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How can I check the cluster size (allocation unit size) of an exFat partition on Windows?
I want to reformat an exFAT USB drive with the same allocation size as the current factory exFAT partition, so when it ask me for allocation size, I don't know what to answer:
Thus the question: How ...
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Block defective RAM sectors [duplicate]
How do I find defective RAM sectors and where?
I have tried memtest, but where it does describe the sectors (if).
And how to solve them exactly. First, i have tried this : https://thecomputerperson....
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Bad sectors in RAM, fixed or not?
So I have blocked some bad memory range from RAM memory.
My Question is the next one, I have done it right?
Here you have the info:
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /set badmemorylist 0xFC 0xFD 0xFE ...
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System randomly freezes yet mouse still moves, SSD out of reallocatable sectors, should I replace it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it really possible to repair bad sectors?
This problem has lasted for the past 48 hours. The first time it happened, a program I was running stopped responding, so I tried ...
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Why would the last sector be unused?
I was bored and decided to open up my hard drive in HxD (a free hex editor) and wanted to see what the REAL size of my disk is. So I did and scrolled to the bottom and discovered that the last sector ...
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Find out what sectors are a file on a hard drive?
How would I go about finding what sectors a file's data is on so i would be able to delete the file via bootable assembly code.
Eg:
File: C:\system.sys
Location: sector 1837,1739,2736 etc
Or some ...
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4k Sectors: Which Drives Don't Lie About Having 512b Sectors and Correctly Report 4k Sectors?
I recently returned a Western Digital WD20EARS drive with 4k sectors (Western Digital refers to this as "advanced format"), because I found out that it lies and reports 512b sectors to the OS, and ...
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