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How to restore deleted/formatted Bitlocker encrypted partitions/ partition tables
Initially I had 2TB Seagate Expansion Desk HDD, partitioned into 500GB, 13GB, 500GB, all three Bitlocker encrypted and 1 more 500GB unencrypted partition, the rest of the space was unallocated. ...
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How to correct "partitions not in recommended order" without erasing entire disk?
Most of the suggestions about "The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order." that I found on the internet and on this site, say 1. using diskpart to clean/ ...
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Deleting Recovery Partition - What will happen?
I need to free up as much space as possible on my hdd. I have the following partitions seen below:
disk management pic
The 5th partition in particular is called:
13.96 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)....
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Flash drive is only recognized either/or by Chrome OS, Windows
I have had problems recently after I formatted a USB flash drive on my Chromebook. When I plugged it in to my computer, it did not show a notification for the drive, or indicate that it recognized it ...
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Explain the partitions on Lenovo Y500?
I have a Lenovo Y500 laptop, came with Windows 8, I updated it to Windows 8.1. I'm wondering what all the partitions do. Here is an edited screenshot of Disk Management:
(source: lenovo.com)
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How much disk space do I need for running Parrot OS?
I just git a notebook from my uncle. The notebook already has Windows 8 x64bit installed but I want to dual boot with Parrot OS. My hard disk is 27GB and has about 13GB of free space in a partition.
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How can a MBR formatted hard drive exceed 1.81 TiB capacity?
I recently purchased an external disk drive with 3 terabytes (2.72 TiB) of storage capacity.
Now according to Wikipedia's article on MBR, the maximum addressable storage space on a disk formatted ...
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Windows 8.1 installation - partitions
I downloaded and burnt windows 8.1 from MSDN, but during installation I noticed that when I formatted and deleted particular partitions they won't merge into one as in windows 7 installation (as far ...
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Grub Rescue upon attempting to reinstall WIndows 8.1 on Msata
I had a new device and not dual boot as far as I am aware.
The new clean install of Windows 8.1 was compromised.
Intel provided a new device.
Upon attempting to reinstall Windows 8.1, it would not ...
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Partition Manager for Windows 8.1 RT
I've inherited a Surface 2 & it's UEFI would not let me boot to any other means other than the internal drive. I've tried even booting to a USB recovery drive created within the windows ...
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How to upgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping data in D and E drives?
I downloaded a Windows 8.1 .iso file and made a virtual drive using Virtual CloneDrive and mounted it. I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping the data in D and E ...
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How to expand the recovery partition of my hdd?
Disk Management pic
I want to add/allocate free space to the final partition in the image above (the 14gb one). How would I do so?
The intent is to test if a larger recovery partition will fix a ...
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Is One Key Recovery on the Bios of the laptop? (transferring harddrives)
Lenovo 510p ideapad
I need to changeout a 1tb hdd for 2tb drive. I'm used to making a windows backup of my harddrive on an external drive, then inserting the windows disks when the new drive is ...
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System backup too large for hdd
I made a system backup using One Key Recovery (OKR) for my lenovo ideapad, storing it on an external hdd. When I went to recover the backup using OKR it stated the hard drive doesn't have enough space ...
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New Partition is mysteriously created and cannot access
I noticed something unusual when booting up Windows 8.1 this morning.
A new disk partition is created. Local Disk (Z)
See below
I have gone through many sites related to the problem and found quite ...
