Unanswered Questions
7,613 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Ubuntu won't boot with 4 hard drives
I got two HGST 4TB HDD's for my birthday and I'm trying to put them in my media center which already has a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. The motherboard is an ASRoxk E350M1 which only has 4 SATA headers so ...
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Windows 7 installation loses volume label after reboot if no drive letter assigned
Here is my problem:
I have had a Dell laptop with the following partitions:
39 MB - (OEM Partition);
14 GB, label: RECOVERY, no drive letter;
200 GB, label: OS, drive letter C:
I used the "Minitool"...
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Stuck at GRUB prompt after booting, how can I restore normal booting?
My machine was dual-booting with Windows XP and Fedora, then I tried to install Arch. While installation power went off.
After that, booting always results in the GRUB prompt. Even when I instruct my ...
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How to disable text style copying on Windows XP?
Problem: I copy a text from a website, paste it on email or forum, and scream for the insanely large font it creates. Then I instantly go to notepad and re-paste, re-copy and again re-paste it to get ...
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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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How do I automatically share external USB drives over the network?
I used to have an old G5 tower running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) which I was using as a fileserver. In this tower I had a USB dock connected where I could plug in 2.5 inch drives from my archive and then ...
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Upgraded BIOS, didn't let it boot up completely, ended up beeping
I'm doing maintenance on a HP DC7100 Small Form Factor.
After reinstalling Windows XP on the machine, installed all the drivers I then decided to upgrade the BIOS firmware.
It all went well, but, by ...
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Why is my 500GB hdd not readable after dd'ed on a different 500GB hdd?
Accidentally formatted an important external 500GB hdd yesterday. Not an SDD, 2.5".
(Quick) formatting occured while installing windows xp on it. I had the wrong usb drive plugged in. ~600MB are ...
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What exactly happens when you "mount" a drive?
What underlying things happen when you mount a drive. Even when a drive isnt mounted, it is visible to the computer (such as sudo fdisk -l / diskutil -list). When a drive is mounted, is all that is ...
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It it possible to make windows 7 not detect/spin up my secondary hard drive after resuming from sleep?
I only use it once a month for backup and don't want it spinning up/becoming active needlessly. I use Hotswap! to spin it down and making it disappear from my computer/device manager so it can't be ...
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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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A service installation section in this inf is invalid
When I connect a Samsung phone to my Windows XP SP3, it gives the error
A service installation section in this inf is invalid
I browsed lot of blogs, every post says to try the Microsoft_User-...
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URL shortcut on the desktop doesn't show icon on Windows 7
I added a new shortcut.url file with the following:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://test.com/
IDList=
HotKey=0
IconFile=C:\Program Files\Test\logo.ico
IconIndex=0
This works on XP - the shortcut ...
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How do I repair/recover "RAW" usb drive partition?
Something happened to one of my USB drives. When I connect it my computer, Windows thinks that it's "RAW", and asks me to format it. But it should be FAT32, and chock full of files.
I looked in ...
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CHM files not opening from an executable on a network share
I have an application that resides on a network share that all the users in my office use. They have shortcuts on their desktops pointing to this software and all is honky-dory. When you want to open ...
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