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Moving the Recovery Partition, EFI System Partition, and a 16mb "Reserved Partition" to resize Windows partition
This is my first question, so please let me know if I'm missing something.
Long story short, I messed up one of my Windows 10 installation on another SSD and ended up with a Windows system drive too ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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Setting a NTFS partition as a removable drive in Windows 10
First message here.
I'm trying to set up my laptop for double booting Linux and Windows. I have two SSD, one SATA and one NVME.m2. Both are GPT formatted
I'm following the instructions from Arch Wiki ...
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Recover NTFS file system from RAW partition w/o recovering individual files [duplicate]
There is an NTFS partition with data that was converted into RAW partition by a piece of software. Now it's not readable. File recovery utils easily find all the files (including deleted ones) and it'...
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How to set un-executable permission for the file in ntfs partition in linux?
Enter into debian whose filesystem is ext4:
vim /tmp/sphinx.rst
sphinx tutorial
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installation
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::
sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx
create a new project
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How to move users' data from a separate partition on one drive to another drive and remove the original users' data partition?
Simplifying, my old drive has four partitions; we are going to speak about first two (which "belong" to Windows; the remaining two "belong" to Linux). Let's call the first two partitions C: and D:; ...
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What is the difference between a drive and a volume in NTFS?
I apologize if this is too simple a question, but I couldn't find the answer (or perhaps just couldn't understand the answer) by a bit of googling.
What is the difference between a drive (e.g. C: ...
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Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS
Current Setup
/dev/sda - Secondary internal disk (despite the a).
/dev/sda1 - Old ESP, not actually used.
/dev/sda2 - An unused Linux, for backup purposes.
/dev/sda3 - Swap partition.
/dev/sda4 - ...
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Boot Camp Assistant did not give partition option when I went to add Windows 10 ISO
I am attempting to get windows on my mid 2014 mac book pro. On all the videos I watch there was a prompt to choose how much space I wanted for windows. I did not get this partition option. I have the ...
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Windows 7 displays an NTFS formatted(under Windows 10) HDD as RAW partition
I have a new HDD(ST2000DM009) which I formatted under Windows 10 as an NTFS MBR disk and copied some files on it. It's meant to be a storage HDD, not system one. When I connect this HDD to a Windows 7 ...
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I am trying to shrink my drive on Windows 10 but I keep running into Microsoft or NTFS files
After days of work I managed to get the Windows disk manager to show available shrink space of 490GB (my actual free space). After multiple tries of smaller and smaller sizes I keep running into ...
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How to let linux mount an NTFS partition in an "unsafe state" due to Windows crash?
I have an NTFS partition that's shared between Windows and Linux. This partition holds my linux home folder, so it's important that I can mount it in read-write mode, and that it is mounted before I ...
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Windows 10 live USB can't find installation partition
Recently, I've decided to install Windows 10 on my Ubuntu machine but in a separate partition so that I could dual-boot it. However, the installer wouldn't recognize the NTFS partition I created when ...
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Mounting a hard drive as a folder in Windows?
Why would you mount a hard drive as a folder? I am asking this because I have a 120gb SSD hard drive that runs Windows 10 and I also have a 1TB HDD in this computer as well that I have not partitioned ...
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How can I merge two partitions. One being primary C: and other being E:. One is in between. Recovery partition
There are no one beside another. Program is not allowing me to merge them.
Here is a screenshot:
What is this 450mb Recovery? I had Xubuntu on new E: partition witch I formatted to NTFS. Recovery ...
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