The arrangement of data for storage or display, also used as a term to empty a partition.
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How can I keep the code formated as original source when I paste them to vim?
When I copy some code from webpages and paste it to VIM,I find it becomes a mess style like a ladder as follows
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
Since it messed so regularly so I ...
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Should I choose 'Format' or 'Format (Quick)' when installing Windows XP?
When installing Windows XP, there is a prompt for formatting the disk. What is the difference between an NTFS 'format', and an NTFS 'format (Quick)'?
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Three formats? Why?
I needed to download the Ruby Source recently from here and it says, "available in three formats" which are .tar.bz2, .tar.gz and .zip. Is there any reason that we need all three formats? At least on ...
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How can I reformat microSD cards that were created read-only?
My company was burning some microSD cards (4000 of them) and the multi burning machine we were using gives us the option to make the microSD read-only.
I didn't know this was possible, but ...
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How to turn off the “you need to format the disk… do you want to format it?” message in Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable "you need to format this disk" message in Windows Vista/7?
I have a USB drive. The entire device is encrypted with TrueCrypt. When I plug ...
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Recover Windows 7 license 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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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 can I share an external hard drive between a Mac and a PC?
How should I format my hard drive for use on both a Mac and a PC? Is there any way I can also use Time Machine with this drive?
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Why can't I format a 10 GB partition in Windows 7?
I had Ubuntu installed in a 10 GB partition of a 120 GB hard drive on my laptop.
I then installed Windows 7 on the 110 GB partition.
Now inside Windows 7, I want to reformat the 10 GB partition and ...
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Convert videos to iPod touch friendly formats
I have a bunch of Xvid videos lying around and I would love to convert them to a format that will play on my iPod touch efficiently and quickly.
What free programs can do this? Although I am after ...
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4answers
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Why does Excel treat long numeric strings as scientific notation even after changing cell format to text
I'm trying to process some data in Excel. The data includes numeric account numbers and other long numeric strings (like cell phone MEIDs). I am not doing math operations on these strings, so I want ...
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Secure format of an SSD
When selling / throwing away / giving away HDDs I always use DBAN to do a DoD wipe first.
Is this still a valid thing to do on an SSD?
Will it have an adverse effect on the SSD's lifespan?
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What is the best drive format to share data between Mac, Linux and OS X?
Note: I'm not asking how... I know that. I'm currently using Paragon Software's drivers which let you access all drive formats from all OSes (e.g. the Linux drive from OSX or the OSX drive from Win7, ...
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How to stop Windows 7 from asking to format a disk?
I have this USB flash drive with a Linux partition that I use inside VirtualBox.
Each time I insert it into the USB port, windows keeps asking if it should format it.
Is there anyway to disable ...
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votes
1answer
666 views
Defragment before Windows reinstall?
I'm going to reinstall Windows XP on a used machine soon. The data on the hard drive is heavily fragmented at the moment.
I'm going to format the drive when reinstalling Windows so is there any sense ...
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2answers
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Why is the L key used to confirm format? [closed]
Just curious, when formatting a drive to install Windows. Why was the L key chosen as the confirm key?
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Windows 8 stuck installing update
I just restarted my laptop to finish installing a Windows update and now it is stuck on please wait.
I have tried a system restore but there is only one restore point in the list and it does not ...
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2answers
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DBAN not able to format my HP notebook
I have a HP pavillion dv6 notebook that somebody gave me. It has Windows Vista installed on it, and somehow it got ruined. I don't know what actually happened, but Windows vista will not boot. It just ...
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How to format my mac without the installation disk?
My mac has several problems, running very slowly being the greatest. I have decided for that reason and a few others that it will beneficial to format my Mac.
However, I do not have the installation ...
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3answers
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Is there a freeware program for editing the text stream of PDFs?
PDFs are a great archive format for scanned images, but Acrobat does not allow you to edit the text layer of the document (the part that can copy and paste from) leaving you with just the raw OCR. Are ...
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What format is “undf”?
By accident, I recently removed some videos from my phone. I tried to restoring them with Recuva and TuneUp Utilities and the results were "undf" files.
I tried to open with VLC, Media Player Classic ...
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3answers
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Linux format hard disk, the data should not be recoverable
i am new to linux can any one give me a suggestion on how to format hard disk that is i need to clean the data,data should not recover again it should be permanently deleted.
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2answers
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How to format a Microsoft Excel 2007 cell in hexadecimal?
I would like a format a cell in Microsoft Excel 2007 in hexadecimal but am not finding how to do this.
Is there a built-in way to change the base from 10 to 16 for a cell?
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IOCTL call error when trying to format an SD card
Found an SD card (1GB) lying around. Thought I might pop that into my card reader and see if anything is on it. Nothing. There isn't even a file system on it.
I right-click and go "format" but ...
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iPhone - Entire Laptop Hard Drive Been Formatted, but iPhone Still contains Music & Pictures…What To Do?
Hey!
My entire Laptop hard drive has been formatted however my iPhone still contains all the data I had synced to it via iTunes. Is there a way I can resync my iPhone with a new install of iTunes ...
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2answers
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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 do I format an SSD to be used as the hibernation drive? (Acer S3)
I have an Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook. It comes with two separate drives, one 320 gb hdd and a 20 gb ssd, which Windows uses for hibernation. I formatted the SSD and installed Ubuntu on it.
How do I ...
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Vista/Windows 7 Dual Boot - Format Vista Partition
I have a laptop running Vista Home Premium. I repartitioned and installed Windows 7. I want to keep Windows 7 which is installed on Drive D and format Vista which is on Drive C. Will I still be able ...
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1answer
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Recover truecrypted NTFS HDD after quick format without rescue disk
The whole external hard disk NTFS partition was encrypted using TrueCrypt.
I accidentally run quick format on it. I can still mount this partition using truecrypt after restoring volume header but ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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Is there a file format equivalent of Wireshark?
I love how Wireshark breaks down every packet by protocol section, explaining what every single bit and byte is for. What I would also love is a program that does the same thing for regular files: ...
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3answers
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Best way to compress avi files for web viewing and best format for view
What is the best tool for reducing the file size of AVI files to post for viewing on the web?
Also what is the recommended format?
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1answer
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tab-shape or round corner background in Excel
In the below screenshot, you can see that each blue group header has a tab-shape or round corner background. Does anyone know to to create it?
Source
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1answer
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Looking for greasemonkey script(s) to format numbers (only) in different font
I love to see numbers in Georgia font and would love to see them auto-formatted into that font! If you know such tools, please share!
ps. I want just numbers to be formatted while other texts remain ...
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4answers
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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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4answers
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How do I format the whole disk after using my machine?
Is there any light utility that can format the whole disk including OS drive?
I need to erase sensitive data after using the machine.
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4answers
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Formatted D partition by mistake
I just did a huge mistake. Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me to install Windows XP for him. I have done this task hundreds of times, but yesterday I was tired when I started the install procedure ...
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3answers
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Where can I find 7z format adoption?
How widespread is this format? What archivers support it? I would like to replace zip files I create with 7z. But I'm afraid some people will have problems opening them.
Edit:
The main reason I want ...
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3answers
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Reduce size of MP4
I have a MP4 file with a lengh of 22:44. Here are the details:
Video:
width: 720 px
height: 404 px
data bitrate: 1022 kBit/s
overall bitrate: 1182 kBit/s
fps: 24
codec: H264 - MPEG4 AVC ...
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2answers
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How to have Excel show numeric values as custom “currencies” (eg. copper, silver, gold)?
I would like to have the following format in a cell in Excel:
123g 99s 99c
100 copper (c) = 1 silver (s)
100 silver = 1 gold (g)
So that, if I enter 12394 it'll be shown as "1g 23s 94c".
Is that ...
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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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1answer
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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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Reinstalling an old ThinkPad laptop
I have a somewhat old ThinkPad R40. I decided it's time to make a clean reinstall. I erased its partitions, formated a new one and installed Windows XP. I downloaded everything in Lenovo's site ...
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2answers
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Formatting a former RAID 0 drive through USB
I'll try to be as specific as possible here:
I was using two Hitachi 2.5" 500 gb HDDs in my Gateway P-7805u laptop in a RAID 0 configuration. The array was causing the laptop to run extremely hot, ...
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Windows 7: Cannot format drive
I was using Windows XP, and I just installed Windows 7 on another partition.
Now I want to format the partition containing Windows XP, but it says:
Windows was unable to complete the format.
...
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votes
1answer
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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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2answers
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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 ...
