storage drive

Hello This is regarding two sometimes separate, and sometimes combined topics… Formatting drives in general, and using Macrium to do stuff. When I format either: - a new System drive, or - a new Storage/General Use drive, or - a new external drive Do I need to choose a specific type of...

I see that the mobo has 5 sata connectors, but I only see 3 physical spaces for storage drives. I don't need the optical drive, and would need to install 4 other drives (mostly all ssds) What am I missing?

I have an external hard drive, Seagate 2TB, it worked perfectly until after defragmenting it with the Windows tool for a bit and cancelling it safely, because I needed to shut down the PC, it no longer is recognized by the PC, it doesn't show up on device manager or disk management, not even by...

So I've gotten this pre-built pc around a year and a half ago, and suddenly I need to download something but my ssd has ran out of space, and remembered I had a 2 TB hard drive I haven't used yet. When I downloaded a few images it was okay but once I started downloading things that were bigger...

I just bought another m.2 drive for my B450 gaming f motherboard, from what I have read it is plugged in the slot that does not connect directly to the cpu. I looked through the bios and from what I can see it seems like the disc is being recognized since there is a drive name there that does...

I just upgraded my old Samsung 1T HDD (Storage) drive to a Samsung SSD 1T drive. I have 3 partitions on the drive. I did a copy/paste of files from the HDD to the SSD. (Obviously I could not copy the same drive letters. I planned to change them once I disconnected the old HDD.) I restarted and...

My secondary storage hard drive is at 30% health and may have been causing POST issues on my PC now. Windows 10 is installed on a Samsung 860 Evo 500gb SSD. I've migrated some of my files on the cloud and I'll just download the files since I have a reliable internet connection. How do I go...

I have an Adata Swordfish 250GB SSD and a WDC wd40efrx-68Wt0n0 4TB HDD. My OS is on SSD while my games, in this case games installed on Steam, are on my HDD. However, any game that I launch using Steam on the HDD has random times where the Active Time on the Task Manager Disk jumps up and causes...

Hi! I am looking for a solution to mapping a windows file share over the internet. We have a work file share that we are all connected to which contains a lot of files around 1TB worth of customer files and internal files. I am looking for a secure way to access these files remotely, something...

I've been using the same installation of Windows 10 Home for over 4 years, but for the last month my PC has been doing all sorts of annoying things like random crashes and blue screens and stuff, so I'm thinking about reinstalling Windows and this time I want to install Windows 10 Pro. I only...

why my C: drive is always full / reduced capacity even though I deleted all my files but it didn't work and it kept on decreasing. When I scanned the C: drive using WinDirStat, I found a folder called "<Unknown>". I didn't know what the folder was about and the folder capacity was always...

Hear ye! Hear ye! My fellow nerds, gather 'round and I shall tell you a tale, a tale of frustration and confusion. A tale filled with fraught and...alright I'll get to the point. I need some help with this one. I know some of you guys live for this stuff so hopefully you can help me get this...

SO I just built a new PC and everything's been going great so far, except when I went to file explorer I noticed my 2 TB Seagate HDD wasn't shown, just my SSD. No big deal, I open disc manager and didn't see it the HDD. So I looked online for tutorials on how to fix it but to no avail. I've...

So I installed Windows 10 on my ssd, and now I want to connect my two hdd storage drives. But one of the hdd's has Windows files on it. And on the boot screen it says it detected a problem and then ties to fix it, but I get a bluscreen that it can't repair...

Is there a list anywhere of currently available PCIe Gen 4 M.2 SSD other than the ones listed below? Corsair MP600 Gigabyte AORUS GALAX HOF Pro Micro Center Inland Performance Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 Thanks

Hello, so I currently have two Hard Drives in my current build and I'm running low on space. I'm just wondering how I can tell if my computer can have an SSD in it. My case: Corsair - SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case My Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard

So I have a ASUS R9 280X that has 2 DVI ports, 1 HDMI port, and 1 Display port. Running windows 7. link to GPU I got 3 ASUS monitors that have hdmi ports. link to monitor To connect the three monitors to the GPU I am using: Monitor's HDMI to GPU's HDMI Monitor's HDMI to GPU's Display Port -...