Recent content by probedb2

Not that old but still problematic booting from an M.2 drive, however I did find a reply that means I should be able to do it :) http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3512498/samsung-960-evo-bootable-asus-z97-usb.html Might get the Adata 480GB and try it, if it fails I'll save some more...

Thanks both. I may go for a new mobo etc since there seems to be a bit of a hit/miss with my older mobo booting from an NVMe drive.

Sorry for the novice question, have only ever bought SATA SSDs. my Asus Z97-A says it can take: - 1 x M.2 Socket 3 with M Key, type 2260/2280 storage devices support (supports PCIE SSD only) I'd assumed this Crucial one would be perfect, but according to Crucial's website it isn't compatible...

Now you see why I've found it hard to definitely get an answer to this ;)

Isn't that the point? It's not called an ATA password on all boards. Not that I have any way of verifying this as I'm not getting a new mobo yet :)

I think we already established that the ATA password is set when you set a User password in the BIOS? We're not talking about the password that protects the BIOS.

Most people are unlikely to hear any difference between a properly encoded MP3 (say using LAME) and the source. FLAC is very useful for archiving as obviously there's no data loss from ripping your CD/Blu-Ray audio etc. Plus these days space is so cheap that I'd use FLAC anyway. My car is the...

Strange. I've never heard of it ever, that's from lots of IT friends and anyone in IT depts where they do this regularly where I work, not once.

Really? In all my years installing 98, XP, 2000, NT and finally 7, I've never, ever seen this.

I went from the same but to an 850 Pro, day to day usage not a huge amount of difference but startup is noticeably faster.

Yes it does. If the files are tagged it'll do whatever you want with the filenames....which includes creating directories....askahvitronic has pointed out. It's an excellent piece of software.

Hey, don't moan at me, I understood this, but you can see why people get confused....this thread kind of proves that.

Really? Sigh...I give up, what a crock of swear words. Why do they bother giving you this stuff when it's so damned complicated and messy just to use something which should be so simple to enable?

I guess so!

Thanks for the reply :) I skipped over your reply far too quickly. I understand how ATA and the encryption all works I just didn't realise that the User password was the same as the HDD password. Laptops tend to call it the HDD password and I know you have User passwords on newer BIOSes. You'd...