Recent content by Borg20001

Thx Hopeless, I will check on Easeus todo free. I turned off Hibernate and now consistently have 18 gb free of my 60 gb SSD so for now the problem is solved. Except I have this 120 GB SSD just sitting around. I may go find Easeus todo free and see if I can clone my 60 gb drive to my 120...

Thanks for the link Rad, I ran that and found a few culprits. The two that I can't remove are hibernate.sys and pagefile.sys. I changed my pagefile to reduce its size down to 250 Meg (since I have 8 GB of RAM) and switched it to store the file on my HDD but I can't get rid of the 6+GB file...

Thanks, at the time I had no other options because the 64 GB SSD that was just working was now giving me that MBR Error 1 and I had changed nothing in the BIOS or anything else. I had read that if there was an MBR Error 1 then I should run Windows Repair and run bootrec.exe and fixmbr so that...

Thanks K, appreciate the guidance. I have IE9, Firefox and Chrome on the PC with Firefox as the default. I did not know that about the History for that browser. Occasionally, I go in and clear the History. I will go and check on that. I did have Windows System Restore on and when I was...

Ok thanks. The 60 GB SSD is laboring, it keeps filling up. I finally had to compress the data on the SSD to regain about 10 GB so I should have some breathing room. Though I must confess I am disappointed in the difficulties I'm getting with the SSD vs. the old HDDs. I'm wondering if even...

Thanks K, I will recheck them. I believe that Setting #1 is the UEFI (?) SSD drive, then #2 is either the DVD drive or the HDD. Though with the current settings, when I put in the Win7 disc into the DVD drive and booted up the PC, even though I had the working 60 GB SSD hooked up, it first...

Update: My 60 GB SSD keeps mysteriously filling up and I started getting low to no memory warnings. I tried to clear up the drive but don't see anything that is a space hog (other than my kid's iTunes account that I can't move from the SSD). Turned off System Restore points for now and I have...

Ok thanks for the possible explanation I will have to find some time this weekend to try and install the new 120GB cloned SSD into the PC and see if it works.

Thanks for the info Goros and Bubbaleone: I have this question - My 64 GB Crucial SSD was most likely installed with my BIOS setting for SATA in the IDE mode. So what you say makes sense if I am cloning the IDE sourced OS onto the 120 GB SSD that now has the BIOS SATA settings at AHCI...

I had to boot the PC using Acronis disc and then plugged in the 2nd SSD drive (the 120 GB one) via a USB connector and ran Add a new drive in Acronis, then was able to clone the 60GB SSD to the 120GB SSD. When I first booted the PC and had the 120 GB SSD plugged into the USB port, I got the...

Thanks Bubbaleone, Wyndru and ketchup79, Ok, my Win 7 PC had a 64 GB SSD with an i5 cpu and 8 GB RAM all on a Gigabyte H61MA-D3V mobo. I tried to clone the 64 GB SSD to a new 120 GB Kingston SSDNow 300 SSD using Acronis True Image. When I first tried to run Acronis, it did not see...

Thanks PM, I found the disc through the Disk management tool on my XP pc. It lists it as Healthy GPT Protective Partition and shows the whole capacity 119 GB listed. However when I select "Actions" and "All Tasks" none are available, Format and Delete Partition and everything else is not...

(I also posted this in Memory and Storage but wasn't sure if this was a Computer Help issue or Memory and Storage - apologies in advance if I've posted it in the wrong place) Could really use some help in getting my pc back up and running! I was upgrading my 64 gb crucial ssd to a Kingston...

I was upgrading my 64 gb crucial ssd to a Kingston SSDNow 300 120 GB HD. Running Win7. Tried to clone the 64 gb drive to the 120 gb drive. Finally was able to do it after changing bios settings for sata to ahci and getting the 2012 version of Acronis True Image from Kingston Tech (the disc...

Thanks Lehtv, As you can see, my lack of tech-savvy shows. I had written down the chipset but thought it was the cpu. You did list the correct cpu though, I'm pretty sure it is an Athlon II X2. Regarding the graphic card, I think it is the 2nd one GTX. I know that I have two power leads...