Unanswered Questions
10,761 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it.
When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows
I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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BitLocker recovery key required after dual-booting Ubuntu
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Windows 10 and a BitLocker-encrypted drive. I installed Ubuntu dual-boot recently and didn't realize I was supposed to disable BitLocker during the installation....
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Debian server stops booting with Unknown symbol error
After a reboot my Debian Server don't want to boot anymore.
Loding the Kernel Modules nfsd and ext4 fails with the following errors (in dmesg):
nfsd: Unknown symbol setattr_prepare (err 0)
nfsd: ...
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How can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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How to create Boot Menu Entry in UEFI Settings using bcdedit w/o copying existing {bootmgr}
Note – This thread How to add UEFI image boot option in BCDedit? is similar but the answer there is irrelevant as it does not describe my case.
This thread How remedy situation with two EFI ...
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How to get the true textual verbose "No GUI boot + OS boot information" working again in Windows 10?
I find myself frequently needing much more information at Windows 10 startup than what we can seem to coax out of it now. It used to be possible to go into msconfig and select some options to get the ...
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen
yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this
, though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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mounting share on Mojave says No such file or directory
I am trying to mount a share on Mojave 10.14.3 for Mac mini distribution point hosted on VM Windows Server 2008 R2 using the following command :
mount_smbfs -f 0755 -d 0755 smb://username:pwd@...
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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LVM and Superblock failure; how to recover?
How do you repair the superblock of an LVM volume? Alternatively, how do you recover the data on an unmountable lvm logical volume?
I recently added a second hard disk, extended my volume group and ...
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Why does disabling ATA fix "run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config" in FreeBSD?
Why did it work?
Why did the 5. step solve the problem? What is so special about disabling ATA which removed the run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config error?
My ...
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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No POST screen, No beeps and No display
I have very old motherboard , CPU , power supply.
Motherboard : Gigabyte G31M-ES2C
CPU : Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 @ 1.8GHz
Ram : Transcend 2GB ddr2 800MHz.
Power supply : Tech-Com 450Watt....
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