Solutions to problems with hard disk drives, SSD and CD/DVD drives
How to use the WD SSD Dashboard to monitor and control your Western Digital M.2 NVMe or SATA SSD boot/storage PCIe card drive Where to download the WD SSD Dashboard Download the current version of the Western Digital SSD Dashboard software from http://support.wdc.com/. Find it under Downloads on the Home page. Then just double-click on…
PC freezes: My desktop/laptop PC keeps freezing every 15 minutes requiring a reboot PROBLEM – PC freezes regularly My elderly desktop PC runs Windows 7 SP1 64-bit version with 4GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 processor. Of late. The PC freezes regularly, about every 15 minutes, which requires a restart…
Cause of a slow M.2 SSD that uses the SATA interface This article summarizes a very long video that diagnoses the cause of a slow M.2 SSD, The work is by the PC technician, Carey Holzman, the link to which I provide at the end of the article. I provide additional information not available in…
Problems with M.2 SSD drives – NVMe & SATA – Key and length compatibility, overheating and faulty hardware encryption To benefit fully from NVMe M.2 SSD drives, you must be able to boot the operating system, usually Windows 10, from it. That requires UEFI BIOS support. Most standard BIOSes (the type in use before UEFI…
Install an SSD and transfer an existing install of Windows 7/8.1/10 to it SSD PROBLEM I want to install an SSD drive in my desktop PC to improve boot times and performance by transferring Windows 10 Home edition from my PC’s existing hard disk drive to it. Can you tell me the best way to…
A serious SSD encryption issue in Windows 10 when using Bitlocker encryption software Many brand-name desktop and laptop PCs come with a single SSD drive or a boot SSD drive plus a standard hard disk drive with a much higher capacity for storage. A serious issues with regard to the hardware-based encryption that SSDs use…
Tale of a desktop PC’s dead hard disk drive and how to replace one with a cheaper laptop hard drive Owner whose PC has a dead hard disk drive: When I switch my desktop PC on a message appears that says that there is no operating system. I can hear the CPU making a noise.…
Resize C: drive into unallocated space with an E: or F: drive between the C: drive and the free space Problem: Resize C: drive The partitioning of space on my PC’s hard disk drive is as follows: Recovery Partition 18.5GB that contains the system recovery data – Acer [C:] 170GB NTFS – Data [F:] 21GB…
Using my PC is difficult – Hard drive hogged for 15 to 20 minutes at startup Problem Hard drive hogged. – My Windows 7 Professional (64-bit version) workstation is 10 years old. It is no longer my main work computer, so I only use it occasionally. However, after startup the hard disk drive activity LED…
How to replace a dead laptop hard disk drive with another hard drive or an SSD Problem: Dead laptop Dead laptop: My Toshiba Equium M70-173 laptop PC now uses Windows 7 Home Premium, which ran very nicely. It was working very well for several years running Windows XP and then Windows Vista. However, yesterday it…
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