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6,621 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Debian Stretch and Realtek r8152 chipset carrier off/on error
I've bought some USB-Ethernet adapter based on Realtek r8152 chipset. And it works perfectly under my Debian "Stretch", but it works like this only if you plug it after OS gets loaded. If OS starts ...
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macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra Disk Space iMac
I cannot determine what could possibly be taking up so much of my 1TB startup disk.
I have moved most applications to another disk and moved home directories and still receive your disk is almost ...
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Extremely high modified memory usage and pages won't flush
My Lenovo Y50-70 machine suffers of extremely poor performance lately.
I'm disturbed by some memory-related issues. The machine has 8gb RAM and the pagefile size is currently 24gb ("Autmomatically ...
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What is the meaning of COMRESET failed?
Laptop's internal WD SATA HDD of 1 TB is not being detected from any OS. It does not have any physical damage.
However while booting to linux from another disk, log is printed
[ 6.397803] ata5: ...
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Need to reconnect power supply to boot windows 8.1/10
Please let me know if it is offtopic here. I am facing some hardware problem may be that's why I am posting it here
I have a desktop pc with dual boot(ubuntu14.04 and windows 10).
Motherboard: intel ...
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Can I mark an entire partition as "bad sectors" to prevent a device from formatting the whole thing?
Update: My HDD did not support HPA. All well, I'll just stick to using it as a true external drive with folders for both PS3 and Xbox.
I have a large HDD that I'd like to partition and use half on my ...
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How to read MacBook Air (2013) SSD via PCI card adapter from Windows?
I purchased an adapter which connects my MacBook Air (2013) SSD to PCI-E of motherboard.
However, I was unable to find a proper way to read it, even with MacDrive.
What I want to do is back up the ...
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Size on disk way bigger than expected
I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different?
My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ...
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How Can I List Which Processes are Using a Specific Disk in Ubuntu?
How can I list which process(es) are using a specific disk in Linux?
I'm trying to track down what is writing to my hard drive, because I'd like to move the process's stuff to my SSD so that my hard ...
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How to configure Windows 7 firewall outbound rules for symlinked applications?
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.
I have set the built in firewall in outbound white list mode (block unless allowed by a rule).
Now I'm trying to configure some outbound rules for the built in ...
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hdd recognized as ssd after windows 10 update
I received the Windows 10 update and installed it without any problems to a Lenovo computer running Windows 7. So far, everything works fine except that
when I go to defragment the drive, the media ...
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Rebuilding FakeRAID RAID 5 with new disk, no partitions show up, invalid PMBR
I have a RAID 5 array with 4 2TB disks on a HP Z800. One disk failed and was swapped out for a new one.
I went into BIOS Intel Storage Matrix Utility and set the Array to rebuild with the new disk. ...
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How to set umask for a samba mount?
On linux (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) I want to mount a samba share to a remote Mac (OSX) such that files created on the share have full read/write permissiona across user/group/other (like umask 0)
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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Ubuntu won't boot with 4 hard drives
I got two HGST 4TB HDD's for my birthday and I'm trying to put them in my media center which already has a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. The motherboard is an ASRoxk E350M1 which only has 4 SATA headers so ...
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