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Formatting question

Thanks Steve
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- Post #3
- Oct 19, 2020
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Quick Win10 question

Appreciate it Thanks Steve
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- Post #5
- Oct 19, 2020
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Formatting question

I have an old 250GB SSD which was previously used as my win10 Boot drive. It has been replaced with a larger faster boot drive. I want to reuse it as a data drive. In Administrative tools There are 3 partitions .There is a reserved system partition, a primary partition and a reserved recovery...
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- Oct 19, 2020
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Quick Win10 question

Got it Thanks Steve
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- Post #3
- Oct 17, 2020
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Quick Win10 question

Cleaning up my Win10 SSID boot drive there is the windows folder (operating system folder) Just below this is windows.old I suspect this was left to revert to if the new installation was unsatisfactory or incomplete- Can I safely delete it?? Thanks Steve
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- Oct 17, 2020
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Gigabyte board -cant enable xmp

Thanks again for your help- Now to tidy up the wiring and close it up!
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- Post #6
- Sep 12, 2016
- Forum: Motherboards
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Gigabyte board -cant enable xmp

2133 is correct. Not so interested in overclocking as stability-surprised the board changed it settings as the memory is on their approved list. I do photo and video not gaming- If I overclocked anything it would likely just be my cpu Many thanks for your help
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- Post #4
- Sep 11, 2016
- Forum: Motherboards
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Gigabyte board -cant enable xmp
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- Post #3
- Sep 11, 2016
- Forum: Motherboards
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Gigabyte board -cant enable xmp

Just assembled GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD5 with i7 6700k and 4 8 gb modules of ripjaws 2100 DDR4 memory- have been able to sucessfully boot and install Win 10 and no reboots so far-was able to boot with 2 and 4 modules both - memory is 15-15-15-35 but bios is timed to 15-15-15-36 . Thought I would...
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- Thread
- Sep 11, 2016
- gigabyte xmp
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Motherboards
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Help with selection

Not a hard core gamer Photographer using Lightroom and photoshop, Premiere for graphic and video occasional flight simulator have built two prior machines and used core duo chips e6800s which are very long in the tooth will be building a newer machine using skylake i7 3.4 Ghz processor, gtx...
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- Aug 6, 2016
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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PowerColor R9 270 2GB video card $105 AR @ Newegg

Have a SSD 16 GB memory Prior poster suggested faster GPU no help (new card)- Generation 2 of express bus have e6600 core duo quad core - not much faster to be had in this generation of cpu Was looking for a shor term fix before building a new machine Sigh...
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- Post #10
- Apr 8, 2016
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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PowerColor R9 270 2GB video card $105 AR @ Newegg

my machine is older wth a radeon 6850 and PCI express 2.0 slot - The benchmarks for this card are so much better than my card- Will I get substantial improvement or am I going to be "bus-bound"? Major task is photo editing. CPU is quad core Pentium (I know its old but generally fast enough for...
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- Post #7
- Apr 8, 2016
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Port multiplier problem

Score! Installed the Asmedia driver over the Windows installed driver (Install program) , rebooted and the 4 disk eclosure was recognized and the two installed drives became active. Very excellent Many thanks Steve
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- Post #7
- Mar 16, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Port multiplier problem

Bought a Syba SATA 3 card for my older Gigabyte MB in order to use a SATA 3 SSD-- Works great Installed card and windows 7 recognized it immediately and installed its own drivers. ACHI enabled in BIOS Card has port multiplier support -ASMedia 1061 chip - Windows driver supposedly supports...
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- Mar 15, 2015
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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External Drive Issues

Bios is current. set to ACHI Driver supplied with units is for a silicon image esata 2 card - not installed as I put in Syba esata 3 card for SSD and no further pci-e slots Will try to install the subsystem software and be certain it is in the JBOD mode although I assumed (perhaps...
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- Post #3
- Feb 9, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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