Unanswered Questions
7,909 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Windows 7 installation loses volume label after reboot if no drive letter assigned
Here is my problem:
I have had a Dell laptop with the following partitions:
39 MB - (OEM Partition);
14 GB, label: RECOVERY, no drive letter;
200 GB, label: OS, drive letter C:
I used the "Minitool"...
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How to create a loop device without using mount (without loop.ko)?
I was trying to do the following:
mkdir loop-mount
mount -o loop output loop-mount
The problem is that I don't have loop.ko and can't add it to my machine.
Is there a tool or other way to create a ...
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PC won't boot unless boot drive is manually selected
I have machine with an Asus P8H77 motherboard, which contains a series of SATA disks. One of them has grub2 installed, and boots Debian.
I have the boot disk defined as the priority in the bios, and ...
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Is there a way to verify the integrity of a rsnapshot backups?
I'm using rsnapshot to make daily backups to a second hdd.
But how can I make sure, that no file in my backup is corrupted?
If I use the checksum option from rsync, the whole backup will take much ...
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How do I automatically share external USB drives over the network?
I used to have an old G5 tower running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) which I was using as a fileserver. In this tower I had a USB dock connected where I could plug in 2.5 inch drives from my archive and then ...
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Upgraded BIOS, didn't let it boot up completely, ended up beeping
I'm doing maintenance on a HP DC7100 Small Form Factor.
After reinstalling Windows XP on the machine, installed all the drivers I then decided to upgrade the BIOS firmware.
It all went well, but, by ...
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What exactly happens when you "mount" a drive?
What underlying things happen when you mount a drive. Even when a drive isnt mounted, it is visible to the computer (such as sudo fdisk -l / diskutil -list). When a drive is mounted, is all that is ...
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It it possible to make windows 7 not detect/spin up my secondary hard drive after resuming from sleep?
I only use it once a month for backup and don't want it spinning up/becoming active needlessly. I use Hotswap! to spin it down and making it disappear from my computer/device manager so it can't be ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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Does TrueCrypt work on systems where the user data has been moved to a seperate disk from the OS?
I have a desktop computer with a small SSD and a large hard drive... as a result, I have installed my windows OS on the SSD but have moved all user data and programs to the hard drive except for "...
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External DVD drive is recognized when Windows has started but cannot boot
I wanted to connect my external DVD drive to my old laptop and boot from a CD. But my computer doesn't show the DVD drive in the boot menu.
After trying to change BIOS settings and finally restored ...
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Windows SuperFetch service for SSD + HDD mixed systems
The guides are floating around the web stating that Windows 7 automatically disables SuperFetch if it finds that disk is SSD.
However, my SSD is only 60GB, and I still have 3 TB of storage on HDDs ...
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SysRescueCD on USB flash drive
I managed to install SysRescueCD on USB flash drive so that it boots a dell laptop, but for some reason it doesn't boot a desktop PC that I have. The BIOS provides 3 different options to boot from USB ...
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Hard drive causing BSOD
I've come across a problem after building my new PC and installing a clean Windows 7.
I originally planed on a RAID 1 or 0 but after further research I decided against it.
So I was left with two 1TB ...
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