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how to prepare a harddisk for another computer
My old laptop died lately and I want to have it fixed by a repair-shop.
Now first I want to clean the hard disk (via an external 2,5 inch casing).
I managed to connect the drive via USB in order to ...
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Race times not formatting correctly
I do triathlons (short ones). For each race I get 6 results: mm:ss for the swim, mm:ss for the transition between swim and bike, mm:ss for the bike, mm:ss for the transition from bike to run, mm:ss ...
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MS Excel & Word: Pasting Links: Preserving Formatting and Eliminate Padding
My company is currently trying to generate annual documents created in word. These annual documents have current year and past year figures. Every year, someone has to put the current year figure in ...
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Mac Microsoft Word 2011 stripping RTL format from doc
I copyedit articles for a psych journal using Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac. I occasionally get articles with right-to-left formatting (in English), and I can't seem to rid the doc of this format. Bad ...
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How to have a newline when commenting in stack exchange? [migrated]
As captioned.
I always find it messy when you have to have everything in one line when commenting.
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Create a Microsoft Word Quick Style for a Code Snippet Box
I'm trying to format some text in my Word doc to have a background color of gray. This is for me to have a Quick Style to apply this formatting. I want to use a monospaced font, like Consolas, and ...
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How do I prevent Word from applying disabled formatting to pasted plain text?
I've got some plain text (from Notepad) copied to the clipboard. I enable italics, and then paste the text into a Word document with Ctrl+V. The plain text shows up in Word italicized, which is what I ...
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Outlook 2010 - Favorites labeling
Scenario: Windows 7 x64 Enterprise, Outlook 2010 making use of the Favorites section of the navigation pane
Problem: All labels in the Favorites section of the navigation pane, are in a washed out ...
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Formatting a laptop hard drive (PS3 drive) to FAT32
My PS3 broke down and i am trying to fix it, hopefully this can be done by formatting and reinstalling the OS on its HDD.
The HDD is a standard laptop 2.5" drive.
I have tried swapping it with my ...
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Just formatted my harddrive by accident [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover folders from formatted drive
I was trying to format my USB drive, and somehow, without paying attention, I did a quick format of my backup drive which I ...
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LBA and sector size
Does LBA always specify sectors as 512bytes even if the drive is formatted with 4k sectors? Because I read that you should format the partition boundaries so that the 4k clusters line up with 4k ...
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Is it best to reformat the hard drive to exFAT using 512kb chunk, or smaller or bigger chunks?
I can reformat a brand new 2TB WD Passport drive to exFAT, with choice of many "Allocation Unit Size":
128kb
256kb
512kb
1024kb
4096kb
16384kb
32768kb
which one is best if this drive is mainly used ...
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How to partition and format a new HDD when it is connected via USB 3.0 (Linux)?
I just received a new unformatted 2.5" hard disk (1 TB) and an external USB 3.0 enclosure to use with my laptop (Thinkpad). I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
How do I access and format this HDD ...
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Cannot recognize or format encrypted SD card
I have a micro SD memory card. How can I open encrypted SD card with Nokia mobile, the computer doesn't recognize any thing. When I insert SD card um used Windows and Ubuntu but the computer doesn't ...
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Word macro for currency formatting to 2 or 4 decimal places
I have an old word document with several form fields that I'm trying to update for the first time in a few years. I have discovered that in Word 2010, any field formatting that I try to apply goes ...
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How can you format a laptop for which you don't have the right driver CDs?
I have a very old 400ish RAM laptop which I use with my family, but it hasn't been formatted for 5 years. As years passed junk bundled up on the laptop and now it's running horribly slow, even for a ...
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Can I back-up to partition to restore my computer to factory settings?
I have a VAIO model VPC-F11JFX/B. I want to restore it to factory settings (instead of formatting it so I can keep the programs it comes with like VAIO Care). I have like 20 GB of data so I can't copy ...
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Flatten Word document
I have a document with some precise formatting, created in Word. This doc was converted to PDF for distribution. Now the original is lost, and reconverting to Word using a PDF to word add-on from ...
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Is there a way to insert a formatted calculation into Excel 2010 without using an image?
I am maintaining a list of database column names, notes, and their calculations in an Excel 2010 spreadsheet. The calculations are included so as to document how to derive the values for the various ...
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Mac External HDD Multiple OS bootable
I have 2TB external USB drive and I want the following setup:
Windows 7 x32 partition
Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64 LTS partition
Ubuntu 11.04 x32 partition
Windows XP x32 partition
Data (Mac and Windows ...
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How to format to mkfs.jfs
I want to format a flash drive to mkfs.jfs file system under windows. Is it possible and how?
regards, mynkow
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In Emacs, how to reformat an edited paragraph so the line breaks are properly reinserted?
In Emacs, I have a paragraph of text, which is already properly wrapped at, say 79th column on each row, then you edit it, adding some text on some of the rows, how to reformat the edited paragraph so ...
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How to correct linebreak characters in a Git reporsitory?
I added autocrlf = true to .gitconfig locally just now. How to make my local working copy on Mac OS X and the remote/central repository on Linux server both have correct linebreak characters?
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What's the meaning of Error 0x800420f
I get this error:
Failed to create a new partition on the selected unused space. [Error: 0x8004240f]
When I'm trying to create a new partition in unused space in my PC. What's the meaning of ...
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Can the serial number printed on the COA sticker of a Sony laptop be used with other Windows 7 install disks?
I want to reinstall Windows 7 on my Sony Vaio laptop using a generic OEM Windows 7 disk to avoid Sony's crapware because they're a pain to remove.
However, I've heard mixed results regarding the use ...
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Would interrupting a partitioning process cause my Hard Drive to become bad? Can I fix it with a full format?
I was trying to partition my hard drive to install windows 7 without losing data, but I thought the process had locked up so I stopped it and restarted my computer. I tried again and it worked, but ...
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Create ext3 partition on external drive from Windows 7
Are there free CLI tools for Windows (7) which allow me to partition and format an ext3 file system on a external USB drive from Windows natively? I am not looking for a solution with a bootable live ...
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USB flash drive showing “disk not formatted” error?
When I attempt to access the files of my USB flash drive after connect it to my PC running Windows 7, it shows format error saying that it is not formatted.
Any way to fix this error?
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Weirdly-formatted drive [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make a USB flash drive appear/not appear as a CD drive?
I have a 2GB flash drive that was a freebie giveaway at some HP event. The drive works fine, except ...
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IMEI number formatting in Excel
I'm trying to format IMEI numbers in Excel according to RIM (Blackberry) conventions: XXXXXX.XX.XXXXXX.X
I enter them in excel without any periods and use the "special format" cell properties so it ...
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Excel VBA Function for Value AND Format Lookup
I need a custom function to lookup both a cell value and copy the source format. I have a list of values in two columns. The first is of integers and the second column is the corresponding text ...
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File specifications for HTML folder --> Kindle?
OK, so on the Kindle website there's all about how to go from .doc --> HTML --> kindle. But I write primarily in HTML, which is what Kindle uses in the first place, so it seems silly to convert to ...
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Format PC without losing Windows 7 license [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows activation with planned reinstall
I have a windows 7 intallation that I got from MSDN. The thing is that I want to format my PC and reinstall windows 7.
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Make Data Un-formatable on USB Devices
Sometimes ago one of my friends, copied some pictures in my USB, then He made them hidden by a software. After that He did a trick (which I did not understand).
After that He told me those hidden ...
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Does anyone have an original Word 2003 normal.dot file?
I'm running Microsoft Office XP Small Business which has Word 2003.
I need to know what the Original Default settings were in normal.dot for Paragraph Formatting, specifically: Indentation: Special: ...
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Appending the partitions structure of a system
Let's say I received a computer with Windows XP installed, and it has 3 partitions.
I want to upgrade the PC to a Windows 7 installation, and also change the partitions structure to only 1 big ...
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How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 8GB size back?
My USB drive used to be originally 8GB when I bought it.
I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting Format.... But the capacity only shows 250MB.
Is there ...
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How to rescue Compact Flash card that has been corrupted by a bad formatting
I used my CompactFlash card as a boot drive to install Snow Leopard for my laptop a while ago. To do that I had to repartition it to HFS+ with a GUID partition table.
When partitioning it back to ...
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Why is the right side of the cell not also highlighted?
I have a link on my website that, when I click on it in Chrome v16.0.912.75 or Safari v5.0.6 (5533.22.3) becomes highlighted by a blue border.
The link html is as follows:
<li><a ...
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Truecrypt partly encrypted
My friend tried to encrypt his external hard drive with Truecrypt in Windows 7, but he realized that he forgot the password, so he stopped the encryption at ~30%. Is there a way for him to at least ...
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Why don't I need to format and partition a CD or DVD before writing files to it?
Every time that I need to use a Flash USB drive, SD card or a HDD I must format it and create a partition before using it, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc. So this makes me raise some doubts:
Why ...
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Notepad++: I want to highlight questions in multiple colors?
I've written a script in Notepad++, and I want to highlight individual lines based on who is speaking. I'm just trying to find a place where I can change text color or background color for individual ...
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Formatting code with line numbers
Looking for a way to format my code in MS Word I found this question on Stack Overflow and combined the two high rated answers to create an openDocument with the code keeping its formatting:
Go ...
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How do you get Thunderbird's replies to show up at the top of the email?
How do you get Thunderbird's replies to show up at the top of the email, rather than the bottom? I have provided an example below:
Initial email: On 1/11/2012 5:17 PM, m*@n***.com wrote:
How did ...
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Missing space on (relatively) new SSD
I recently cloned my old 100 GB hard drive (~90 gigs used) onto a new 256 GB solid state drive. In my negligence, I created a single partition on the new drive that was just about the whole capacity ...
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Outlook 2010: Format Memo as Page
Is there a way to tell Outlook to use a page format (like Word) in Memos (i.e., calendar events)?
Problems have arisen when someone uses margins to format paragraphs and such in memos, as Outlook ...
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Block size and llf
I read that low level formatting is done before you even receive the disk. This determines the block size. It also says that block sizes are fixed.
Are really not allowed to change the blocks size ...
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Format main OS hard drive with non-standard allocation unit size before restoring Ghost image
I want to try formatting my main internal hard drive with NTFS using an allocation unit size of 64 KB instead of the default 4KB.
Then I have a Windows 7 Ghost image that I will be restoring to the ...
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Is disk Format equivalent to TRIM on all blocks of SSD
I wonder what happens to SSD disk if I format it in Windows.
Does it replace old data with new data or tells it to erase data just like TRIM command without filling anything instead ?
I want to use ...
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From Windows Vista to 7, can I get rid of folder Windows.old?
I've just changed my laptop OS from Windows Vista to Windows 7.
I didn't choose to have both OS together, I just want to have Windows 7.
I was specting Windows 7 instalation program to format/clean ...
