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Windows sd card setup for dual partitions
I need to setup a micro SD card in a particular way, but I'm unsure how to do it from Windows (unable to use any Linux machine in my current setup).
There needs to be 2 partitions: One is a standard ...
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multi boot: deleting a GPT partition with sgdisk before the Windows 10 partition breaks Windows 10 boot
After deleting my first partition from Debian with sgdisk, I get a BSOD when booting Windows 10:
Votre appareil a rencontré un problème et doit être redémarré. Nous
allons redémarrer l'ordinateur ...
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I can't turn off BitLocker on Windows 10: "drive contains system boot information"
BitLocker is suspended on my Windows 10. Therefore there is a warning sign on my c: drive. When I try to turn off BitLocker all together, I get the error bellow:
Disable-BitLocker : The drive cannot ...
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Strange seemingly-unused space on my SSD
This is what I have in Disk Management:
I'm wondering what those partitions are on Disk 0, and if there's ways I can use them to increase the size of C:
Seems like a waste.
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How to clear extra Microsoft Reserved Partitions
I have an old Dell laptop that I used while teaching Comp Sci at a university. That was about 10 years ago. I have done many things with it, including putting one (maybe more) Linux systems on it. I ...
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Diskpart clean: Not deleing anything, but says "DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk." [duplicate]
I have an SD card that I can't seem to clean.
I'm running Win10, when inserting the SD Card Windows tells me to format the disk - but it always fails.
Using Disk Management I can (attempt to) delete a ...
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How to fix USB flash drives showing unallocated space in diskmgmt?
I have 3 USB flash drives (newly purchased, original) which were used to create bootable drives to install Zorin OS on a PC. The flashing failed for some reason, and now I have 3 USB flash drives ...
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Internal Drive FAT32 Partition
I have a question about making this work but I'm not sure if it's even possible. So I have a home business involving embroidery. And I use my garage as a shop space with my machine and PC that I use ...
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dd cloned Windows disk to new SSD – boot from clone with error "windows/system32/winload.efi" missing
I cloned my old external SSD /dev/disk2 to my new external SSD /dev/disk5 on macOS with dd.
When I now try to boot new SSD /dev/disk5 the error "windows/system32/winload.efi missing" occurs ...
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How to hide a VeraCrypt partition from Windows Explorer?
My question is kind of opposite of What GPT partition type GUID should I use for a VeraCrypt partition? and I don't like a solution like https://superuser.com/a/1438051/:
I have an USB stick ...
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Windows Disk Manager merging HD Volumes
Problem:
Disk 2 of my Desktop, has 3 Volumes: D, E and I. What is happening is that in the middle of volume D, Volume E is appearing and then Volume D continues again. See in the image.
Objective:
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How to restrict root access to other users/partitions
Setup:
Laptop dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 or 11 (both are fine for me).
I have the issue where I need to install some anti-virus software as root on Ubuntu. However this software is really ...
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Windows 10 C: drive capacity smaller then C: partition size
I went through a whole process up to this point. I tried restoring from an image backup, but windows wouldn't boot from it. I booted into ubuntu from a usb stick and mucked about with the partitioning,...
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Default Windows 10 64 EFI partitions / partitioning scheme
Sometimes you need to partition your disk which already contains a different operating system (OS) or version of Windows thus you use Linux tools such as fdisk or gdisk to create/configure partitions ...
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Increase space in C drive without deleting any other drive
My c drive on windows 10 has completely run out of space. It has <200 mb of space remaining. I want to add more space. I tried the disk Management. It doesn't work. Nor does any other external ...
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