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Can't extend C partition with unallocated space. Due to a recovery partition is next to C drive [duplicate]
I just upgraded my laptop with a 2TB ssd by cloning the old 256G SSD. However I found the C drive volume can not be extended due to a "Recovery partition" is standing in between the ...
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Formating SSD corrupted something
I was about to format my old NTFS SSD used as a shared storage for a Manjaro and Win10 dual boot system to ext4, but I ran into some problems and something broke.
Currently, I am running Manjaro KDE ...
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How can I tell if my SSD is really secure erased, with a huge $BadClus file on it?
Backstory: almost a year ago, I bought a Silicon Power Ace A56 256GB SATA SP256GBSS3A56B25. After 4 months, it suddenly went into Satafirm S11 mode, which meant I couldn't boot a system from it, ...
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Clone a separate drive's OS partition to SSD
I have a laptop and a main pc.
The laptop has an old 1TB HDD installed. The HDD is split into 2 partitions. The first partition is the OS partition and the second has a lot of work on it and is mostly ...
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Strange seemingly-unused space on my SSD
This is what I have in Disk Management:
I'm wondering what those partitions are on Disk 0, and if there's ways I can use them to increase the size of C:
Seems like a waste.
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Crucial X6 or X8 SSD reserved partition, what is the purpose?
I recently bought a 1TB Crucial X6 USB portable SSD. I wonder if it is safe to delete the reserved partition of of 128MB (MiB, binary MB). I'm worried that it is reserved as spare sectors/blocks to ...
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extend C drive without deleting/formatting D drive
Windows 11 (SSD) :
C Drive -> Total: 264Gb -> Free: 46.8Gb
D Drive -> Total: 210Gb -> Free: 95.9Gb
i want to add 30Gb more to C drive(i want to increase C drive) from D drive
i seen ...
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How to partition C drive with a very low space to shrink that is lower than available free space?
I have an SSD, which has available free space 553 GB, but when trying to shrink the partition the space available to shrink is only 1068 MB:
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SSD with bad sectors, how do I mark them as bad? A lot of drive utilities wont work because Windows won't assign it a drive letter
So, I have an SSD with some bad blocks, 86 according to crystalDiskInfo. It has shown some signs of life and it would be really nice to have as a games drive. The SSD is a PALIT PH120.
TL;DR: I want ...
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dd cloned Windows disk to new SSD – boot from clone with error "windows/system32/winload.efi" missing
I cloned my old external SSD /dev/disk2 to my new external SSD /dev/disk5 on macOS with dd.
When I now try to boot new SSD /dev/disk5 the error "windows/system32/winload.efi missing" occurs ...
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Does the wear leveling algorithm work well on a partitioned SSD?
I recently bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB SSD and I would like to know something about wear leveling and partitions.
Does wear leveling work the same regardless of whether I partition it or not? I ...
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Kingston SSD Secure Erase not working
I have a hard drive that I cannot Secure Erase because there is still partitioning in the drive, but there are not any partitions left shown in disk 2 in the disk management tool, yet its not letting ...
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Is it safe to clone Win 10 partition created in OS X Boot camp to a new drive?
I'm using a Mac Pro (2019) with the newest OS X available. I've created a Win 10 partition via Boot camp on the internal SSD. Now I want to transfer this OS to an external SSD. I'm planning to use ...
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Is it safe to use `dd conv=sparse` to migrate my system to a new SSD?
Back when HDDs were dominant, it's common to use the dd command to migrate system disks. But that creates a problem with SSDs: unused space from the source disk will also be written once, with either ...
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SSD NVME became 0 bytes, unaccessible and has no volumes
I have recently run into a problem with my NVME M.2 SSD of 1To which i was using as My boot drive. At first it started with windows shutting down accidentally, or being stuck on a boot loop, but then ...
