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Switch partition drive on dual boot
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD.
The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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More space on disk taken than actual files Win 11 [duplicate]
Windows says that 207 GB of space is used, but when I sum it up, it amounts to 153 GB. This is an SSD disk, and Windows says it is optimised.
Update: I deleted the recycle bin, and it freed 9 GB, but ...
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Merging unallocated partition on a dynamic drive
So I have unallocated space on my drive, sandwiched between two recovery partitions of unknown provenance. I'm trying to merge it into my C: drive, but since they aren't adjacent I couldn't extend ...
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Linux cannot see other hard drive after dual boot, also want to remove windows if possible
I wanted to switch to Linux and I did this by installing Kali onto my usb and and then booting from my usb. It then went through the process of installing on one of my two SSDs, it then installs fine ...
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How to Solve the Issue between Google Drive sync and Windows Security ransomware protection feature?
New Windows has a feature called Ransomware Protection in Windows Settings >> Windows Security.
I use this feature to protect the folder of Google Drive.
However, it doesn't go well. At the ...
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Powershell script to show drive health only for drives with a drive letter
I'm made a powershell command that will give me info about physical drive health, in the following format:
DeviceId : 0
FriendlyName : WDC WD84PURZ-85B2YY0
OperationalStatus : OK
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How good is the long formatting of a hard disk of windows 11, from a security perspective?
I have an old hard disk that I want to completely format. I have found online that the windows quick format deletes the partition table and labels all the data as "Available Space", but the ...
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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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Recovered Files from Deleted Partition Are Empty, How Can I Fix This?
I accidentally deleted a partition on my hard drive and used a file recovery tool to restore the files. The recovery process seemed successful as the files were restored with the correct extensions ...
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Files and folders on shared drive created on Linux are not visible in Windows (dual-boot)
I have a dual-boot with Linux (Manjaro) and Windows installed on two separate SSDs, plus I have a shared ex-fat HDD which contains documents and the like.
Problem is, very often, when I'm on Linux and ...
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GUI file copy stalls to HDD Enclosure. ROBOCOPY fine
I have this 2.5” SATA HDD/SSD USB 3 enclosure. It’s just purchased in Mar-24.
https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B0BG62HMDJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I tested it on my Toshiba ...
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Windows Storage Pool stuck in ReadOnly state
So to make a long story short(er), I suspect I had a bad SATA card. I have a 8 drive storage pool in Windows 11 in Storage Spaces (1 parity) that's been running great for a few months. Suddenly it ...
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How do I know number of smaller files vs number of bigger files distribution for analytical purpose?
So, I want to perform an analysis to determine the best allocation unit size (cluster size) decision on HDD. As we know, HDD is slow in IOPS but not that slower for IO rate.
The default NTFS cluster ...
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How to permanantly disable CHKDSK
I have a 128GB flash drive with Windows 7 installed on it using WinToUSB. I use my pendrive in my home PC to sync my files and also in another PC where there's no keyboard. The problem is, on every ...
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Strange folders and files when first bootup of new bought seagate HDD
So I just bought my Seagate HDD. After installed it, I didn't do anything. Here is DIR output:
PS D:\> DIR
Directory: D:\
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
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How to view of the physical disk of a network share is an HDD or SSD?
I use PowerShell "Get-PhysicalDisk | Format-Table -AutoSize" on cmd to check if the physical disk of my local computer is a SSD or HDD. Is this possible to check this for mounted network ...
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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?
For test or administration purposes, it can sometimes be required to reset the state of the system disk so that it does not start and the data is not easily accessible anymore, for instance to test ...
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Prevent programs from writing to a partition
I have a hard drive in one partition with important data on it.
I want to prevent programs from writing to it.
It would be nice, for example, if I could grant access to certain programs like a ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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Why am I getting an “Access Denied” error for an external hard drive folder?
I know this question has been asked before, but I've tried multiple solutions and none worked.
I am trying to access a folder [Local Disk] on my external hard drive, but it says Access Denied.
I made ...
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Why is an SSD NVMe appearing as an HDD on my Asus TUF gaming laptop?
I have an Asus TUF FX15 506LU-HN003 i5-10300H 16G 512 SSD GTX 1660Ti 6G 15.6 FHD IPS,black 144Hz that is running Windows 11.
The storage type is NVMe Micron_2210_MTFD.
This is what device manger shows:...
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SATA RAID 0 (striping) configuration under Windows 11
I have a 'semi-newish' desktop I put together (GigaByte motherboard) with 2x M.2 500GB SSDs. I thought I had properly configured them in RAID 0 via the UEFI settings. Yet then today I was adding a ...
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I have unallocated space in my C drive. I want to make it primary partition but it is being created as logical partition
I have unallocated space in my C drive. I want to make it primary partition but it is being created as logical partition. How can I make it primary partition.
I have unallocated space in my C drive. I ...
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Internal SSD Drive drops randomly until restart
I hope this is the correct place to ask this.
I am on a ROG Zephyrus G15 running windows 11 that has two SATA ports that I use. One is the system drive that came pre-installed on my device, and the ...
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How can I erase my hard drive?
I have an old Alienware computer. I am upgrading to a new model. My Alienware is around 8 years old. My wife says I want your old one when you get the new one. That's fine, but there are sites and ...
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In Windows 10 (22H2), network drives are not reconnecting after re-connecting to the VPN. Error: The local device name is already in use
A user is connecting to a work network using a FortiClient VPN client. When the VPN connection drops, the user re-connects to the VPN, but they are unable to re-connect to the network drives. If ...
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Can I restore a Windows 95 MBR using a Windows XP installation disk?
If I have Windows 95 installed on a temporary, secondary, FAT32 drive (which needs to go back into its original machine), can I repair its MBR using a Windows XP installation CD ROM?
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Any way to do a Batch file move operation only when the HDD is idle-ish?
I know how to check if a specific program is running like winrar which might indicate usage on drive d: but is there a better way to determine if a drive is relatively idle enough (via Batch or other ...
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How does hot cloning a running Windows drive actually work?
I'm aware of the software options - what I mean is, how do they actually achieve this, when a running OS may be writing files such as logs, even if I try to not actively use it?
I read one comment ...
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Disk 0 doesn't show when using PowerShell Get-Disk
On one machine I'm using, the PowerShell cmdlet Get-Disk doesn't show Disk 0. But using other commands it will...
Get-Disk | Select Number, FriendlyName, HealthStatus, Size
Number FriendlyName ...
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Factory Resetting Windows 11 Computer and Then Switching Drives
I built my computer, but ever since I added two drives, it has been acting up. I'd like to remove my old, 256GB drive (the current C) drive, and just switch my current D drive to the C drive to use as ...
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How to identify and delete Linux Bootloader/GRUB from my HDD?
Im using win 10 in my principal HDD.
I needed a dual boot with linux mint, which should be in my SSD, so I installed it. The problem is that it installed the BOOTLOADER in the EFI of my HDD and not in ...
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Bitlocker won't let me continue, but there is no hard drive to be bitlocked?
New to me university surplus laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad). No hard drive came with it. When I tried to start up from the USB stick to install Windows on my blank hard drive, bitlocker jumped in and tried ...
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2TB GPT Disk mistakenly shown as a larger 8TB GPT Disk with unallocated partitions - Why?
I plugged in a 8TB GPT HDD in my pc via external usb adapter (see Footnote 1 for adapters). Then I safely removed and physically unplugged the adapter from the PC, turned off the PC. Next day I ...
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I have an HDD that was taken from a Windows laptop, is there anything on the HDD which will indicate the model, manufacturer and OS of that laptop?
The laptop in question is no longer available. I have the HDD in an enclosure and attached to a separate machine.
Here is a top level view of that drive:
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Change boot device with multiple Windows 10 installations
I installed Windows 10 on 2 devices (HDD and SSD).
The first one was HDD.
Today, I can run Windows 10 on the SSD but only via the Windows boot menu that works only if I boot on HDD first.
The HDD is ...
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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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How to prevent massive fragmentation when copying large files to NTFS HDD?
I have some virtual machines, and for example the first one I'm looking at is 89gb.
Unfortunately when I try to copy it to a new drive it forms around 100,000 fragments (more than 1 per mb.)
I don't ...
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I am unable to write data to the hard drive and cannot backup it
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A hard drive is a solid-state drive with a 512GB SATA interface.
There are multiple partitions in hard drive A, each in sector order, used for [recovery/ESP (EFI partition)/MSR/Windows/Btrfs/...
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How to identify file by "File Record Segment"?
How to actually identify files by "File Record Segment" addresses as reported by chkdsk?
There was a blackout and my drives' filesystems were corrupted, the hardware and operating system ...
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What does "$DATA (nonresident)" mean?
There was a blackout in my home and my computer's hard drives' filesystems were corrupted.
I checked the system files and the hardware, and found no problem. But I did the stupid thing of running ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Why might Node be unable to read multiple upper case files in a Windows directory?
I have a problem related to a software development library called typescript-eslint, but seems to actually be an issue with Windows (specifically, reading files from a drive).
What's interesting is ...
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95% of a partition on my external HDD is invisible and disk analyzing programs can't find it
On my 2TB external HDD is a NTFS primary partition 480GB large.
Combined size of the files present is 18.5 GB, mostly the pagefile.sys and the free space is 256MB. 18.5GB + 250MB is about 18.75GB, ...
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LUKS container gone due to Windows partition
I plugged a HDD with a LUKS container on it into Windows and opened the Disk Manager. A dialog appeared where I clicked "Format as GPT", not knowing what I was doing. Apparently Windows wasn'...
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Drive not appearing in Optimise Drives (Windows 10)
Running Windows 10 with two 16GB pen drives (mapped to F: and P:) and a larger 4TB WD external disk (mapped to W:). All drives work correctly, appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, you can ...
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Windows 10/11, Manjaro Dual Boot: WIndows lagging, freezing not booting and suddeny windows partitions missing
My PC has quite a view issues, and already a view Problem fixes couldn't resolve the issue.
Also symptoms varied a bit over time from OS-lags, to OS-freezes, to getting this crapmachine to boot.
So It'...
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VeraCrypt - Permanently decrypt... - Error: VeraCrypt can in-place encrypt only a partition, a dynamic volume, or an entire system drive
I have a WD Red Plus NAS WD140EFFX - 14 TB - 3,5" drive that is encrypted with VeraCrypt AES(Twofish). It is not the system drive. I can mount the drive without a problem and the drive shows no ...
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Mouse and Keyboard not working on different HDD that I installed
Accidentally deleted windows on an hdd, so I replaced the hdd with another one that I had(already had windows). Took a while for it to boot into windows, but when it did I noticed my mouse and ...
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How to upgrade my sata hdd 1tb to sata ssd 512gb with the same windows os that is installed? [duplicate]
Constraints:
My laptop has only 1 slot for storage space.
Requirements:
I need the same windows os 10 to be present on the ssd with all the settings and apps without loosing the genuine windows key....
