Unanswered Questions
8,702 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How do I import/recover/repair an Outlook 2013 .ost file into a new instance of Outlook 2013?
Note: This is not a Microsoft Exchange problem, but an Outlook 2013 one, and even though it might seem as a duplicate of a previously asked one, please pay attention to the end of the post.
A little ...
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Windows Defender Waking Up Hard Drive
I have an external hard drive that I only use for storage, I almost never write data to it but it can be useful if I want to access some data that I have in it.
When it’s possibile I’d like for the ...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows
I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Running Android Emulator with HAXM acceleration and VirtualBox in parallel on Windows
I am trying to understand if it is feasible to run the Android Emulator with HAXM-based acceleration and VirtualBox side by side on the same Windows host.
I have a Windows host running a 64 bit ...
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How to run a raw-disk Virtualbox VM when using UEFI?
I have a dual-boot setup on my computer with Windows 10 and Linux (Arch, if relevant). I'm trying to virtualize my on-disk Linux install in Windows (and plan on doing the opposite direction once I ...
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen
yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this
, though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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VBoxManage: error: Cannot read the partition information from '/dev/disk0'
I'm trying to make a partition .vmdk file for Virtual Box. Basically I want to boot my bootcamp partition box up in Virtual Box. But I get the following error when I try to make the .vmdk file
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Pass VirtualBox Guest connections through proxy
The computer is inside a company and only have internet access through proxy. I want the guest inside the VirtualBox to access the internet without changing anything in the guest. The host is Windows ...
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How to overcome VirtualBox 256MB limit of video memory
My host machine has a 2GB graphic card (GeForce GT740M) but VirtualBox allows me to use just 256MB of memory. Because I would use CAD applications on Win7 (Guest) I would like to have more memory 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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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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Make Genymotion use a host VPN
I'm using Cisco's AnyConnect to connect to a VPN using my Windows 8.1 PC. When using the Genymotion emulator, I would like it to use the VPN too. However, although having Internet access from the ...
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rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks
I'm running many VMs using Virtualbox. These VMs use Debian 10.3 (the latest version). And I'm experiencing bugs / freezes as you can see below. It looks like this is happening on the VMs where I ...
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Vagrant hangs on SSH auth method: password
I’m trying to load a VM via Vagrant. It’s my first time attempting anything like this.
I'm using Windows 10 64bit and trying to run my MS Server 2016 standard.
I created a new VM in VirtualBox and ...
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VBoxManage setextradata command does not add avx2 to /proc/cpuinfo
Linux & VirtualBox noob here, so please go easy.
I've been running into problems compiling code with scipy in a VirtualBox 5.2 VM running Fedora 26 on my host Windows 10. The cryptic error output ...
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Virtualbox host io cache applying scenarios
Virtualbox docs says that using host io cache for sata controller may be a risk of system performance.
At the same time, on my case I see advantage of using host io cache - DisckCrystalMark reports ...
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How can I troubleshoot VirtualBox port forwarding from Windows guest to Mac OS X host not working?
There is a plethora of questions about VirtualBox port forwarding problems but none with my specific details.
Details of setup:
I have a Windows 7 Professional 64bit install living in VirtualBox 4.1....
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Bluescreen Stop 0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM after cloning system on new HDD
A couple of months ago I got a new 500GB HDD for my no-name-brand Laptop PC and I cloned the complete Win 7 Pro 32bit system with clonezilla from the old 70GB drive to the new one. At first everything ...
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Ubuntu VM hangs in VirtualBox under Window 10: "watchdog BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s"
This is Windows 10 with VirtualBox installed and Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache server.
Often CPU hangs on the Ubuntu virtual machine, taking up to 50% host CPU usage with no response at all, when ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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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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VM got 10.0.x.x address instead of 192.168.x.x address?
I've searched the similar question (and prepared to be downvoted too).
I'm new to virtualbox, and I have Ubuntu-server-VM (with guest addition installed) run on my Windows-10-Host using VirtualBox-5.2....
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Boot a physical disk with EFI in VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04 host
I used to use legacy BIOS booting on this machine to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 across three hard drives. I used GRUB to boot to Ubuntu on an SSD and HDD combo and Windows 10 on it's own ...
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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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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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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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Windows 10 dynamic mirror showing "Failed"
I had Windows 7 running 2 x 1TB hard disks in a dynamic mirror setup. I had this for many years and it worked just fine.
I recently installed Windows 10 on a new SSD. Everything booted fine but my ...
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KVM switch switches automatically on VirtualBox usage
I am using KVM switch Multico EW K1904U. The problem is that it confilcts with Oracle virtual box somehow.
Particularly, if I am terminating virtual machine on computer 1, it switches to computer 2 (...
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Linux windowed GPU passthrough
I've read that GPU passthrough on linux (ubuntu/mint) is possible with the correct types of hardware. I'm looking for a specific use case of passthrough and I'm wondering whether technology has ...
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Vagrant virtual machine automatically halting when laptop is put to sleep
I’m using a Vagrant box (running in VirtualBox) I got from a third party and it always automatically shuts down when I put my MacBook Pro to sleep. When I wake up my laptop I need to run vagrant up to ...
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virtualbox windows 10 guest stuck at low resolution on ubuntu host
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 as a host and Windows 10 as a guest in Virtual Box. I used Windows 8.1 as the operating system type when I set up the box. Windows 10 runs fine. I was able to install Guest ...
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Diffing an entire hard drive, available tools?
There's an existing question similar to this that didn't get answered in the proper context (a massive volume of data to compare) at all, so I'm trying again here.
I'm using SuperDuper to maintain a ...
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btrfs does not show drive as missing
I am trying out btrfs and I noticed some funny behaviour:
I have two drives in a raid 1 configuration.
sudo btrfs fi show
Label: none uuid: 52b9c6f6-ce5c-4727-861e-e2fd012e475f
Total devices 2 ...
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Is it possible to run Corona SDK on ReactOS or Wine?
I dumped Windows, I'm now using Xubuntu. Is it possible to run Corona SDK on Wine? On Corona forums, they say no, but I wounder how this guy did it? Is ZeroBrane a solution?
What about ReactOS (or ...
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VirtualBox not allowing me to modify IPv4 Network Mask?
I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to run a web server on my machine. I had it set up and working perfectly for a while. For the past few months it's been prompting me to update, and I finally gave in and ran ...
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Why is virtualbox networking using virtio slow (bridged and host-only, Debian)
I'm currently installing a VirtualBox Server using Debian for Host and Client. I experience some trouble regarding network performance and CPU load especially using host-only networks and I've no idea ...
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Does SpinRite still prevent/predict crash failure in modern hard drives?
Yesterday I attended a presentation by Western Digital that discussed various innovations in rotating hard drive internals, including perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), heat-assisted magnetic ...
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How to launch multiple instances of VM image in VirtualBox?
I would like to configure a machine image with all the bells and whistles and then be able to launch multiple instances of it in VirtualBox. However, it allows me to launch only a single instance of ...
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Mac 10.8 Guest Multiple Monitors in Virtualbox
I've done a bit of searching and cannot seem to find an answer to my question.
I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion guest installed on a virtual machine using Virtual Box with a Windows 7 host. I've found ...
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How do I create a hardlink in guest user in virtualbox
Apparently, VirtualBox does allow to create hard and soft links inside guest os on shared folders . Now the thing is I need to install a package that is creating hard links
Hardlink("lib/abc", "/...
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Windows 8 System.exe writes to HDD like crazy
I have checked Application event logs and found that every second about 20 entries for MSSQL Server were recorded. Removed the server and all its components and the problem is gone... Thanks everyone ...
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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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Win7 VirtualBox Server with TeamCity keeps BSODing
I'm testing out TeamCity with a small project (one checkin per day or so, small code base) on a Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. I've had many successful VMs on this host, some of which were also Windows ...
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How do I make VirtualBox's vboxnet interface show up in the OS X network configuration GUI?
I'm willing to do any amount of frobbing of settings in .plist and .xml files to make this work.
The scenario is this:
I have a nice Android based phone. The phone can do USB tethering. OS X 10.6 ...
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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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Will data remain intact when flashing the firmware of a “bricked” Intel SSD 520 Series SSD drive?
My Intel SSD 520 Series 240GB SSDSC2BW240A3L SSD featuring the SandForce SF-2281VB1-SDC controller spontaneously died and does not show up in BIOS. Presumably, its firmware has been corrupted by a ...
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