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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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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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I cloned my old boot drive to a new SSD and deleted a partition. Now I cannot boot from either drive
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I cloned the contents of my old (boot/OS) SSD to a new SSD. I then attempted (and failed) to edit the contents of the new SSD, and this has made me unable to boot from either drive.
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?
In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
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Clone a separate drive's OS partition to SSD
I have a laptop and a main pc.
The laptop has an old 1TB HDD installed. The HDD is split into 2 partitions. The first partition is the OS partition and the second has a lot of work on it and is mostly ...
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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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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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Is it safe to clone Win 10 partition created in OS X Boot camp to a new drive?
I'm using a Mac Pro (2019) with the newest OS X available. I've created a Win 10 partition via Boot camp on the internal SSD. Now I want to transfer this OS to an external SSD. I'm planning to use ...
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Is it possible to precreate partitions for Windows 10 install on a dual SSD laptop?
I have a laptop with 2 SSD. I want to install on 1 drive, so all of the partitions: EFI, Recovery, System Reserved, main C drive to be all on this drive. For some reasons in my case, the default ...
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How do I format a Hiveos drive to instead be used by Windows 10?
I had an 870 EVO SSD running Hiveos and now I want to install Windows on it. I tried doing so but the Windows installation media wouldn't let me select the drive to use it, I forget what the error was,...
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Explanation/suggestion for possibly accidental format of Windows 10 system drive
A weird thing just happened to me on a spare laptop. It's a ThinkPad T560 that was running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
I was using it to simply initialize a USB drive with a router distro installation (...
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Cloning active partition to another drive
Can I clone my active partition (H:) in "Disco 1" to "Disco 0" and erase the old one without any risks of boot errors? What program should I use? Is Macrium Reflect all right?
I'd ...
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Moving partition in Windows
I've been reading about the structure of the partition table in Windows and there is one aspect I wasn't able to figure out - when moving a partition, does in only change the data in the partition ...
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