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Hello, good thread. Keep your Windows and Linux installations up to speed with the most recent software updates and security fixes...

I applaud you for keeping Seven alive. You are not the only one. Some people like it and have no real reason to change.

Thanks for the information! .... john

If you have a spare HDD drive, you can buy a cheap USB enclosure for it, and as @etcetera said - use it for backup. You can do a...

Hi etcetera, Thanks for the information. Yes, I guess an SSD is more like a flash drive; although I think of it as a hard drive...

Clonezilla creates a perfect clone of a source HDD/SSD. So if you get a SSD and want to preserve data off your old disk, you can employ...

what I suggest you do is take out the HDD and smash it with a hammer until it's in microscopic bits. Oh wait. Don't do that just yet...

OK. I won't take the hammer to it ...... yet. It's actually working .... well, somewhat OK. You have to remember that my expectations...

Hi All, Well, after mutiiple re-intallations on the Acer machine, and boot times in the 5 minute plus range, I decided to try...

I got an MSI machine with 4 SSDs.. One is data, 3 boot ones. I constantly change configuration. Right now it is Win10, Xubuntu, RHEL. I...

Yes indeed. I can testify to the slow boot time of the Hitchi. It's a bear! I normally only use these to closn my Windows 7, in case the...

I just got a "new" laptop, to replace my 2013-era Dell 3340. Dell 7570. Got one NVME slot (2280) and one 2.5" slot. Came with no...

OK .... thanks. ...... john

Your machine takes a single 2.5 SATA device, either a HDD or SSD like Samsung 850. It does not take any M.2 NVME devices (meaning the...

Hi, It looks like I can get my hands on an ssd fairly cheaply. 2.5" SATA SSD 120GB / 128GB $12 or mSATA SSD 120GB / 128GB $20 or...