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Unlike many on this Forum who seem to hate the whole idea of A.I i'm greatly in favour of it. OK there will be some sort of transitional...

All these cases support 3x 5.25" bays and E-ATX boards. See if you can find used ones of these...

In 24H2 the command Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore always shows that there are 2 reclaimable packages, and that a...

Thank you all for your help. My suspicion from the get go was not that bad. I replaces three bad Seagate HDDs and added an SSD. My boot...

System owns it. If you really need to get rid of it you might ask yourself why, but just boot to a linux live iso (Mint or whatever) and...

Manuals and directions are for reading after the fact. ;-)

Did you follow the "Crucial" instructions that are with the driver? What program did you use for cloning to your new drive?

Also you would be much better on boot times by transferring Windows to the new Crucial Nvme drive. ;-)

When you open "Device Manager" you need to be looking at "Storage Controllers" for the "Crucial" driver.

Use standard MS drivers for the M.2 drive. Can you show us a screen shot of the "Disk Management"

Boot times will be longer due to PCIe lane sharing! So turn off Sata port 5/6 and just use ports 1/4. That's how I setup my bios.

You need PCIe mode... if you can... so you don't share PCIe lanes. Why do you need to zero a SSD? do you mean format?

Mines on autologin, last boot took 11.5 secs

My machine boots pretty fast but when it comes to shut down, it takes some time.I would guess maybe closing all of those processes takes...

15mins to prepare a M.2 drive??? my system does that in seconds! for a new WD SN850x Black 2Tb Nvme. I just use the standard MS driver...