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cannot format bad hard disk
I think I have a problem with my hard drive.
I tried to boot the system, and it was taking a long time. After a while it said that the drive was not bootable.
I tried running check disk, but it was ...
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How do I display the available disk space of a mount in specific format?
I would like to display the available disk space of a mount in xx% format,
For example:
sh-3.1$ df -h /opt/Application/Disk1/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Cannot Format Hard Drive Windows 7
Hi I have a problem in a laptop of mine that suddenly stopped working and keeps on telling me to launch repair Wizard and then restarts again.
I am trying to just format the hard drive. I have burned ...
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Disc Format Settings for Video DVDs
Does anyone know what disc settings are required for video DVDs?
There are plenty of programs that can simplify writing a video DVD (ie Book B, a disc playable on a traditional standalone DVD player) ...
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No Programs, or Windows Explorer shows .FBX files
Nothing, nothing at all shows up when i try to find my .FBX file. And yes. I am sure it is the right place.
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Which video format requires least transcoding for versatile media streaming
I know this question is related a bit to this here, but I have a more specific aim.
I want to stream videos (in 1080p quality with multiple sound channels) to different devices (iOS, Xbox 360, PS3, ...
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How can I produce a single document for a multitude of formats and screen sizes?
I've been writing a Word document that I want to distribute online. However, I want the document to be accessible to everyone, including
People who want to print it on A4/Letter from PDF. Note that ...
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Vim tabs: When using Vim, how do you make it so that ALL your files you manipulate from now on will have 4-space tabs with vertical tab marks?
I just copied over (recursively) a directory from a remote machine and would like to work on the files on my own computer.
However, whenever I used Vim remotely, every tab automatically did two ...
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Missing space on Flash drive (USB) - Can't reformat it also
I have a flash drive which is given as a freebie. I don't know who manufactured it. It got infected by a virus. I am trying to reformat it but I am always receiving a "Windows was unable to complete ...
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Is there a standard format for imap filter rules?
Is there a standard format for imap filter rules?
I want to know if there is a set format that different imap filter system can convert to their own rules, or is a matter for adopting the format most ...
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did not find any hard disk
I just bought a laptop. It came with Windows Vista Home. I wasn't that happy with the performance so I decided to downgrade to XP. I used a USB to USB cable and formated the hard drive.
I booted from ...
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What does sfdisk do, and how does it compare to fdisk or parted?
I was looking over documentation for ZFS for Linux and I came accross a command that the instructions tell me to run to prepare a disk for use.
The command was;
sfdisk -q /dev/zvol/tank/fish ...
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Cannot write, format, nor erase flash drive
I have a 4gig flash drive, which I can read from but not write on, erase, nor format in any computer (tried in 7 different computers including xp, vista, and win7).
I want to erase all the data ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
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When drafting a new Word page, the line spacing shows as double spaced, even though I only push enter once
When typing a new document in Word 2010, when I press the "Enter" key, the text on the screen jumps down as if I pressed the key twice (or want a double space) inbetween the text lines.
Example, ...
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How can I pretty print erb in BBedit indenting rails tags and not just markup?
I want to re-indent my code but the rails tags <% foo %> get aligned to the left with no indentation. What I'm using is:
markup > utilities > format > pretty print
Does anyone know if ...
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“theora_encode_init failed” when converting FLV to OGG Theora video using FFmpeg
How can I use FFmpeg to convert a flash video (.flv) to an OGG Theora video to display in HTML 5?
When I tried using
ffmpeg -i dayinthelife.wmv -vcodec libtheora -acodec libvorbis -b 750k ...
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How do I backup a partition?
I want to backup a partition of my present harddisk to another hard-disk. If I use Windows Backup, it only offers to backup the system drive. I have a partition/drive which contains some precious ...
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“You need to format your disk before you can use it” when hard disk is plugged in
When I plug in my hard disk it says, "you need to format your disk before you can use it" but when I click format, it says "Windows could not finish the format" that means my hard disk spoil? I can't ...
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Reformat soft RAID-5 Ubuntu
I built a linux (Ubuntu) box a year ago and decided to have some fun and use a soft RAID 5. I followed the instructions here.
Things seemed to work fine, but now it's time to reformat the computer ...
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Hard drive shows incorrect capacity, unable to format
I have a Seagate hard drive (500GB). It worked perfectly for the last two years. Two days ago, by accident, I deleted one local drive (E:) from Disk Management in Windows XP.
When I rebooted my PC, ...
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Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive suddenly doesn't want to open
I have a Seagate FreeAgent Portable Drive.
It was fine yesterday night when I was using it but this morning when I plugged it in, my computer didn't autoplay it and when I clicked it on the computer, ...
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How to change the font of the heading number in Microsoft Word 2003?
How do you change the font of the heading number?
If I get into the Styles and Formatting tab, then click on the drop down arrow of the heading I want to modify, and then edit the font in the Modify ...
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MIcrosoft Word 2003 - Can you import heading styles from other Microsoft Word documents?
For some reason, my copy of Microsoft Word 2003 has its headings all strange-like. I have a document with much nicer headings that I want to use. Is there an easy way to import these to my Word 2003 ...
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Convert audio from iLBC to WAV using Windows command line
How can I convert CAF audio files encoded with iLBC codec to WAV using Windows command line. It appears neither SOX, nor FFMPEG supports iLBC.
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How to recognize that data on HDD have been recovered after format (NTFS)? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data loss from accidental quick format
Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT?
I have a question if I am able to recognize that data on HDD have been recovered after ...
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dos unallocated hard drive ibm thinkpad
I zero'd out my hard drive with something called kill disk. It unfortunately doesn't have a format option. So now my hard drive is basically 20GB of unallocated space. When I boot from my usb ...
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My laptop takes ages to startup, after recent format. Whats up?
After a boot sector crash, I formatted my hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 from scratch.
Although my laptop now takes ages to startup (about 10-15mins!) and after I'm logged in, everything lags!
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Format PC without losing the data [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Clean (re)install of Windows 7
Is there a way to format PC (Windows, Windows 7 to be precise) without losing the data in it?
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Downloadable map data usable in applications [closed]
I wish to create a small pathfinder application with maps.
Where can I download navigation European map data and find documentation about their formats?
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Installing Windows ME on a PC with a damaged floppy
I have a huge problem, I want to install Windows ME on an old PC, but I really dont know how.
I have installed XP a million times, but WinMe is different, can you help me install WinMe without a ...
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How to format a pen drive in linux
My pendrive has become read only. I want to format it using Linux - how do I do that?
If I run mkfs.vfat \dev\sdc1, it doesn't work.
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Formatting destination HDD with an unattend.xml file from WDS
When deploying a Windows 7 image using WDS, everything is as I'd like it to be apart from having to choose the drive and format it. If I forget to do this it installs over the existing partition. I ...
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How to format Ext2 in Windows XP?
I want to format my USB stick to ext2. I have following tools installed. But don't know how to use them for my case:
Cygwin – I'm just a starter and not surely know how to use. (mkfs is also ...
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Recover Windows 7 licence key from formatted drive
I recently performed a fresh install of Windows 7 on my computer, but only as I deleted the old partition (that contained my old Windows 7 install) did I remember I hadn't extracted my Windows ...
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changing video format profile (Baseline@L2.0) in handbrake?
Is it possible to change video format profile for handbreak? I need Baseline@L2.0 for my MP4 video format profile or could you recommend other converter like handbreak with lots of configurable ...
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How can I access the files on my 16GB SDHC card?
I own a Nikon camera which I use with a Transcend 16GB SDHC card. The camera possesses a built in formatting tool and everything just works, I am able to take pictures and they are saved to the card.
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Formatting a hard drive for just OS X using a PC?
I'm looking to format an external hard drive for use exclusively Mac OS X (for use with the time machine feature), but the Mac that I'm using is too slow to format the entire harddrive.
Considering ...
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RAW to NTFS (Data already recovered so not important)
Recently something went wrong with my external WD passport. It is not accesible anymore in Win 7 and the type is now currently RAW. I recovered all the data so formatting it is no issue.
I tried ...
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Is UDF an ok substitute for ext3?
I'm thinking of doing the UDF thing to share files between windows and linux.
Is UDF a viable option for /home
Is UDF a viable option for /
Can windows XP correctly read sparse files I created in ...
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How to recover formatted drive data [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT?
I was making partition in my computer and computer turned off by mistake. When I started my computer there was only one drive instead of ...
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Restoring a SD card after using it to root a device
I recently purchased the Nook Touch reading device.
I rooted it using the instructions on nookdevs.com
Rooting included using win32diskimager to somehow transfer an .img file onto the card.
Rooting ...
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How to stop automatic conversion from text to hyper links?
How to stop in Excel automatic conversion from text to hyper links with formatting style?
I know that this feature is good in most cases, but I work on report creation and I have problem with long ...
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Can I restore my laptop to my company's domain after formatting?
Right now my laptop is using Windows XP Professional 32-bit, and I have a copy of Win7 Pro 32-bit that I want to install. I would prefer a clean install, as I do not need any of the software on my XP ...
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Mounting Image into pendrive resulted in loss of size
I have downloaded a image file of Chromium OS and mounted it into my pen drive (4GB) using Ultra ISO software. It occupied 2GB of my drive. Later I formatted the same in Windows using FAT32 but even ...
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How to format linux filesystem within Windows 7?
I have a PC that once had Ubuntu Linux installed on it across 2 SATA hard drives.
The first hard drive had the root ( / ) and swap on it.
The second had ( /home ) directory as mount point. This ...
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eBook to JAR format for mobile phone
Is there any way I can convert my eBooks to .jar files? Even if the "eBook" is simply a .txt file. (Calibre can convert between various eBook formats, including .txt and HTML. It has the best ...
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DVD-RAM Formating issue in Windows 7
I have a issue in windows 7 format utility. After formatting a DVD-RAM in windows 7, used space is showing as 278KB. If I format the same in nero or in roxio used space will be zero. After formatting ...
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Mac HDD secure format options and bad sectors
I heard that if we format HDD with "Zero Out Data" option, then it also takes care of bad sectors and marks them and re-maps them to other blocks. Is it true?
If it is then 7-Pass or 35-Pass would do ...
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Convert jpg/bmp image files to .dst format
How to convert a .jpg image file to .DST format.. Please help
