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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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Why can't I just dd the Windows 10 ISO to an USB stick?
Why can't I just use isohybrid and then dd the Windows 10 ISO to a USB stick and boot it, and call it a day?
What is so special about this ISO?
Most posts refer to either using a Windows machine to ...
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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?
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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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How to mount a drive in a running FreeDOS?
I'm currently using FreeDOS to load USB stick content to a virtual drive. The connected HDD won't get a drive letter, as it is simply not formatted.
After that, I'm using Drive Snapshot to fill the ...
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mhddfs+osxfuse via fstab?
I'm trying to create a virtual drive pool using FUSE for OS X and mhddfs.
This command works for me:
sudo mhddfs /Volumes/D01,/Volumes/D12,/Volumes/D103,/Volumes/D110 /mnt/DrivePoolA -o allow_other,...
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Reverse sshfs over ssh
I want to mount dir on remote machine from host machine connected over ssh preferably via ssh tunnel; with method described below.
how to mount local directory to remote like sshfs?
But if get peer ...
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Some USB devices not working properly on a new W10 x64 machine
Can you help me with a problem that I have with some USB devices not working properly on a new built machine.
I hope you will be able to help me, being myself a power user, but here a little lost in ...
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Drive missing from Optimize Drives since upgrade to Windows 10 1803
Since upgrading Windows 10 (Pro) to version 1803, one of my drives is missing from the Optimize Drives list. The drive in question is, my D:-drive, a software-defined RAID-0 (striped) over two disks.
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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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