You said "unacceptable". Not the same thing as "inadequate". What does Bill Gates have to do with the price of rice in China in the summertime...
I agree. I typically advise against total (fresh/clean) re-install of Windows, except as a last resort effort. But with all that has happened, it...
I do! But still, until Man can create perfection 100% of the time, even the best models from the best makers can have a unit that fails...
Same here. But then again, a PSU, even one supported by a good UPS, can fail and potentially damage connected devices. This would be rare with...
I wish when this does happen, some logging of some sort would occur to give us a clue as to why it failed without notice. Was there a power surge?...
FWIW, I've been buying Samsung SSDs for many years now. I have some that are 10 years old and still running. In fact, I have not had a single one...
Stopped using it completely? Or just the registry cleaner? You are correct that Windows knows how to disregard broken registry entries. Actually...
Thanks for that update.
I use CCleaner too - have for many many years (easily well over 20 years). And one of the reason I prefer it is because it is NOT overly...
Ummm, no it doesn't. It actually does a great job at both. Remember, SSDs do not get defragged because of the way data is stored on them (see ***...
I know IBM-80 cards well. And yes, drive maintenance was super important back then. And frankly, it is still today - which is exactly why the...
I agree with rsinfo. There is no need to run 3rd party optimizer apps on our drives (HD or SSD). And for the record, the optimizer "Tool" in...
I really don't like articles like that. There are just too many variables. The very best hard drive could fail after 1 day of use too. Or last 10...
Why did you run it in read-only mode? You didn't give chkdsk a chance to see if could repair the problem(s). Note that corrupted data is not...
I agree with Pete and you can see what Samsung Magician says. But if me, and I kept getting these errors, I would not trust the drive. (My bold...
I always run chkdsk /r from an elevated command prompt. If you don't use switches, it only reports errors (if any) - it does not try to fix them....
I don't think so. SSDs are totally different from hard drives where new bad blocks or sectors often does indicate impending doom. Fortunately,...
Those you get in their automatic replacement plan, this is true. And I get that. And I don't have a problem with that. It is actually a great...
Really? You got a message that actually says that? If so, that is pretty low - even for HP. I am guessing you have no choice but to buy...
Well, back in my old radio maintenance days, we used to call that "FM" - but it was not for frequency modulation but for a certain type of magic!...
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