Operating system

I am Often Playing video games when my system will shut off, and I know that the CPU is not overheating. I have had this problem before and a computer shop said it was a problem with my operating system. Yet after re-installing windows with a different product key, the problem has come back...

I made a similar thread earlier and I thought the issue was fixed by reinstalling photoshop to another drive, but after 3 hours of working on a project the issue happened again, all of a sudden out of nowhere my whole system just started lagging extremely to the point where it took about a...

I know how to install a new hard drive fairly easily. My question is simply, how do I take an older 3.5" hard drive that has an OS on it, and put it on my new computer that has the OS on an M.2 that I'm using? Obviously I don't need the OS on the hard drive anymore, but I really don't want to...

So I did a clean install of Windows 10. Seems to be running fine, but after some digging a found out that the OS is installed as BMR, not GPT. I have read that GPT is superior, but I really dont want to reinstall OS again. cant also boot in UEFI mode too, I think thats connected. Only thing I...

- Main drive that had the OS on it failed(everything was backed up so it's all good). - I go to the Microsoft page where you can re-download the ISO to reinstall the OS on your machine. - My code works fine but...... It gives me a .exe file even though the page says download ISO. - I need to...

Crucial MX 500 1TB SSD. Used for on year, will wipe clean before shipping. I have gone to all M.2 PCI-e and the cases I'm using don't have 2.5" drive slots. $85.00 Shipped

I have a Lenovo Legion-Y520 Laptop with 1TB of HDD storage. I want to transfer just my OS and games to a new 1TB SSD, and leave the HDD for storage without removing it. Would it be best for me to fresh install Windows 10 from a USB to the SSD, and then transfer just my games over, or should I...

Hey Since Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 works only with windows 10, is it possible to install windows 10 on a different drive so when ever I want to play that game, I would switch on that drive? So that the OS would not mess up with my bios or anything with my current windows 7 OS?

What can I use to collect the drivers of a PC and reinstall it again after reformat

Hello forum! So I have a rig that was GREAT....5 years ago. My components can be found over here. I have since added 1 500gb SSD and a 3TB external hard drive. I know its about time for a new rig, but I need to get a bit more time out of the rig to save up for the new one, and I really believe I...

Hello everyone, A few days ago my CPU fan stopped spinning so I went online and ordered a new cooler and saw the guy selling it has a 1TB HDD so I bought it too. Today it arrived and I couldn't get the cooler to fit properly. I sighed and decided it was time for an upgrade anyway. So again I...

Hello, I am currently building a pc for the first time but I have encountered problems with accessing the BIOS. In looking for the solution, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is potentially related to either/or my USB keyboard and MSI motherboard (see specs below). 1. Given I have...

So my current situation is that I do not have an optical drive to install the msi dvd containing the drivers and utilities needed with the computer. Instead, I was thinking of using the Windows 10 operating system first, then going onto the relevant websites to install the software for the BIOS...

So my current storage situation is a bit of a problem. My current main boot drive was originally a storage drive, that at some point I installed a very slim Windows system to in a small partition (50GB) part way through the drive and between 2 storage partitions I resized to fit it between. Poor...

Hello; I'm currently setting up my operation system for a recent pc build of mine. However, I am wondering whether or not it is possible to safely convert my DVD ROM to a USB format on a 2.0/3.0 flash drive. I assume there is no harm in doing so but I have seen nothing related to how the...

Hello! I just upgraded my windows 7 to windows 10 and i didn't have any problems with windows 7 but when im playing a game on windows 10 it takes 50-40 mins sometimes 1 hour to randomly freeze and make some buzzing noise. SPECS: GEFORCE GTX 650 TI BOOST P8H61-M DDR3 KINGSTON 8 GB /1333MHZ...

My PC won't let me boot directly into the startup and it will just stuck in the loading screen, but when I restart it normally boots. Or if I go to the BIOS and set the boot manually. Please help, I think this would destroy my SSD's health if it continues to boot like this. Specs: Gigabyte...

Hello, this is my first timing posting into these forums but i'm just looking for a simple and explained answer. I just bought a Samsung M.2 and i'm basically just looking to transfer/clone the operating system and other files from my current 2.5 SSD over to the M.2. Is it safe and easy to...

i replaced default windows 10 sounds with windows 8 but randomly after restart windows changes sounds to default. is it same with newer versions of windows 10 too? edit: im using 1507

Hi, I enabled Fast Boot on my PC and it's completely stopped working. It just displays a message saying that no OS was detected, and to disconnect any hard drives that don't contain an OS. Checking the BIOS it didn't detect any hard drives at all I have two drives, so I disconnected the one...

2020.01.14 was the last day for Windows 7 to update! It was a long time great OS for many of us! Long live Windows 10!

Clearly, most of us here already knew this, and it's pretty much common knowledge on the forums, but it's always nice to see a somewhat official validation. As well, this should serve as a reminder to anybody still running Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 that you can, and probably should, take advantage of...

So, here's my current situation. I recently got a new PC and I'm using the HDD from my old PC (the HDD isn't that old, only a few months) which has my OS on it. I also got an SSD so that I could put Windows onto it for faster load times. Problem is, I have no idea how to get an OS onto my SSD...

Hi, i bought an ssd for my notebook, i cloned the os in the ssd but it won' t boot and don't know what to do please help me!!

Hello everyone. I am having an issue with my new build crashing all games to desktop. No error, no message, just like an alt-f4 deal. Here are my specs - Crashes happen after an hour - sometimes less sometimes more after gaming. All temps are fine and nothing is overheating. GPU - EVGA 2080TI...

facing this error while installing POP OS on my asus laptop View: https://imgur.com/0LUU9V1 (picture is blurred a bit because had just a second to catch the error before laptop shuts down) the FAILED part is causing the problem [failed umounting CD-ROM] Spec: 128gb m2 ssd windows 500gb SATA...

My pc is configured with AMD R5 1600, GTX 1050ti, Asus Prime motherboard and 8gb 3000mhz DDR4 ram and have a 240gb SSD for the system drive and 1tb HDD formatted on NTFS, So now I want to install macOS on my pc is it possible to install it on my pc and if yes which file required to install that.

I've had a weird problem recently. My PC will turn off and on constantly after powering it on via the power button on the front of the case. I haven't counted how many times it will cycle through an off and on state, but it will do it about maybe 5 or more times before it finally boots up as...

So yesterday I was on my computer and it was working perfectly fine and I downloaded Modern Warfare. Today when I started up my computer I was greeted by a black screen saying Operating System not found. I have 2 storage devices, an NVMe which is screwed onto the motherboard and it is has...

Greetings, I've recently acquired all parts I need for a new PC (Ryzen 5 2600, ASRock B450 Pro4, 16GB 2933 MHz RAM, GTX 1660). I currently have my Windows 8.1 installed on my SSD (240GB), as well as Kaspersky Antivirus (y'know, excluding less important programs), and pretty much every other...

A while back I wiped an ssd for my brother while my main ssd was still connected to the system (rookie mistake), and ever since I have gotten this error every time I boot windows. From here I press F9 (first window), and select the second option (second window), which boots windows on my main...

Greetings, I'm currently using Windows 8.1 with an AM3 socket motherboard. I was intending to upgrade to a Ryzen 5 CPU alongside a B350 chipset motherboard, and upgrade to Windows 10. My question is, is it possible to install the motherboard and CPU (and GPU, but that's not that important)...

Hiyo, Tom's Hardware folks. Been a long time. I'm looking for some assistance after having installed a new MOBO (Asus TUF Z390-PRO) and CPU (i9-9900k) onto a system. After rummaging with the system as it was for a day, I decided to make the decision to do a fresh Windows install (while buying...

Hi everyone, A year ago I bought a 500GB Samsung evo SSD for my OS and main games. I managed to install Windows 10 onto this SSD and boot from it in BIOS by changing some settings, and then I reconnected my Hitachi 1TB HDD. However, now that I am also upgrading my HDD to a newer HDD I have...

Hi there, first post in the forum and I'm a total noob when it comes to hardware and stuff (way more of a software person) so forgive me if this is wrong in any way, yikes. Anyway, I'll try and summarise as quick as possible! About a year ago I bought a £600 'gaming laptop' on Amazon, which was...

Hello I have some doubt I am trying to make my 16 GB pendrive bootable flash drive after the OS can I change the flash drive into normal one (if once we can make bootable device it will not back to normal?)

I was trying to wipe all files from my HP laptop model 15-bs013dx. However it was stuck at 1% for about 4 hours. So I did a hard shut down and now when I start it it says "boot device not found Please install an operating system on your hard disk. Does this mean Windows 10 is uninstalled from...

Ok so, out of nowhere, my pc has shown a pretty damn specific set of problems, including what's on the title. For starters, none of the system apps work. Be it Settings, Control panel, services.msc, regedit. Most of them just show up on the task manager but never truly open ,while settings...

I think my Windows OS is installed on this SSD 860 SATA m2 : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07822SVMS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Now I want to move to this SSD 970 NVme 970 m2 due to heavy load of computations...

So I've been planning on doing a fresh install of my OS and documenting the benefits of a fresh OS after years of bad software/driver build up. Any good suggestion of what benchmarks to run and what things to measure, testing methodology, etc? I have some ideas myself, just wondering what...