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This is a difficult issue to Google. I recently set up a Storage Space (3x 4TB) in Windows 10 and it worked as expected. No parity (Simple) as it’s only for backups. I then added another independent drive (1x 4TB) to the PC and in the process of trying to get Windows to recognise it I probably booted up with only 2/3 of my pool drives connected. Even with all three now connected; I now have no visible pool shown in Storage Spaces. This is fine - I'm happy to start again as it's only for backups ...

today i tried to install openSUSE Leap 42.1 on a SD-card. I used a USB stick as installation medium. So far everything has gone well. The installation finished without any problems. Then I went to the Bios to select the SD-card as Boot Option #1. But I couldn't find the SD-card there! What do I have to change in order to make the SD-card appear in the BIOS? Thanks for your help! Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a Transcend USB 3.0 SD and MicroSD card reader. When I plug it in, it won't show up in the windows 7 file explorer, but it shows up properly in DiskPart and device manager in windows 7 which says it is operating properly. I Cannot access any files on any SD card placed in the adapter. I have another old SD adapter that works fine, but I want to replace it with the non-functioning adapter. It used to work fine when i first got it, So the problem is most likely Windows file explorer. Let's ...

I cloned my existing 500 GB HDD to a new SanDisk 1 TB SSD (via CloneZilla). Now, I'm having trouble to get Windows booting again: SSD itself works fine, I can access it via Ubuntu (booted from USB) the SSD is NOT recognized by the BIOS if I go into the BIOS setup menu I then added a new partition to install Ubuntu as second OS on the disk, this works fine The Ubunto Bot Loader (Grub) shows Windows 7 as an Option When I Select this option, a flashing _ shows, similar to what is described in Windo...

I am using Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500 GB. Instead of installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 on it, an old image of the OS created from an old HHD was used I am worried this may affect the performance/age of the SSD. Which I understood is made to run on 4k bytes per sector. screenshots are on my laptop now after the migration to the ssd. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have a Samsung 850 Pro SSD that I used at my previous job. I would like to reuse this SSD and clone the HDD on my current work laptop. I dont need any of the old files on the SSD. Can I just format the whole drive and then clone to it? I recall reading in the past that formatting an SSD is bad for the drive. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I have the SanDisk Ultra Extreme Micro SD 64GB SDHC/SDXC Card CLASS 10 UHS-I (Not anymore at sandisk card section) and i use it in my Galaxy S4 i9500 phone to save pictures on it. I have windows 8.1 x64. Now, i insert the micro sd into Sandisk ImageMate All-in-one and connect it to my computer. I start transfering files from it and suddenly the device disconnected! Even when i try to just see the properties it gets disconnected. I must say it was allways working for me without any problems. Can ...

I leave my workplace soon, and I have the opportunity to buy my computer. Whether it is a good idea or not, that's up to me, but what I am interested in is to keep my data, softwares, preferences, etc. I want to precise that there is no critical data on the computer and I can safely get it out of my workplace, there is nothing wrong with it. The version of Windows that we have is a Professional license, where I need to be connected once in a while to the network in order for it to work. I would ...

I appreciate that my question is addressed in many other posts in some shape or form, but I still haven't been able to find any definitive answer. Advice would be appreciated. I presently have Windows 10 and Mac OSX El Capitan. I would like to back up both Windows (using Acronis) and Mac (using CCC) to a single exteal 5tb hard drive. The hard drive shipped with an NTFS Paragon driver (version 11 - so not the latest one). As far as I can tell, the NTFS driver functions fine - but I don't really w...

My CPU has 18 cores, and, due to hyperthreading, 36 logical processors. However, VMware player's highest option in settings is a 16 processor virtual machine. Is there a reason for this? I have tried Googling, but have been able to find no answer. This is frustrating, as I would like to bring all my computational resources to bear. I am on a Windows 10 host, using VMware Workstation 12 player to virtualize Ubuntu 16.04, and I have a Xeon E5-2697 v4. Let's block ads! (Why?)...

A couple of weeks back a had a new ssd installed in my Macbook pro, everything was great and no problems up until the other day, where I shut down the computer and then the next time I tued it on it would load completely but then shut down by itself right after. I am able to see the ssd in the disk utility when opening in recovery mode, but I can't do anything about the drive. Everytime I try to make 1 new partition it just gives me error messages. To explain it from the start I was running the ...

I am trying to dual boot windows and linux by putting my second ssd in this optical drive caddy. However, the caddy is not recognized by the BIOS. As far as I can tell from this site, I am running the latest version for my model (v1.21). When I tu on the computer, the blue light on the caddy lights up so I am assuming there is at least getting stata power if not data. Did I get a bricked caddy? Unfortunately I do not have another laptop to test it in. The ssd works perfectly if I put it directly...

I have a SD card that contain my custom Linux that could be booted from the USBCardReader right and without any issue BUT I want to boot my SD card from the laptop inteal SD card reader and when I inserted it my BIOS did not detected it as bootable device. However I have installed GRUB2 in my HDD and when I started by GRUB2 I run GRUB2 command prompt by clicking [c] then I run [ls] command and I did not see any hd1 or mmcxxxxx device? How can I boot from my laptop inteal SD card reader? Is that ...

I've given up on cloning my old HDD, and thinking of exchanging the defective ssd I recently bought, and buying a new SSD alongside a CD copy of Windows 10. As for my old files, ill just back them up to something and swap them over when the new drive is running. What equipment will I need? What are the steps to do this and do it right? This laptop was bought in 2013 with Windows 8 preloaded. What kind of problems might I run into? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

This just isn't documented anywhere on the inteet. I know that cells in an SSD have a limited number of writes, but since ATA secure erase just 'resets', does it decrease the lifetime of the SSD? ...

looking for peoples advice on my delima. I was look to improve the running of photoshop on my laptop. Was reading that making my photoshop scratch disk on a SSD is best for performance and is better then running the scratch disk on the same drive as my main machine is, in this case it's on my c: drive. I already have an exteal hard drive not to fill my laptop with my design files and such because they take lots of room and i have thousands.(500GB hard drive almost full.) Don't want another of th...

You don't need to reserve any space, but the less space you use the longer the SSD will last - the logic for spreading out writes is spread evenly over the disk by the drive (ie wear leveling is not an OS or file system level thing). Further, you should not need to worry too much about wear on a decent quality SSD on typical workstation loads - the number of read-write cycles is quite high. Its generally a good idea to at least 10% and preferably 20% of a partition free from a point of view of s...

I have a crappy Chinese ZTE G lux, a cheap phone I got because of I didn't need it for much other than some calls and other apps. It only came with about 2GB of inteal memory and it has already filled up; I have tried using a Micro SD card for extra storage and it just plain doesn't work. I have reformatted time and time again, either two things happen. I tu my phone and it gives me an error that the SD card is damaged and I should try formatting it, I tap format, it say "cleaning disk" then dis...

I have linx 8 tablet pc with windows 8.1 installed. Inteal disk space is 32 gb of which about 15 Gb is free now. But while trying to upgrade it to Windows 10, it is showing low disk space. Then I installed 32gb sd card of which about 30 Gb is free (formatted as ntfs). I also have changed default download location of c drive to sd card by right click c:/users/downloads > Properties > Location > sd card. But still dialog box is showing low disk space. It seems to be no effect on changing ...

I have a dead-ish SSD drive. BIOS can't read it, Linux and Windows can't read it. It seems like the controller is not completely dead (it does identify itself). Is there any hope of recovering the data on the drive using soft methods (without voiding the warranty)? There is nothing essential there (I do keep several backups of the really important stuff), but it would be nice to get the other stuff back nonetheless (savegames mostly, no big deal but kind of a pain), and I figure once I RMA it, i...