Unanswered Questions
18,551 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Unusual Boot Issue - Windows 10
I have windows 10 Home Edition and I generally leave my PC on round-the-clock. Today I had to restart my PC andWindows forced an update on me like usual, except this time it would not boot back. I had ...
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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Save a btrfs disk after power failure?
I have a non-system 4TB Western Digital disk (WD4000F9YZ) with a sole btrfs partition that no longer shows up after a power failure.
I can see this in /var/syslog that it's struggling to do something ...
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MotherBoard or NVME disc error - unclear
Recently there was a power outage, and while the PC seemed fine, woke up later to all NVME disks not being bootable.
I had a dual boot win11 and ubuntu, I was still able to access all the files on the ...
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Can't read my user files from internal hard drive using USB 3.0 To SATA and IDE Cable
I am using a USB 3.0 to SATA adaptor to recover data from some old internal hard drives from old laptops. The hard drive had been used on a Windows 11 laptop.
I can see all of the folder structures ...
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An installed program has been deleted by someone - how to find their identity?
13 days ago I asked about how to uncompress files downloaded from the arXiv math site, and I got the following response:
Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
I downloaded files from the 7-...
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How can I stop Acrobat Reader from giving an error trying to mysteriously access an unloaded removable D: drive?
For a long time now, whenever I cause Acrobat Reader to launch, before it does anything else, it gives me this error message:
Each of the buttons (including the close button) result in simply ...
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Old HDD not recognized by Windows
I connected my old PC's HDD external drive to my laptop. (I have a connector to connect it. Since it requires an additional voltage to run, I've all the necessary tools and I am able to connect it to ...
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"predictable" device names in smartd.conf on various linux-like systems
To configure S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, there is a configuration file at /etc/smartd.conf. That control file and several web pages I've seen, indicate that the configuration file should be customized by ...
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How to use an external hard drive as my main storage device which I can access/sync to my laptop like Google Drive?
I have a MacBook laptop which I use to work from home and at the office. The Mac has a 500 GB hard drive which is not enough. I currently use Google Drive (1 TB used) and an external hard drive at ...
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Windows 10 - how to force monitor to be recognised as NON PNP
This might be a strange question, but I'm looking for a way to force Windows 10 to recognise a plug-n-play display as a non PNP display...?
It's a long tale, but the TL;DR is I'm working on upgrading ...
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RAID 5 array won't assemble, lsblk shows drive size as 115.5P for all drives in array
I have a raid-5 array comprised of 4 2TB drives that has been operational since 2018. One day I noticed that access was very slow, and the next day it was completely inaccessible. I have an old (2011) ...
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Windows Explorer says internal HDD is read-only, everything else says it's not, how to fix?
I've been searching a few days for answers but I didn't see anyone else with this particular problem.
I have an internal 4TB WD Blue SATA drive purchased in 2018. I moved this drive to a new build in ...
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HDD write cache not supported - how to enable it?
My HDD is terribly slow when it comes to writing big files (4-5MB/s).
KDiskMark result
Copy from laptop to HDD via 1Gb net via FTP
I read that I should enable write cache, but hdparm says "not ...
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Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
When I want to download a math-paper I put out on the arXiv server, I get a file with filename "arXiv-xxxx.xxxx.tar.gz" and I'm having trouble "uncompressing" this file to get the ...
