Questions tagged [disc]
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Making a multi-part Clonezilla image
I have a clonezilla image for a system that we need to clone, but the USB is broken and we can only use the built in CD/DVD rom. Tried looking through the documentation and not seeing an immediate way ...
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Copy CD to ISO including bad sectors
I am currently trying to copy a Sims2 Game CD to ISO as most CD Disk-trays are now retired and aren't common on newer machines.
I've tried multiple disk tools but this disk has a purpose bad sector on ...
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CD DVD BD - Does it spin left or right?
So, how do those discs spin? Clockwise or counterclockwise? I cannot find any information on the topic.
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frozen SSD SATAFIRM S11 "SBFM61W5"
I bought a new SSD disk "PNY C900 SSD 240 GB"
I cloned my old disk 120GB on it, when I tried to extend my system partition I discovered that the disk is frozen.
All operations from diskpart ...
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DVD-RW disc mounts as DVD-R in every disk drive I use
I have a few blank DVD-RW discs, though old, worked normally until recently. Every drive I insert them in, recognizes them as DVD-R discs, and once I write to them, they become read-only. I have tried ...
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How to create ramdisc for Prestashop cache on Debian
Recently I was struggling to create ram disk for Prestashop cache folder which will have read and write privilages. I am using Apache + Nginx (as reverse proxy) and PHP-FPM 5.6 (soon moving to 7.2)
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Files and programs disappeared after Windows 10 update
I need help for my parents computer. They have Windows 10.
After an update installation all downloaded files were deleted, also some programs remained and some were deleted.
Since then, after every ...
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Is it possible to erase a DVD+R?
The disc is a Memorex DVD+R. It came half used and I would like it to be erased. It can be a physical procedure, if necessary. Maybe there is a way to take up all space and then virtually use it as ...
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Unplugging a Blu-Ray player as it's playing the movie — cause physical disc damage?
Does suddenly cutting power to a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray player when it's loaded with a spinning disc cause physical damage to the disc?
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New Laptop - Disc Usage and RAM Consumption Through the Roof
I just bought a new laptop:
Intel i7 7500U
8GB of RAM
128GB SSD
1T HDD
Windows 10
My problem is that out of the blue without any application running it starts making a noise like it is under a heavy ...
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Burn a disc box did not prompt up when inserting blank CD-R into optical drive
My laptop's optical drive did not prompt up anything when inserting blank CD-R
When I click my optical drive, this message shown:
So, it means optical drive detected the blank CD.
Normally this ...
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Is "FDisk+HFormat" or "Disc Cleaning+HFormat" = LowFormat？
Just feeling very curious about the two things：
1) FDisk+HFormat.
2) Disc Cleaning (by writing each space with random byte or "0" or "FF", such us what we do in Windows for using "cipher /w (Your ...
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(Windows 10) How to move disc space between Disk 0 (Drive C) and Disk 1 (Drive D)
I am having a very frustrating problem with disc space and formatting my hard drives. Bear with me because I am not great with computers (if I was, maybe I wouldn't need help).
The local disc (C:) ...
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Why Can't I Fit 2GB of Video onto 4GB DVD?
I have 15 X 20 minute videos (174MB each = 2.61GB total). I'd like to burn them onto a 4.7GB DVD but my software tells me there's not enough space on the disc.
What can I do to make these videos fit? ...
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My DVD+R (RW) is not erasable/rewritable [duplicate]
I just bought a Sony DVD+R but I don't know if it's either +R or +RW. I assume it is a DVD+RW since the mark "RW" is written at the bottom of the disc. Same for my built-in desktop burner, it has a "...
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