ plus 3 games. I would like to build a PC right now to play 1080/60fps and upgrade the system in a year or two cause the PC I have is really old. Is that card worth it? If it is, could you suggest a whole build? Thanks

I've also heard about that some monitors freesync feature does work with nvidia cards, but mine isn't featured in the compatible list(vg245h). So my question is what would be the better choice and why?

i was streaming some fallout 76 and the game ALT+tabbed. maybe i hit windows key, maybe its that weird registry bug that you have to go into the registry and change to stop it from alt+tabbing in the middle of your match. idk. it doesnt matter. My HDMI audio output is gone now. It shows that it...

Hi, I have a 9900K, and a Coolermaster C700P case. I'm looking for a motherboard with two usb 3.0 headers along with a usb 3.1 Gen 2 type c header with hd audio and plenty fan headers and whatever is needed for rgb control. I also want the motherboard to have a display port port and hdmi...

Current system I built this back in 2014 got the 970 a few years later, and replaced the mobo about a year and a half ago when lightning struck my house fried the mobo. I got lucky though all the parts were still good so i just swapped out boards and was good to go. I7 4790k Asrock z97x killer...

Hi, currently when playing games I have constant drops in FPS and it's big drops. I usually start off in a game about 170fps and then after a game or two it will dip down to 40-100 fps. Since this is happening, I think it is a bottleneck! If this is a bottleneck, what would you recommend for an...

Hello, Can I trust Gigabyte PSU, specifically this one: https://www.gigabyte.com/Power-Supply/G750H#kf My system is ryzen 1700 oc, 16gb ram, 970GTX, 4 HDD + 1 SSD, Creative sound blaster z. I will be upgrading the graphics card and the cpu in the near future, so I want the PSU to keep up...

Hi all, Recently completed a long overdue new pc build. Specs below. However I'm having issues with the ram/mb and getting the ram to the advertised speeds. My ram is rated at 3200mhz. I can run them at default speed of 2133 without problem with a stable system. I can run them at xmp profile...

will 1600mhz ram automatically downclock to 800mhz if my motherboard supports 800mhz

Hello! My PC configuration: MoBo: Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming 6 CPU: Intel Core i7 9700k (Stock) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming OC PSU: Corsair RM 850x - 850W RAM: Ballistix Sport LT [BLS2C16G4D240FSB] 32GB DDR4 2400MHz (Stock 16-16-16-39) SSD: Samsung 850 EVO All games are running in...

I have https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113089 this PC. yes its a little old but runs great. I got a new GPU geforce GTX 960 4gb DDR5. The PC does have a new CX600 corsair power supple. I installed, turned on PC. PC comes on. GPU lights up and fans come on. Screen...

My Keyboard and Mouse Usb is working to my computer but no audio output device installed i got a Logitech g560 speaker.I tried uninstalling- reinstalling the driver ,disk cleaned up up/defrag my hard drive, download driver easy or boost driver still dont work

I'd love this system to last at least 4-5 years, and I just wondered if it's doable. Haven't bought anything yet except for the case and rear fan, so all parts can be subject to change if anyone thinks there's a better option. Parts are as follows: Case: Corsair Obsidian 500D SE Fans: 3 x...

Hello everyone, I haven't done a cpu/motherboard upgrade in awhile so I've gotten a bit out of the loop. I use my pc mainly for gaming and I am currently running an AMD FX 8350 with a GTX 1060 6gb with 16gb of RAM. As you can probably imagine, my cpu is bottlenecking the GPU, a problem I wish...

I've just ordered a new custom PC build (store is building it for me) but have noticed something that might cause an issue and was wondering if you guys could please advise... I've gone with a Thermaltake Level 20 MT Tower (link as below) where the specifications say VGA length limitation...

Context: I just installed a brand new Windows 10 OS onto my Sandisk 500 gb SSD in order to increase boot time on my PC (my old OS is on my 2 tb HDD). All seems to be going swimmingly (if having to sign back into downloaded programs is considered normal for this procedure) but I can't figure out...

I will mainly do gaming and light video editing no streaming. I found a Dell Optiplex prebuilt PC which is cheaper then buying used parts since I'm on a budget. The PC has an i7 3770, 8gb of DDR3 ram, and a 240gb ssd though I might sell that and get a 1TB HDD instead for games. I was thinking of...

Hi So ive been thinking about upgrading my CPU and Motherboard for a long time. But since i am not a pro at building PC´s, tho i did build my own. But i have never gone this deep with building one so i feel like i need a bit of help So ive looked up this new setup Intel Core i7-9700K OR Intel...

I've been looking around for a cheap mechanical keyboard. There seem to be a lot of them out there is the range of 50 +/- eur but all of them come with some sort of a drawback (as expected). What I'm looking for is: - decent build and design - rgb - not too gamery font - dedicated media keys...

(Reposting this in GPU and monitor forums) My old monitor (27" 60Hz) died and I need to upgrade, which is making me consider upgrading my GPU also, but I don't want to overdo it and bottleneck my CPU. My specs are i5-3570k, GTX 660Ti GPU, ASUS p8z77-v motherboard, 16GB 1600 RAM, 750w psu. For...

My dell PC doesn't boot. What could be the problem.

Hello. This is an odd problem where whenever my 1060 6gb MSI is inserted and play games. it shuts down the whole system and sometimes with blue screen, red screen or black screen then the GPU Fans would make a vaccuum-like noise. But whenever the GPU is NOT inserted. the PC would run for days...

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