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NTFS Partition on a USB Stick shows up as FAT32 and is unaccessible in Windows 8.1
Hi I have the following Problem:
I installed Tails on a 16GB USB Drive (Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G2) and then created an 8GB NTFS Partition (also tried FAT32) and then created an 4.6 GB encrypted ...
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Hard disk does not show any Partitions during windows installation
I have a samusung laptop 365e which ive been using for over a year now, it's been working well but it started freezing all of a sudden during it execution. it then finally refused to boot but instead, ...
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Hard drive stopped working after trying to delete a partition
So I recently got an SSD, put it in my machine, installed my OS on it which is Windows 8.1 64bit, and after booting everything was perfect. I had an older hard drive of 1TB, and an SSD of 120GB. The ...
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Windows NTFS partition disappeared from Disk Defragmenter
I've recently installed modded windows 8.1 version (it has some of the redundant features uninstalled to make it lighter and faster: Polish forum link (they are good!) It is running perfectly smooth ...
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Will erasing my entire hard drive to install a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 corrupt the EFI setup?
My Windows 8.1 installation is horribly slow. I don't know the exact reason but I've tried EVERYTHING I could to solve its sluggishness problem, but nothing worked. Therefore I plan to reinstall a ...
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Unhibernate Windows w/o direct access
I attempted to repair my boot partition with boot-repair yesterday, which worked, except that partition I have Windows 8.1 on is hibernated. As of now, I am still unable to boot my computer to ...
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After upgrading to an SSD, lost access to Windows refresh options. How do I get it back?
I upgraded my notebook from a spinning disk to an SSD. It's smaller (1TB vs 500GB), but by shrinking the main Windows partition I was able to fit all data, including the recovery partitions.
However, ...
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Move Windows 8.1 to beginning of disk
I have 1TB hard disk drive where 700GB is reserved for my personal files. Remaining space is for Windows 8.1. Problem is that Windows 8.1 with their 4 partitions is at end of disk, so I can't extend ...
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My windows 8.1 shows only C:
I have recently installed Windows 8.1, I was previously running 8.0. I had to convert to GPT while installing and had to format my disk. While installing I have created 6 partitions of which I can ...
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Windows installation doesn't detect drive, BIOS and Parted Magic does
Setup:
Intel NUC today (model DN2820FYKH)
Value Kingston 8GB DDR3L
Samsung SSD 840 EVO
It starts up okay, BIOS reports correct amount of RAM as well as connected drives.
I followed Intel ...
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Cannot boot to old hard drive after installing SSD and Windows
I purchased an SSD and replaced the hard drive in my HP laptop. I then took the old HDD and installed it onto a caddy to my CD drive.
When first booting up, my computer was able to recognize the ...
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RAW partitions to NTFS
i'v just installed windows 8.1 to a new laptop, i created 3 partitions on the hard drive during the installation process, after i installed the windows i can't find the other two partitions, it's only ...
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How to extend a Mint Linux partition on a dual boot config with Windows 8.1?
I had previously installed windows 8.1 on my hard drive, then I later unallocated some space like 15GB and installed linuxmint separately on that partition, How to extend the 15GB volume that I have ...
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Shrinking/Extending partitions in Windows 8.1
I have a 4TB HDD and it was partitioned like
Partition 1
Unallocated 503GB
Unallocated 4GB
Partition 2
and I decided to extend second partition with these unallocated ones, BUT, such a problem ...
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NTFS drive not working
I copied some files from another computer to my western digital external hard drive and then after I connected it to my PC Windows can't recognize my NTFS drive.
A few month ago I changed partions to ...
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