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format EFI, Recovery partitions windows 10 in clean install?

I'm going to do a clean install of Windows, but during the installation I want to format all the partitions and then delete them, but I have some concerns! As you can see in the picture below, I have ...
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How to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way

I wanna fresh install windows 11 and then dualboot it with linux, but when i install windows 11 there's recovery partition automaticaly created and blocking the way of extending volume for linux. How ...
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SSD with Windows system has become "Unlocated" on System freezing for 30 minutes and rebooting manually after giving up waiting it unfreeze

So I have KINGSTON SUV400S37120G on which I have Window 11 installed. The system was working totally fine. I decided to enable System Restore because it was turned off: The screenshot from another ...
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Can't restore partition table

I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Asus ROG laptop. I previously installed a second NVME SSD and used it under Windows to store stuff. I did, however, leave ~200GiB free for a Linux installation. When I ...
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Repairing Windows installation that can't boot

Background: I have an Asus UX51VZ that will no longer boot into Windows. This was my dad's primary computer. I took it to a computer shop so they could fix the fans that came on at full speed all the ...
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access files in Manjaro partition from Windows partition

I am dual-booting Windows 10 and Manjaro Linux. While running a pacman -Syu on the Manjaro partition, the computer crashed. Pacman stopped working and at first I tried to fix it by deleting the lock ...
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Windows doesn't recognize a partition as NTFS but recovery tools do

Today a computer of mine with Windows Vista can't boot any more. The message "Windows is starting" shows up and a few seconds later it reboots automatically. So I took the HDD out and ...
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Hot Swapped Hard Drives in Windows, Now Windows Reports the Drive as RAW

I have a quick release hard drive bay in my W10 PC so I can easily swap hard drives. When swapping them out, Windows will never seem to recognize the new replacement hdd. I have to open Computer ...
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My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw

My main hard drive (the one C:\ is on) is showing as raw. I got a bluescreen (wish I had recorded what it said on it before I restarted, but it's probably a moot point now) and tried to restart, but ...
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windows partition restored on specific date (unusual)

This is a super unusual issue we have encountered, a PC of our payroll staff displayed an error upon opening today (05/11/2022). --MM/dd/YYYY see error upon opening the unit Tried to restart the unit ...
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Windows Lost Partition Recovery [Emergency] [duplicate]

I accidentally deleted my E drive partition and i did not know. I extended my C drive, hence E drive's unallocated space was extended in the C drive. Now how can i get my files back of E drive? Its ...
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Partition became RAW, TestDisk advice

~3 days ago a 238.2GB NTFS partition became RAW, losing ~170-180GB of data, and I have been trying to fix the problem for about 14 hours. Potential reasons partition went RAW: I have dual-booted ...
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EFI Windows Bootloader Recovery

i deleted windows boot loader in efi instead of ubuntu by mistake. Now i am left with ubuntu without windows. Is there a way to fix the windows boot loader from ubuntu terminal as i couldn't open ...
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Prevent Creation of "System Volume Information"-folder for Specific Partition

I have a NTFS-partition that is shared with my Linux installtion. When i'm on Windows, it doesn't bother me that the folder is there because i don't see it. However, that's not the case on Windows. I ...
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Windows 10 USB not being detected, and diskpart showing USB as unusable

I am using Windows and I used a USB to boot a Linux .iso, to test it. I cleaned the USB after use, via diskpart, created a primary partition and I made a quick format using Windows Explorer. Now, ...
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