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Can't install Windows 8 on new Hard Drive Sony Vaio
I have a Sony E14127CN laptop. Its hard drive crashed, so I bought a new Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 hard disk as a replacement for the old Toshiba MQ01ABD075. But when I try to install Windows 8, it ...
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SMART results shows serious disk problems?
I have bought a new computer 2 months ago. Computer performance has continuously gone down until a point that Windows7 freezes a lot with the light that indicates the disk usage fixed and turned on. I ...
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Two different physical ssd's for two different OS
i have 1st SSD formatted as ext4 and installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it and i plan to get 2nd SSD and format it to NTFS and install Windows 8 on it.
Can i switch hard drives in a bios? e.g.:
if i want to ...
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Understanding a HDD data storage and uninstalling windows
Before I go into my exact query here is a small prologue saying what I basically understand about any HDD.
May be some 6 years ago, many as a million notebook computers, mine was also manufactured ...
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Can my laptop's Hard Disk be cloned and loaded to another laptop? [duplicate]
I bought an Asus X202E laptop and installed Ubuntu on it and then completely formatted it which deleted everything including the recovery partition. So i could not restore it. Then I installed Windows ...
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Hard disk of a Virtual XP/Ubuntu under Hyper-V wont reduce its size even when i delete or empty Recycle Bin files?
i am running Hyper-V on Windows 8, with few Virtual machines like XP,Ubuntu, etc..
i have set hard drive to be on demand, so it's starting small.
Now i have downloaded few files on my Virtual XP, i ...
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How to free space on hard disk to install another OS?
Here is the scenario.
I have Windows 7 installed on my Dell Inspiron 15" C: drive. The C: partition size is equal to the capacity of the hard disk, but the used space on C: is far less than that.
I ...
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How do I shrink a non-boot drive?
How do I go about shrinking a non-boot drive? I've read through all of the questions on here and can't find a thread similar to mine. I have a 931.51GB NTFS partition (D:/), and I'm trying to Shrink ...
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Running Ubuntu as VM on Windows 8 from HDD
I have Ubuntu installed on my HDD and I want to run it as a VM from inside my windows 8 which is also installed on that computer (different HDD).
Is that possible? (And what VM software should I use?)...
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How to view windows files while running Ubuntu from a CD?
After crashing, my windows laptop stopped booting up correctly (it boot loops instead of booting into windows). I used a windows recovery disk, and saw via the console that files could still be viewed ...
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Transitioning to Ubuntu
I am currently running Windows 7 with 2 hard drives.
An SSD where the OS and apps are stored.
A HDD which stores all my videos, music, files. (NTFS)
If I was to format the SSD and install Ubuntu, ...
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Unable to boot - safe mode stops after crcdisk.sys
My windows systems hangs at boot time. If I run it using safe mode it stops/hangs after crcdisk.sys
How do I fix this? What is causing the problem?
My priority right now is to copy the data to ...
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Installing Windows from Ubuntu while booting only from hard drive
My problem is unrelated to this workaround (the question) here, but the end result is that I cannot change boot order (or use a boot menu) on my laptop. It is currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a ...
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Can't mount old IDE hdd using an USB adapter
I have an old IDE hard drive that has some data I must recover, so I bought an usb adapter to plug it to my new pc and copy everything.
But Windows installed the drivers when I plugged it in, but ...
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Ubuntu Live CD not seeing windows files
I have booted using an Ubuntu Live CD as my Vista installation hangs after startup, I want to try and copy all files on the drive to an external drive.
The internal drive was partitioned so in vista ...
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