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Recover Data on GPT protective partition
For an unknown reason, my laptop's windows 10 stopped booting correctly this week.
after analysing disks, it appear that the first disk with the OS was in a terrible shape (lot of noise when reading/...
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I had a free Windows 10 upgrade and then my hard drive crashed
I have another, older, laptop with a not-that-great hard drive in it (it's slow and I suspect vaguely compromised). My plan is to completely wipe this hard drive (it has Windows 7 (or Vista, I'll have ...
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reinstalling windows 10 and license key
My friend has a computer which he bought used. It came with a legitimate copy of windows 8. My friend got the free upgrade to windows 10 and installed it. Then the computer crashed, leaving the disk ...
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Windows 10 - Is there a way to Expand System Partition Size?
When I bought the computer the partitioning was already done by the vendor. However they gave it an incredibly little amount (about 50GB). Many apps mandatorily occupy space at system drive, ...
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External HDD detected, but doesn't have drive letter or show up in Windows Explorer
Today my Kodi HTPC, a Revo RL80 (Intel Celeron 1007 1.5GHz, 2GB RAM), gave me the option of upgrading to Windows 10. I thought I'd give it a go. I backed up Kodi and other such things and upgraded. ...
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How do I migrate Windows 10 and Grub to a new Hard Drive?
I have two drives: C:, which contains a Grub bootloader and Windows 10, and D: which contains an NTFS partition and also all my Ubuntu partitions. I would like to replace my C: drive with a new (...
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HDD with Windows 7 to SSD with Windows 10
I recently bought a SSD drive to install my operating system there. My issue is the following:
I am running Windows 7 on a HDD drive in my current PC, and I have a copy of Windows 10 ready to install....
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Can I turn off my system drive for a few seconds? And how?
I want to find out what the most noisy component of my computer is, and though it could be the hard drives (since lowering the PWM of the fans and pump only helps a little).
So I thought I could just ...
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Windows 10 not recognizing Seagate USB 3.0 external drive
I have a lot of data in my USB 3.0 external drive from Seagate but since this morning Windows 10 does open it.
If I open "My PC" I can see the G: Drive in there but has no name or disk information ...
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How do I resize the Logical Disk Manager container size
After reading Fedora installer does not see free space
I'm trying to install Fedora on my HP laptop which already has Windows 10 installed (with 3 primary partitions: C:, system recovery, and HP ...
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HDD to SSD - should I fresh install Win 10?
I am going to migrate from HDD to SSD. (HDD will stay as media storage)
Running Windows 10 Pro with November updates.
My motherboard doesn't support AHCI.
Should I fresh install Windows 10 in new SSD ?...
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Offline HDD keeps spinning under windows 10
I have a mini box (laptop based hardware) with windows 10 x64 installed on msata based SSD. Power plan set to Never Sleep. I have a SATA 2.5' HDD for backup purpose.
The HDD just keeps spinning even ...
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Windows 10, partitions and recovery
I have recently converted my boot drive to GPT and I have two questions.
There is ~2mb unallocated space right after the boot partition and ~1mb unallocated at the end of the partition table. Is this ...
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Strange hard disk information after defrag
I just finished a defrag on one of my drives and I am now getting some bizarre info with regards the available space. I had half written this post titled "Why has defragging used all my disk space" ...
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Spanning volume disk usage
I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.
Will the first disk ...
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