I agree with SIW2. A SSD will make it much faster.
For now I suggest you do a disk check on your drives.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use...
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I agree with SIW2. A SSD will make it much faster.
For now I suggest you do a disk check on your drives.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use...
Reset Windows Update in Windows 10
As it is only showing as 8G, one stick isn't recognized and to have dual channel you must have at least one pair.
Is the computer specs the one on your "My computer"?
Most Win 11 drivers work on Win 10.
OEM computers sometimes requires non standard drivers. You should have exported the Win 11 drivers before the first attempt of cloning the Acer drive into the...
When installing or removing memory sticks, remove the power cord from the outlet.
Test with one stick and then the other one on its slot. Maybe one stick is damaged or not well inserted.
You're welcome
New updates require that the Recovery partition is at least 850M
KB5034441: Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10
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Glad to hear. Don't forget to open Device Manager to see if there is any yellow alerts of missing drivers.
I'm not familiar with Aomei partition manager as I use Mini Tool but with Aomei you...
The recovery partition is the last partition (606M)
The NVMe partition should end with the following sequence.
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This are the steps you should do.
- Disable the recovery partition on the Acer drive
- Clean the NVMe and convert it to GPT
- Create the EFI and the MSR partition
- Clone and enlarge to 1G the...
As Samuria wrote, you probably cloned a Legacy-MBR into a NVMe that is set to boot as UEFI-GPT. It is a quite easy fix.
Install the NVMe back to the adapter and plug the NVME into the Acer's USB...
A computer with 4 G will run better with 32Bits than with 64Bits
On BIOS:
Select OS mode = UEFI
Disable fast boot and secure boot (you can turn it on after installation)
Windows can be installed in two ways: Legacy-MBR or UEFI-GPT
To install as Legacy-MBR...
The UEFI - GPT drive has the partitions layout like below.
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This is what I would do. The results are the same as Navy.
- Do a clean install on the new drive as UEFI - GPT
- Boot from the...
I agree with SIW2.
It is possible that the MB accepts a NVMe drive.
Ztruker can you tell us the MB brand and model?
If you use only one stick (8G) it will run in single channel mode. If you install with 4g+4G it will run in dual channel mode (much faster).
If your MB has 4 slots you can use (4+2)G in one channel...
As I already wrote, all you have to do is to boot from the disk image program rescue drive and replace the new C: partition (that is on the EFI-GPT drive that you just did a clean install) with C:...
- You made a drive or C: partition image of your old system
- You did a EFI - GPT clean install
All you have to do is to boot from the disk image program rescue drive and replace the new C:...
It is quite easy to rebuild the EFI partition but first we have to see what you have on your drive.
Boot from a Win 10 installation drive and at the Windows Setup screen, press Shift+F10...
Windows can be installed in two ways: Legacy-MBR or UEFI-GPT
To install as Legacy-MBR you must boot the installation drive as Legacy
To install as UEFI-GPT you must boot the installation drive as...
For what I understood, you did a reset using a USB drive you created on a recently bought laptop running windows 10 Pro with UEFI.
Are you saying that the reset converted the drive from Legacy - MBR...
You can switch to a local account without a password
Switch to Local Account in Windows 10
On the early Windows system, the recovery partition was the first one. As it couldn't expand to the right, nowadays it is after the C: partition.
The first 450M partition was the recovery...
What is your budget?
Look for a i7 or i9 or AMD AMD Ryzen 7 or 9 with DDR5
AMD is better on multitask like Photoshop.
If you have Mini tool partition or Aomei partition it is very easy to increase the recovery partition.
Please post a whole window Disk Manager image of ALL your drives. Don't forget to expand the...