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A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage
I am getting "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage during Gparted (resize/move) process of C partition.
I was trying to resize and move my C ...
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Transplant Windows 7 Partitions to new hardware [closed]
I have several partitions on an old Windows 7 laptop (2010) that I want to transfer to newer 2019 hardware. I understand there is a mismatch of driver configuration but I would like to see if Windows ...
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14GB 100% free Healthy (Primary Parition) after Windows 7 install
I recently bought a new SSD to put in a really old laptop and installed Windows 7 on it. It's just for some very old software and hardware that I still want to use that are not supported in Windows 10 ...
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A way to partition specific folders in windows
I have a server that is running on Windows 7. And I have plans to upgrade it to newer Windows versions (potentially Windows 11).
The thing is, nowadays there is no support to make this upgrade anymore ...
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Setting up Raid 1 with multiple partitions
I am Setting up two (2) new identical hard drives (14TB each), in a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual external case, using RAID 1. Going to be creating 6 partitions. My question is:
Do I partition the first ...
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Windows 7: Merge network drive and local partition
(When I speak of "distributed data storage" in this question I mean literally distributing the data so half is on one disk/folder and half is on the other)
Both computers in my situation are ...
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Use Rufus to create an image of a partition + restore this partition to disk on Windows
Can we use Rufus to save a local disk partition into an .img image file? Basically the Windows equivalent of:
dd if=/dev/sda4 of=output.img
Also can we use Rufus to write an image, not to a whole USB ...
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How to disable CHKDSK permanently, windows 10/11
I want to completely and permanently disable CHKDSK on windows 10 and 11, reason is a long story but as a summary: I work with complex custom builds having multiple SOs(mostly Linux) and 2 NTFSs ...
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Using "clone partition" of DiskGenius to transfer data from HDD to SSD copies nothing
My laptop (Acer Nitro 5) had a broken HDD. So I bought a Samsung SSD (with SATA). I inserted the SSD to my laptop and installed windows-11.
Then I took the SSD out of the laptop and connected it with ...
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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.
GParted has an option to hide a partition, but ...
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Windows + Arch with 2 EFI partitions: Boot select only discovers windows
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I wish to install Arch-Linux in a dual-boot configuration with windows 10. I have partitioned one singular drive into 7 partitions as shown here. I wish to enter into GRUB going ...
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Source of active mark in Windows 7 System Reserve partition
My flash drive is MBR partitioned( has active mark)with FAT 32 file system.When I install Windows 10 in UEFI mode via a Rufus bootable Usb flash drive with GPT partition & FAT 32 file system,the ...
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Cannot resize NTFS Partition
A family member recently asked me if I can "make their laptop run fast again".
When analyzing potential problems it was pretty clear that the storage is the biggest concern.
Almost 0% free ...
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weird c:/boot folder after installing ubuntu
so i installed ubuntu yesterday and everything was working great i can boot into both os but i've noticed something strange which is boot folder and bootmgr in c partition that wasn't there before ...
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Windows7 error (0xc0000005) in many applications even after format and reinstall multiple times
Windows7 SP1 x64
I had to format my PC and reinstall windows7 because of a small issue some days ago, i was able to do so without much problem.
Almost everything worked fine except for a small thing ...
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Can't install Windows 7 on GPT partition
I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to solve this problem for over ten hours now. I am trying to install Windows 7 on an old computer from a usb, and when I get to the partition selection ...
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How do I partition my hard drive for a Kubuntu installation on a notebook which already has a Windows 10 partition?
Lenovo V145-15AST model 81MT000QED with 4gbs of ram and 500 gb hard drive
I had windows 10 installed on it in legacy or bios mode and it crashed on me so i had a fresh kubuntu USB ready 21.04 not LTS ...
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How can I combine two existing Windows installations on different partitions, one disk to make a dual boot system?
I want to create a dual-booted system, combining one existing Win10 and one existing Win7 installation. So far, I managed to
copy them both to one SSD (GPT) with partition software, the Win10 ...
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Clonezilla Win7 Restore C partition to new clean SSD
I have a known-good Clonezilla backup of the C: partition (Windows 7) that I wish to restore to a new, clean SSD drive. (Known-good means that I restored this image a few times before, and the restore ...
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Can I add free space to Win7 partition in Ubuntu dual boot setup?
I'm not sure why this free space is there, but if I extend the Win7 partition to use the space, I get a warning that it may mess up my mbr. Obv not critical to fix this, but I like to keep things tidy....
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Expand OS Partition inside Extended partition
Originally Win7 --> dual booted with Ubuntu 20.04. Shrunk win partition and want to grow Linux into that unallocated space but no luck. Tried everything incl booting from usb Ubuntu 19 and easus ...
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How to repair boot info from Kali Linux to get Windows 10 booting again?
I have a laptop in which Windows 10 war pre-installed. I made a USB stick boot of Kali Linux and tried installing it on a partition of my disk. During the process of "Installing Base System" ...
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Is there a safe way to extend size of a system, boot, active, primary partition in Windows 7 Home premium?
Disk Management System Drives Clip
Is there a safe way to extend size of a system, boot, active, primary partition in Win7 Home premium?
When I right click on C drive Extend Volume is greyed-out.
This ...
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"missing operating system" error with Bootcamp on 2013 Macbook Air
I seem to have royally messed up my bootcamp.
I have a tiny (30GB) bootcamp partition, and was trying to expand that space. I shrank my OSX partition via disk utility, then found I was unable to see ...
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Does removing a drive letter prevent Windows Defender from scanning the drive?
I have one drive which is split into two partitions. One partition has Windows 10 installed and another has Windows 7. Does removing a drive letter trought Disk Management in Windows 10, of Windows 7 ...
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Is it possible to use partition as bootable media?
I use Windows 7 and I wanna upgrade to Windows 10. I don't wanna use microsoft's Media creation tool. I got lite Windows 10 ISO file. I wanna install it but I got no USB stick and my pc couldn't ...
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Are there pitfalls of extending a partition to a space before it in Windows 7 (after Windows 10 upgrade)?
Several years ago, it was impossible to extend a partition to a space directly before it, using Windows 7's built-in Disk Management (case #1 from 2010, case #2 from 2012).
This has been possible for ...
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Fix cloned Windows problems (laptop system-recovery, memtest, Windows recovery environment)
Background/Cause
Several months ago, I upgraded my laptop's hard-drive to an SSD. The SSD is smaller than the hard-drive, so I freed up enough space for it to fit and cloned the drive to the SSD, with ...
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How to solve boot in Laptop/Notebook after cloning Windows 7 64bits OEM from HDD to SDD?
I have cloned my HDD to SSD. The files can be seen when the SSD is plugged in as external device, but the SSD itself will not boot.
My original system:
Laptop Acer Aspire 5733-6432
Windows 7 64 bits (...
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how can I repair or restore the format or volumes in my windows 7 HDD
Something has gone wrong with a windows 7 HDD I am using externally ( in a USB caddy ). Previously I was able to access files on it as normal using my windows 10 laptop.
But then, when I tried reading ...
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Create an EXFAT partition on a NTFS external HD
Is it possible to create an exFAT partition on a NTFS external HD? I just wanna backup stuff from an old macbook, so I thought maybe I can just create a new exFAT partition instead of full ...
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Partition seems shrunk after cloning with Macrium Reflect
I started getting SMART warnings on my 1TB WD disk, so to prevent losing the data, I went to buy a replacement. Since the disk was almost full, I decided to buy a 2TB one (a Seagate). I installed it, ...
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Windows 7 Extend Main Partition Not allowed
UPDATE
I have changed this SSD to "dynamic disk" https://superuser.com/a/1080796/1074900
merged the 70 GB Other NTFS partition to the 10 GB Unallocated space than restarted the machine ...
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Can I use My Desktop Internal Hard Disk as Internal Laptop Hard Disk and Linux on it?
I have a 3.5' Desktop Internal Hard Disk 320 GB. I want to install Linux Operating System. Can I install Linux on it as use it as my Internal Laptop Hard Disk????
Because I have Laptop as a Primary ...
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How to reinstall Windows 10 on a Lenovo G50 that was downgraded to Windows 7 by a technician?
Some technician told my lady to downgrade her Lenovo G50 from Windows 10 to Windows 7 a couple years ago, and he did this for her. Now we're looking into upgrading it back to Windows 10. Back in the ...
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Delete CDFS volume from USB drive in windows?
I recently attempted to install ubuntu onto a removable USB drive. Eventually, I wanted to replace the ubuntu version with another, but the problem is that, besides for the 3.7gb of "free space" I can ...
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Windows 7 Installation On UEFI and GPT HDD without converting to MBR
I Have ideapad 330 15IKB Laptop with GPT Hard Drive and i'm trying to install Windows 7.
I tried to install it with Legacy Boot from BIOS configuration, but it failed to read the Drives/Partitions ...
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In a Win8-Win7 dual boot, can Win7 boot from D:?
The system is dual booted. First partition on the SSD contains Windows 8.1 and the second partition holds Windows 7 Pro. Both were rescued from previous machines/disks which were, in various ways, ...
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Dual boot and installing Ubuntu on F drive
Currently I have two hard disks:
Local Disk C (where Windows 7 is installed)
Linux F ( where I want to install Ubuntu)
I don't know which is my F Drive. I can't find the answer anywhere.
From ...
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Resize Ubuntu partition using a non-adjacent Windows space
Im using Ubunt 14.04 LTS. I have a dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu. When I want to install upodates in Ubuntu I get the next messenge:
error messenge
I really need more space in my Ubuntu partition.
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Extending Windows 7 system partition to the left
I have an old pc with Windows 7 and Lubuntu dual-booted. Since I don't really use Lubuntu any more, I've wanted to get rid of it. Here's the problem: As you can see in this image:
You can see that my ...
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Can't partition my SSD because of an immovable object
I wanted to dual-boot arch with win 10, but I can't shrink my partition because of the file further down. I've searched the internet and found that it has to do something with Intel's Software Guard, ...
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Windows partitions have the same c: on disk
I have 2 windows 7 installed on two C: E partitions:
BCD menu is:
Windows7 1
Windows7 2
when I choose in any of the 2, I enter my pc, they have the same partition C:
and show the other partition ...
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tried to merge system reserved partition with main and now cannot boot
I had merged the system partition and main partition which is more or less structured as follows:
However, the merge didn't complete. Thankfully, the data on the data partition still appears to be ...
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Merge two NTFS partitions
I need to merge 2 partitions:
Partition 1: Win7 installed, boot partition, NTFS
Partition 2: Empty, just created from allocated space, NTFS
I've tried Windows disk manager and also various other ...
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Cant boot into Win7 anymore - RebuildBCD wont work - Startup repair wont recognize windows drive
When I try booting into my windows 7, there is a black screen saying that \Boot\BCD is missing or corrupt.
What I did was get a Windows 7 iso onto a USB and when I boot that, the "Load Drives" cant ...
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How to install a second Windows install on computer (on HDD2), but avoid the boot configuration of HDD1 to be modified?
I had:
Internal HDD1
Partition 1 100 MB: empty
Partition 2 150 GB: Windows 7 (BitLocker encrypted)
Partition 3 300 MB: BOOT
Partition 4 700 GB: Data (BitLocker encrypted)
Internal HDD2
Empty
Then ...
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How to reinstall Windows 7 boot manager if I accidentally removed the boot partition? (BitLocker enabled)
(Nothing related to my other today post about installing Windows 10, it happened on another computer).
On my Lenovo T520 with Windows 7, I had 4 partitions:
100 MB partition
150 GB partition (C:\...
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How to write a bootable ISO Windows installation disk to a disk partition (and not USB flash drive)?
I have already read How to write bootable iso to a partition? and How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?, but here it's a bit different:
I'd like to put the Windows 10 (or 7) bootable ISO ...
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How do I repair BCD error 0xc0000225 in a triple booted system?
I've got a triple booted system from my great-aunt to repair:
It has:
Win7 x86 Pro
Win10 x64 Home
Win7 x64 Ult
Each is on 3 different partitions on an SSD disk, in that order. This used to work, ...
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