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Can't enable reagentc whatever I do
While trying to enable secure boot in order to upgrade my PC to Windows 11, I used the mbr2gpt tool to convert my disk to gpt, since without doing this, upon enabling secure boot my PC would boot ...
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Diagnostic details: - The last unmovable file appears to be: \$Mft::$DATA
I tried to shrink my c drive but i noticed that there's a point i tried to fix it but during the shrink phase i got this defrag Diagnostic details:
The last unmovable file appears to be: $Mft::$DATA
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Failed to boot Windows 10 after resizing volume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. ...
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Why is my partition readonly flag being reset
I have a partition which I want to be readonly. It is one of several partitions on an external USB drive with GPT-style partitioning.
I have followed the instructions here and it works great for a ...
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Merging unallocated partition on a dynamic drive
So I have unallocated space on my drive, sandwiched between two recovery partitions of unknown provenance. I'm trying to merge it into my C: drive, but since they aren't adjacent I couldn't extend ...
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Cannot install windows alongside linux on NTFS partition - unrecognised type
I am attempting to install Windows 10 Pro from a usb onto a partition that I have formatted to ntfs using
sudo mkfs.ntfs -Q /dev/sda3
When I run
df -T, --print-type
The output includes:
/dev/sda3 ...
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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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14GB 100% free Healthy (Primary Parition) after Windows 7 install
I recently bought a new SSD to put in a really old laptop and installed Windows 7 on it. It's just for some very old software and hardware that I still want to use that are not supported in Windows 10 ...
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Will "Reset This PC" on a Bootcamp partition also erase the MacOS from my SSD?
I was trying to fix my Windows Defender on windows 10 in my bootcamp partition (windows defender wasn't loading as it is supposed to) and in doing so have altered values in the registry, and now my ...
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Is it safe to move Windows system partitions with gparted
My disk has the following partitions structure:
old windows recovery partition
EFI
main windows system partition
new Windows recovery partition
free space
I'd like to extend the main partition to ...
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File Explorer shows disk volume smaller than it is supposed to be [duplicate]
I cloned a 500GB SSD to 2TB SSD with Clonezilla 3.1.2 using instructions as listed here https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone. I tried both ...
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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?
For test or administration purposes, it can sometimes be required to reset the state of the system disk so that it does not start and the data is not easily accessible anymore, for instance to test ...
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Prevent programs from writing to a partition
I have a hard drive in one partition with important data on it.
I want to prevent programs from writing to it.
It would be nice, for example, if I could grant access to certain programs like a ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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"The operation is not supported by the object" when trying to delete any partition/volume
I'm trying to delete the recovery partition because it's in between two spaces I'm trying to merge - when I try to execute delete vol override or delete part override, this error shows:
The operation ...
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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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Windows disk partiton: Cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located
As you can see from the title, im not able to shrink my C drive NTFS partition (My Windows 11) partition.
Here are something i tried to solve it:
Disable hibernation through powercfg/h off
Disable ...
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A way to partition specific folders in windows
I have a server that is running on Windows 7. And I have plans to upgrade it to newer Windows versions (potentially Windows 11).
The thing is, nowadays there is no support to make this upgrade anymore ...
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Windows System Image Restore mixes up drives
So to upgrade my internal SSD, I created a system image, swapped the drive (new one is larger) and booted from an USB drive. But for some reasons one of my external drives seems to be part of the ...
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How do you TRIM unallocated/unformatted space after partition shrinking on an SSD in Windows?
How do you TRIM completely unused, unallocated, unformatted, unpartitioned space (but other volumes still exist) on an SSD in Windows 11, that used to contain data, for over provisioning? (For note: ...
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2TB GPT Disk mistakenly shown as a larger 8TB GPT Disk with unallocated partitions - Why?
I plugged in a 8TB GPT HDD in my pc via external usb adapter (see Footnote 1 for adapters). Then I safely removed and physically unplugged the adapter from the PC, turned off the PC. Next day I ...
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Add "Windows 10" (with Bitlocker encrypted) boot entry to GRUB [duplicate]
I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 & Ubuntu Unity 23.10.
My main system is the Ubuntu system, but from time to time i have something todo on Windows.
Currently im switching with the BIOS/...
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Is it safe to have additional data partitions on a Windows recovery drive?
I recently created a recovery drive on a new 64 GB USB flash drive, and discovered afterwards that the original 64 GB partition had been replaced by a 32 GB partition containing the recovery files.
So ...
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Is it possible to have the OneDrive directory inside a VeraCrypt container?
I created a VeraCrypt partition on my PC's disk (~40GB).
Said partition is mounted and available normally - I can create/copy/use files on it as normal.
I then installed the latest, freshly downloaded ...
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SSD available in diskpart, not available in Windows 11 installation
I am building a dual boot setup on an NVMe SSD.
The SSD shows up in diskpart and can be accessed and formatted from there, but is not available as an installation target.
I'm using diskpart from the ...
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Windows unable to shrink 930GB freshly installed windows partition more than 15GB on kingston SSD even after removing unmoveable files
I am trying to install Linux (Arch) in a dual-booted system with Windows. The problem is that my windows partition is 930gb out of my Kingston SNVS1000G's 1000GB. I have done a fresh install of ...
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Unable to merge all partitions (including the Recovery partition) in my Old Laptop hard drive turned external drive
I have the hard drive of my laptop that was replaced with a SSD so I wanted to use it as an external storage space by combining them all into one. There were 3 partitions previously that I formatted ...
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LUKS container gone due to Windows partition
I plugged a HDD with a LUKS container on it into Windows and opened the Disk Manager. A dialog appeared where I clicked "Format as GPT", not knowing what I was doing. Apparently Windows wasn'...
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~90 GB missing after extending partition
I needed more space for my Windows partition.
My solution was to remove the BTRFS partition from the disk that contains the Windows partition so that the partition can be easily extended. **This freed ...
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Safely delete Efi System Partition to allow extension of volume
I installed Ubuntu on a fraction of one of my SSD drives. However, I ended up removing Ubuntu and deleting the space on the partition it was allocating.
Now there's an EFI System Partition between my ...
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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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How to extend windows partitions, and how to solve C: partition extension issue [duplicate]
The C: drive needs more storage space on my system drive.
When I take some space from D: drive, the space out is a free space,
the space needed is unallocated space to merge it into C: drive.
how can ...
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How to secure specific folders on a portable SSD that works on multiple devices?
I use a portable SSD with different devices such as Windows PCs and Samsung TVs. Some of the folders on the SSD have sensitive or personal data that I want to protect. How can I encrypt, password-...
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How to encrypt a disk with 2 Windows OSes and 3 partitions with Vera Crypt? [duplicate]
I have a disk with an MBR partition scheme and 3 partitions. On the first partition, there's a Windows 7 C: drive which I keep to play some retro games that won't run on newer Windows. The second ...
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Can't shrink volume due to \$Mft::$DATA
(I've looked around a bit, but I can't find an exact answer to this)
I wanted to dual-boot Ubuntu on my Windows 11 PC, but when I went to shrink C: down ~50GB, there was only ~2,000MB or so available; ...
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Windows crashes when hard drive is loaded
I have a hard drive which has 3 Windows installations on it, and it had 13 partitions in total. a couple days ago it stopped booting, it would hang on boot. When booting Windows 7 in safe mode it ...
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