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Hi! I'm still on Windows 10. Every now and then whenever I update the system I get the option upgrade to Windows 11. I always hit the blue "Stay on Windows 10 for now"-button. But now I'm wondering if Windows sneakily downloads Windows 11 installation files and takes up my storage space. When...

Hello everyone, My PC recently stopped working and cannot turn on without erroring and blue screening. As such, I am trying to reinstall windows on a separate (brand new) drive, so that I can preserve the old drive and copy files off after. I recently purchased Windows 11 as I couldn’t find my...

Looking for help, any help is appreciated! I haven't been purchasing PC for over a decade and my knowledge on hardware is reduced to 0. I've recently purchased a new gaming PC here and it comes with Windows 11 Home edition. It looks like a wonderful PC on paper. AsRock B650M-C motherboard AMD...

So I've just recently bought and installed this NVME drive. Functions fine no problems at all - runs at proper speed. However I have several yellow caution symbols under "PCIE devices" in Windows computer management Device Manager. I haven't installed any drivers because I can't find any. I'm a...

Hello, I'm experiencing rather unusual issue where my new PC cannot proceed with the installation of an OS. After I finished building PC, first configuration loaded correctly and BIOS works properly. I've created Windows 10 installation on a USB drive, but every time I tried to open it, it froze...

On first boot up after Windows install I'm stuck at a blue screen error. My PC keeps rebooting to this: Already tried these methods: Also, did these: Current BIOS settings: Spec: However, there wasn't any issue with the Windows 10 installation. Two days ago, I faced this this on...

So I’ve been following a tutorial on how to build a pc but the installation of the cpu cooler really has me stumped. I’ve removed the two things you have to remove and have put the cpu in the spot it should be already. I’m also doing the criss cross pattern I’m being told to use and pushing a...

My laptop was first installed with Linux mint after realising that windows is more convenient I tried to install windows10 back using a usb But nothing happens during installation even after waiting for an hour it just shows a blank screen So after countless tutorials and reading threads i...

So basically I got an SSD and I was wondering if this cable is the one that I need to put on the power slot.

Ok,so friend of mine gaved me his pc to reinstall his windows 10.When I first time installed it there was an error while installing some programs.Our friend who was pc serviceman told us that the problem was that his new username had some letters which weren't in english alphabet and that made...

I just built a new gaming PC, and I've been having issues with getting any OS to run. I have an HDD with Windows 10 installed and it works just fine on my old system, but when I run it in the new system, it keeps spitting out the "Inaccessible Boot Device" error. I also have 3 M. 2 drives...

I just got a 500gb nvme ssd to put in my pc but I can't get windows 10 to work. I tried with a usb key with the installation tool and a rufus key. However after the installation, impossible to find a UEFI boot (windows boot manager) in the bios. I tried with CMS, without CMS, with secured boot...

Really quick one - I was just building a PC for my mate and something I've never noticed before. I put a SSD in booted into BIOS, turned the PC off, and then took the SSD out - the PC was on for maybe....5 mins? When taking the SSD out even though it hadn't been used it was warm to the touch...

Hello, Recently, I’ve been running Windows 11 Dev channel builds on my PC with no issues, but I still decided a few days ago to go back to stable, which requires a clean install. I then started the reinstallation, which proceeded as normal, until after it needed to restart my PC, where it then...

I just got a new ssd and I was wondering if I need to remove the old hdd to install the OS because I've read some threads that Microsoft puts partitions of the newly installed OS on the old HDD if still connected to the system while installing a new one on the ssd.

Have just built a new PC but can't seem to install an OS. I have tried Windows 10, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora but all exhibit very similar behaviour. What happens is that at seemingly random times in the install (although for Windows it is actually quite consistent) the keyboard lights all blink...

Hello, I'm having some problems with the cooling system that came with my iBuyPower PC. It's a Gaming ELIBG101, and the specs are as following: Case: iBUYPOWER Element PRO ARGB Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-9700F Processor (8x 3.00GHz/12MB L3 Cache) Motherboard: ASRock B365M IB-R Memory: 16GB...

I just purchased a kingston NVMe m.2 and installed it on my MSI Z390 a pro, already enabled m2 optane genie but I have no idea what to do after this, the manual sucks and theres only a tutorial for doing RAID arrays, everytime I try to install windows it just wont recognize the m2 even though...

Will I run into any issues if I install an M.2 NVMe SSD on a PC that has TPM and Secure boot enabled? I had enabled TPM and Secure boot to upgrade to Windows 11 which is running on a Hard Disk Drive but now I want to install my newly purchased M.2 NVME SSD. Can I just plug it in and install...

God bless you if you actually read this all and help me out :) I am so <Mod Edit> right now because my PC just keeps running into more and more problems its like compound depreciation in operating system performance. It all started when I wanted to install some RGB fans. Nothing special, just...

I recently bought an ssd, and naturally I was going format and install windows on it. Ok, did it, but when I was going to select it to boot, it said there was no OS in that device, when I selected the hdd again it booted, but with the speed of an ssd. When I saw the file explorer, the C drive...

Hello, Windows 7 download page at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7 doesn't contain any download link any longer. Is there any way of downloading the official version from Microsoft. I have a product key, but no installation media. I don't want to download from any...

Hello I have problem. I have bought HP Pavilion 16-a0030nw and i have problem with installing Windows. I tried everything -creating bootable pendrive with rufus nfts/fat32 -creating pendrive with media creation tool But no matter what I do laptop simply doesn't detect pendrive in boot menu. I...

I have strange issue on windows 10. My account has adminstrator permissons but installations of many softwares fails. For example, I can't install discord even after running installer as administrator. Some other web apps install and I can start them but nothing renders. If I log into built-in...

Hello everyone, I am upgrading my current build, and do have a question regarding the case and PSU mounting. The case I am building into is MasterCase H500M and the PSU is Dark Power Pro 12 1500W. The question might appear silly but please bear with me since I am returning to desktop building...

I recently swapped my motherboard Asus Prime x570-Pro with the newly released Asus ProArt B550-Creator (for the built-in Thunderbolt 4 I/O ports). My CPU is Ryzen 3950x. My monitor is plugged into GTX 1050 via DisplayPort. I am trying to re-install Windows 10 (64-bit) on my Samsung Evo 560 SSD...

Can I create an USB OS installation drive with multiple OS in it? If so, then which software can I use to create one? I want to install an OS from the USB drive, not run an OS from it.

I am trying to install windows 7 on a h410 motherboard with g6400. I am installing using a usb key. When I selected to boot from the usb, I press any key to start the installation. When I get to the windows 7 swirly logo the screen freezes. I tried to turn on CSM in the bios but when I do...

Is this now becoming a thing? That is, memory slots with an moveable tab on only one end? Completed my very first build today using the MSI B550 Tomahawk. Spent 20 minutes trying to get a couple modules in. An insane experience when only one end opens up. I still have no idea how I managed to...

Planning on my first build using the ASUS B550-F ROG Strig motherboard. Thing is, the manual doesn't get as concise as the one I'd seen for the MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX - which I was originally planning to buy. Can't find a decent youtube vid (if any) on the installation of this board. Unlike the...

Hello I hope everyone is doing well, Im posting this because I have a very bad inconvenience with my PC, 2 years ago I decided to start and build my own PC these are the components of it and specs. 8GB RAM DDR4 CORSAIR Motherboard Sniper G1 B7 Graphics Nvidia 1050TI Power Supply Corsair VS600...

So I just bought a new gaming rig and assembled it. (Specs down bellow) I want to install windows 10 on my ssd, but the problem is that after installing windows on the ssd it restarts and goes back into the windows set-up. Also when I’m in the bios before the windows installation my ssd gets...

Recently, I upgraded my CPU which required a mobo + ram upgrade as well (was running ddr3 prior). I took out the hard drives and SSD setup I have. On my old computer, I had 1 SSD (256GB) with the OS and other useful applications, and 3 TB worth of HDDs. I have an ASRock b550 phantom gaming...

1 month ago i switched to ubuntu. I have 2NVME i want to install windows in one, in the other one i have ubuntu. I download windows.iso from media creation tool and go to rufus. GPT UEFI(NO CSM) FAT32 8192(by default) motherboard...

I recently installed windows on a new SSD. While maintaining windows on a previous drive I updated my new windows install but now I want to go back to my original drive. How do I do this. I uninstalled the previous windows backup (I'm an idiot don't ask). I can manually boot to the original...

Don't worry about the camera noise. I had multiple Linux distro installed beside windows 10 and after deleting their partitions and deleting those folders from the EFI fat32 System partition I ran those commands as seen above. Its perhaps also important that grub was installed and removed as...

I uninstalled my malwarebytes, disabled microsoft defender and disabled firewall from my computer but the issue still persist. Do you guys have any idea what's the problem here? I tried to use different torrent software but it didn't fix the issue. I would appreciate all of your response guys...

hi everyone, I just bought a NUC, along with two rams and a Crucial P1 SSD with 1TB. I was putting them together, the two rams showed up, and the SSD also showed up in bios under the "storage" category". however when I was installing windows, the installation couldn't find a drive to install...

I bought a new laptop (asus x512da-ej389), I plugged in a usb with windows 10, selected all the unallocated space and installed windows, and it all went ok, reset, plugged usb out, now it doesnt boot into windows, and my ssd isnt in bios, when I go back to installation, there are no drives, what...