Unanswered Questions
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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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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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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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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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How to mount SMB share from terminal using keychain?
I need to be able mount a SMB share from terminal, for MAC OS versions (10.7). Is there a way to use mount_smbfs with keychain so I don't get prompt the username/password or have to add it to the ...
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Average/General RAID 0 "Chunk Size"?
EDIT: this got closed as being "opinion based". i disagree! the facts are, i have to choose one of five Chunk Size options when creating a RAID on Mac. i don't know which size to choose for ...
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Formatting a failing & write-locked SSD
I have a failing 4 TB 870 Evo SSD. It has lasted less than a year (thanks Samsung). I believe the SSD has entered a read-only mode because it is failing. Any disk enumeration tasks take 30 seconds ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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Chkdsk for a specific directory or File !?!? The Syntax
I need help to chkdsk a specific Directory : F:\GOG\*.*
I am too stupid to understand the chkdsk sytax for file:
CHKDSK [Volume[[Pfad]Dateiname]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:Größe]][/B] [/scan]...
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As of late 2020, is optane still worth considering?
If I want very fast NVMe storage for general usage, is Optane still a good option?
In the past, I read that Optane/3D Xpoint was superior in situations that didn't just require raw throughput, mainly ...
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How do I format disk from UEFI shell?
I need to format 2 disks from pre-built UEFI shell.
So I have 2 questions.
How do I format a disk from UEFI Shell?
How do I know what is the disk name or label?
By the way, in the first question I ...
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What is practical size for bcache cache size with respect to hdd size?
There are plenty of manuals how to implement bcache, how to select correct bucket size, how to resize (grow) backing device and so on. This includes, but doesn't limits to in-kernel documentation, ...
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How to unlock NVME disk locked with ATA security
I've locked my NVME drive in the BIOS with a USER and MASTER password.
I'm looking to unlock this drive on another machine.
How can I do this?
I've tried working with nvme-cli. This should be able ...
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Is there a way to disable a hard drive in the UEFI?
BIOS allowed to disable specific hard drives. However I don't seem to find information about how to do it in UEFI. I would like to dual-boot, but I strongly prefer each Operating System (Which will be ...
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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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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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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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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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Size on disk way bigger than expected
I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different?
My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ...
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How Can I List Which Processes are Using a Specific Disk in Ubuntu?
How can I list which process(es) are using a specific disk in Linux?
I'm trying to track down what is writing to my hard drive, because I'd like to move the process's stuff to my SSD so that my hard ...
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hdd recognized as ssd after windows 10 update
I received the Windows 10 update and installed it without any problems to a Lenovo computer running Windows 7. So far, everything works fine except that
when I go to defragment the drive, the media ...
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How to set umask for a samba mount?
On linux (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) I want to mount a samba share to a remote Mac (OSX) such that files created on the share have full read/write permissiona across user/group/other (like umask 0)
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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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How to create a loop device without using mount (without loop.ko)?
I was trying to do the following:
mkdir loop-mount
mount -o loop output loop-mount
The problem is that I don't have loop.ko and can't add it to my machine.
Is there a tool or other way to create a ...
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Is there a way to verify the integrity of a rsnapshot backups?
I'm using rsnapshot to make daily backups to a second hdd.
But how can I make sure, that no file in my backup is corrupted?
If I use the checksum option from rsync, the whole backup will take much ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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Hard drive causing BSOD
I've come across a problem after building my new PC and installing a clean Windows 7.
I originally planed on a RAID 1 or 0 but after further research I decided against it.
So I was left with two 1TB ...
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Why are file permissions "delayed" when mounting NTFS drives from WSL?
I am mounting a Windows/NTFS drive in WSL:
sudo mount -t drvfs F: /mnt/f -o uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=177,dmask=077
I then check the permissions of an arbitrary file in the newly mounted filesystem:
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Internal SATA-HDD Doesn't Spin Up With Data Cable Connected
What's happening here is beyond me and what I keep finding on the internet is talks about the PSU, but I doubt that it is my issue here. Then again I'm not a hardware person and the things I read may ...
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How to mount Windows share using Kerberos with custom keytab automatically?
I have to mount a Samba share using Kerberos on a SLES 12 system automatically from boot on. The problem is, that the Kerberos ticket does not get automatically requested when trying to mount the ...
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Is it possible to disable an M.2 SSD without physically unscrewing it?
I want to be able to "hide" the presence of my M.2 NVMe ssd. For example, it can be useful when experimenting with OS installation to experimental drive, and you want to be sure it wont ...
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How to set all HDD drives always on and prevent from sleeping or spin down in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
On a pretty large system with 1,000+ HDD drives I have a problem where HDD drives are going to sleep or spinning down.
The system is running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as stated in title, but I think it is ...
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Is there a software way to unlock a hdd?
I have a SATA hard disk which is firmware password locked.
QUESTION: Is there a software way to unlock a HDD, plugged on an USB enclosure, without losing its contents? (Windows or Linux)
This is the ...
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Mount Linux USB drive via WSL2
I'm following this guide from Microsoft describing how to mount an external Linux drive via WSL2.
I have 10.0.20279 N/A Build 20279 on an ARM64 machine. I inspect the available drives with this ...
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Bitlocker not compatible with current version of windows
I have an issue that I can't resolve through googling apparently. The issue seems to be that my external drive that I encrypted with BitLocker no longer works. Let me explain.
It happened after I ...
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SSHFS keeps asking for a password despite ssh key present
I have a valid SSH key on my client, and my public key is uploaded on the remote server.
I can login with the SSH key without being prompted for password using SSH, but when I try doing so with SSHFS ...
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Windows 7 sees internal hard drive as an external hard drive?
Running Windows 7 (x64) with four drives. After installing the Windows 7, all the drives were correctly seen as internal drives.
But I changed the drive letters of three of them to avoid rescanning/...
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Windows 10 CMD responds extremely slow
My command line is so slow. I mean even ruby -v takes 10-13 seconds to return version and more complex commands like running rails s is a pain.
I tried chkdsk and no problem found.
Tried to have ...
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BitLocker encrypted drive doesn't work on other PCs
I have a BitLocker encrypted 1TB USB drive which is usually always connected to my work PC, and it works perfectly:
However, if I try to move the drive to another PC, it will always say that the "USB ...
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Unable to mount external hard drive, any information is very slow
I have used a My Passport 2Tera for 2 years and it suddenly it runs very slow (around 10 minutes until windows mount it and 1-2 minutes to list a folder content). I've seen some similar issues and ...
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