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What is the purpose of these overlapping partitions?
What the hell is going on here? Is this how burned iso-images always look, or is Parabola doing something weird and special here?
"Burned ISO images" do not change their appearance; the ...
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Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
Specifically there's a study paper showing that using the Gutmann method (which is employed in the shred command) still allows people to recover 71.9% of a file's contents
The Gutmann method was ...
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How to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way
How much drive space do you have? Many Linux installers, such as Ubuntu, will install perfectly well even though Windows installation creates multiple partitions: ESP (EFI), Recovery, System, etc.
In ...
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Windows disk partiton: Cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located
Create a Windows install USB stick (any Win10/Win11 version will work).
Boot from the USB stick.
At the "Welcome to Windows Setup" screen, press Shift-F10.
In the "Command Prompt" ...
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How do I rearrange a wrong order of EFI and boot partitions?
The EFI and recovery partitions are recognized by their ID,
so their order and positions are immaterial.
If you just want to get the EFI partition out of the way,
you can also move it to the end of ...
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How do I rearrange a wrong order of EFI and boot partitions?
The order isn't strictly wrong; the EFI partition can be literally anywhere on the disk (anywhere that the GPT is able to describe, that is).
Use Windows tools (e.g. diskmgmt.msc or diskpart.exe) to ...
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A way to partition specific folders in windows
Is there a way for me to set some folders like "Program Files" into a new partition?
No. A new partition can be mounted as a folder and have files copied onto it, but you cannot simply ...
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A way to partition specific folders in windows
Windows 2000 and onwards, by default, use the NTFS filesystem. Windows 7 included.
You can use the command mklink from a command prompt run as admin, to create a folder shortcut from one location to ...
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