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How to Recover Lost/Unallocated Space on the USB Drive

If you’ve ever copied an ISO file to a USB drive, or you have just installed a new Windows on your PC, there is a chance that you encounter the issue of vanishing disk space. This is a common problem that can occur with your PC and your USB or other storage devices. However, if you ever wish to recover your USB drive, the additional space may have just been unallocated. Whenever the…
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How to Fix a Flash Drive. Most Common Issues

Handling your data or PC files around in the early days of computing necessitated the use of a floppy disk. These disk drives could only hold a little more than 1MB of information, which was ideal for storing worksheet or document files. You may now quickly transport terabytes of data by using USB flash drives. These are little stick-like gadgets that plug into a PC’s USB port and enable…
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How to Format Your External Hard Drive

External hard drives, and USB drives in general, are the great thing that lets you save important data, without cluttering your main drive. This allows you to have all the important data at your disposal and easy to access, while having the operating system drive dedicated primarily to work, offering the best possible productivity. Simply, external hard drives are a nice addition to the whole set…
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How to Tell If Hard Drive is Failing

When you are building a computer, one of the first things you look to buy is a hard disk drive (HDD). The hard drive is a fundamental component for a computer as it is the central storage unit for our data. We keep all our documents, music, videos, and files in it. The computer storage components are evolving swiftly with the growing competition. Every big company wants to make the best hard drive…
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How to Extend the Life of a USB Drive?

When you are looking to transfer some files containing user data, the first accessory that comes to most people’s mind is a USB flash drive. Some of the best USB flash drives or pen drives with extensive performance and speed can be bought from most tech stores, as they are readily available and cheap. The advantages of using a USB flash drive make it essential for users to keep an eye on health…
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How to Fix Intel Optane Memory Pinning Error

Intel Optane Memory is a form of non-volatile memory that you can add to your computer’s hardware to boost the speed of your HDD or SSD. As far as the concept of memory pinning goes, this is essentially how Intel Optane can pick specific files, programs, and applications for acceleration and this is the function that Intel Optane Memory Pinning Error meddles in. Intel Optane Memory Pinning Error…
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How to Defragment Your Hard Drive in Windows 10?

There are numerous processes that can optimize your PC performance and defragmentation is definitely one of the most prominent ones. Although its importance has deteriorated with time and is no longer crucial, it can still make a difference, especially if your operating system is installed on a traditional hard drive. If that is the case, occasional defragmentation would be more than a welcomed…
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How to Format SD Card on Windows 10

There are numerous computer operations that are handy and useful, but you may not know how to perform them. One of such actions is formatting your SD Card, memory card or flash drive on Windows 10, a task that doesn’t take too much time but can be the major problem if you don’t know how to handle it. For everyone who requires such action, here are the three most common ways you can complete…
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How to Format an SSD

Knowing how to format an SDD properly saves you from the risk of having viruses destroy your system. On top of that, your data cannot be recovered by any other party that is using that SSD later on and you can get rid of useless programs/corrupt files in one go. Formatting an SSD means getting rid of everything stored on the Solid State Drive. Essentially, you might want to do this when you are…
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How to Transfer Windows 10 to SSD

When we compare SSDs and HDDs in terms of overall performance, SSDs tend to win. You may already know this, and may thus be updating your PC with an SSD. Although you can format and do a fresh install of Windows, you may want to keep the same Windows that you have. In order to do this, you will need to transfer Windows to your new storage. We’ll tell you how to transfer Windows 10 to SSD, since…
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