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Step-by-step instructions to move unallocated space from left to right using GParted? [closed]
Please refer to the setup in the image linked in the last line of my post.
I just reduced my Windows Downloads partition space on /dev/nvme0n1p4 to the unallocated 420.63GB space on its right, ...
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How do you TRIM unallocated/unformatted space after partition shrinking on an SSD in Windows?
How do you TRIM completely unused, unallocated, unformatted, unpartitioned space (but other volumes still exist) on an SSD in Windows 11, that used to contain data, for over provisioning? (For note: ...
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How to secure specific folders on a portable SSD that works on multiple devices?
I use a portable SSD with different devices such as Windows PCs and Samsung TVs. Some of the folders on the SSD have sensitive or personal data that I want to protect. How can I encrypt, password-...
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Diagnostic details: - The last unmovable file appears to be: \$Mft::$DATA [duplicate]
I tried to shrink my c drive but i noticed that there's a point i tried to fix it but during the shrink phase i got this defrag Diagnostic details:
The last unmovable file appears to be: $Mft::$DATA
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SSD displaying incorrect size, despite having no unallocated space
I have a 120GB SSD that I recently copied to a 250GB SSD via a device-device clone on Clonezilla, the clone worked without issue and all of my previous partitions were successfully cloned to the new ...
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How do I boot from a partition on my internal HDD?
I know that there is a solution to my problem, but I just don't seem to get it.
Here's my setup: I've got a laptop with Win10. It has an SSD (where Win10 is stored), and an HDD, which I use for ...
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Multiple vs. Single M.2 NVMe SSD
I plan to buy a Samsung 970 Plus 1 TB as storage drive and maybe an additional Samsung 970 Plus 240GB or 500GB for boot drive. I know SSDs do not function like HDDs. Nevertheless, I am wondering if ...
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Can a bad block from one partition affect other partitions?
I have an external SSD 1 TB plugged in to Linux-Laptop. I have created a small new partition - 10 GB size on it, so now I have 2 partitions on that SSD.
Both partitions are formatted with ext4 file ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
I lived 8 years with HDDs. Every time when there was a power outage, or for whatever reason I had to force-shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy-yet-dangerous restart ...
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Cloning windows to another partition in a different ssd drive [duplicate]
My windows 10 is installed on "Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB" and after checking crystaldiskinfo, it's health is at 1% with 38 tb written. since it's on such a low health I'm planning to clone ...
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How to remove read-only protection from NVMe SSD?
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Motherboard: MSI MAG B660
OS: Windows 11
Processor: Intel i7-12700
SSD: XPG S5 512 GB NVMe
What should I do next to remove Read-only protection from my SSD?
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I was using my ...
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Do partitions on SSDs map to physical addresses?
One of the reasons that some folk partition hard drives is that certain parts of the hard drive are supposed to be faster than others. Considering that HDDs are a serial access medium, partitioning, ...
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Cloning a SSD using GPT not working (Clonezilla)
I am using Windows 8.1 Pro installed on a 128 GB SSD, partition-table is GPT. My Asus Mainboard uses UEFI and i installed windows 8.1 as a uefi installation. Therefore the first boot device is ...
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fdisk assigns wrong partition sizes
I'm trying to install linux(using a usb) on a new SSD (WD blue of 2TB, 1.8TB usable).
At the partition step I went with GPT table and these partitions:
/boot 1GB
/swap 4GB
/root 60GB
/home remaining ...
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frozen SSD SATAFIRM S11 "SBFM61W5"
I bought a new SSD disk "PNY C900 SSD 240 GB"
I cloned my old disk 120GB on it, when I tried to extend my system partition I discovered that the disk is frozen.
All operations from diskpart ...
