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Recent content by Neal16

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    Strange behavior

    No type of check or disk optimization is set at all. It happens at random times. Never the same time. Task Manager is not set to do anything.
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    Strange behavior

    Thanks for the reply. The thing is that this is only a very recent development. I've had this machine for about 3 years but have never had this problem before about a week ago.
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    Strange behavior

    I have an Asus laptop with win 7 in my bedroom. Recently, not only does it wake up from hibernation mode instead of sleep mode which I put it in but in the middle of the night, it spontaneously wakes up (with no contact whatsoever) for about 30 seconds then goes back to sleep. Other than "bad...
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    Solved, I guess. Thanks for being here for all of us.
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    Update 3 Success!! Finally! At this point, all I needed was a little more patience and the right software-- which was EaseUS and NOT AOMEI. Never again for that one. Don't know why it's so frequently recommended. Anyway, I was able to clone my mechanical storage drive to my new Samsung EVO 850...
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    Uadate 2 This machine has given me no end of grief. I did finally get windows installer to see the drive but it wanted a driver which I couldn't find on the Samsung or GIGABYTE site. It's an OEM drive. But I did manage to locate a Samsung driver that, although it still wouldn't let me install...
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    Here's an update on the state of my GIGABYTE laptop. After checking all available info on the net and still having no success, I decided the remove the M.2 SSD and install windows on my SATA III storage drive just to have access to the machine. Yes, it's slower than molasses in Jan but at least...
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    Yes the drive is BIOS and is already set to AHCI mode.
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    Solved Can't select the right drive for re-installation of Win7

    I have a Gigabyte P37X v5 Laptop with Windows 7 pro, a Samsung 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD, which is the C:\ Drive and a Hitachi 1TB 7200RPM SATA III for storage. I want to re-install windows on the Samsung M.2 drive but the installation only offers the option to install it on the 1TB Drive. The Samsung...