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Thanks. The desktop doesn't have a dedicated GPU or anything in it. neither does the laptop. Both just i3 and i5 with integrated graphics, nothing special extra such as bluetooth antennas or anything. I guess I'll give it a go later, to see what happens, just wanted to see if there was anyone with experience. I'm also no talking about swapping it a couple of times a day, probably like 2 times a week. Since I thought Linus uses the same ssd for his testbenches, I thought this was an option.

Hi guys, it's been a while. I've got something I've been looking up, but there's no clear answer, and I know I'll get a very good one here. I've got a 128gb sata SSD that I've been using in my laptop for the last 3 years now. I also have a desktop pc that has a mechanical drive in it, but it feels so slow compared to my laptop, although my laptop is a 10 year old i3 with 6gb of ram, while the desktop is a 3rd generation i5 with faster 8gb ram. The hitachi harddrive in my desktop is defintly the bottleneck, and I prefer to use my laptop with the desktop screen attached to it whenever possible because of the snapiness of the SSD. Is it possible to take out the ssd of my laptop and plug it into my desktop whenever I won't be using my laptop for a couple of days, but then when I need to take my laptop just put it back in and use it normally? Basically swapping the ssd between the laptop and desktop frequently without having to reinstall windows or anything. I'll be buying an extra SSD soon for my desktop, but want to know if something like described above would be suitable for a couple of months. Hope I made this clear and thanks beforehand

This did it for me! Thanks a bunch!

it keeps giving me this error.

Yes I did. The admin account of the current computer shows up saying it has full control but I can't get in.

Hi everyone Recently my old computer's mainboard died, but I want to access my files now on another computer. When i put the drive in a new computer it lets me access everything except my user folder on the Previous C partition of the older computer. I've tried giving full control to my current account on the new computer but it failed to do so. I'm desperate for a couple of files i'll definitly need!

Ok guys an update. I sent Synology an email at 6 in the morning explaining my issue. Around 12 they responded and told me it was probably impossible to recover my files, but to send them a log file and enable remote access. I did that right away and after another hour, they got back to me telling me they were able to see 2 video folders. 1 that had my files in it but was invisible to DSM, another that was empty but that was visible to DSM. They copied the contents of the invisible folder to the visible folder through SSH, and told me they're going to forward this issue to Taiwan, to their development team to have a look at what happened, and see if they can prevent it in the future. Long story short, I've got my files back, and Synology is looking into preventing this in the future. This all took less than 18 hours, which is a big plus to me!

I'm doing that now, thanks!

Ok guys, I formatted the drive last time, and started downloading all of my videofiles again. Today I moved the NAS the clean it, and when I put it back together, I didn't put the 6TB drive in deep enough, so I booted the NAS; saw the disk wasn't connected and I turned it off, pushed the drive completely in, and booted again. When I did so my 6TB WD RED NAS drive was "empty" again. For some reason as soon as a drive gets disconnected, the OS remaps the shared folder to another drive, which empties it. So once again, the drive shows 600 GB used, which are my video files, but the OS shows the video folder as empty. When I put the drive into windows, it shows me 100% free space. I'm sick of Synology at this moment. any advise?

The drive is 2 years old, but it isn't the drives fault. It's still working fine, it's just Synology DSM that screwed up the thing. If I count the data that is supposed to be on there, that comes down to about 1.2 TB, but DSM tells me the drive has 3.21 used, so that means it's not seeing 2 TB, which is exactly the Video folder I lost. I'll try again with the fedora live cd now that I'm a little bit more calmed down.

With the fedora live cd, the disk also shows up as a 1.6 TB drive. I'm guessing all hope is lost.

thanks, it's downloading now.

after installing EXTFS for windows, it does recognise the drive, and it shows up in file explorer as being a 2.37 gb drive, with the disk manager seeing all 4 partitions, but it's say100% of the space is available. I'm trying the fedora media writer now.

ok, I'll try that. Please take into consideration that I just have a 5mbit connectionan and downloading a 1.3 GB distro would take the better part of a day.

mac osx doesn't recognise the drive, it only shows up as a 1.6 TB drive. I'm downloading Paragon ExtFS for windows now.