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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.
GParted has an option to hide a partition, but ...
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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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Reclaim unallocated space for Windows partition - extend Windows partition on Mac
I'm trying to extend the Windows partition running on my MacBook Air (Bootcamp is used) without losing any data, of course.
What I have done is that I have used GParted live to shrink the OS X Lion ...
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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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Partitioning laptop with 4 primary partitions
I have HP laptop with 4 primary partitions.
The second one is windows partition and other 3 are recovery, system and blah blah(i.e. unusable)
So, basically my explorer shows only one partition where i ...
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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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Can it cause any kind of REAL problems to resize a partition after having an OS installed on it - or is it just an urban legend?
I just bought a laptop with some pre-setup partitions like recovery partition, OEM partition, a smaller Windows-partition and the Windows system partition. Their structure and size looks like this:
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