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How to recover which partition is the Windows 10 EFI bootloader is looking for?
In order to install Linux alongside Windows 10, I've done the following procedure:
Boot into Windows 10 (on a NVMe SSD, UEFI mode), "Shrink volume" to a smaller size
Reboot into a Linux ...
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Cloning windows to another partition in a different ssd drive [duplicate]
My windows 10 is installed on "Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB" and after checking crystaldiskinfo, it's health is at 1% with 38 tb written. since it's on such a low health I'm planning to clone ...
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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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Allocate free disk space to partition in dual boot (Fedora & Windows)
My setup is the following: dual-boot system with Fedora 40 (Linux) and Windows 10 operating systems.
I have several unollacted disk spaces when inspecting my hard drive in Fedora. The following ...
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Which primary partition can be deleted if there are more than 1?
I have a dual-boot laptop (initially only Ubuntu and now it is Windows with 186Gb partition and Ubuntu with 50Gb). I would like to remove the Ubuntu partition to make space for windows but both the ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
I lived 8 years with HDDs. Every time when there was a power outage, or for whatever reason I had to force-shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy-yet-dangerous restart ...
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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk [duplicate]
I have bought a laptop with a 1 TB bitlocker encrypted drive and Windows 10 installed. I want o reduce the Windows C partition from under 1TB to ~200 GB. I was able to reduce it by ca 476 GB. Now it ...
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How do I rearrange a wrong order of EFI and boot partitions?
I am upgrading my Windows 10 boot disk. I went from a 128 GiB SSD to a 1 TiB SSD, with the old disk having the following layout:
|--99 MiB unalloc.--|--119 GiB boot--|--527 MiB recovery--| [MBR]
I ...
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Windows 10 doesn't boot
Windows 10 stopped booting.
I changed the size of the system partition and created a new partition. And now, right after the BIOS screen, the message appears:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
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How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?
I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
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Manually resize WinRE partition (Windows 10 Home)
I would like to do the procedure outlined in Microsoft KB5028997.
I would like my WinRE to become 1G.
But I am not 100% sure I understand the instructions for that. Only 99%, so I would like to ...
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Windows 10 install media not creating Recovery partition?
Four years later an I'm installing Windows 10 on a computer and having trouble with partitions, again. (and successfully forgetting what I did the last time)
Last time I was bugging that Windows ...
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Why does Windows 10 not reflect partition resize I did in gparted?
I am trying to give Windows 10 more space on my 256GB SSD by expanding into unused space which I previously use for linux.
You can see the partition map as windows sees it in the screenshot.
The weird ...
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System Reserve/Windows 11 Update
Hopefully this won't be too convoluted. I started by trying to convert an MBR disk to GPT. I was doing this so I can enable secure boot in the BIOS and then I would have the requirements to upgrade to ...
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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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