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Storage on the Move
Hi Doc, I’m preparing to build
a new PC and plan to reuse
my two 3TB hard drives.
They’re currently mirrored
in Storage Spaces. Is there
an easy way to move them,
or do I have to back them up,
move the drives, and rewrite
the data?
I also have Adobe InDesign
CS5. Adobe supported this
for a generous amount
of time with patches and
enhancements but doesn’t
anymore. If I install it off the
CD, then copy all the files
from the current installation
to the new one, will I be back
where I am now? Or do you
know a clever way to move
old apps? –Michael DuvalTHE DOCTOR RESPONDS: If
your 3TB drives are already
working well under Windows,
then making the switch to
a new platform should be
as easy as disconnecting
them from your old machine,
hooking them up to the new
one, and checking Storage
Spaces to make sure they’ve
been recognized properly. Get
Windows installed on the new
build before switching over.
And check that the drives
are set up similarly in both
BIOSes. If they’re currently
configured in AHCI mode,carry that over to minimize
the potential for conflicts.
Just to be sure this works,
the Doctor built two PCs in the
lab, one with a Core i7-7700K
and another with a Core i7-
8086K, both running Windows
10 Pro 1903. He created a
two-way mirrored storage
pool on one, shut that system
down, and moved the drives to
the other machine. Windowspicked them right up as the
same storage space.
With regard to InDesign
CS5, get your copy of the
software installed using
the CD, then visit https://
adobe.ly/2YrUUPk. That page
contains all of the InDesign
downloads available for
Windows, dating back to the
very first version.Shot in the Dark
Hello Doc. I built my PC
eight years ago in a Cooler
Master HAF X with a Core i7-
2600K, an Asus P8P67 EVO
motherboard, 16GB of G.Skill
low-voltage DDR3L-1600
memory, and an Asus Strix
GeForce GTX 970. This was
the first machine I ever
pieced together, and it has
served me well, but it’s time
for something new. What do
you suggest? I’d like to keep
my budget to about $1,000.
Another issue I’m having
is that my system crashes
randomly. If I could fix this,
maybe I wouldn’t have to
upgrade. The issue isn’t
limited to a specific program
or website. Rather, any time
there is a song playing,
the screen freezes and I
hear one high-pitched note
that continues until I shut
everything down. The light
on the keyboard turns offand it stops responding.
For a long time, I thought
the problem was my
motherboard, but nothing
I’ve tried works. It has been
suggested that I download
the newest driver for my
graphics card. Even then, my
PC keeps crashing. Can you
help? Is it the motherboard,
GPU, or memory?
One last question: How
long is thermal paste good
for? Does it need to be
reapplied every so often?
Glad to see the team at
Maximum PC doing well.
I have a subscription that
should last for two more
years, and I plan to continue
receiving the magazine in
print. Great job, everyone!
–Kirk AndrewsTHE DOCTOR RESPONDS: The
purpose of thermal interface
material (TIM) is to fill the tiny
pits and gaps between the
mating surfaces of your CPU’s
heat spreader and the sink
sitting on top of it, displacing
air that would otherwise act
as an insulator. So long as the
TIM was applied properly, it
shouldn’t need to be reapplied
unless the seal between those
surfaces is broken. Still, it
wouldn’t hurt to monitor the
temperature of your Core i7-
2600K and make sure it isn’tFor modern performance at a
mainstream price, the Radeon
R X 570 0 of fers plent y of value.©^AMDquickstart
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