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Move Windows Recovery from C: onto its Own Recovery Partition
While setting up this home Windows installation some months back I managed to end up without a recovery partition for complicated reasons I won't get into, but I'd like to have it back. I have ~...
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How can I boot a live system iso on a partition of an USB drive
I am a linux and windows user, and I'm going to build up a USB drive(/dev/sda, got 3 partition already) which contains a windows PE and a linux livecd. I have got two iso files, and I'm trying a new ...
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If I deleted a partition, will that delete the data on this partition?
I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 11, but I forgot to turn off BitLocker.
Ubuntu was installed "successfully", but I wasn't able to dual boot, so I deleted the partitions assigned to ...
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Can't extend volume in Windows after deleting Ubuntu dual boot, and Ubuntu still shows up in boot options?
I installed Ubuntu to my second SSD (500 GB not main) as dual boot. I have now deleted it as I don't need it but whenever I try to extend the volume to the unallocated space it says there isn't enough ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?
I have 3 disks: 1TB, 512GB and 512GB. Is there any way to create a single 2TB partition and install Windows 10 on it? Data safety is not important.
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Copying one partition at a time doesn’t result in a bootable drive. Why? How to fix?
Instead of using clone software, I wanted to copy, one at a time, each partition on my C: boot drive to a larger drive. I did this with no errors (used mini wizard to copy one at a time)
I thought it ...
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Consequences of a screwed up recovery environment?
So I recently upgraded a machine to Windows 11 and for some reason, the partitions got messed up. I managed to follow a tutorial and used diskpart to convert a normal partition into a recovery ...
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Can't install windows 10 - "Couldn't find info for boot disk [1]"
Sorry for posting the logs as a photo, I couldn't copy it from the PC. I used to have Ubuntu Server installed on that computer and I decided erase everything and install win 10. In the window where I ...
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How to repartition the main disk without disabling Windows recovery partition?
I want to add a partition to my main disk, the one that has C drive.
I am running Windows 10.
Currently, to the right of the C drive I have my Recovery partition.
I do know how to shrink the C drive ...
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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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How can I find out If a disk partition is safe to delete?
Windows 11
I'm just looking through Disk Management and noticed there's a 93GB "Primary Partition" with 100% free space. How can I find out what that partition is used for?
I thought a "...
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Can I Delete All Partitions Before Fresh Installation Of Windows 11
Hey guys please I'm thinking of reinstalling Windows 11 on my ASUS G14 2020 model but I'm worried about breaking something. The current partitioning looks chaotic to me.
Is it possible to delete and ...
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What exactly triggers Windows to move its pagefile.sys to another disk or partition?
I run a number of test systems with Windows 10 Professional installed. All of these systems have a SSD drive with three partitions (C:, D:, and E:) installed. All systems are setup exactly the same ...
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Restore 20TB Harddrive after installing 2GB Operating System [duplicate]
Here's what happened:
I ran the Fedora Media Write from here (https://fedoraproject.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-latest.exe) and selected my hard-drive, not by accident there was just no warning it ...
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How to expand ubuntu server root storage?
I have a windows server inside of which there's an Ubuntu 22.10 server, more space was given to VM of Ubuntu. But inside of Ubuntu, when I connect through SSH, it shows that it's still the same size. ...
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