HDD + SSD Combo

After some recent laptop troubles, someone did a clean install of Windows 10 for me. Some of my issues have been solved, though others remain. Among them, I just noticed that Windows (and everything else) is installed on the secondary HDD that was supposed to be a backup instead of the SSD that...

I have a 120GB SSD as a boot drive and a 2TB HDD for games/etc. Both are getting full (though practically the HDD has plenty of room), and the near-full SSD is causing some issues with saving. What method of upgrading storage would you recommend? Specific products (cheaper > quality) are...

Hello Everyone! To explain, I currently upload and store videos for my team. Currently, I have them saved through Dropbox while syncing to PC, in order to have both a local archive and an online one that the team can access remotely. Unfortunately, I only bought a 2TB HDD and now I'm at about...

I recently ran into a problem regarding my HDDs. My files are always corrupted mysteriously when I put anything in them which could be videos or game files. I tried switching around the SATA cords and ports I connect my HDD to no avail while my SSD runs perfectly fine. I recently bought another...

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/...

Hey guys! I want to know if putting games like Post Scriptum/Hell let loose/Squad (huge map games) etc on an SSD boosts or improves fps? When im playing Post Scriptum for example in the first 10-20 mins of the game i get decent 30-40 fps but when match gets intense my fps starts to drop on 12...

I have a Dell Vostro 15 3000 After partitioning my SSD with third-party application, my laptop won't boot past the Dell Logo, I tried accessing BIOS setup by pressing F2 and F12 but my pc gets stuck on the dell logo screen. So I figured, there was something wrong with my SSD so then I removed...

I recently installed a new SSD and moved everything from my old HDD to my new SSD. At first it was fine, then suddenly they were both super slow. I formatted my SSD, removed my HDD, and installed a brand new instance of Windows from a bootable USB flash drive, and it was still suffering from...

Hi everyone I have an Asus TUF Gaming B550 Plus motherboard with an 5600x I have 2 SATA SSDs both samsung, 3 SATA HDDs (1 WD Blue, 2 Seagate Barracuda) and 2 m.2 SSDs. I just bought my second M.2 SSD for games. The first 980 PRO M.2 is in the top slot working fine, and 970 EVO plus is in the...

Hi, I'm new here just for this. There's so much information I want to give that I don't know where to start but here goes. I bought a sata kingston ssd to replace an older one I have and I had that and two "bad" hdd's, all of their data copied to the kingston. Everything was fine until today...

I’m looking for a 5 to 8 bay external drive enclosure with fan(s) and power. It needs to handle 2.5/3.5 drives and does not need raid. I’m planning on using it for a media server and a gaming drive so it needs a fast connection to pc I have USB 3.2 ports available 3 look like the old USB A and...

Experienced PC enthusiast here, looking for advice on what to do here. I'm trying to clone my mom's old hard disk (upwards of 8 years old) onto an Nvm-e. Every time I try it, my progress stops at about 40% and will not progress further. I left it overnight and still no luck. I tried defragging...

So basically I install OS in the new ssd. But does the hard drive still need to have the old OS installed? Does the hdd show as a fellow drive in file explorer and then I can easily copy/paste what I want?

Hello i have an Asus laptop that comes in with a 1 tb HDD drive and i recently bought an ssd (240 gb) and replaced the dvd drive with a rack for the hdd so i can boot the system on the ssd and use the hdd for storage (i'm pretty sure everyone is familiar with that). everything seems to work...

So I recently got this SSD (120gb) for my PC upgrade which is where I plan to reinstall my OS. However, is it possible to install windows on this ssd and clean/reformat the old HDD without using a bootable flashdrive? I'm planning on getting the os on Windows Media Creation Tool. Thanks!

i have two SSDs (128GB NVMe M.2 + 128GB SATA SSD) and a 1TB HDD. each of them has one partition. my purpose is gaming and then using some programs like Photoshop CS6. where i should install Windows in term of gaming performance? i think if i install Windows as well as my important games on the...

Hi all, My PSU recently failed, creating sparks, and was promptly replaced. Initially, when I added in the new PSU, the PC wouldn't post to BIOS. I took it into a repair shop and they managed to get it working, saying they simply took it apart and reconnected everything. They didn't reconnect...

Hello, I have two storage drives in my laptop. Main disk is KINGSTON SA400S37240G SSD and the other disk is Hitachi HTS547550A9E384 HDD. Hitachi disk is inserted in DVD rack via caddy. I have reinstalled Windows 10 and the drivers (including Intel RST) in main disk a day ago. The problem is...

I bought my laptop in 2018 and today in 2022 my application start crashing due to missing files so I scanned for bad sectors and found around 300 bad sectors in 1 TB HDD. Is my drive gonna fail or can I use it? Spec- Asus R542UQ 1TB HDD/240GB SSD Work I do in system is accounts, 3D CAD, & app...

My PC only had 1TB HDD and it's almost full, So I just buy a new 256 GB SSD to make my PC Faster. The Question is How do i format my HDD and Install Windows On SSD Step by Step? and what do i Need? (i currently use Windows 11)

I have the OS installed on a HDD 4 times larger than the SSD to which i need to clone the system + drivers + maybe installed programs. Is it possible to clone everything except the files like audio, video, rar? Without them the data would fit on the SSD but I don't have a third drive big enough...

Hi, so I just built a new PC, everything is new besides the HDD and SSD which was working in my old pc. Now when I try them in my new build it wont detect the disks in bios. Any help? Specs: Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X570-F CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x RAM: Kingston Fury 32GB GPU: ASUS Geforce RTX...

Hey all! Been a while since I've worked on PCs, so I may be out of my element with some of the jargon today. Regardless, here's what's going on. I purchased a 8TB HDD for the PC that I use for gaming. I transferred the data from the old 3TB drive into the new 8TB drive with little issue. My...

Whenever I turn on games on my PC, there's a chance of my (both) monitors to go black and lose display. Now, I won't say my PC crashes or the OS crashes entirely. I can still hear songs or my friends on discord (if I'm listening to songs or lets say, was in game with my buddies). I doubt if...

I Have one defective HDD and a new and fresh M.2 SSD, it has shown errors like Unexpected Store Exception and Critical Process Died and it has been clicking under the lightest of loads like opening a torrent client and loading two youtube videos on chrome. I have run programs like...

I own a HP Laptop 15-bw0xx. Currently it has a 1 TB HDD; I want to install a small volume SSD on my laptop while keeping the HDD in the laptop. Is this possible with this laptop? I have already tried to look through the official HP website, but the details are a bit ambiguous regarding the set...

I have SSD with Windows 11 (Samsung 870 Evo 250GB) and I want to connect my old HDD for storage. In HDD, there is Windows 7 so how to connect properly? Also I'm not sure about HDD working good or healthy. I disconnected that HDD from old PC and there was OS crash, freeze, strange sounds (from...

Currently, I've upgraded my Acer Aspire V3-471 laptop with and Crucial SSD and my old Toshiba HDD went into caddy. When I 1st installed fresh windows on SSD boot and everything was fine. So, days later when I installed my HDD in caddy then, my laptop was unable to boot. The boot order in bios...

ok so i just bought an m.2 and installed it and everything, got windows and stuff. but now i have windows on both my ssd and hdd( c and d drive) but im booting it from the new ssd. but thats not the main problem here, i cant access or open the games i have on my hdd, lets say gta, i have it on...

After I tryed to install windows 10 on a new m2 ssd when I reached partition selection I tryed to select my m2 storage that was fully formatted but it said that Windows couldnt write a GRT format or something like that, what I did was to go to my BIOS under BIOS /0S boot setting : it was in CMR...

I built my pc last year and thought at the time I would be ok with not having a SSD or m.2 so I put one 3tb HDD and only that I downloaded windows off my old laptop and downloaded its still un activated it doesn't really bother me but it might be contributing to my slow boot time and slow run...

So I recently got an SSD installed and the person who installed it set it to boot into the SSD rather than the HDD.I have very limited knowledge on computer things so I want to ask some questions about the HDD and SSDs. Will booting into the HDD as the operating system, and SDD being the...

So I recently just built my pc only with hdd for the meantime cos Im out of budget, I also bought a windows digital license key for windows 10. And now I've bought me a new ssd and I'm planning to move the whole windows os from my hdd to ssd, will that void my windows key (is it one time use?)...

Got a Samsung 970 evo plus 500gb m.2 SSD to use as a boot drive for my OS and games, and keep my current 1t Toshiba sata HDD drive as storage for documents, music and such. I formatted the SSD using the windows disk manager, then I cleaned up my hdd so it's under 500 gb, in preparation for...

I have two storages, my 512 GB SSD (C: ) for my OS, and my 1TB HDD (D: )for games and anything else. My 1TB HDD is the issue here. I'm not entirely sure what exactly happened to my HDD or whether it is dying/ dead or if it is recoverable. I'll explain what happened moments before my issue. I...

I am listing the events happened with my PC synchronously: Two months ago, my desktop PC was taking long press of power button to boot. Posted about it here. And 4 days later, OS crashed and I found that extra cooling fan wasn't spinning. Switched the power cable of that fan and it started...

Today i got a new 128gb ssd for my os as my hdd one crashed on my laptop , had a fresh installation, os working perfectly fine but my hdd connected via caddy in my cd/dvd port whatever it is called which i want to use as a storage drive is very slow, when i access the files in any drive of the...

Im trying to have a dual storage setup ssd + hdd but my SSD that contains my windows OS disappears whenever I plug another drive(hdd). So far I've tried plugging in 3 different hard drives and I still get the same results. On boot it displays "Error: no boot disk detected" etc etc. And when I go...

I have a refurbished laptop where the HDD is likely worn and faulty since it makes clicking sounds rarely. I occasionally stutter on games even that don't require too much CPU or GPU. I have gone through MANY solutions minor and extreme to fix this problem, no dice. If I got a NVMe SSD and...

My OS drive is a small 128 gb ssd and i want to upgrade to a bigger one.I am using this 128 gb drive for my OS. I am also using two 2TB hdds for storing games. If i clone the 128 gb OS drive to the new one will I lose my data on the other two drives once i boot from it ?