IncredibleJ1

Hi guys! So long story short, I've been migrating an old laptop to a new one and decided just to use a 3rd party imaging tool (MiniTool Shadowmaker) to force them on. For the most part, things are working fine and I've just been swapping around drivers but side effect of some earlier attempts was that the old laptop had a 512GB HDD that I shrunk down to a 128GB partition and figured I could re-expand on the new computer with a 256GB SSD. Well, turns out that disk management, even though it knows that the drive seemingly is 256GB in it's properties, also thinks it has over 300GB of free space to expand to. Any ideas since I don't want to expand it incorrectly and then have new files being written into neverland? Normally I hate using clone utilities but my grandparents don't wanted all their apps moved and I figured it would be the quickest.

Wouldn't gen 3 be fine? I thought the 6400 was relatively low end and wouldn't exceed the limits of gen 3.

Hi all, I was able to pick up a Thinkstation P340 with a 10700 and 32 gigs of memory for around 300 however I'm at a bit of a loss for what to do about graphics. It came preinstalled with a Quadro P1000. Does anyone know if it would make sense to jump to either an RX 6400 or and RTX A2000? I'm limited on power for this one so the 75w slot is max unless I wan't to find some odd power supply.

I'm dealing with a Samsung Galaxy Book S for a cousin and it has a Snapdragon 8cx on Windows 10 on ARM. It shows that the BCD file is missing and I need to get recovery media for it. Any ideas on how to find recovery media for Windows on ARM? I already tried to use Windows 11 recovery media made by parallels on an M1 Mac.

I was experimenting with Windows 11 and decided to try to set up a dual boot setup. This would be my first time doing this so when I was having some trouble, I pulled the disk with my current install of Windows 10 and allowed Windows 11 to install on a secondary drive. I then readded my first drive with the Windows 10 install back to the system but when starting up, I'm not getting any boot menu options to decide which OS to boot. I've only been able to choose via the UEFI boot priority system and haven't been able to figure out how to get the windows boot manager to appear. Any ideas? (also sorry if I totally messed up this setup)

I checked and all the ports I tried are thunderbolt 3. Also I am using a thunderbolt 3 cable less than a foot long that I tested to make sure it works.

I just picked up a Aorus RTX 2070 Gaming Box but haven't been able to get it to power on. I have a Dell XPS 7390 2 in 1 and plugged in power and then thunderbolt but besides the gpu fan doing one tiny spin and then shutting off, only the psu fan is on. It doesn't show up as connected to anything in either Ubuntu or Windows and it doesn't charge the laptop. Also, I checked its USB ports and only the non quick charge ports are providing power. I've tried it with a Yoga 920 and all that one said was USB device not recognized and still nothing besides the psu fan powers on. Also, I should say I've tried reseating the gpu and replugging 24 and 8 pins but nothing has happened (I also tried the power cycle trick). At this point, I'm running out of ideas but need to get this working for a research project, any ideas?

Does anyone think it would be possible to create an SLI EGPU setup. A lot of laptops already have 2 thunderbolt 3 ports so could you dedicate 1 for each gpu and put them in SLI? -Yes, I do know this is stupid in terms of cost and stuff but I just want to know if it is possible.