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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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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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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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Windows unable to shrink 930GB freshly installed windows partition more than 15GB on kingston SSD even after removing unmoveable files
I am trying to install Linux (Arch) in a dual-booted system with Windows. The problem is that my windows partition is 930gb out of my Kingston SNVS1000G's 1000GB. I have done a fresh install of ...
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Linux no boot after cloning partitions
I had and old HP Compaq laptop I wanted to upgrade because the IDE HDD was dying inside. Previously I had set up a Windows XP / Lubuntu 14 dual boot on it. After cloning the drive with Rescuezilla to ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux
I recently bought a new SSD to replace the one in my laptop. I took the old SSD out and stuck it in an external enclosure, planning to use it as an external drive. When I first plugged it in to ...
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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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Move Linux system to new SSD alongside with Windows
I've got a new PC with a new SSD #2. They preinstalled the Windows on it and I'm cool with it.
However, I have a Linux system on my old SSD #1 and I want to keep that data. The problem is I've only ...
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Move windows from one partition to another on the same drive
While installing windows, I created a 66 gig partition for windows 10, and another 50 gigs for programs, but accidentally I installed windows in the 50 gig partition. And now I can't even extend C ...
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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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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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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 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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'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 ...
