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young timber May 12, 2023, 5:05 PM

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I want to transfer my hard disk data to SSD but it has some apps running, how do I?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:20 PM

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That’s gotta be the most searched for windows troubleshoot step ever

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https://chat.openai.com/

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:23 PM

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bronze stone That’s gotta be the most searched for windows troubleshoot step ever

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I have a app that's running in the background

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I want to like transfer it and format my old drive

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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So, why can’t you close this app

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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It runs on starup

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Startup

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Ctrl + shift + escape

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Startup

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Disable

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You don’t even need to reboot

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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Ye but i have to move it

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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You can just close the app

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Right

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Close it

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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It doesn't show in task manager

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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Move it.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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But it won't start again

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:25 PM

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If it’s a running process it’s in task manager

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Huh?

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Alright whatever man, you’re not gonna transfer or, what I’m assuming you’re doing is cloning a disk, without this app being closed

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So

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Whatever makes this app conditional for your PC to boot.

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Your system is done. Gone

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You need to reinstall windows from the USB stick

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:29 PM

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bronze stone Alright whatever man, you’re not gonna transfer or, what I’m assuming you’re doi...

No, let me just send the photo and explain

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This thing runs on startup

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But doesn't show in startup menu

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It's in the D drive

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I want to move it to my L drive

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I can end task and move it, but when i re-boot, will it run again from the L drive or not?

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I can't take any risk

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It's office computer

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Ok so what you need to do. Is type in your search “services”

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Lot of data

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Oh wait

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Can’t you just have your IT guy do it?

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:32 PM

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No, there isn't any it guy

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:32 PM

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It’s literally not your problem to do this kinda stuff

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You don’t get paid to-

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Well then.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:32 PM

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Office computer in the sense, personal home pc but used for work

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Has office data

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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bronze stone Well then.

So what do I do now

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Ok. Then. Copy that first to the cloud

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But not the drive you want to clone

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Ok?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Or to an external drive like a flash drive

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Ok

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:33 PM

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Move the data you need to keep, somewhere off your PC

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:34 PM

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Ok

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:34 PM

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Now, when that’s started.

Do you want this SSD to be your boot drive?

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:34 PM

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It already is

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:35 PM

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Ok. I think I see now

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Type in your search bar “services”

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Stop this process. You can re-enable it later.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:35 PM

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Ok

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Done next

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:35 PM

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Then you should be able to transfer everything you need

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If not

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Reboot then you will

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:36 PM

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I'm just copying them, not moving them

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So the file is still in the old disk and will run from that old disk

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Even tho it has been copied to the new place

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:37 PM

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That’s why the process needs to be stopped. So that you then can format it.

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Then on your new drive it was copied to

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Run the program there

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:37 PM

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It doesn't run

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:37 PM

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The service itself is a windows service. You just re-enable it

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The registry updates when a program folder is moved upon run

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:38 PM

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Oh wait i think it worked

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:38 PM

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So your shortcuts and whatnot won’t work until you run it from the apps root folder

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:40 PM

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Yup it worked

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Now there is another drive

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And that fucking drive has another app running in the background

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I fuckin hate software

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@bronze stone how do I see, what applications are running from a specific drive?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:42 PM

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You should be able to right click an app and click on details, which takes you to a new panel

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Right click that again

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“Open in folder”

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:43 PM

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Ye but i have to see for every app?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:43 PM

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Each one yea

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It’s not that annoying.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:43 PM

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There are 81

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:43 PM

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Okay so

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This would be a lot easier for you if you just booted windows into safe mode

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:44 PM

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What adv will i get?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:44 PM

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I wonder how you ended up with an install on your SSD, and still left a buncha system app residue in your old drive

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Assuming it’s not just one single app stopping you from formatting

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Can you put in search “partition” and click on create system partition or something similar to that

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And send me a snip of that

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:47 PM

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bronze stone I wonder how you ended up with an install on your SSD, and still left a buncha s...

Basically i had 1 single hard disk partitioned to 4 drives, now 1 is C, which is boot and i transferd that, now when the person was using the pc, complained it was still slow, i realised that the apps he is using are in the other 3 drives, of the hard disk, so i made 3 more drives of the SSD and basically transferring them

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:47 PM

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Did you, transfer C, from within windows?

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

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I used clone partitioner 3rd party app

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

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Just dragged it over.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

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Boot drive? Nah

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

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Right was a USB stick ever involved in this.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:48 PM

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No

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:50 PM

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Wew lad you’re still booting from your HDD, unless you cloned the entire disk, mounted the iso on your SSD, disconnected your HDD physically for your boot record to register it in the BIOS.

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Send me a pic of partition manager

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Where is the EFI partition

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:51 PM

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I checked the other drive and i don't see any app running but when i format, it says that some app is running

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:51 PM

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Bro your windows is running in it

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:51 PM

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bronze stone Wew lad you’re still booting from your HDD, unless you cloned the entire disk, ...

No, i can guarantee that it is booting from SSD

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465gb drive is the SSD

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:53 PM

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Okay so, is all the data off the HDD

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That needs to be off it

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:53 PM

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2 drives are clear

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Last one left

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Please don’t mistake partitions for drives

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Oh shit

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:54 PM

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We can call them parts for short.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Ohh, i get it

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So i think you misunderstood half of the problem?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:55 PM

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I guarantee if you had a pinch more tech literacy you’d be enjoying your evening by now

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:55 PM

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Ahhhhhh

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It's these terms that suck at

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Always

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:56 PM

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bronze stone I guarantee if you had a pinch more tech literacy you’d be enjoying your evening...

Tech vocabulary maybe

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:56 PM

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Once all the data is backed up off the entire hard disk. You’re gonna turn off the system. Physically unplug the sata cable (the smaller, probably blue / orange one) and make sure that your SSD is the bootable one.

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Yeah but i still have to transfer the data right

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Yes do that first

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Back it up to one drive or google drive or something

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

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I can guarantee you that my SSD is booting

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Before it took 2 mins to boot and now it's instant

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Right, sure it’s “booting” off it. But bootable independently

young timber May 12, 2023, 5:58 PM

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Elaborate?

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Wdym by bootable independently

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:00 PM

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I don’t know why your overdid you file system to the point that you still have windows services running off your HDD. But it’s not promising. If you still have system files on your HDD. And your SSD can’t boot into windows without them. Your install, and any data you diddnt back up online is doomed.

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You will need to make a bootable USB and start from scratch

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:01 PM

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Basically there were some apps installed on another partition of the hard disk that i was unaware of

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It's those apps

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:02 PM

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You don’t know if these apps are using host processes they still retain in the HDDs drives

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:02 PM

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I just have to move one more partition to another one, and that's it, it'll be done

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:02 PM

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You mean, one part, to your SSD

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Right?

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:02 PM

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Yes

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Absolutely

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:03 PM

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Ok

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:03 PM

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One part of the hard disk to another part of the SSD

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@bronze stone

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:05 PM

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Next time, try to have a max of of two active parts per drive. You think splitting different aspects or files into parts helps you be more organized, but not any more than just one more folder does.

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I’d reserve 150gb for the system, set yourself 50gb In restore for automatic backups

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And the rest as a “data” drive

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:06 PM

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bronze stone Next time, try to have a max of of two active parts per drive. You think splitti...

Yes, i agree, i actually don't use this PC, so yeah.....

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My personal laptop is pure perfection with just 2 drives

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I mean partitions

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So what's the solution to this drive now man i fed up of dis shit

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:08 PM

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Now, if you can boot without the HDD plugged in.

Two birds with one stone. You can make sure everything you backed up runs.

You automatically update the windows registry to recognize that the apps have been moved

You can plug the HDD back in(once you power off) and format the entire drive in one go

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:09 PM

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Can I do it without unplugging the hdd?

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Cuz I'll have to open the cabinet then

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:09 PM

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No, you can’t make windows pretend a plugged in HDD doesn’t exist.

Unless you have motherboard that allows you to disable sata devices

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:10 PM

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I think it can?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:10 PM

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You’d do this within the bios

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:10 PM

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Device manager?

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:10 PM

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The bios runs before you boot into windows

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It would %100 be easier for you, to….just unplug a cable

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:11 PM

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bronze stone Now, if you can boot without the HDD plugged in. Two birds with one stone. You...

The problem is , i don't know which apps are running

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:12 PM

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You’d do this with the PC off

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:12 PM

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So how do I do the 2nd step

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:12 PM

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bronze stone You’d do this with the PC off

Bruh obv

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:12 PM

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Once you boot into window with the HDD unplugged, you simply

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Run process

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The programs that you use on this Pc

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Youd have to run them from their root directories

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Desktop shortcuts and taskbar pins won’t work as if they’ve been running off the HDD, have not been updated within registry

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:13 PM

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That's the problem, i don't use this PC, there might some ultra important program that is used once in a blue moon,

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:13 PM

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Ok. Well, that’s not my problem.

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:13 PM

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And i don't see any program in the drive

bronze stone May 12, 2023, 6:13 PM

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That’s yours

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Just

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Make sure what looks like needs to be run

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Runs

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What icons are on the desktop

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Excel, maybe a company vpn, Microsoft teams,

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Uhm. Proprietary call software

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Video conferencing

young timber May 12, 2023, 6:15 PM

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Got it

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