Sorry, you two guys are the only ones spreading misinformation. I have upgraded close to a 1000 systems since Windows 10 since was released (and tons to Windows 8 before that). There are no 7 (OEM) systems that do not have the product key in the bios. This has been the industry standard since...
All 7 oem machines will have it stored in the bios. You'd have to go back to 98/xp to find ones that stored them in a config file. It doesn't hurt to write it down, but it's not necessary.
Also, be sure to run windows update right afterwards. Windows 10 is vastly superior at finding drivers for...
Your in luck, I do this at work every day :D
- First thing to do is: BACKUP YOUR FILES!
- If it's an HP laptop, upgrade the BIOS before you install 10. Otherwise, there's a very good chance your pc won't be bootable afterwards
- Don't use the spam advert to upgrade. Download the media...
Secure erase is a built in hardware feature, you just need an app to access it (like RampantAndroid said - partedmagic is the easiest). But I don't think it's necessary for what your trying to do.
Personally if it was mine, I would not upgrade to Win10. It's a great OS for modern systems but...
CrystalDiskInfo says its ok, but that app seems to always say that unless the drives on fire or head crashing.
It seems to be working ok right now but I don't want it to fail right after the warranties up and be stuck with it. I might just email samsung and see what they think and if they'll...
First recommendation, don't use MSE...on any OS. It is so easily disabled by malware it's not even funny. One antimalware program is not going to clean an infected system. You need to run several of them.
My personal favorites are:
Hitman Pro
Malwarebytes
Emsisoft Emergency Kit
ADWCleaner...
Actually it was in my main desktop. I don't watch many movies on it (besides youtube and netflix once in a while). The system has (or had) a SSD (os drive) + a 3tb wd (for games/large apps) + 3tb wd (for backup/installers)
I was afraid of that. I tried a manual trim, no luck :(
I'm kind of irritated with newegg right now. I bought the samsung and 2 wd blacks from them last summer. One of the wd blacks failed after 3 months and now the ssd is on its way out.
So I was parting out an old system, checking the hard drives and such and happened to notice this on one of my own drives:
The drive isn't very old, I just purchased it in June of last year. I'm hoping this is somehow normal for a SSD but it REALLY doesn't look like it :(
Ah thanks for clearing that up. I did not know that about the M.2 slot. Do you know if thats the same with every manufacture or is it just the way Asrock rigged it up?
Haven't bought it yet, but probably a NH-U14S. I checked the pdf manual, I couldn't find anything that specifically that it'd run at full speed in any of the 3.0 slots. The specs page kind of implies it's only x16 in the first slot the way it's worded (PCIE1/PCIE2/PCIE4: single at x16 (PCIE1);)
I'm getting ready to build a new z97 system. The system is going to be be air cooled with a large 140mm heatsink. The motherboard I had in mind was a Z97 OC Formula. The problem is, the cooler is not going to fit on the board with the graphics card in the top slot. If I move it to a different...
Ok just cleared the bios...that seems to have done the trick. I replaced the battery when I built it and thought that had reset it, guess not :awe:
Thanks all for the help!
@John Connor
I'll give that a shot and maybe try an older bios if it doesn't work.
@C1
It's possible...but I did have the same hard drive running on an older nforce3 board.
@ketchup79
No. I just bought the board off of ebay. It's actually for a Win98 project (that's why I got one with...
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