Well there's no hard & fast rule to create or not to create partitions on hard disks specially external hard disks. Just go what you think works...
Sorry. Its called Startpage. https://www.startpage.com/ Sorry for all the confusion as it was all written in haze of fever & COVID testing.
I am also using FireFox since last 9-10 years on all my devices with StartSSL as the search engine. Try to keep away from Google as far as possible.
Check your hard disk for errors. First use chkdsk /r. It would take a while so if possible, let it run overnight. It should fix most of the "soft"...
Why don't you just backup your data & reinstall Windows ? I have found that reinstalling Windows every couple of years makes it faster & leaner as...
Just the Windows partition. Everything else, in theory, is left as it is.
I use Malwarebyte Premium. In free AV, I think Windows Defender is as good as others. Don't need to look further.
I am running Win 2004 on the same old (ancient ?) hardware without any problem.
I think there is your problem. Space or lack of it stumps Windows & it gives non sensical messages.
Can you copy the photos ?
Perhaps it's a new feature & Christer is a guinea pig !
No, Windows is not foolishly or blindly running a defrag on your SSD every night, and no, Windows defrag isn't shortening the life of your SSD...
Defrag & Optimize are the same things. Windows latest version correctly recognises SSD &HDD but doesn't optimises the SSD correctly.
The issue remains the same. The only way is to switch off the SSD defrag to Never.
There is reportedly a problem in defrag portion. Windows keep on trimming SSD multiple times in a day....
My main desktop has a SSD & I am hearing about the new version having defragmentation problems with SSD. So not doing anything for now, even...
I tried it on one of my laptops but it failed.
It could mean that some driver misbehaves while upgrading to latest version or the driver is just not compatible. It would have been very kind of...
Tried updating to Version 2004 on my 5 year old laptop by downloading ISO. After 3 hours and 98%, it rolled back to previous version. Guess my...
A little too safe but with Windows you don't know at least on production systems.
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