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Recovering partitions from a disk image
I've done this before and it worked; now I have a problem when recovering
a Win10 partition from a disk image.
Steps taken:
Booted gparted USB image; working (bootable) system:
Mounted external ...
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Windows stuck in reboot loop after moving and resizing partitions in gparted
I was running low on space on my C drive, so I shrank my linux /home partition, leaving around 30gb of free space. This, however, was adjacent to a 16mb windows reserved partition. I moved this ...
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Recover MBR after overwriting it with an empty one
I've accidentally messed up my Windows XP hard drive.
I wanted to copy the MBR from this disk to a new SSD, but I've done the opposite. I do not have a shadow copy of that volume and thought that ...
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Using GParted to copy Windows partition. Boot flag on Recovery partition
I am trying to understand how booting works with a Recovery partition. In the past when I have restored a Windows partition using GParted with a copy that I made earlier, I needed to use a Windows ...
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Why does a cloned Windows 7 BCD contain incomplete data (and, therefore, prevent booting)?
I have had the misfortune to need to clone a dual-booting Windows XP/7 box to replace its hard drive with a smaller one. I had great trouble getting it to boot and would like to understand what's ...
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Windows no longer booting after copying partition using Gparted
I originally had 3 partitions on my hard disk:
Vista
Storage
Seven
I just used Gparted to delete the Vista partition and copy the Seven partition onto it. I was going to see if it would boot. If ...
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Reboot fails with "Invalid partition"
My laptop can boot, but it can't reboot. Any time something restarts the laptop (e.g. to apply Windows updates, or Start Menu->Restart, etc), the computer sits at a black screen with the message "...
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