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'Sector Cannot be Read' after cloning with EASEUS Disk Copy Pro
I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in!
But first, some short background here: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart ...
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What is the difference between allocation unit size and sector size?
I have been given the following disk recommendation:
The disk drives should have standard native sector sizes of 512
bytes and 4 KB. Hard disks with sector sizes larger than 4 KB may
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Why is my physical sector size is different than the logical sector size? [duplicate]
I used fsutil in windows to find out the sector info about my volumes. I have two hard disk one is SSD while the other one is typical magnetic tape hard disk.
The SSD drive volume C have both logical ...
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Aligning partitions to 4k boundaries results in 512b free space at beginning of drive
I'm partitioning a disk for FreeBSD installation.
I create my partitions/slices:
gpart create -s mbr ada0
gpart add -t freebsd -s 1G ada0
gpart add -t freebsd ada0
gpart create -s bsd ada0s1
Now I ...
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Is it possible to fix number of sectors in the USB enclosure?
I have a LUKS-encrypted external USB hard drive (1TB HGST Touro S). If I put the drive into the new USB enclosure, it reduces the number of sectors by 1 and I cannot mount the filesystem anymore.
Is ...
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GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
Linux gives error "GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)."
The error message is far from self-explanatory. Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the GPT partition ...
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How can I calculate what sector of the partition an offset resides in?
I have an offset (1519748) and I want to calculate which sector of the partion (1) that the offset resides in. How would I calculate this?
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Wiping only part of a partition on an HDD
I have an HDD which has failed in my NAS, and which I want to return to the manufacturer. I want to remove the data first since I had not encrypted the drive. The drive is recognized by Windows and ...
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Partition Hard disk with start sector 1
I have a new Hard Disk which I want to use for NAS drive. The requirement is that the partition as seen in fdisk should be as below.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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Unable to access 15 GB partition?
I have 250 GB HDD. I have created 5 partitions of it. Unfortunately, I am unable to format, delete, access my 5th partition which is of 15 GB. It says that it is Unallocated. If it is unallocated then ...
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Partitioning an SSD with sfdisk
I have been trying to partition this SSD (Samsung 840) nicely for a while now. I want to make sure the pages line up with the SSD pages to limit the amount of writes. I found this site which ...
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Is it possible to make certain disk sectors readonly
Is it by anyway possible to make certain disk sectors read-only? (The disk being specifically a USB Flash drive). Also the possibility of repartitioning the drive and making one partition read-only ...
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Migrate Win7 upgrade from 63 sector to 4096 sector advanced format disk
If I use the Windows 7 backup on a system that has the 63 sector starting location and restore it to an advanced format 4096 sector system, will the restore create the starting sector at 63 or 4096?
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Sector-precise partition editor with resize NTFS?
Is there a sector-precise partition manager that can resize an NTFS partition? Accepting Windows software and Live CDs.
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