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I need to add the unallocated space to my main C: partition, but it's in front of the reserved partition that is highlighted in the screenshot, but I cannot move the partition so that the unallocated is in front of C: when I try to extent the C: it will not let me select the unallocated. Any ideas what could I do? Oh, I'm using Minitool partition wizard. Edit: Thanks everyone for the help. It looks like too much work for just 5gb so I'm gonna leave it as it is. I didn't try post marked as the solution but it looks like the way to go.
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Hello Everyone, I am new to Fedora, but I have been working on the AWS-EC2 instance for about 2 years. I installed Fedora on my machine on a dedicated SSD of 500GB. For some reason, under the `About` section of the `Settings` the disk usage is shown incorrectly. Can anyone help me with this? Also, I noticed that the volume is shallow when compared to my Windows machine. If any further information is required do let me know. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.
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I have a Seagate Mobile HDD 1TB that stopped working suddenly. I mainly used the hard drive as a portable disk drive via an enclosure. The issue is when I connect it in through the USB port it just rings a tone as proof of connection to the PC. The enclosure lights up with the vibration of spinning the drive as usual disk drives do. But it does not appear on the "This PC" folder as the other disk drives do. However, it shows in the Disk Management as unknown, not initialized, and unallocated drive. I have watched several YouTube videos to fix it but not worked. I also tried by AOMEI Partition Assistant to Rebuild the MBR, and format the drive but did not work. I have added several photos of the states and the process of fixes carried out for the disk drive herewith. Is it possible to fix the drive? Any help and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hello, I have received CS2 update on Steam, but during the update it popped out with some weird bug, about not having enough space on my drive. I checked the space and everything was fine. I tried launching Steam with admin privileges, clearing Steam download cache and nothing helped. I opened "common" folder for Steam and I was unable to write and delete anything - drive was just unresponsive. After resetting my PC I saw that my drive was gone, not visible in explorer. It is kinda visible in disk manager, but I can't do anything with it. I also check BIOS for NVMe drives and I can only see my main drive for Windows (luckily). Also I tried to remout the NVMe drive, but it didn't help. I'm very confused about what happened - during installation seems like it just died. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot that kind of stuff? It should still be on warranty if I'm not mistaken and I had mainly my games installed on it so it's not a big deal, but I would like to try to fix the issue before doing all of that.
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Hi, my sister's macbook air 2013 died and i was not able to save it. But i was able to get an adapter for the SSD that Apple uses. Now the issue is, am not able to read it. I can see it in diskmanagment and also windows 11 gui for Disk and volumes. I tried with to read it with a "apfs" software called "Mac Drive 10 Pro", but was not recognized . and with ¨"HFSExplorer" i got the error: Not a HFS type drive / wrong type. The disk is not encrypted and if windows is not lying its a Fat32 system, but then i should be ale to read it correct ? Also the disk does not show up in normal windows explorer at all, only in bios and disk utility. Does any one have a suggestion ? The easy was is ofc to format it, and it would work fine, but i wanted to get the data from it first, since my sister for some reason did not have important documents backed up / in cloud
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I'm thinking about installing CrystalDiskInfo however I'm not sure is I should download the Shizuku edition or the Kurei Kei edition. Which do you recommend?
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Hello! so i have 450GB i want to use, but i want them to come up as one disc, but as far as i know, i can't do that unless the two partitions (marked in black) are next to each other (no blue partition in the middle) and i don't know how to do that! does anyone know? i've tried deleting the blue one, but that doesent work.
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Please help, I need my pc to do online school. Basically, my PC can't boot. I have Windows 10 on an SSD AND it gives error 0xc000000f saying it can't load ntoskrnl.exe. This happened after that I tried (successfully) to boot from an HDD also containing Windows 10. Once turned off the machine and tried to reboot to SSD. Error. I already got a bootable usb with Windows 10 setup, since it can't even start "remedy tools" (i dont know if it is called like this in english). I tried looking online for a guide on the error and followed this tutorial. Didn't work. It said I didn't have access to folder when I got to /booted fixboot. One guy in the comments fiixed this with /nt60 all. It worked for me then I got stuck at /attrib command, saying that isn't any folder called boot. Also, doing /bootrec scanOs returns 0 OS finds. Please Help me I need this pc it's the only one i got. Thank you very very much.
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Hi, for a long while i have experienced the problem described in the title. The disks freeze randomly, while watching a movie or while surfing the internet. I cant seem to find the cause. I did some tests with CHKDSK Tool to see if my SSD and HDD are ok and they are. Also i did a Memtest too to see if my ddr4 are ok and they are... what can i do next to see what the problem is? I will try to change my SSD but i cant afford to buy a new one right now.
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Hello, Finally got to flashback my bios after the fourth try; but with success of course come along more problems: I managed to put the windows installation tool from my mac onto a flash drive and everything went fine in « installing windows » until it kept crashing and creating partitions. It then could not go any further once I got to the update part and found out it may have been due to it trying to install it on the flash drive. Without the flash drive however, all the other drives are undetected. So I moved everything over from my flash to my nvme since I got the error « we could not create a new partition » with the following video: Unplugging every other drive and then using the Uefi os boot on my nvme it gave me an error that I could not use that disk format ( think it had a problem with gpt), which also didnt run in legacy mode, I’m in a place where I’m just lost . I think it might help so I’ll include the disk list. I also cleaned the disks again and tried again to no avail; still crashes after « installing updates. » (Using bios version 2.60 on asrock x570 itx tb3 and latest windows iso.) Thanks in advance!
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Hellloooo, Apologies if this isn't the forum. We currently use a Dell PowerVault MD3620i as a disk array for our Proxmox environment and we've recently purchased some more disks to expand the storage capacity. The Disk array is setup to use a virtual disk and is using Raid 6 As part of some weekend maintenance work we was planning on shutting everything off in our server room including the PowerVault Disk array. Powered all of the other servers off and we got to the disk array, myself and my manager were under the impression we could disconnect the network cable and just power off the Disk array but after disconnecting the network cable we noticed that the "Activity" & "Status" lights on the drives themselves continued flashing green. The status light we expected to continue flashing but we was a little bit worried as to why the "Activity" light was still flashing as nothing else is communicating to the disk array, we left the disk array for 45 minutes and went back to it and the light was still flashing. 1 - Does anyone know why the Activity light would still be flashing? 2 - Are we okay to shutdown the disk array once the network card has been disconnected? We've contacted our Dell account manager and his reply was "We're unable to tell you that because you don't have support on the machine" Does anyone know the answer to the two questions above? If you need anything else please let me know.
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so I bought a new 1 terabye sandisk SSD, and I got my brother to install windows for me on his PC, he used it on his pc and it worked completely fine. But then when I hooked it up to my pc it wouldn't boot, it gave me a message saying something like there was nothing detected on the SSD, and I know for a fact that it does detect my SSD because it says that its using a sandisk drive.. anyone know a fix?
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Heya everybody, hope you're all having a good day! I recently took apart my old Razer Blade 15 (Base Model) laptop, and I salvaged a few parts from it to put in my PC, including the hard drive. It's a Seagate BarraCuda 2TB model. However, when I was taking it out the laptop I think that I might've accidentally lost a part or two that was connected to the hard drive, but I have no clue what it's called. If anyone has any knowledge about this stuff, please tell me! There are two images down below of the hard drive, the one of the backside is showing where the missing part (if there even is one) should be.
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Hi, my computer's disc usage idles at 100%. It causes other programs to take a very long time to open or even never open until I restart my PC. I was wondering if anyone has faced this before or has tips to start the trouble shooting process. Thanks!
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Hello Everyone, I want to combine 2 SSDs into one single ssd and install OS in it. But the Problem is that, I have tried to combine the SSDs in win 10 disk management, but it only combines in dynamic type and win-7 will only be install in basic type. Actually I have a digital machine (used in making porcelain tiles) in which they have factory build PC, and that PC has 2 SSDs combined and runs win 7 All I want is to clone that factory build PC, in-case of emergency (as the machine runs 24/7/365 days) I could use that backup PC I build, as that factory build PC cost more than 30 times the actual cost for that build. I have all the clone parts require to build that PC, and I also know how to copy the OS to other disk, so Only Help I need is that how do I combine SSDs into Basic type so that i can copy all OS to it (the factory system only supports 2 SSDs combined to run different software that's why this much mess I am going through). I have attached images of the factory build PC with 2 SSDs combined runs win7 and there specs Thanks and Regards Prince Bhimani
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So the title is unexaggerated. My Laptop is an absolute hot pile of garbage to use. Its not like I bought it in 2005 or something, it was purchased in May 2020. HP 14q cs0007TU 4GB Ram 1TB HDD Intel i5 8250u Intel Integrated Graphics 620 UHD The laptop has a reasonable boot time of about 1 - 2 minutes , but this wasn't a case a month ago when it used to take between 30 to 50 minutes to boot , but a windows reinstall solved it.The experience before the reinstall is something i would like to not talk about to prevent myself from falling into seizures Since then , I have reacquired my programs like Brave, Chrome, Blender, Python, C++, Java, VSCode, Atom, Git, Zoom, Fusion , Eagle, After Effects and what not. The user experience is very very slow. It can take anywhere from 10 - 30 seconds for the start menu to come up after I click the windows button. Browser windows get stuck often and many times even just windows explorer window open can also be very slow if not completely frozen. There isn't much going on in the background tasks although , the System, Antimalware Service Executable, Windows Modules Installer Service have been dominating my disk usage. I tried to schedule the AME to only run when I'm idle but that didn't change anything. I disabled updates frustrated from the updates popups removing the WMIS. My dad accuses me of destroying it by installing software , apparently I wasn't supposed to do that on a laptop which costed 560 Dollars. So the question is , Is the software installed the real problem here? If you don't happen to know these software. None of them are those filthy 3rd party pirated, unknown ,undocumented softwares .......
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I had a hard drive failure and I need to get a new one, decided to expand the storage while I'm at it and going from a 1TB (500gb was for games 500gb for storage) I'm looking to get a seperate 1TB for games/programs and a 2TB for storage. Due to a limited budget and specific needs the choice mostly comes down to 4 HDDs (1 for games/programs one for storage). The one for games/programs I don't need to be anything fast like an SSD or NVMe, the budget let's me choose between a 256gb SSD, 120gb NVMe or a 1TB HDD and anything under 1TB doesn't do it. The one for storage also due to budget limitations is mostly around 2TB HDDs and not high class professional storage models and an SSD/NVMe is far from the 2TB I need. The one for storage has to be as reliable as it can for the price. Currently the choice is between these: Games/programs HDD: Western Digital Blue 10EZEX 7200rpm 1TB vs Seagate Barracuda Pro ST1000LM049 7200rpm 1TB Storage: Western Digital Blue 20EZRZ 5400rpm 2TB vs Seagate SkyHawk ST2000VX015 (?rpm) 2TB I've always used Western Digital (Blue), I decided to research the difference between their Seagate equivalents in case they have advantages over WD's Blue and Green series and among the mixed reviews and experiences that vary from extremely good/bad experiences from both WD and Seagate the thing that is most common is that Seagate compared to WD is generally faster but at the cost of reliability. As I said there are good/bad and great/horrible stories for both brands, but the most frequent is that Seagate has faster but less reliable HDDs while WD has slower but more reliable HDDs. A bit of info that caught my attention is that Seagate HDDs aside from being less reliable in general, tend to fail suddenly and the chances of saving any files from them are quite low to none. I also read that WD has a different type of head for reading that doesn't physically touch the disk while the head in Seagates has physical contact, true or not the low reliability of Seagate is still a common comment everywhere ignoring the way the head reads the disk. So, which of this is more or less true? What would you suggest between these and maybe another choice (the choice between brands is low where I live, I think there are some Toshiba HDDs though I haven't looked them up and I'm not sure how available are any other brands for mechanical drives). The WD Blue 2TB 20EZRZ as I know is the old WD Green drive which was for storage purpose and I currently have that one, though I've got it a bit more than a year ago. The HDD for games/programs would probably be fine as either the WD Blue or Seagate Barracuda Pro (though the small speed difference isn't that important, a more reliable drive would be just a bit nicer), but the HDD for storage absolutely has to be the most reliable for that price range, the speed can be as slow as it needs like the usual 5400rpm but the files have to be as safe as possible (that's why the info that Seagate isn't as reliable and that the files can't be saved as easily or at all in case of a failure and the general bad reputation they have on reliability is pushing me away from buying Seagate for storage, but I'd like to hear thoughts about this) Thank you -
When I connect my disk, the PC doesn't boot to Windows from it, but shows a black screen with "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected device and press a key". When I'm in bios, the disk is shown as connected to the SATA, but it's not visible in the boot menu. It's not the disk's or cable's fault. I tried it with two HDDs and one SSD and multiple cables. Booting from an USB is not a problem tho. What could possibly be the cause? I'm hopeless at this point...
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Hello, this week I was super pumped to build my brother a brand new gaming rig from scratch, and just yesterday I received a ryzen 5 3600 in the mail, it’s nothing special but he did want to stay on budget so we went with that. And I ended up immediately installing the cpu along with the cooler and decided to fire up the bios and use my windows creation tool usb to install windows so we can get all setup. Once I was done with the windows installation process everything seemed to be running clean until I noticed that my cursor would sometimes stutter and my screen would even freeze. I then opened up task manager to discover that the disk was at a staggering 100% without even bulging a little bit down. It’s almost impossible for me to do simple task or game at all. I think I have tried possibly every method to fix it and got absolutely no sleep last night trying to fix it all night until I gave up. I think it could possibly be a problem that my windows version, because it is on the November 2019 1909 version. Anyways if anyone has any clue to what could be my issue I would really appreciate feedback, because I want my brother to experience the great pc gaming experience I felt when I first started. Thxs. System specs: 1660 ti ryzen 5 3600 Msi Performance gaming AMD x470 2x8gb of 3200mhz ddr4 ram barracuda 2tb hdd
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I have a WD Green 1 TB HDD now the E: drive partition , which has 736 GB has been acting very, very weird i cleared up a ton of space from it but it doesn't show the freed up space ?! any reason why this is happening ?! i fixed this before by running an extensive disk check for 5 + hours , but i don't want to do that every time a clear up space ! it's happening again ! what do i do ! please help me !
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Few days ago, I recover my ext4 Non-partitioned media with testdisk. I was excited because everything back again. But today I reboot my server, all the partition was gone on that disk again, then I need to re-run the superblock command fsck.ext4 -p -b 32768 -B 4096 /dev/sdb to recover again to get the partitions back. What could I do with this problem? Partition Start End Size in sectors ext4 0 0 1 1702132 227 47 27344764928 [deep] superblock 0, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 32768, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 98304, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 163840, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 229376, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 294912, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 819200, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 884736, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 1605632, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 2654208, blocksize=4096 [deep] To repair the filesystem using alternate superblock, run fsck.ext4 -p -b superblock -B blocksize device ------------- log ------------- Partition table type (auto): None Disk /dev/sdb - 14 TB / 12 TiB - WDC WUH721414ALE6L4 Partition table type: None Interface Advanced recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/104312, s_mnt_count=1/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Last mount time: Wed Apr 21 23:49:33 2021 P ext4 0 0 1 1702132 227 47 27344764928 [deep] ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Recover, 14 TB / 12 TiB search_superblock recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=0/104312, s_mnt_count=1/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Last mount time: Wed Apr 21 23:49:33 2021 Ext2 superblock found at sector 2 (block=0, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 1 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 32768 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=1/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 262144 (block=32768, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 3 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 98304 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=3/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 786432 (block=98304, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 5 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 163840 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=5/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 1310720 (block=163840, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 7 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 229376 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=7/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 1835008 (block=229376, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 9 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 294912 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=9/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 2359296 (block=294912, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 25 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 819200 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=25/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 6553600 (block=819200, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 27 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 884736 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=27/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 7077888 (block=884736, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 49 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 1605632 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=49/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 12845056 (block=1605632, blocksize=4096) block_group_nr 81 recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 2654208 -B 4096 device" may be needed recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=81/104312, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096 recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 3418095616 recover_EXT2: part_size 27344764928 Filesystem created: Tue Sep 22 20:13:29 2020 Ext2 superblock found at sector 21233664 (block=2654208, blocksize=4096) ext4 0 0 1 1702132 227 47 27344764928 [deep] superblock 0, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 32768, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 98304, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 163840, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 229376, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 294912, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 819200, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 884736, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 1605632, blocksize=4096 [deep] superblock 2654208, blocksize=4096 [deep] To repair the filesystem using alternate superblock, run fsck.ext4 -p -b superblock -B blocksize device
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I've noticed that NVContainer.exe, aka NVIDIA container is taking up a lot of CPU usage, running even when idle, and probably even usig my internet. Is this safe? And if it isn't how to delete it? And if it is how can I minimise its usage?
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I created 1 /home partition when I installed ubuntu..and after that I divided into 3 partitions and now I can't write in these partitions and I can only write when I run sudo nautilus command...and I can't install games also in here
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To make a long story short my grandmas PC had it's nvme disk fail after only having a total of 5.5TB of data ever written to it. She had it about 3 years and only even used it to store Windows and a few basic programs. Anyways I since replaced the drive with a better one and because there was some data loss I figured I'd grab her a 1TB SATA SSD and use it to make regulars backups of her data so that if in the event that her boot disk ever dies again there will be a copy of it on another disk. However after replacing the main boot drive for some reason her computer won't detect any SATA devices at all. Now I'm generally pretty good with computers and am rarely ever stumped however i can't figure out why this is happening. At first I thought maybe it was a bad connection. I double checked all the power and data connections and I'm convinced they are fine. If I plug in the power cable for example I can hear her optical drive power up and seek. I can also open the disc trap no problem. So I ruled out the power cable. Next I checked the SATA data connections. I used an old SATA cable from her previous computer because I was lazy but I thought maybe the cable had failed so i replaced it with some brand new cables and nothing. Both the optical drive and SATA SSD won't show up. I tried different SATA ports too and nothing. I also updated the BIOS and nothing. I loaded optimized defaults and nothing. In the BIOS it says the SATA controller is enabled and in AHCI mode but nothing shows up under the SATA ports (ie: no connected devices). I was under the impression that when the drives didn't show up in Windows that it may have been related to not having installed the SATA drivers however I've never seen this on a modern PC as almost all onboard SATA controllers are supported out of the box. I also connected the SATA SSD in question to my main PC and it showed up and formatted just fine so I know the disk works. Also 2 SATA controllers show up in Windows so it makes me think that the SATA controllers are working just fine unless they aren't but they're still reported to the system. I'm kind of out of things to try at this point so i figured I'd ask here and see if anyone has any ideas. I'm probably just gonna go out and buy her a SATA HBA card and slap it in because I don't know what else to try. Also the motherboard is a ASUS Prime B450M-A rev 1.01 for anyone who is curious. Also my grandma doesn't know much about computers so I really doubt she did anything to it that would damage it. I'm pretty sure it just sat in the same place since the day I set it up for her. theres also like no dust in it since it's just a basic APU based system running a 3200G. Anyone know of any good SATA 6gbps HBA cards on the cheap?