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  1. johnb35

    USB drive not recognized

    You need to delete the partitions and then reformat the whole drive as 1. It will then show up.
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    Reformatting laptops.

    Yeah it is. So an getting an SSD would definitely help as well as getting more ram. 500gb SSD from amazon...
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    Reformatting laptops.

    Run Ccleaner and then a malwarebytes scan. Disable any unnecessary programs from running at bootup using the startup tab in task manager.
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    Reformatting laptops.

    You have a low end cpu along with only 4gb of ram. So basically the only thing you can do is increase the ram but it's still gonna be slow. If you go into device manager and expand disk drives you can list what model is shows and we can tell you if it's an ssd or mechanical drive. Most likely...
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    freezes then wont boot, help please

    There has been 4 updates since then. https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=984&data-type=DOWNLOAD But I would definitely try using a different card first before trying to update the bios especially if you have never done it.
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    freezes then wont boot, help please

    That is the driver for the video card. What motherboard do you have and what bios version is installed? You may want to try a different video card to see what happens.
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    Hard Drive Recovery

    Yes, they are compatible, it is a SATA hard drive not IDE. So since the other drive works with the adapter we can only assume this drive is dead.
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    Moved computer, now it won't start

    Website to learn what this file does and how to use it. https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-take-ownership-to-context-menu-in-windows-11.1230/ File to download and run it so that it merges with the registry...
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    Black Screen off and on

    What does event viewer say?
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    freezes then wont boot, help please

    Most likely your hard drive is failing. Without more information I'm just guessing here. If you would have gotten the error message on the bsod, that would have helped. I would first start by finding out what brand of hard drive it has and use their software to run a long scan on it to check...
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    Moved computer, now it won't start

    They would be under X:\users\username\ Where X is the letter of the drive you want access to. Most likely yes because trying to change permissions via windows is a pita. Are you running windows 10 or a different OS? Once I know that I can direct you to the correct file to download.
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    Hard Drive Recovery

    Can you show us the end of the adapter you are using and then end of the hard drivce that you are trying to connect to? Trying to confirm whether or not you have an IDE or SATA hard drive. Until we see that, then we are only grasping at straws. If both drives have the same type of connection...
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    Does a CX430 have enough power for this build?

    No, you need a minimum of 500 watts but I would get a 600 watt psu for that and for future upgrades. That cpu is already over 11 years old.
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    Hard Drive Recovery

    The one on the left is a SATA hard drive which requires a sata power cable. With the one on the right, as long as you have I assume a usb cable plugged into the computer and the other one plugged into power then it should work. Are you sure the reader you have is good? What do the other ends...
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    Hard Drive Recovery

    That is an IDE drive and most likely way over 10 years old at this point, as the first of SATA was released in 2003. So what happens when you connect it to a pc? Does it turn on and spin up? You should be able to feel it. Without more info, the drive could be totally dead and could be upwards...
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    Reformatting laptops.

    Can you also tell us what processor and how much ram it has? Anything less than 8gb of ram and it's gonna crawl.
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    Creating Windows 10 reinstall/repair flashdrive.

    The install files are compressed so that when it installs, everything gets expanded so thats why the size discrepancy.
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    Best free audio and video editors?

    Most of your free software comes with malware. Just FYI. And most free software will have limited capabilities.
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    Creating Windows 10 reinstall/repair flashdrive.

    What is on your flash drive are the install files not the whole OS. Those install files are only just over 5 gb but the time windows installs everything then its about 20gb. You used to be able to fit windows on a 4gb flash drive as the ISO setup files were under 4gb. Now with Windows 10 and...
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    Help! Blue Screen of Death!

    Please do the following and post the results. Download BlueScreenView No installation required. Unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe file to run the program. When scanning is done, go Edit>Select All. Go File>Save Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt. Open...
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