Recent content by FishAk

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    Windows 10, one year later?

    From the W10 upgrade link provided by JackMDS above: "1 Windows Offer Details Yes, free! This upgrade offer is for a full version of Windows 10, not a trial. 3GB download required; internet access fees may apply. Estimated retail price of Windows 10 Home shown, actual retail prices may vary...
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    moving windows-created directories?

    For User folders, you can have Windows make a symbolic link automatically, like abaez says, with the Location tab. For other folders, you can make a link manually. Some programs won't work through a symbolic link, so testing is in order. Folders with lots of small files, that are read...
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    Preventing System Reserved Partition during Win7 install

    If you have only 1 disk connected, it will be disk 0. The "clean" command will delete all partitions from the target disk, and the "create partition primary"will create a new partition that uses all the space on the target disk.
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    Preventing System Reserved Partition during Win7 install

    I like your method, yinan. On second look, your method is in the linked guide, but not as simple as you put it. I hate fumbling around the command line, and go out of my way to avoid it. I have enough to remember without learning how to write to a computer. I'd rather learn Romanian- those...
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    Help picking out a laptop for college

    This is an excellent question, and if the answer is no, you can put together an extremely powerful gamer for (relatively) very little money. By buying a SB i5 laptop with 1080p in the $700 range, and setting up an eGPU, one can have a very mobile laptop that docks to a video card while at home...
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    new build. bad to do HD now, then SSD later?

    RAID = AHCI If the disk is set to RAID mode, you could switch the OS to a RAID array in the future with no penalty now, and no messing around then. If you know beyond doubt you will never use RAID for your OS, just set it to AHCI.
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    SSD or spinning hard drive? (Cost is key)

    1TB samsung F3 7200RPM $50 Try to find a used SSD on ebay for $50 Or save the $50 and get an SSD later.
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    Dragging windows across multiple monitors while maximized

    At first I didn't like the auto resizing properties, and my GF hates it. But I often have a window I would like to enlarge, but I don't want it to take the whole screen. By grabbing the very top or top corner (when the curser is a double ended arrow), you can pull it to the top, and the window...
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    Preventing System Reserved Partition during Win7 install

    I prefer keeping the entire install in a single partition. That way I only need to backup and restore a single partition. I don't spend much time troubleshooting. If the OS is haywire, I simply revert back to an image that isn't. It takes less than 20 minutes, and I know the OS will function...
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    Windows suddenly won't recognize my HDD prior to installation.

    Boot to a Live CD and take a look at the disk. You might get some clues from that.
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    new build. bad to do HD now, then SSD later?

    Macrium Reflect is free and will do the job easily. The important thing is to set the disk to AHCI or RAID in BIOS before installing W7 on the HDD. W7 will properly align the partition(s) it installs to, and Macrium Reflect will preserve the alignment when you paste the image to the SSD.
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    How to reconfigure a Level 5 RAID drive ??

    And thank goodness for that too. Apparently, the countless articles on the internet concerning the liabilities of RAID 5 are incorrect. With a proper RAID controller, RAID 5 is perfectly fine. So despite what one might find on the internet about 3 disks being the minimum number for RAID 5...
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    Is there a difference between cloning and imaging?

    Is the partition 50GB, or the used space? Macrium Reflect will both clone (a bit for bit exact copy including empty space) or image a partition. By default, an image will only include the actual data in the partition, and it will compress it by about 50 percent. It won't include restore...
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    Does anyone use the Windows Sidebar? Adding/removing apps before making a cloned img

    To your list I would add these free apps: CCleaner KeyTweak Partition Wizard HashMyFiles GetFolderSize SandBoxie Ditto ToggleHiddenFiles TrueCrypt Malwarebytes Bulk Rename Utility Duplicate File Finder Teracopy Daemon Tools Lite Unetbootin Everything Agent Ransack (slower than Everything but...
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    Windows 7 Installation on SSD, current, definitive guide?

    If your motherboard doesn't support BitLocker, or if you prefer open source encryption to proprietary-no one knows if there's a backdoor- encryption, then the 100MB system partition isn't required. To keep the full install on a single partition, start the install with only the SSD plugged in...