Unanswered Questions
10,757 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Do magnetic HDDs gradually lose their data?
I read that magnetic HDDs can lose data with age as the magnetism weakens in spots.
I have a more than 1 TB and growing archive copied onto several magnetic hard drives (each drive has the whole ...
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Windows 10 recovery/restore infinite loop without login access
my asus laptop TP300L is stuck in an infinite loop, I cannot access windows as the computer reboots before I can do anything.
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here is the sequence of screens I get:
asus logo
a spinner ...
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Windows 10 automatic restore on every reboot, never works
About two weeks ago, my laptop lost power while installing a graphics driver update (in GeForce experience). Since then, every time I boot my computer fails to boot and after a few attempts I get a ...
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How to automount an ext filesystem in macOS
TL;DR This question is about auto mounting partitions with file systems non native to macOS.
I'm presently running macOS 10.12.x and I can successfully mount an external SATA disk formatted with an ...
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Windows sometimes doesn't boot after Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot installation
After installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 on my computer (Ubuntu on a hard drive, the grub and windows 10 on a NVMe drive), sometimes Windows will not boot all the way, and boots slowly when it ...
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Is it meaningful to have an EFI/UEFI boot disk?
I would like to create a minimal boot disk and have the option of DOS, Linux or EFI executables.
As I understand, UEFI is a substitute for classic system BIOSes and has its own byte code definitions, ...
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Periodical performance drops and high HDD usage Windows10
Usually my system performs fine. However, periodically, there are temporary performance drops. Basically the Task Manager shows 100% HDD usage and the culprits invariably turn out to be system related ...
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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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Strange PC Power On Issue. Looking for possible root cause hypotheis
I have a PC that I've been running at home for a few years, without any issue. However over the last week it suddenly wouldn't boot on! The motherboard still showed power as all the lights on the ...
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Autorun zerofree on boot (or on shutdown)
I have a virtualbox vitual server that keeps growing. To keep its virtual disk small I'm manually shrinking it using VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi compart after zeroing unused space on the disk using ...
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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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Linux Mint will not boot up on my computer
I have a Razer Blade 2016 edition computer. I downloaded a Linux Mint ISO file, and used Rufus to make it a live file system on a USB. I load my computer's boot options by clicking F12 while the ...
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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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