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This happened once several weeks ago, but as the SSD in question reappeared after I turned the PC off and back on again (though not after choosing 'restart'), and I had not seen the issue again (until today), I let sleeping dogs lie. Again, today though, I suddenly noticed the whole SSD was...

It began with me turning on my PC and launching a program, which gave me a pop up telling me that the shortcut cannot locate its source file to launch. I checked disk management(I have one SSD and one HDD in my PC) and saw that the HDD was offline. Another pop up asked me to choose between MBR...

I recently switched to newly built PC and I encountered a unprecedented problem. Using my old PC, I gradually put newly bought PC part such as SSD, RAM, etc. and I was able to run it without any problem. At some point I finished buying all the necessary parts like motherboard, case, CPU, PSU...

Please help me My laptop keeps getting BSOD with the error "stop code: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE". I use docking stations for external SSD and HDD hard drives from Orico. 1. https://www.orico.cc/usmobile/product/detail/id/35502 2. https://www.orico.cc/usmobile/product/detail/id/3551 My...

Hi everyone, I have a 2.5'' SATA SSD that I was using on my old laptop, and it had a D drive where all of my important data is kept. Now the laptop had a faulty charging port and I think that short-circuited the motherboard and it just would not turn on anymore. I have taken the SSD out and put...

So, I have no idea what to put on the title, but hear me out: I have this SSD from Corsair MP510 480g - been using it since 2019. A few months ago, I started getting some strange errors. Most of the games I play, are online, such as World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, PUBG etc - and EVERY...

Please help, I need to work… Specs: motherboard b360m aorus gaming Tried installing a m2 ssd pcie 500g in it Installed it (with the special screw) Tried booting Result was that my pc was booting and turning off each 3 seconds by itself Resetted bios by removing battery Now it turns on normally...

Hi, quick information about my situation, just bought a 512gb ssd on which i wanna get the os cloned to from my 128gb ssd, both are m2s and my motherboard only has 1 slot for it. and previously i had all my games installed on my hdd (was running 128gb ssd + 500gb hdd) , so my plan was to clone...

My secondary SSD shows on BIOS but it prevents my main SSD from booting, corrupts my main SSD if plugged while the PC is on. The SSD also prevents Windows Installation Media from starting. I got this faulty Lexar SATA3 SSD 512gb for cheap. I think it's still repairable since BIOS can still...

As mentioned in the title, I have recently installed a new SSD into my PC, moved folders and some games onto it and all work perfectly fine. Moved my OS onto another drive and upon rebooting, the new SSD is offline by default? Am I missing something simple? Any help/suggestions are appreciated...

Hi guys, if a gen 3 nvme works in a gen 4 m.2 nvme slot of a motherboard, does that mean the slot is ok? I am asking this because I have ordered MSI b550 gaming plus motherboard. And I need to check the slots of the new motherboard upon arrival. But I only have a gen 3 nvme drive Kingston a2000.

I got and installed a new SSD ( Samsung 990 Pro , PCLe 4.0 NVMe 2 TB ) , My operating system is on my old SSD ( ssdpeknw512 , PCLe 4.0 NVMe 500 GB - Should I move OS windows 11 to the new SSD

Hi, I was away from my computer for about 6 months and after setting up my computer again, I noticed that one of my two SSDs shows as unallocated. I use this M.2 drive as my secondary drive, with the other SSD being my boot drive. I tried going through a couple of forums of people with similar...

I have a Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7 motherboard. And I installed a Lexar NM710 M2 SSD on it. But the SSD is not recognized in the BIOS. So my question is: Should this SSD work on this motherboard? Or is the SSD broken? I have found this article...

Context: i have a ssd thats attached to the motherboard itself (internal) where my windows is installed. Last year in october i got a detachable 960GB SSD Silicon Power PC60. It arrived, i plugged it in and it immediately was detected and started working. I've been using it ever since and...

Hello! I have built a new PC, and I have encountered a bizarre issue. I have 3 identical SSDs (Samsung 970 Pro 1TB) in a non-RAID setup, partitions: C, D, E. The C drive is active permanently. However it happened once that the D & E partitions disappeared and only reappeared after a restart of...

any recommendations of normal slim heatsinks? I'm planning on getting the SSD for my system, but don't have any current heatsinks since I have a prebuilt Also, i never bought a heatsink before, any thoughts on which of the listed heatsinks are better? Im planning on using amazon for the one...

So i have 2 ssds already installed, in the first and third socket. Im looking to install a nvme m.2 gen 4 ssd (for running games) in the 2nd socket slot right next to my gpu. Now what i was wondering was if there would be any overheating issues for the ssd, since its right next to my gpu...

Trying to figure out why one of my internal 4TB 870 EVOs just disappears in Windows 11 after 3-4 days and only comes back after a complete power cycle, just rebooting doesn't do anything. It worked fine for a couple of months before starting this behaviour while the other drive of same make and...

I'm running a system off a SATA SSD and SATA HDD. I boot off the SSD. I wanted to upgrade to a PCIe m.2 SSD. Using an USB enclosure I initiated and formatted the drive to GPT. Then using DiskGenius I cloned the SATA SSD over to the m.2 SSD. However, when the m.2 SSD is installed, the booting...

Hi all, I went on holiday to see my family and it turns out that while I was there the desktop of my father suddenly stopped working and when starting he is getting the message: "Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue" After searching, this is because the BIOS...

Hey all. Recently, my HDD died and I lost a lot of data. My current setup has an SSD running my OS and I purchased two Samsung 1TB M.2 SSD's in order to raid them together for gaming purposes via stripe. The issue I had at first as that my MSI z390 BIOS didn't recognize them at all. I...

Hello everyone, Recently bought a new M.2, but sometimes the bios does not detect it. When this happens, I restart the pc a few times and it detects again. (It is the only memory installed). Motherboard: B450 TOMAHAWK MAX; M.2: WD_Black SN850X. Any idea, what could be? Thank you.

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a strange problem with my ASUS TUF A15 (2022) laptop, and I'm hoping someone here can help me figure it out. I really appreciate any advice or insights you can offer. Here's the situation: I originally had a PCIe Gen 3.0 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD in my laptop, but I...

I have an MSI laptop that I bought last year in May. The model is Cyborg 15 - A12VF. It came with an original SSD with 512GB capacity. I removed it and installed Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD of 1TB capacity within a week after its purchase. I am running Windows 11 on it. Almost always I...

Hello, I am getting some boot errors (booting to BIOS, not recognising Windows). I've ran a Short SMART self-test with Samsung Magician and the following errors have come up: SMART Self-Test,13/08/2024 Model Name,Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB Serial Number,S626NF0R428538Z Result,Log...

Hi everyone. My question is in the topic in tl;dr. As much as I understand after reading about the benefits of a DRAM chip in an SSD, it helps to provide a map to the SSD of where some recent information is located for the SSD to quickly identify that file location and immediately get to it...

So my laptop came with Micron 3400 1tb ssd and I have recently purchased a WD sn850x. Which one should I make my boot drive. I know that wd performs better but it lacks AES 256 bit hardware encoding.

Hi Folks: I have had this laptop a long time. It’s been running excruciatingly slow. I am trying to extend it’s life. I bought a new 4 Tb SSD to replace current HDD. I also bought a new 256 gb mSATA disk to use as boot disk for windows only. I uninstalled HDD, reinstalled SSD and also installed...

I have an MSI Leopard Gl75 10SDR, And recently, I dropped and broke my old SSD. (One of the gold contacts fell off). As a stopgap until my new SSD arrives I have taken the SSD out of my old laptop and put it into the new one. The old one was a Lenovo legion. I am wondering if I can reset the...

I want to preface by saying I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to PC parts and components, so please bear with me. I finally went around to installing a Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD I got a while ago and saw some threads about how using it as the boot drive, as opposed to the HDD, is a...

I have sold my old PC recently, but for now I am able to use my sister's old Macbook while I save up for a new PC. So, as usual, trash storage. Hence, I was wondering if there exists a portable HDD that I can crank daily for my use and maybe fit it in my new PC later (I know, too much to ask)...

I just checked 2 of my portable SSDs. Both of their TBW is 600. One is WD Blue SSD 3D and another one is Sandisk Ultra SSD 3D. The Crystal Disk Info shows me something very wrong. As you can see above, WD has written more than Sandisk, but the lifespan still 99% remains whereas Sandisk...

Hello! I'm currently building a retro PC that will have 2 x SSDs, one with XP and the other with Windows 7. I'd like to make sure that the XP SSD is alligned properly. I know very little about this other than a few sites have recommend using windows 7 to partition because it does 2048 byte...

I've been having this problem lately where my Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB SSD will become inaccessible at random after an X amount of time. Nothing seems to provoke it in doing so it just becomes unresponsive and unrecognizable by the computer but visible in the file explorer. As easy as it sounds to...

I have an Acer lapttop with 2.5" 1TB SSD with SATA interface. It used to work fine, but earlier this week I got an error message saying "No bootable device" on it. I have looked into some youtube videos and tried changing some bios settings (boot mode from UEFI to Legacy and vice vera), but it...

I have a G7 7590 15 Laptop, I've "upgraded" to a Crucial ( CT1000P3PSSD8 ) 1tb after my Samsung 970 evo suddenly died. SSD bough on Amazon. I was downloading games on steam and noticed write speed was only 60-70 mb/s, so after pulling up Control Panel I saw the same thing and 97% disc usage...

I have an iMac 2017 using a Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SSD and its writing speed is very slow, only 14MB/s. I have been using it for 2 years, is there any way to fix it? I often use it for a long time so it happens like that, My hard drive has 700GB free space

Hello I need help with my PC, the motherboard is a Gigabyte A520M K V2 Whenever I turn my PC on it will sometimes boot into Windows and other times it boots into the BIOS and it shows that there's no boot device found, and when I go to the M.2 area it shows "M.2 : N/A" I'm not sure if it's my...

Seeing some great deals on amazon right now and was thinking of going with a new PCIe M.2 ssd, my question is how would i transfer my windows over being that I got my windows key from one of those key websites. (I still payed for the key but it was much cheaper than original) mobo b450...