Unanswered Questions
12,207 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What is a SAS disk and what cable does it use?
What kind of cable should I use to connect a SAS disk and Intel® Server Board S2600CP4?
In the board specification it says:
Integrated SAS Ports: 8
What are they? How to use them?
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How to get rid of weird disk partitions on a Windows 10 on C drive
I am having an issue were I am unable to delete the weird partitions in C drive. When I right click, I get only the Help option available. For the first partition, other options are greyed out while ...
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Cannot install windows to brand new HDD
I started a new installation of windows 7 starter and an error (attached image) showed up.
Edit: the issue still remains, the edit before was just bad config of cmos
Also I receive some kind of I/O ...
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Shrinkage of free disk space (Windows XP)
Before you tell me I should change the system, I tell you that my laptop has CPU Pentium Dual Core 2GHz and 2GB RAM, so I don't think newer version of Windows than XP will work on that (maybe 7, if I ...
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Are there alternatives to paid HDD data recovery on a semi-dead drive that actually work?
I need a file from a WD caviar 80 GB SATA hard drive. It doesn't show up in my computer. It's in disk management but you can't assign a drive letter. It says cyclic errors so i tried chkdsk but the ...
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What to do with these disks?
I've read this excellent question about how to deal with several disks of different sizes. Parasietje's accepted answer was great.
Two or three related questions :
Let's say I have three disks : 40 ...
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Hard Disk Drive has failed in all softwares, save for one, where it is perfectly, smoothly readable. What will resolve this?
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My HDD is (pretending to) fail. I tried a few types of recovery software, none of which seem to help.
Except for one. WinHex.
Proof. It views it perfectly.
I have no clue what hex editing ...
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How come I can't ping a computer on the same network?
I use a MacBook Pro (Retina), and using my old MacBook Pro, I can ping my MacBook Pro (Retina) successfully. And I can also ping my MacBook Pro from my MacBook Pro (Retina) successfully (all in the ...
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Upgrading drive D that has program files
I am upgrading my D drive that has a lot of program files (I have an SSD as drive C and install all program files on D). I have installed the new drive (E) and copied everything over from D. Can I ...
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Disconnecting the data cable without dismounting
I know that cutting the electrical power to a whole disk (and specifically an encrypted one), without first dismounting it, can damage data.
How about disconnecting only the data cable? Is that safe? ...
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I had locked my server desktop hard disk D and E with protection of Bit Locker
I had locked my server desktop hard disk D and E with protection of Bit Locker using the uniform password for all the drives and the computers.
My computer technician had unplugged from the socket ...
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Is possible to install Windows 10 to a bootable USB pendrive?
I'mm looking forward to buy a mac with 256GB SSD, which I want to preserve for the operating system.
If I want to have Windows 10 and runt it from a SSD Pendrive like the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX, ...
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