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Do you need to reserve 2014 free sectors at the beginning of a data-only drive?
Let's assume you use a new drive as a secondary drive in you PC and plan to store only your data there. (In my case, it's %USERS% of Windows and /home of Linux. The programs and system will be left on ...
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Is it possible to install Windows 10 on MBR using UEFI?
I need to move Windows 10 from my HDD to my SSD but apparently I have to use a GPT instead of MBR. The real problem is: in this SSD I already have installed Linux in a second partition, so if I change ...
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Create many GPT partitions
Let's say I want to create 128-1024 GPT partitions on a SSD 1 TB drive (smallest possible, for even FAT). Let's also say that I can do that in Linux Mint 19.3. I assume that I do not want to create ...
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Access Data on a Harvested GPT Protected SSD
I have an SSD drive that was in a Windows PC, the drive was GPT protected,
I connected the drive via a dongle to an USB port.
My Linux machine is seeing the drive , but it appears empty with no ...
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Windows Taking too long to be clean installed on ssd
I recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad 130 with No OS Pre-installed on it.
It has a HDD and a 120Gb SSD installed on it.
When i tried to install windows 10 on It, I figured out that it's taking too long ...
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Resized partition is not recognizing new space [duplicate]
I'm migrating from a 250GB SSD to a 1TB SSD, but after cloning and resizing the root partition the volume still only shows the original partition size. Here are the steps I took:
First, cloning the ...
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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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Partition drive E for install Fedora and keep Windows in the SSD
Take a look to the following partition table that my PC have. For me this is a mess. Right now I want to use E drive and create two partition and I can't because is marked as MBR and also is the ...
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GPT partition resizing and boot issues
I am helping a friend migrate his OS from a 500GB mechanical drive to a new 250GB SSD and have run into problems. Where to begin...
His current OS is Windows 10, formatted with GPT and boasting 5 ...
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mSATA size mismatch and inaccessible partition strangeness
Trying to do data recovery on an mSATA SSD from an Acer laptop... Kingston SMSR150S3/256GB
First symptom was simply Windows not booting.
Older history of the disk from when the laptop was purchased (...
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GPT damaged, two half-sized disks instead of one
I'm trying to help my father installing Gentoo instead of Windows on his new Acer Aspire S7 notebook.
However, we are experiencing issues to partition the 120GB SSD disk.
fdisk -l tells us we have ...
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How to fix a corrupted(too big) GPT?
So, I got a new SSD. I decided to use GPT instead of MBR on it, so I'm a bit lost. It ended up getting corrupted. I'm not for sure if the GPT just didn't take the host protected area into account, or ...
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WD 3TB suddenly RAW formatted - but only whith seconardy Win7 install.%
After looking a bit on the web, I decided to take this problem here, in case somebody has already a solution, or to answer it myself, should I find the Answer.
Setup is like this:
ASUS Maximus V ...
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Missing MB on a GPT partioned SSD
I recently installed Arch Linux on an Intel 40GB SSD. I used GPT for partioning (via GNU parted) and created the following partions:
/dev/sda1 : 1 MB, no FS, flag=bios_grub
/dev/sda2 : 30MB, /boot, ...
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