Unanswered Questions
8,895 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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How can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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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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mounting share on Mojave says No such file or directory
I am trying to mount a share on Mojave 10.14.3 for Mac mini distribution point hosted on VM Windows Server 2008 R2 using the following command :
mount_smbfs -f 0755 -d 0755 smb://username:pwd@...
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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 ...