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Correctly partition microSDHC card [duplicate]
I temporarily used my microSDHC card for flashing a BeagleBone Black embedded device. This process involved overwriting the entire card with a binary image that contained two partitions.
Now I would ...
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USB not registering on Linux
I have a usb with a hidden cdfs partition that I want to purge, but when I plug it into my linux box, it doesn't register. fdisk -l only shows my hard drives, and the usb doesn't auto-mount. I pulled ...
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Renaming a volume under Linux
It may be a very basic question, but I have USB devices that keep their old name after reformating it with mkfs and even after a repartitioning with fdisk.
I wonder if there is a way to change the ...
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Can't format my SSD anymore
I am not sure if my SSD is broken.
I tried to install Windows 7 on my SSD today and it somehow got stuck in the installation process.
After aborting the installation, I tried it again but I ...
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convert FAT and NTFS without data loss
Which one of these filesystem format conversions will keep the data on disk, and which will require backup, reformat, and restore?
FAT32 to NTFS
FAT32 to FAT16
NTFS to FAT32
NTFS to FAT16
Note: I ...
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Windows 8 HDD unable to boot, later unable to read from Windows7 machine as well
On a Samsung Windows 8 machine after some time I was not able to boot. Checking the BIOS shows that HDD is frozen. Them machine takes lots of time to boot.
Saying this I would like some suggestions ...
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Can I reformat an external hard drive to have the maximum amount space that was previously available?
I set up my external hard drive that had 1.5TB of space as a recovery drive, and afterwards it showed that I have 32GB of space. Is there any way I can get my space back?
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Installing Windows 8 on new SSD and transfer apps as easily as possible
I recently ordered a 128-GB SSD, on which I plan to reinstall Windows 8 as well as put applications, as well as a high quality 1 TB hard drive to replace my old, slow 250-GB hard drive. Once the ...
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EFI System Partition and unallocated space?
I just got a 3 TB external hard drive (I didn't look closely enough and ended up buying one for Mac but I run Windows 7) and it came with a bunch of software I don't particularly want. I want to ...
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Installing Windows 7 on a new partition
My laptop is two years old and it came with an original Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. Unfortunately, it had one partition and I didn't change this at the beginning. Now, I want to format the ...
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Unable to format disk: 'The system cannot find the file specified'
I have a USB flash drive, which I may have mucked up, so I used DISKPART's CLEAN to clean it up. I created a simple volume, and tried to format it. (This is all using Windows' disk management.) I was ...
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Partition error being reported by only some programs
I am getting an error about the partitions on one of my drives.
I checked my hard disk with Acronis Disk Director 11 Home, HDTunePro, MiniTool Partition Wizard, Hddscan, HDD Regenerator 2011, WD Data ...
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Install Windows XP onto data drive
I had Windows XP installed (on C:), an optical drive as D: and a small (160GB) second hard drive with data on it as E:. Drive C: recently crashed and I have disconnected it.
I would like to install ...
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Do you need to format a flash drive before dd an image to it?
Does dd or Windows Image Writer work regardless whether the target device was formatted or partitioned correctly?
I'm trying to flash a Chromium OS build to a USB flash drive following these ...
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Why doesn't Windows 7 allow me to format?
Dell support can be fun to deal with right?
Ultimately, I have been going back and forth with Dell on an issue and came to reinstalling Windows 7 32-Bit Pro. The problem is that Windows Setup will ...
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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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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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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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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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Weirdly-formatted drive [duplicate]
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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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 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 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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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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Reinstall operating system on computer with full disk encryption
I have a computer that has checkpoint full disk encryption installed on it.
For reasons I won't go into I can not remove the encryption. However I want to install a new operating system. I don't ...
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Should I use the entire hard drive when I repartition it?
I bought a Fujitsu Celvin Drive D100 (external USB HDD) as new and now I want to partition and format it for Linux use. I noticed however that at the factory they have left some empty space before (1 ...
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Using same home partition with same username while reinstalling
I use Debian Lenny and would like to change over to Squeeze. My system consists of two partitions: lenny installation & home directory partition. I have all my personal files in the home ...
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is this an overlapping partition? and how do I fix it?
I am using Ubuntu and wanted to clone my HD with the dd command.
I have used it before but this time I got an error message:
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by ...
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My Western Digital 500GB Passport disk says “not formatted” when I plug it in Windows
When I plug my Western Digital 500 GB Passport disk in my Windows machine, it says "not formatted, do you want to format it" something. I started having this problem after I put it in an old desktop ...
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Resize Mac OS Plus partition without losing data
I have a 1000G external hard disk formatted with Mac OS plus. It is a Omega drive, which cam by default with that info. Now I have 200G free space and would like to reformat this free space to NTFS. ...
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Formatting a disk for Macintosh using Linux
I've been asked to move data from an old external hard drive to a new
one, and to make the new one compatible with the Macintosh. (The old
drive's USB connection has died, and I'm connecting to old ...
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if a usb pen drive has 64349 cylinders, is it damaged?
I have a 4Gb USB pen drive that I'm trying to format with FAT32.
When I run fdisk, it gives me this message:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 64349.
There is nothing wrong with ...
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how to correctly create a partition and format it?
i have an usb flash drive and i'd like to create a single ext4 partition on it with parted and mke2fs. the drive has 15,644,672 sectors (512 bytes each). since the first sector (sector 0) is reserved ...
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Does installing windows format the hard disk?
My Google search for ""does installing windows format the hard disk" returns:
No results found for "does installing windows format the hard disk". I was quite surprised.
I'm hoping to get a quick ...
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Unable to see External HDD in Windows Explorer
I have bought a 320GB External HDD which I want to use with my Playstation3.
I know it will only work with a Fat32 file system so using some free HP software it formatted it, unbeknown to me it will ...
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Spanned volumes on new install
My Windows 7 Release Candidate is about to expire, so I'm going to do a clean install of a retail version. I have two volumes, on four physical drives, as follows:
Disk 0: Spanned Volume (D:)
Disk 1: ...
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What are the disadvantages (if any) of doing a Quick Format when repartitioning a drive?
In Windows 7 (Professional) I'm repartitioning some drives and I see there's a checkbox for "quick format" (I assume if you don't check it then it does a not-so-quick format).
With a brand new hard ...
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Change primary boot partition (Laptop)
On my laptop's hard drive I have two partitions: C: and F: (Logical) with C: being the primary partition (currently has Windows XP on it)
In my F: partition I have Windows 7 Ultimate (RC build ...
