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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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Autorun zerofree on boot (or on shutdown)

I have a virtualbox vitual server that keeps growing. To keep its virtual disk small I'm manually shrinking it using VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi compart after zeroing unused space on the disk using ...
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What are the risks of setting VirtualBox CPU count up to the *logical* CPU count?

The GUI and the documentation of VirtualBox warn about setting virtual CPU count higher than the physical CPU count: You should not, however, configure virtual machines to use more CPU cores than ...
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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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VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE when running VirtualBox with libvirt installed

I'm running RHEL 6.4. I had been using a VirtualBox VM to run a simulator, but recently installed libvirtd for a different project. Now I want to run my VirtualBox VM again, but keep getting an error ...
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How to set network location for VirtualBox Host-Only Network adapter on Windows 8 between private/public?

I have configured a Windows Server 2008 guest on VirtualBox v5.0.10 on a Windows 8 host laptop. They work fine and ping each other on bridged mode, IP address are served by a wireless router. ...
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Cannot delete VirtualBox snapshot due to "insufficient space"

My disk is full because my VirtualBox snapshots are consuming a large amount of space. But, I cannot delete the snapshots because there's insufficient space. I would rather have my snapshots stored ...
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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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