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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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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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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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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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Can we merge a dynamic volume made of 2 partitions to make 1 regular NTFS partition?
I had unused space between two partitions, and I decided to do "Extend volume" in the Windows disk management tool. It works, and now E:\ uses two partitions (dynamic disk):
Problem: since ...
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Recovered partition reports 0 bytes of free space
First of all, I am certain there is free space o the drive, and on Linux the free space shows up correctly.
So, here's what happened. I noticed that one of my hard drives still has windows boot and ...
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NTFS Sectors per Cluster for 2MB cluster size
Formatted a disk partition using DiskGenius for NTFS with (maximum) cluster size of 2048KB (2MB). I notice Windows itself also can format NTFS with this cluster size in Disk Management. This setting ...
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Hard drive that has not been used for years shows, “Not accessible There is not enough space.” but I see the correct directory structure
I am trying to read from a hard drive that I haven't used in a few years. The drive was fine when I used it last. When I select the drive in Explorer I get "D:\ is not accessible. There is not ...
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What to keep in mind when partitioning external hard drive with both encrypted ext4 and unencrypted NTFS?
I have an external hard drive that will be partitioned with two partitions, using GPT:
ext4 filesystem on a dm-crypt-encrypted partition
NTFS filesystem on an unencrypted partition
The ext4 ...
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How to stop win from mounting / accessing other NTFS partition?
A little about my dual boot setup :
I am currently dual booting win 10 and win 8.1 .They both are on same disk. Whenever I boot an option shows up in windows bootloader - to select which one to boot . ...
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I rename partition C and now Windows does't start
I have Windows XP installed in a SSD with the name: d:
I changed the name to c: but now Windows XP doesn't start. It only shows the Windows XP logo:
Now I started Puppy Linux with a bootable flash ...
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Convert drive from exFAT to NTFS without losing contents (Workaround)
I have a 5TB external drive with about 200GB of data in it. I want to convert it from exFAT to NTFS but without losing its contents. Currently I have no way to backup the data on the drive, so I need ...
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Second partition missing on 4TB drive following update to Windows 10
I've just upgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and the second partition on my 4TB drive is not showing in My Computer. In Computer Management the drive is showing a single NTFS partition of ...
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Merge two NTFS partitions
I need to merge 2 partitions:
Partition 1: Win7 installed, boot partition, NTFS
Partition 2: Empty, just created from allocated space, NTFS
I've tried Windows disk manager and also various other ...
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