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A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage
I am getting "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage during Gparted (resize/move) process of C partition.
I was trying to resize and move my C ...
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14GB 100% free Healthy (Primary Parition) after Windows 7 install
I recently bought a new SSD to put in a really old laptop and installed Windows 7 on it. It's just for some very old software and hardware that I still want to use that are not supported in Windows 10 ...
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A way to partition specific folders in windows
I have a server that is running on Windows 7. And I have plans to upgrade it to newer Windows versions (potentially Windows 11).
The thing is, nowadays there is no support to make this upgrade anymore ...
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Setting up Raid 1 with multiple partitions
I am Setting up two (2) new identical hard drives (14TB each), in a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual external case, using RAID 1. Going to be creating 6 partitions. My question is:
Do I partition the first ...
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Windows 7: Merge network drive and local partition
(When I speak of "distributed data storage" in this question I mean literally distributing the data so half is on one disk/folder and half is on the other)
Both computers in my situation are ...
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Use Rufus to create an image of a partition + restore this partition to disk on Windows
Can we use Rufus to save a local disk partition into an .img image file? Basically the Windows equivalent of:
dd if=/dev/sda4 of=output.img
Also can we use Rufus to write an image, not to a whole USB ...
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How to disable CHKDSK permanently, windows 10/11
I want to completely and permanently disable CHKDSK on windows 10 and 11, reason is a long story but as a summary: I work with complex custom builds having multiple SOs(mostly Linux) and 2 NTFSs ...
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Using "clone partition" of DiskGenius to transfer data from HDD to SSD copies nothing
My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) had a broken HDD. So I bought a Samsung SSD (with SATA). I inserted the SSD to my laptop and installed windows-11.
Then I took the SSD out of the laptop and connected it with ...
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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.
GParted has an option to hide a partition, but ...
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Windows + Arch with 2 EFI partitions: Boot select only discovers windows
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I wish to install Arch-Linux in a dual-boot configuration with windows 10. I have partitioned one singular drive into 7 partitions as shown here. I wish to enter into GRUB going ...
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Source of active mark in Windows 7 System Reserve partition
My flash drive is MBR partitioned( has active mark)with FAT 32 file system.When I install Windows 10 in UEFI mode via a Rufus bootable Usb flash drive with GPT partition & FAT 32 file system,the ...
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Cannot resize NTFS Partition
A family member recently asked me if I can "make their laptop run fast again".
When analyzing potential problems it was pretty clear that the storage is the biggest concern.
Almost 0% free ...
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weird c:/boot folder after installing ubuntu
so i installed ubuntu yesterday and everything was working great i can boot into both os but i've noticed something strange which is boot folder and bootmgr in c partition that wasn't there before ...
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Windows7 error (0xc0000005) in many applications even after format and reinstall multiple times
Windows7 SP1 x64
I had to format my PC and reinstall windows7 because of a small issue some days ago, i was able to do so without much problem.
Almost everything worked fine except for a small thing ...
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Can't install Windows 7 on GPT partition
I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to solve this problem for over ten hours now. I am trying to install Windows 7 on an old computer from a usb, and when I get to the partition selection ...
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