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9M ago
Just out of curiosity.
I'm wondering if you have ever had a system crash?
In modern PCs there's usually an option within the BIOS called fastboot. It basically caches your most used files and OS state, when you start your PC it skips the usual BIOS che ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
No. You'll be erasing it once you have copied the data you need from it ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Quote from: Trololol on August 17, 2023, 10:37:18 AMUnfortunately there's no way of knowing without an idea of what caused the last corruption.
Thank you for all your help is there anything I have to do while I have put it back in the lapto ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Quote from: Wooster on August 17, 2023, 02:12:49 PMWell it's extremely uncommon to corrupt a drive just by installing it.
If it's in use, make sure Bitlocker is disabled on the drive you are taking out before you remove it..
QuotePress Windows Sta ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Well it's extremely uncommon to corrupt a drive just by installing it.
If it's in use, make sure Bitlocker is disabled on the drive you are taking out before you remove it..
QuotePress Windows Start button. Type bitlocker. Click Manage BitLocker to e ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Unfortunately there's no way of knowing without an idea of what caused the last corruption ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
If it's a laptop, there's a possibility that it wasn't fully shut down, but in a hybrid sleep mode.
To get a hard shut down you can either hold the power button down for 10-15 seconds, or hit CTRL + ALT + DEL, select the power button at the bottom righ ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Thank you, I would like to do that. But as I said with my last drive it corrupted when I put it back in. Do you think that that was a one-off and that I am fairly safe to put the drive back in ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
You can pop it back into your PC as an internal drive, copy the files over to another internal drive or a cloud/hosting service.
Then take the drive out and back into the caddy and format/initialise it as an external drive.
Or, I'm assuming your nvme e ..read more
PC-Forums UK
9M ago
Yeah, reinstalling it and seeing if the data is still accessible. (In IT circles, taking a system back to it's previously working state is known as a regression ..read more