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Is an encrypted home more likely to get corrupted?
As far as I know, if you change a single bit in an encrypted file (or an email, or anything else) the result of the decryption will be totally different.
I want to encrypt my ~ directory, but I'm ...
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How can I repair or install startup repair/system recovery after BCD corruption?
How should I go about repairing startup repair?
Installing startup repair onto the hard drive, as if it was not originally there, would also fix this.
In the hope that someone at a Windows-specific ...
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Corupted keyboard layout
When I try to add Persian keyboard layout on my Windows 7 x64, the keyboard doesn't show up in the language bar. For example, when I add English, Arabic, and Persian keyboard layouts as shown in the ...
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Memtest86+ inconsistent results
I have 16GB RAM as four separate 4GB cards. I ran memtest86+ on my PC and got about 3000 errors. Then I removed three rams and ran the test on one ram at one time. None of the rams separately showed ...
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How to fix corrupt registry
my registry seems to have gone corrupt missing certian permisions and wont let me edit certian strings. Can you recommend some freeware that fixes the registry
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lOintl.nls missing or corrupt
I've done a lot of reading on this issue, and found that there are a lot of XP machines which encounter a l_intl.nls file corruption or deletion.
However, now when I boot my PC, I receive this error:
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Recovering data from an external hard drive
I have a WD Elements 2TB hard drive (formatted NTFS). I accidentally kicked out the USB cable while writing data to the disk, and now I can't access most of the data. Although this was ostensibly my ...
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Chrome extension icons fritzing out
I'm having trouble diagnosing this in part because I don't know what to look for on Google. About a week ago my Adblock and download icons on Chrome went all "noisy":
These noisy bits blur around ...
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Does a bad Internet connection increase bandwidth usage?
My (Rogers) cable connection has been pretty bad recently (channels 3 and 10 are particularly fuzzy—it’s analog, not digital cable). Not surprisingly, this has caused my cable modem to drop out and ...
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Using Ubuntu switch a failing windows 7 harddrive?
My laptop harddrive has developed some serious read errors in the windows partition. Windows 7 still boots but every single action takes an aeon, and it is definitely due to a harddisk error not due ...
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Windows 7 CHKDSK reports “File record segment 3680 is unreadable” and then blue screens and reboots
My computer was working fine yesterday but I booted up this morning and everything was incredibly slow. I have done nothing special for the past few days so I assumed it could be a disk error.
I set ...
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External hard drive broken after falling down? And can't clone it [closed]
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Can't read External Hard Drive anymore!
My external hard drive has fallen down a few times from my bed and now it doesn't work anymore.
Windows 7 needs a few ...
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Prevent data corruption when using dropbox
So i have a backup system running that basically stores all files in Dropbox using encfs. (In addition i do a nightly rsync of the complete Dropbox folder to Amazon S3). I'm quite happy with that ...
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Incorrect disk size reported for internal drive after attempting to boot from external drive
I wanted to run something off of my old Windows XP install, so I plugged it in as an external hard drive and attempted to boot from it. The machine blue screened on me. (I now know this is a bad ...
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Various binaries across my system are corrupt. How can I detect which ones are?
As a follow up to /sbin/init corrupting, I fixed /sbin/init and my system booted up fine.
It's stable, but various binaries were also corrupt.
Given that
I can fix an individual break just by ...
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unreadable hard drive partition. is partition table corrupted?
I have a hard drive that had 2 partitions C drive and D drive. My internet stopped responding, so I restarted my computer. However, my computer acted like it no longer recognized my C drive and that ...
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Unable to delete corrupted files
I have an mp3 player which has somehow gotten corrupted. In some folders where there used to be mp3 files, its suddenly gotten these weirdly named gibberish files. Screenshot is below:
Notice also ...
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Mac- or Unix-compatible utility to compute and compare LAME MusicCRC in MP3s?
The LAME encoder stores a CRC16 checksum of the audio stream in the header of every MP3 it encodes. The 'actual' audio checksum can then be computed and compared to the original value at a later date ...
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Windows 7's PATH and environment variables are corrupted
I have no clue, but lately I've been having this problem. After running my workstation suddenly something destroys PATH and lots of stuff stops working. Initially, my path had MANY directories listed ...
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How does an Operating System become corrupted out of nowhere? [closed]
My mother's Dell XPS system has been running fine and dandy for the past two or three years now, and just yesterday I was called in for an emergency situation. Turns out her operating system was ...
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1TB ext. HDD suddenly stops working - does not show up on desktop - Lion OS X
I'm really annoyed right now. I brought this 1TB external HDD (brand: WD elements) about 3-4 days ago. I put two partitions onto it, one Mac journal partition (for Mac) and one for PC to be able to be ...
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How does a downloaded ISO get corrupted? [closed]
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Is it possible to get corrupted download with http?
I downloaded an ISO for fedora. Went to install it as a VM. It failed 5 times the installer. The warning for the ...
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Corrupted message in Outlook 2007 cannot be opened or deleted
I'm using Outlook 2007. I received an Outlook invite that was forwarded to me (the forward-er is a Mac user, I'm a Windows user).
The message is apparently corrupted. I cannot open it - when ...
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Disk corrupting over and over
I have re-installed windows, both the Vista Home Premium x86 that came on it and Win7 Pro x64. I am using Gateway GT5674 with an AMD Phenom quad core CPU. Everything is stock except the GeForce GT ...
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Disk Corruption = Failing Drive/Bad sectors?
I recently replaced my HD with a SATA SSD since my previous one failed. My new SSD is a week old and Windows 7 is already reporting file corruption.
The file system structure on the disk is ...
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Is it possible to tell if a file is valid after an incomplete torrent download?
I'm trying to downloading a torrent file using uTorrent but it only gets to 99.3%... no one else is seeding anymore.
If I open the torrent folder I can see all the individual files I'm looking for. ...
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X11 libraries corrupted by VirtualBox crash
I have a computer running Debian "Squeeze" 6.0-AMD64 which experienced a VirtualBox crash during a folder copy via SCP yesterday and since then I'm not able to log in KDE. Which is more strange is ...
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How do I recover a corrupted .txt file?
Recently I often edited a txt file with Notepad++ on Windows XP and gedit on Linux (Mint). During shutdown on windows, it seems, that file was corrupted. This is the second time that this happens and ...
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Seagate Momentus XT corrupting files (Linux and Mac)
My Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive is corrupting files on Linux. I would appreciate help from anyone, but I'd particularly like to know if other Momentus XT users are able to reproduce this ...
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How to open mystery JPEG file?
I have a folder that contains JPEG files that I cannot open. Here is one example mystery file. Can anyone help me to open the file or suggest a way of recovering the data if it is corrupted?
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Debian: rsync and cp is corrupting contents of CSV files
I have a weird problem. I wrote a script that scans a directory on a samba share (a OpenSUSE server on the LAN) and uses cp to copy certain CSV files to the local Debian server web root at /var/www.
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What to do with a USB hard drive that is not recognized by any computer
I have a USB HDD that was disconnected from a computer in an improper way. Since than, connecting this disk to any computer has almost no effect: the only thing that changes is the HDD's blue LED ...
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How do I make Windows XP recognize EXEs again?
I've got a virus "first" here. Basically a friend had gotten his system severely infected. He had 8 different viruses, and 157 different pieces of spyware (most of it likely replicated, but still). ...
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How to resolve graphics corruption on Street View when using Google Earth?
When I go into Street View on Google Earth and use the arrow keys to move around, the graphics become corrupted (distorted). Please see these examples:
I'm using XP Home SP 3, Google Earth ...
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Corrupt File on External HDD
I have an 1.5TB WD External HDD, which I purchased in December 2010. Every few weeks, Windows stops being able to read it, and I have to fix it with a chkdsk /f. Now this is a little annoying, but not ...
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop is not accessible?
I am getting errors on my computer (Windows 7, 32-bit) after a improper shutdown.
At first my user profile was corrupted in the registry and had to use the .bak file in Userprofiles list. But since ...
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :)
Question:
Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk ...
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Is there a good, free way to fix broken/corrupt .wmv files?
I've recovered some files from an hdd that weren't supposed to be deleted in the first place, but they have seeking problems/crash the players. Since they have the right size, I'm thinking it might be ...
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Solution for noisy network that corrupts downloaded files
The network on the company where my wife works sucks BIG TIME. Almost every single file bigger then a few hundred kB is corrupted during download and even web pages are sometimes garbled. We checked ...
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Can flash memory be physically damaged if power is interrupted while writing?
If data is actively being written to a flash memory device, can a memory cell (or perhaps the entire memory device) be physically damaged if power is removed, or will data simply be corrupted? Can ...
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Hard Disk NTFS restoration
I know there are many restoration-related articles (read through some of them), however my scenario seems to be less generalizeable and the data is critical, so any serious recommendation will be much ...
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The Ghost of “Maxpm (Admin)”
I had an account on my Windows Vista computer called (something like) "Maxpm (Admin)." The space in the name was causing problems with certain command-line tools, so I created a new administrator ...
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Force delete a directory
I have a FAT32 SD card with a file on it, that, viewed in Windows the filename consists of a long string of nonsense.
Viewed in my Android phone's Linux terminal, ls -a shows nothing in the ...
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SSD and corrupted master boot record
I have a 120GB INTEL X25-M SSD as the main drive which boots windows 7 (about 2 months old). Recently my pc would hang randomly and boot only in repair mode. No automatic repair or recovery image ...
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Recovering damaged filesystem/partition
I wanted to increase the size of my /home (originally about 20GB). /home was on the partition /dev/sda9.
There was about 25GB free-unallocated space just after the /dev/sda9 partition. The plan was ...
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Automating the scanning of graphics files for corruption
Does anyone know of a good program that can scan graphics files (particularly JPG, GIF, and PNG) for corruption?
Preferably, it would be able to scan a bunch of photos automatically and have some ...
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Corrupt BIOS and no post screen
I have an Asus m2n sli deluxe mainboard. I ran the Asus update utility (wish I didn't, it is buggy) and it started to loop (my OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit). after 15 minutes, I restarted my PC. as I ...
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Chicken and Egg: Can't Restore System Point and Can't Run Scan-Disk
I have an awesomely evil hard-drive corruption of some sort going on with my Windows 7 installation. Whenever I schedule a scandisk and restart, Windows tells me that the hard-drive is corrupted and I ...
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What to do about “ntuser.dat.log corrupt and unreadable”?
Since a few days ago I keep getting the below error message when I open some programs.
I ran Chkdsk with all options but it didn't fix it.
Has anyone run into this and fixed it?
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External Hard Drive Recognised, How to preserve data
I have a WD Elements 1.5TB External Hard Drive. It is under 2 months old, and it sits on my desk and has not been moved. A few days ago, it started appearing in Windows Explorer as "Local Disk F:" and ...
