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Process of preparing a disk for storing data. Specifically, "high-level formatting" involves the creation of a new file system and/or a boot sector. For text formatting, use [text-formatting].

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My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes

My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes and in diskpart it shows that it is healthy, when trying to format to NTFS using diskpart it is stuck on 0%.
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Does windows ‘reset this pc’ format the drive?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I tried to find this online but can’t see any answers. When you use windows ‘reset this pc’ does it format the drive, and does it differ if you select the ‘clean ...
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Where is the Sparkline tab in the Show group for Excel?

How would I display the high points? screenshot Copilot says: You Apply Blue sparkline color and display the high points for the sparklines. Copilot Certainly! Let’s create sparklines in Excel, apply ...
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How to use conditional formatting based on a different column?

Looking to format a column background color using conditional formatting based on the integer value from a different column. Where or how is the second column referenced? Bing AI, copilot, says: ...
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Program shows up in task manager startup list after format [closed]

I recently formatted my system and installed a fresh OS but a program that was installed before format showed up in the startup list in task manager. I want to understand how this was possible. I did ...
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Is it possible to recover files from quickly formatted HDD? [duplicate]

I have formatted my hard drive, now I wonder if it is possible to recover the files while I have reinstalled windows on the same drive and been using it for a few weeks and almost filled the hard ...
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How to quickly delete files and folders in Windows 10 so that they can never be recovered or accessed again

I have an application and txt files where the records of this application are kept. When I give a command via CMD, I want these files to be quickly deleted, irrecoverable and inaccessible. Depending ...
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How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?

I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
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How to format Y axis in an Excel chart in days, hours, minutes?

I have an Excel chart tracking time taken to complete a task. I managed to use rows in my spreadsheet to apply custom data labels for the graph, but it doesn't match up to the Y axis of my graph. I ...
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Cannot access the SD card after formating on camera

I have a 64GB SD card and a Pentax K7 camera. At some point my camera stopped reading the card, and I formatted in camera's settings. Now, I can take pictures and read them on my camera, but my PC ...
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Excel conditional formatting highlighting different cells in range

I need to setup conditional formatting to highlight any cells in the range that are not equal to the first cell. I have attached 2 pictures the first is how the data is typically entered and I have ...
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Multiple Currency Number Formats in the Same Excel using Custom Number Formatting

I have an excel which has multiple columns of numeric values / amounts, which are all in different currencies in different column. One column is in one currency. I have my regional setting set to a ...
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How to remove values in conditional formatting

I have conditional formatting rules applied to a workbook. When a user selects No in Row 1 for example, Row 2 and subsequent rows get greyed out. When user selects Yes in Row 1, Row 2 and subsequent ...
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USB flash not working after PC turned off while formating [duplicate]

So I was using Rufus to put a copy of Windows 10 on a USB flash drive. The power suddenly cut and after the USB flash drive stopped working. I tried some solutions but they fail, is the damage ...
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Excel datetime format issue, possibly locale dependent

I'm working on a Belgian Excel 365 workbook. I have just imported a list of dates, looking like this: dinsdag 5 december 2023 11:55:55 dinsdag 5 december 2023 11:55:56 dinsdag 5 december 2023 11:55:57 ...
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How can I zero out only the USED space on a storage drive?

I have a large drive (4TB) that I've only written a few gigabytes to. I'm giving it to a friend, so I'd like to zero it out. I know I can zero out the whole drive with dd, but I'd like to know if: ...
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Excel - status (online/offline) corresponding to concrete number

I cannot deal with the below tasks, and need your help! The thing is that I need to use a formula to solve this (not just copy-paste, assuming that the data will be much bigger). Basically, I need to ...
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Auto Numbering in a single cell

I want a Cell to Auto-populate a Tracking # in a form that several people have access to on a shared drive. Example: I open the Exception Form for the first time and it should show SL(date)-#: result ...
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Convert duration in XXm, YYs format to time value

In Microsot Excel, I have string data that represents duration of an event: duration 40s 5m, 40s 59m, 59s I need to convert the values to time (in adjacent column) so that I can format and sort ...
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Why can't Windows 11 read properly the SSD which I connected to my laptop using a USB connector?

I wanted to wipe an SSD that was previously in a PC with Windows 11. I connected it via USB to my PC and Windows is telling me "A specified device does not exist". I checked it using "...
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Best practice for repurposing a Windows 10 laptop for a charity [duplicate]

I have several laptops with Windows 10 installed which are BitLocker-encrypted. I am going to gift them to a charity and wondered if it was sufficient to use the in-built "Reset this PC" ...
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Formatting of braces for C++ in Visual Studio Code

I've C/C++ extension of Microsoft as my default formatter. When I save/run my code the opening curly braces automatically move to newline instead of staying in sameline. How can I prevent this? (It ...
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(Microsoft Word) How to stop styles opening in a box?

I'm trying to make some text be in the style of Header 1, Header 2, Header 3, etc When I change the style of text, it opens up in this box instead of staying normal text that is in line with the rest ...
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What are options to set up a new portable SSD for newer and legacy Windows computers?

I bought a new 4TB M.2 NVME and an external M.2 enclosure for it. I want to set this up to be used like portable storage (used like "flash" storage), so that it can be used on a new Win 11 ...
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Cells number format breaks in one column only if multiple cells are moved

I have a table where I keep track of best times & corresponding dates in pairs of cells. Time on top with the date below it, stored in range [B3:E10]. The time values are entered into the formula ...
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File System Unknown after decryption with Veracrypt Rescue Disk

My laptop had 2 veracrypt (1.25.9) disks (one as system, and the other with the same password) with windows installed in the first disk. Suddenly it could´t boot anymore (May be it happened because, ...
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How to copy/paste cells from a conditionally formatted sheet to another file or sheet with formatting but without conditional rules?

I have an excel file "Book1" with conditional formatting enabled on "Sheet1". Conditional rules are based on a formula. For example, highlight the entire row blue if the value in ...
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How can be column incluted into rows?

There is the table in MS Excel or LO Calc. How can be it converted to this view of the table? The transformation using links (within the same table) to the initial version is allowed.
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ext4lazyinit and forcing to have similar times as an ext4 format time, advantages and disadvangages

I saw this question and while 2 years is a long time, can anybody share anything about any progress on ext4lazyinit. I am specifically interested in this statement by Ted Tso - So that is what the ...
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How do I format a target cell based on a source cell, using VBA?

I'm looking to copy the format of a cell within the table table1 to cells with matching text within the second table table2. So for instance: NOT(H) is showing as green in table 1 and I want it to ...
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Excel - paste *only* number formatting

Is it possible to copy/paste only number formatting in Excel. There are various paste special options. In particular Formulas/Number Formats and Values/Number Formats. But is there a way to paste only ...
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Fill a cell when empty, and past a date in another column

I need a cell in column "B" to fill red, if it is empty and the date is past the date on column "M" I have tried googling it, and there are no answers to help. Thanks for your help
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Stacked Area Chart Excel, 3 Series Negative Problems

I am trying to create a chart similar to this original chart. I'm having troubles with the negative values. The red area falls negative when I chart it as a stacked chart. It seems like it should be ...
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how to find the undesirable formatting in a presentation/slides such as bold or Symbol font

My manager told me he think in some places of my presentation file he noticed inappropriate formats such as bold and Symbol font. Is there an easy way, preferably free like in free beer way to search ...
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Could I format my C: Drive by mistake?

Could you accidentally reformat a C: drive using file explorer? Would it be remotely possible? I'm just wondering if this can happen - is it possible to accidentally click the format button on "...
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How long do it take to fully format USB drive 2TB 2.0?

Since I can't find any answer from the internet, I hope someone will help me here. I have just bought a 3.5$ USB drive 2TB 2.0. When I transfer my video file to the USB, the 3 first video is working ...
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My SSD is acting like writing is locked. Not even bash dd command can achieve anything. How may I fix my drive?

I currently am using a 2.5" WD Blue 1Tb SSD for backups. I use Macrium Reflect on Windows to clone my C to it. Last time I attempted the clone, and because I don't do it often enough to remember ...
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No drive letter assigned to USB, "Device not ready" on initialize attempt

I have a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive that I haven't used in a few years, but I'd like to use it now. Windows detects the USB, but doesn't assign a drive letter when I plug it in, regardless of ...
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Data Formatting in Microsoft Excel: Cell formatting, Text formatting, and Number Formatting [closed]

Formatting text or numbers can make them appear more visible especially when you have a large worksheet. Formatting in Excel is a simple process of modifying or manipulating data in spreadsheets from ...
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Excel VBA Macro: Formatting Duplicates and Uniques

I have a spread sheet where each row consists of information about a member of a group. In each cell of column B there is an integer that represents each person (i.e., think of an member ID). All ...
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Remove formatting and partitions on a storage device

Under some circumstances, normal partitioning tools refuse do the requested work; i.e. removing partitions, and deleting the partition table is troublesome... How to get past this state? Please ...
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Is there a way to create persistent bullets in Power Point?

I have added three custom bullets to the Style Master Text placeholder, however, I would like to have a choice to choose one of those three bullets on the fly. These come in a custom font. This will ...
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Change to Italic only one symbol in MS Word

I need to find all "ΔE" and change only "E" symbol to italic. How can it be done by find and replace, because it make both ΔE italic? Off course it can be done by changing all &...
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Windows on a SSD recognized on one computer but not on another

A friend of mine asked me to install Windows on his new SSD. I use a dual boot system, with Ubuntu and Windows 10. I made a bootable flash USB of W10 so I could install it on his SSD, connected to my ...
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Sd card was partitioned. Need it as 1

I have 64gb sd card. I put an ubuntu os on it. It failed to install. Went to format and overwrite to find it was partitioned. I tried diskmgmt. Tried right clicking on individual drives to delete them....
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Formatting new identical HDDs, one taking way longer

I have recently purchased 2 identical HDDs: Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5 Device Model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 (labeled as ST4000DMZ04) Capacity: 4.00 TB [3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes] I've ...
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why my hard drive is readonly? and how to fix it

I formatted my laptop and now i am getting that my hard drive (D:) is read-only and I cannot partition it or copy any files on it. I tried to add "Everyone" and gave that user full access ...
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How to use conditional formatting in excel for a crosstabbed table with multiple conditions?

I am having trouble in excel using conditional formatting for my table. I need to highlight the sample values that are greater than screening_1 or screening_2 for each individual row.If the value is ...
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External Hard Drive Won't Format - Set to GPT/RAW

I'm trying to format an external hard drive, preferably to exFAT, but nothing is working. If I check the details of the disk in diskpart, I get this: And, this is what it looks like in disk ...
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How to change all numbered paragraphs using one numbering format to another

Somehow, I have a Microsoft Word document with a lot of numbered paragraphs that aren't showing the intended number. This seems to be because the document has a numbering format that's not actually ...
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