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How can I swap between Hard Drives on one Monitor? Please help?

Okay so I have 3 external hard drives and one laptop. I do have a OS on each of these external HD. How can I use one monitor (my main laptop) to switch over to each hard drive quickly like I run one...

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$9.99 Sandisk SSD

I just bought a new 240Gb Sandisk SSD for $9.99 with free shipping on ebay.Why so cheap and will it work?lol. I got it to hook up with an external enclosure for my Nvidia Shield Tv.

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SSD capacity vs speed

I have a question. Out of the multitude of manufacturers offering solid state drives now, I've seen the prices, as well as the capacity of each drive, run the gamut of cheap to ridiculous. My question...

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NVMe not shown in Windows installation setup

I've ordered a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVMe drive for my system to use it as boot drive, since my old Windows installation broke after crashing. Now when I boot it up, I get into a recovery menu of some...

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Cas latency - which one to get and why?

I'd like to buy 16GB of RAM, but I am not so sure if I should pay more for CL12 if CL16 is fine @ 2400Mhz. I'd buy two sticks of this: https://www.pcx.hu/kingmax-8gb-ddr4-2400mhz-memoria-051313 Or a...

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Drive C:\ storage decreasing

Hello Been a long while since I last visited this awesome forum. I would like to know why the drive C:\ on my computer is decreasing in free space. Apart from the software installed, is there any other...

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A: drive failed

I posted in the software part about my problem with a CCTV system. I have not tried to use the A: drive in years but since we had a attempted break in, I tried to use it again. My system is Vista, no...

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What's the difference

Hi so I know nothing about the inner workings of a computer and right now I am posting from a sorry excuse of a laptop. This laptop is turning 11 happy birthday I guess. I am looking into getting an...

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HDD not found anymore

Hi guys, My parent's desktop has a problem with its HDD as of lately. From what I understood, it might be due to a lightning storm killing the power in our house. After that, the HDD was not found when...

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Weird behavior from SD cards

I recently bought two 64GB SanDisk Extreme Plus SD cards via a seller from China on Ebay. The seller has a near faultless record, and of the literally thousand of positive feedbacks the only real...

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Dead USB drive

I have got few USB drives I pulled out of Macbook without ejecting first. Now it will not show up on macbook and it will not format in windows. When trying to format in windows, it just hangs. Is there...

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All my partitions Are In Dynamic

Hello, For some reason i had to format my whole hdd and mistakenly i deleted all the partition.so i created 4 new partition including c drive but now i see that all my Partition types are dynamic so my...

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I have 2 HDD one is 1 500 gb another is 2Tb, So on which should i install...

Hello i play games a lot but i cant afford an ssd so now i have 2 hdd...i was thinking that i should install windows on the 2 tb hdd and play my games from the 500 gb...should i do this? or what can i...

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HDD Noise?

Hello all, I'm building a gaming pc and I'm putting a 240GB SSD in my build and a 2TB HDD. I'm using the SSD as my boot up storage and my HDD as my mass storage, so I'm curious as to if when I'm using...

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RAM upgrade

hi i was wondering if i could get some advice please? i have an old Optiplex745 computer and it has 2GB of RAM in it i want to put another 2GB of RAM in it this is my fist time at this and i have a...

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Replacing CD\DVD drive with SSD mounted on caddy

Hopefully, this is the correct section for this thread. I have a new Acer Aspire®XC AXC780UR12 desktop computer. It is quite small and lacks a bay to install an SSD. As a consequence, I contacted Acer...

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A while Back I picked up a 400G HD EX

I've had a 400 G portable Hard drive for some time and it worked on XP and Vista, but I upgraded my old Laptop to Windows 7 a while back and now the portable 400G HD is not seen. It's a Western Digital...

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Can't open hard drive all of a sudden

Hello everybody, I run Windows 7 on an SSD, and I also have two SATA hard drives connected. It worked perfectly for years, but in all of a sudden, I can't open one of the drives (the D: drive). When I...

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SSD Write speed difference

I am trying to pick an SSD. I've already ordered a Kingston 240Gb SSD, but I've also seen Samsung's 850 EVO 256GB SSD (write speed 520 MBs). Kingston is cheaper, but has a lower write speed. (350MBs)...

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U.2 and DDR4

I’m planning on building a new pc using a Gigabyte’s AX370 Gaming K7 motherboard and a AMD Ryzen 7 1800x cpu. It has been 5 or 6 years since I last studied up on a pc build so I’m a little out of touch...

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