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Having trouble using HDD alongside SSD on arch linux
Cant use both my hard drives on my new setup
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I recently switched from a windows setup to arch linux as the title suggests, I have backed up most of my important things on an external ...
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Is it possible to precreate partitions for Windows 10 install on a dual SSD laptop?
I have a laptop with 2 SSD. I want to install on 1 drive, so all of the partitions: EFI, Recovery, System Reserved, main C drive to be all on this drive. For some reasons in my case, the default ...
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Broken Partition table
So I have a ssd disk and somehow the GPT partition table got removed.
From that moment, when I plug disk in, disk is still connected (image below) but when I try to access it through diskpart, it's ...
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How do I format a Hiveos drive to instead be used by Windows 10?
I had an 870 EVO SSD running Hiveos and now I want to install Windows on it. I tried doing so but the Windows installation media wouldn't let me select the drive to use it, I forget what the error was,...
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Explanation/suggestion for possibly accidental format of Windows 10 system drive
A weird thing just happened to me on a spare laptop. It's a ThinkPad T560 that was running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
I was using it to simply initialize a USB drive with a router distro installation (...
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How to clone old small SSD into new larger replacement SSD in a laptop
I have a Thinkpad with a 500GB SSD, and it's split into a dual-boot of a 100GB Windows 10 partition and a 400GB Ubuntu partition. (Note: I'm comfortable nuking the 100GB Windows partition because ...
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Cloning active partition to another drive
Can I clone my active partition (H:) in "Disco 1" to "Disco 0" and erase the old one without any risks of boot errors? What program should I use? Is Macrium Reflect all right?
I'd ...
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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?
So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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How can I increase my shrink volume on C drive?
My C drive has 37.7 GB free and I wanted to unallocate 30 GB to house my Linux root. But on disk manager, I couldn't seem to shrink beyond 304 MB. So I followed the Solution 1 in this link to deal ...
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Cant format, mount or list external hard drive
So I have a 1TB internal Samsung M.2 SSD and a 1TB external SSD and i wanted to install gentoo on it. I installed gentoo and wanted to format the external hard drive but now, on my Mint system, the ...
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Cloning single image to multiple drives
I'm looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time.
and i find linux command.
dd if=/dev/sda bs=128M | bzip2 > /media/usb/image.bz2 -> make image ...
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Install and isolate Linux distro to separate drive from Windows
So I want to run a multi boot setup on my desktop. I have 4 drives in total. All except #4 are GPT, NTFS.
NVMe (Windows 11)
SSD (Files)
HDD (Files)
SSD Empty with no partitions or data (Target Linux ...
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Partitioning external SSD for multiple backups
I just got a 1 TB external SSD that I want to use to store larger files and save space on my macBook.
For some reason, I am very paranoid about data loss. With such a large drive, I see myself filling ...
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Using "clone partition" of DiskGenius to transfer data from HDD to SSD copies nothing
My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) had a broken HDD. So I bought a Samsung SSD (with SATA). I inserted the SSD to my laptop and installed windows-11.
Then I took the SSD out of the laptop and connected it with ...
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Unexplained partition gap after Windows installation
I used Windows's MediaCreationTool21H2.exe to make a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows 10 on the SSD 2TB of my PC. The installation process starts by asking you which paritition you'd like ...
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