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How to estimate 7-Zip time to compress and email two PPTs 700KB each? Windows 10 Enterprise network folder

I need help to know if 7-Zip is freezing or still working. My interpretation of following status from 7-Zip is it is frozen. However, since these files are in network folder, I am not too eager to end ...
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How to identify unrepaired corrupted files through the log created by dism?

If by running the command " Dism /image:C:\ /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:D:\install.wim /LimitAccess ", dism fails to repair some system files, does it create a log and mention them ...
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Why is data stored on a Samsung SSD corrupted twice after unplugging?

I have a single computer and two Windows OS's, each on its own SSD. Once in a while, I power down computer and swap SSDs to boot into another system. This is because I want these OSes isolated from ...
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Files getting corrupted when copying from external HDD to self

For several years we have been successfully using an external USB3 2TB HDD (Seagate expansion). Several months ago we started having issues. I've made experiments and the issues are very reproducible. ...
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How can I repair Windows 10 corrupted files while the DISM command doesn't work?

Recently My Windows 10 run into various blue screen error and I tried to fix them somehow and after restarting the machine many times and playing with machine Boot options it finally revived. But now ...
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How to fix a corrupted VM? VMWare Workstation Pro 17

When the actual problem began was some time ago so I'll do my best to recount and provide detail but... Periodically, I've had issues with guest systems having corrupted disk images. Whether it was ...
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Partially corrupted jpg photos on pendrive. Possible causes and how to fix?

After connecting a pendrive to a bad USB1.0 port (bad electrical connection, keeps connecting and disconnecting) and trying to read some of the photos in it and to copy them to the hard drive on ...
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Is it safe to use Unlocker on Windows files?

I was trying to get rid if remains from McAfee and after everything failed I came across this: https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/unlocker.html So. I tried the software. I unlocked the services ...
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Fixing NTFS on SSD after corruption by windows cache

This must be a well known issue, so I'm looking for a fix if it exists. I'm using windows 10. I had an SSD in my desktop that had an NTFS partition with no files. I shut down the PC, removed the disk ...
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Issue with a "dirty" system SSD and chkdsk on Windows 10

Since yesterday my desktop computer has been booting with a "To skip disk checking, press any key within X second(s.)" message on the regular Windows startup screen. I didn't press any keys ...
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Disk corruption caused by rsync'ing a large number of small files to external HDD with NTFS format

I am noticing a weird phenomenon when transferring a large number of small files (hundreds of thousands pictures, for example) to an external HDD with rsync: It always leads to an IO error as shown ...
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(SOLVED) How can I restore files missing from my Windows\Microsoft.NET folder, other than with a clean install of Windows?

(edited to add this note) NOTE: I already tried DISM, sfc, the .NET Framework repair tool, turning the .NET Framework features off and on, restoring from a restore point, and resetting the system. (...
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How to repair a XFS filesystem with a dirty log?

I had a server crash while its RAID array was running in a degraded state and now the XFS file system is corrupted. I have read up on how to repair the filesystem but most things I have tried have ...
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How can I find a Python script inside a encrypted and corrupted disk image?

My encrypted SSD got corrupted, so I took an image of it using TestDisk. This was on a Windows 10 machine. If I have the password for the encryption, is there any way to recover data from this image, ...
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Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?

I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being ...
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All NTFS volumes on drive turning inaccessible at the same time

On Windows 10 I was browsing one of three NTFS partitions on an external USB drive. After a reboot none of the NTFS volumes on the drive are accessible, as in "can't even run chkdsk/damaged file ...
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Windows 11 - C:\Windows is a file not a directory of size 0 B. DISM tool try repair and other methods

C:\Windows is a file of size 0 B. What is happening in the system: Explorer.exe Location is not available. C:\ not available. Access denied. WinAnotherOS:\Users\user01>C: Access denied ...
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SSD drive prevents Windows 7 from booting

An apparently random recent failure on my Samsung 870 EVO drive is so bad that it seems to be stopping my Windows 7 install from booting when it's plugged in. This drive is my backup drive so my OS ...
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Recover corrupted external hard drive on Mac OS

I have a Western Digital My Passport 4TB hard drive which has recently become corrupted. The hard drive is neither able to mount, nor does it show up on Disk Utility (of Mac OS) or third-party data ...
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Can't boot from a USB stick to install Windows 7 Pro on Asus K55N

I have been at this since the 19th when all I wanted to do was downgrade from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 7 Pro. I hired someone who said his software could do it and it couldn't. Then he wanted to reformat ...
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How to restore the exFAT structure on my hard disk?

So I have a hard disk that contains a backup of some of my files (it has 2 partitions, a GUID partition map with one Time Machine “backup”, which is a clone of my Mac in APFS format, and other is a ...
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Windows 10 closes many programs suddenly! (Chrome, Android Studio, etc)

Latest version of Windows 10 closes many programs when I use it without giving any error. For example when I play online chess, it closes Google chrome amid of my turn, or when I use Android Studio it ...
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Getting No Data Available when using cp to copy a file (but file exists)

I am trying to copy a file with cp in Linux, and am getting an error: No Data Available The file exists in my FS: > ll formation_xrpu_personnalisation_27-09-2021\ 15\:33\:43.webm.mov -rw-rw-r-- 1 ...
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Windows boot doesn't show as a option anymore

so i been with this issue like for 3 days, asked in microsoft community but nothing clear. My laptop was not to good since automatic repair, well for no reason a blue screen appeared and it was taking ...
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How can I reliably detect if a Hard Drive is corrupted?

My boss is concerned that I inadvertantly corrupted a hard-to-configure source hard disk while doing a disk clone. I do not believe the drive is corrupted, as it seems to function perfectly in every ...
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What to do when VeraCrypt "Repair Filesystem" literally takes forever and blocks you from working?

Update (I'm the poster who has lost access to the account): The command "WMIC diskdrive get Status,Model" claims that the "health" of the disk is "OK". But File Explorer ...
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System process overwritten entire folder of images

I noticed abnormal amounts of disk access, checked Resource Monitor and saw "System" writing millions of bytes to various files in one folder. Checked the folder in question, the thousands ...
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Files were normal and playable, after chkdsk repair, files turned into FOUND.000 folder filled with .CHK files(Fat32 single 256g partition SD card)

I wonder what the alternatives could be. If I did not try the scan and repair prompted by the Windows, everything probably are still normal or can be salvaged more easily. (Fat32 single 256GB ...
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Corrupt file system after a program crashing

I setup Windows 10 to generate full dumps for my MyUniquelyNamedApp.exe by importing the following file in RegistryEditor: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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How to recover corrupted btrfs partition that nothing can read

I was on Manjaro on a btrfs partition. I came back to my laptop and it wasn't accepting my password, which in the past I solved with a reboot. I tried to reboot from tty 2 which was logged in, and it ...
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What happens if Veracrypt encrypted USB device is pulled out without dismounting?

Suppose you have a USB device (e.g. pen drive) that is entirely encrypted using Veracrypt (the "Encrypt a non-system partition/drive" option in Veracrypt). If this device is pulled out ...
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Fix corrupted J's files after recovery

I reinstalled windows 10 on my laptop, and as a result lost all my files. Then I used EaseUs to recover a react native project from local drive, I managed to recover it successfully but the problem I'...
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SSD - One Partition is not accessible and the other one is ok

I have two Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD installed in my system. Both SSDs have got two partitions each. No RAID configuration. SSD running in AHCI mode (Tried IDE. did not not make any difference in this ...
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Temp folder unusable

I had mysql-server installed, wordpress was working fine then I tried to install cyberpanel which failed installing mariadb So I manually tried to install mariadb to know why it failed, it failed ...
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Windows corrupted icons

I don't know why, but a bunch of systems icons seem to be corrupted. I've tried to clear icons cache (Explorer folder, etc...), enable the options in the Advanced System Settings, repair Windows with ...
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How to Fix a Corrupted USB Drive?

I recently just wanted to move all my data from old laptop to a new one using a USB. The total data was around 10GB and my USB has 16GB space. It took me around 1-2 hours to move the old data to new ...
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How Linux boot UP without /boot?

I have Centos VM on VMware Workstation. I commented the /boot entry in the /etc/fstab for testing purposes. But I found that the system gets boot UP with unmounted /boot file system. How the system ...
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Bootable but kinda broken SSD -> Cloned SSD is not bootable

I have a 120GB SSD with Ubuntu installed that seems to be slowly failing. Every once in a while the root filesystem is mounted read-only and I need to run fsck in some sort of recovery console. So I ...
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Could ZFS fix silent corruption on a single drive with two mirrored partitions?

ZFS can detect silent data corruption (or "bitrot"); with a proper mirroring or raidz setup it may also repair such corruption. Thus, would it be possible to split a disk into two (or more) ...
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USB SSD drive corruption when moving it between Windows 10 and Windows 7 machines

I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 (500GB) which has been formatted as an NTFS volume and contains my iTunes music library. For the majority of the time, I am using it on a Windows 10 system where I ...
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Is `badblocks` meaningful on compact flash cards?

I own ten (10) compact flash cards. The cards are industrial high quality ones. Because of some random system crashes I checked all 10 cards using badblocks: sudo badblocks -w -s -o badblocks-card1....
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Find chunks of all 0x55 or 0xAA on hard drive image and blank them?

This is a weird request, but I had a hard drive that I initially ran badblocks on and then stopped partway through. So it started out with part of the drive covered in 0xAA and another part of the ...
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Is there any way to fix incorrect file size?

I have two files that both the Windows operating system and Linux report as >700GB, when in fact my disk size is only 500GB, making it impossible for me to move it somewhere else. They were backed ...
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Fix corrupted exFAT upcase table manually

I have recently encountered the error "upcase table is not found" on my SD card formatted with exFAT, after it worked just fine the previous day. No tool I tried on Windows or Linux could ...
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Chkdsk Stage 3 Error but "Chkdsk /f" Fails to Execute Repair at Windows Restart

Summary: I have a volume corruption: Specifically, it is a chkdsk Stage 3 Error. At stage 3, Chkdsk verifies Security Descriptors and USN Journals. However, chkdsk /f repair fails to run at Windows ...
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SDCard constantly being corrupted

I posted this on stackexcange but people say it would be better to post here. So I copied and pasted I have an sd card and I normally use it on a chromebook and it has no problems, but when I put it ...
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How to reset windows 10? When drive is corrupted

How to reset my acer predator laptop? My C drive is corrupted as my laptop force shut down during an update. It's stuck in boot and won't go past troubleshooting screen. Tried: Alt+f10 to reset, no ...
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First NTFS boot sector corrupt, filesystem is RAW, successful repair - repeats after every reboot

I've had this happen on three different customer machines over the last few months, and for the life of me I can't figure out a lasting solution. In all cases, it appeared that the problem occurred ...
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Is there mitigation for the new NTFS corruption bug?

A recent announcement of a bug that causes corruption of an NTFS partition states: “…extract the ZIP file or simply look at a folder that contains a malicious shortcut and it will automatically ...
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Invisible subdirectory created by BoUML [duplicate]

I'm using BoUML 7.10, the latest version, on Windows 10 Professional at work. By default, it installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\BoUML (or something very similar). When a new project is created, it ...
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