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    Windows 8.1 clean install on a new hard drive.

    I just bought an Asus VivoBook and I'm replacing the hard drive with an SSD, which means that I'll have to reinstall Windows. I'm assuming that I'll have to download all the drivers beforehand and install them after the clean install correct?
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    What applications benefit most from SSD?

    What about audio workstations, or Matlab?
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    Deleting an internal hard drive I'm replacing.

    Ah, I see. Thank you sir.
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    Deleting an internal hard drive I'm replacing.

    I'm slightly confused because I only have one drive where I can boot from.
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    OEM Windows 7 on a new hard drive.

    I used the My Digital Life Windows 7 iso to install Windows on another one of my laptops and it and it worked perfectly. I would suggest you use that one instead of the recovery disk that came with your laptop because the recovery disk might install the bloatware whereas with the Windows 7 iso...
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    Deleting an internal hard drive I'm replacing.

    My current laptop hard drive still works, but I'm replacing it with a larger hard drive. Since I currently have Windows 7 installed on my current hard drive, how can I delete everything that's on it before replacing it with my new hard drive. I'm assuming I have to delete my current hard...
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    Will the Crucial 128GB SSD be on sale again?

    So yesterday the Crucial 128GB SSD was 84.99 USD and I was stupid enough to not buy it because I thought it would still be at the same price today(Tuesday). The price went back to 114.99 USD today(as well as the WD Scorpio Black hard drives).
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    OEM Windows 7 on a new hard drive.

    I know that if you replace your motherboard you have to purchase a new Windows 7 license, but I haven't heard/read much about reinstalling Windows 7 if you just replace the hard drive. Is it similar to when you do a clean install on the same hard drive?(Where you have to call Windows and you...
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    Trying to breathe some new life into my Toshiba Satellite.

    Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try to get the Crucial SSD tonight, but if I can't I'll buy it tomorrow for sure.
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    Data doubler for mid-2012 Macbook Pro, yay or nay?

    I bought the mid-2012 13" Macbook Pro a few weeks ago and I'm trying to turn it into my main audio production computer. I realize that I'm never going to use the optical/superdrive and was considering purchasing the data doubler and installing an SSD or 7200rpm SATA drive. Has anyone here...
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    Trying to breathe some new life into my Toshiba Satellite.

    I'm considering buying the cheap knockoff batteries because to be quite honest, the genuine Toshiba battery sucks. It's good for about a year but after that the performance drops significantly. As far as SSD goes, I'm looking to get either a 64gb SSD or 128gb. I don't need a lot of memory since...
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    Trying to breathe some new life into my Toshiba Satellite.

    I've had this Toshiba Satellite c655-S5056 laptop for two years now, it's still fairly fast so I don't plan on replacing the processor, but I do want to install an SSD hard drive and a new battery, since I only get about an hour of battery life on a full charge. I have a Macbook Pro where I use...
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    Partitioning an external hard drive for Mac and Windows.

    ^ Thank you sir, it worked like a charm.
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    Partitioning an external hard drive for Mac and Windows.

    I have WD My Passport Essential 1TB external hard drive. I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 and a mid-2012 Macbook Pro with OSX Lion. What I want to do is create two equally sized partitions on my external hard drive, one for my Windows 7 files, and another for my Mac files. My first...
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    Good books on computers?

    I've been wanting to learn the basics about computers, how computers works, what you need to build one, the history of computers, etc. I'm not looking for computer science or computer engineering books, I'm an aerospace engineering student and with the little coding I've had to do I've realized...