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Can I merge the System reserved partition to C: drive? Will it cause boot problems if I do so?
I have lost a drive as an unallocated space, in order to recover it, I need to remove an already existing System partition.
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Uninstalled Ubuntu, now error:no such partition
I uninstalled Ubuntu yesterday. I deleted the partition and extended my Windows partition using the tool.
I now get a black DOS screen and the error :
error: no such partition
Entering rescue mode......
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Accidentally Formated /dev/sda1
I was messing around with some partitions on a PC that has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04 installed on it. In gparted, I distractedly formatted /dev/sda1 as fat32.
Upon rebooting, I got the message "...
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Is it possible to restore a wiped MBR partition table on a machine that has not been rebooted?
While experimenting with how to fix this, I came across a suggestion to wipe the MBR, so I did.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bsize=512 count=1
Whoops. No partition table.
Yes, I have backups, but I’...
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Reinstall windows 7 without disk [duplicate]
I want to reinstall windows 7 on my machine.
I read this from http://www.pcworld.com/article/2364269/how-to-reinstall-windows-like-a-pro.html
Windows, it’s up to the PC manufacturer to provide a ...
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How do I back up my laptop's Restore Partition to a bootable CD? [duplicate]
My laptop has a 1.5GB recovery partition. The hard drive is getting old and I'd like to back up this partition so I can put it on a new hard drive if I ever need to. Is there a way to back up a ...
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Windows Recovery Boot Key(configured using ReAgentc.exe) is not activate before passing OOBE setup after using windows Recovery
I have deployed image window 7 image with factory reset on separate partition. I am able to recover the solution to factory fresh install but the problem i see here is after recovering to full reset. ...
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On Windows (and PC), which Partition Recovery tool is a good, reliable one?
This is related to question: How do get my Windows 7 partition back after a blue screen? about losing the Windows 7 partition completely.
I wonder if a Partition Recovery tool is a good, reliable ...
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Corrupted the hard drive after planned write of RAMDisk image to SD card went awry
I was trying to write a RAMDisk image to my SD card but unfortunately I wrote the image to my hard disk instead. The size of the RAMDisk image is about 7 MB (approximately 16000+ sectors) and it was ...
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