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How to Extend C drive from D: drive (SSD with NTFS bitlocker) and also there is Recovery Partiton in between two drives?
I am using a HP fq1089AU laptop running
Edition Windows 11 Home Insider Preview Single Language
Version 22H2
Installed on 04-07-2023
OS build 23493.1000
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I cloned Windows to a larger SSD and computer won't show additional storage, no unallocated partition
I wanted to upgrade my laptop with a double sized SSD so I have cloned Windows from the old one to the new one. From about 223GB (officially I think 250) to 500GB.
I followed and online tutorial on ...
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Can I move my D drive to a "D" partition on my C drive?
My D drive (a 1TB HDD) is getting older and it's starting to act up (recently windows had to repair it before booting up).
So I'm wondering, can I change its drive letter from "D" to "E&...
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My SSD is acting like writing is locked. Not even bash dd command can achieve anything. How may I fix my drive?
I currently am using a 2.5" WD Blue 1Tb SSD for backups. I use Macrium Reflect on Windows to clone my C to it. Last time I attempted the clone, and because I don't do it often enough to remember ...
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Should I clone unrecognized partition in disk?
I am planning to replace my HDD with an SSD. I am using Macrium Reflect to copy all the data from the HDD to the SSD. But I see a partition that is 7.63GB in size and I don’t know if I need to copy it ...
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How do I reformat a Bitlockered SSD that has a CRC error
I have a WD SSD that was bitlockered. I do not care about the data.
When I try to reformat or diskpart clean, I get a CRC error.
However, It shows up in drives and partitions fine, CrystalDisk reports ...
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Dual booting Linux distros using images sourced from USB drives
I have 2 USB flash drives each with a bootable Linux distro.
I believe that I can use Gparted to copy each of them onto separate partitions on a single (clean) SSD.
USB drive 1 with Linux 1 -> SSD ...
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Increasing available disk size in Ubuntu
I have a 250 GB SATA SSD. I was in a hurry while I was setting up the OS in this disk, so I selected Next in "Disk Partition" part without changing anything. I thought all of the disk will ...
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I have a 95GB invisible partition, how do I identify what it is for, so that I can eventually remove it
I have an old windows computer with a 500GB SSD (Crucial MX500), it shows 369GB free space.
The device manager shows a 95GB "Primary Partition" that has no drive letter (neither can I set ...
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I cloned my old boot drive to a new SSD and deleted a partition. Now I cannot boot from either drive
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I cloned the contents of my old (boot/OS) SSD to a new SSD. I then attempted (and failed) to edit the contents of the new SSD, and this has made me unable to boot from either drive.
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Is there any benefit to aligning the *end* of the last partition on an SSD?
I created two partitions with KDE's partition manager that fully filled an SSD, and noticed that there were 3MB unallocated at the end. Turns out the partitioning tool had automatically aligned the ...
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Growing partitions in opposite directions? [closed]
I have this idea for a partitioning scheme that would be quite useful for me. It seems very obvious(?), so I feel it's not done due to hardware-level details and long-ingrained characteristics of file ...
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'Sector Cannot be Read' after cloning with EASEUS Disk Copy Pro
I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in!
But first, some short background here: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart ...
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Unable to delete SSD
Everything began when my laptop (MSI PS63 Modern) went on being stuck in a BIOS boot loop back a few months ago. From what I remember, it happened after a BSOD where windows got frozen during the ...
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Is my Windows 10 installation reusing the system and recovery partitions of other installation?
In my desktop PC I have an SSD where I installed Windows 10 many years ago. Later I purchased an nvme ssd, where I also installed Windows 10, and I can choose which Windows 10 to launch at boot. Both ...
