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10,757 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Will the write pointers in drive-managed SMR drives ever be reset?
I own a Seagate Expansion Desktop 5TB external hard drive, containing a ST5000DM000 according to hdparm. While information found on the internet is inconclusive, I strongly suspect that this drive ...
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Bind mounts not visible in chroot
I am using a debootstrap envs on my Arch system.
I bind-mount some directories from my home dir into the chroot fs home dir, ie. /home/user/foo → /stretch/home/user/foo. I can see the content from the ...
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Windows 10 Black Screen on boot, no cursor, no safe mode, nothing
Last night I was just minding my own business when my monitors kept going black for a few seconds, then turning on again and I noticed that windows was trying to update. Finally it went completely ...
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How to rename a UEFI boot entry?
I have some trouble with renaming the default UEFI boot manager entry on my acer laptop. When I bought the laptop there was a weird Linux distribution installed on it called "Linpus lite". I then ...
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Windows 10 dynamic mirror showing "Failed"
I had Windows 7 running 2 x 1TB hard disks in a dynamic mirror setup. I had this for many years and it worked just fine.
I recently installed Windows 10 on a new SSD. Everything booted fine but my ...
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"Windows Startup Settings" missing from Windows 10 Repair media
I recently created a Windows 10 image using the Media Creation Tool. I intended to use it for getting into safe mode in another computer, but the "Windows Startup Settings" option is missing from the ...
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Windows 10 fail to boot with 0xc0000001 error code
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Hello, I'm running multiboot installation on machine with UEFI. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu installed, managed by Grub at startup and I have laptop working like this for about half a ...
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Connecting to FreeNFS from CentOS 6
I'm trying to mount a FreeNFS share located on my Windows 7 host, under my CentOS 6 virtual machine inside VirtualBox.
The networking between the host and the guest is working fine, and I've been ...
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Diffing an entire hard drive, available tools?
There's an existing question similar to this that didn't get answered in the proper context (a massive volume of data to compare) at all, so I'm trying again here.
I'm using SuperDuper to maintain a ...
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How to change 'timeout' of the UEFI boot manager from Windows 8?
How can I change the 'timeout' setting of the EFI boot manager from within Windows 8? I am trying to dual-boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu and I would like to be able to choose one or the other OS at boot ...
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btrfs does not show drive as missing
I am trying out btrfs and I noticed some funny behaviour:
I have two drives in a raid 1 configuration.
sudo btrfs fi show
Label: none uuid: 52b9c6f6-ce5c-4727-861e-e2fd012e475f
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Does SpinRite still prevent/predict crash failure in modern hard drives?
Yesterday I attended a presentation by Western Digital that discussed various innovations in rotating hard drive internals, including perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), heat-assisted magnetic ...
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Laptop freezes before/during post
I have an Asus K70AB which has had an issue for a while. When it boots, there's a chance it'll freeze for an indefinite time before it seems to start doing anything. What it will do is:
The lights ...
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Windows 8 System.exe writes to HDD like crazy
I have checked Application event logs and found that every second about 20 entries for MSSQL Server were recorded. Removed the server and all its components and the problem is gone... Thanks everyone ...
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mdadm RAID monitoring no DegradedArray email
So, I have a couple of MDADM RAID arrays and I want to set up monitoring with email notifications for drive failures through sSMTP but I can't seem to get it working.
The system in question is a ...
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