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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?
Recent versions of Windows (10, 11) have layers of protection to prevent direct modification of the disks or partitions used by the running system. Direct accesses to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 will fail, as ...
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Cannot Expand Datastore in ESXi 6.7 of a 4TB RAID1 Drive Configuration
I went into the configuration for storage devices and see what partitions were on the disk. I saw that there was still a VMDK despite me deleting what I did. So I deleted that partition. This also ...
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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?
it is very hard to stop the normal boot process when a system is installed
UEFI systems have a different solution for that:
the "BootNext" variable that allows an OS to request booting ...
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Prevent programs from writing to a partition
Option 1: READ ONLY.. PERIOD
You will need to mount any of these partitions as READ ONLY just as you suggested.
The default is READ/WRITE as you already know.
This link will tell you how to do it but ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
I have fixed the second problem. Turns out the solution is extremely simple.
I did the following to fix the boot problem. I first converted the partition table type to MBR using DiskGenius and then ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
About your update:
Bootcode is only updated on MBR partitioned disks. A different
partitioning scheme is used on this disk.
You are trying to write a MBR boot loader to a GPT partitioned disk. This ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
To repair your installation, here is the absolute minimum you need to know:
There are two commonly used boot methods for Windows and Linux machines.
The old one is based upon code in the MBR (see my ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer.
Technically possible only in a rare corner case. The term boot sector commonly stands for the first ...
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Can't install Windows 10 on Samsung 850 EVO (250GB) SSD in Asus K75VM
After so much trouble, I can confirm several things.
SSD will work alone with BIOS 234.
BIOS in UEFI mode, SATA in AHCI mode and hard drive configured in GPT (without partition).
Install of windows 10 ...
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GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the GPT partition boundaries if I mount and try to write to the disk?
No. It means write as in @Maze s answer.
The tool parted offers to apply a ...
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Manually resize WinRE partition (Windows 10 Home)
Where do I set the size? Do I just replace the 250 with 1024 minus the size of my current WinRE (which is 522 as reported by Disk Management)?
The size is not indicated in the create partition ...
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Is there a simple way to move/copy a logical volume from one volume group to another? (LVM2)
"pvmove -n lvol1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1" should work if you had both disks in the same volume group... otherwise it would fail with this error
pvmove -v -n vm-100-disk-1 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb1
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Is partition alignment to SSD erase block size pointless?
yes, aligning partitions to erase block size is absolutely pointless.
there is no trade-off: you would gain nothing at all from it.
SSDs and eMMCs all have a Flash Translation Layer (FTL) that maps ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
Nothing but a pure coincidence.
Any modern OS has a feature called Write Caching which means that the OS does not flush the data it needs to write to the disk immediately and instead it may wait a bit ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
SSDs are prone to corruption due to power outages etc. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.00140.pdf) and it is because they are, that manufacturers implement mechanisms to recover from them either at the ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
The primary advantage that an SSD has over an HHD to avoid data corruption due to a power cut is simply because of the use of the FTL, Flash Translation Layer.
The time interval that exposes a sector ...
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Why are SSDs less prone to file corruption caused by sudden shutdowns?
SSDs are so much faster. Instant reading and writing in comparison to an HHD. Well, not instant but in comparison to an HDD it is. The likelihood of the drive being caught while writing is small ...
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Default Windows 11 partitions / partitioning scheme
For steps, skip to: Windows' Partition Layout is Standardized Across Versions
Important note: there have been multiple reports recently that certain Windows updates fail to install because the ...
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Default Windows 11 partitions / partitioning scheme
fdisk
Disk /dev/sda: 55 GiB, 59055800320 bytes, 115343360 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / ...
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How to recover a RAID 5 after deleting the partition table and fstab?
Managed to fix it. mdadm --assemble --scan recovered the partition and allowed me to mount it again, all the data was there. Then I just had to add this to fstab (or the nixos equivalent).
I was so ...
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"The operation is not supported by the object" when trying to delete any partition/volume
Disk Management treats the recovery partition as protected, so you need
to use diskpart to forcefully remove it.
For a Basic format disk :
Run an elevated Command Prompt
Enter the command ReAgentC /...
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boot.ini, boot from primary partitions after extended partition
There's several issues / factors you can consider.
1. 1024 cylinder issue.
During the bootstrap process, Windows NT 4.0 uses INT13 BIOS functions
to access the drive. The INT13 functions have a ...
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what is this dedup takes most of hard active active time and size too
You're looking at the wrong place
It looks like you have deduplication turned on in your file system - but that's not really the problem
KAVFSWP looks like its part of the Kaspersky Antivirus suite - ...
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CLI tools commands used by GParted and KDE Partition Manager under the hood
GParted -> CLI parted -> library libparted
What is parted, libparted, gparted, GNU Parted...?
'GNU Parted' is a GNU package consisting of a library ('libparted')
and a textmode frontend ('...
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How to permanently delete a LUKS encrypted partition?
I have just realized that one must close LUKS partition encryption in order to delete it in GParted… Issue solved.
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Converting Linux partition to crypto_LUKS
You cannot luks-encrypt a device/partition with a mounted filesystem. Depending on how your system is currently configured, there are some ways around this, but they require plenty of knowledge about ...
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Windows system partition has 450 GB free but cannot be shrunk
It most likely has the NTFS MFT in the middle (of the original 1 TB). The MFT can only be moved when the partition is dismounted (i.e. NTFS is not actively using it), which you can't do when it's the ...
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How does RAID 5 handle unrecoverable sectors on a HDD
Your RAID 5 configuration would recalculate the missing information using the parity information.
I guess your sector would remain pending unless a write command might replace the sector in the disk. ...
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Hard drive won't work after deleting whole partitions
Plug in the SSD.
Open a drive management tool, e.g.,
Ubuntu Disks
Windows diskmgmt.msc
Third party tool, such as DiskGenius
Remove all partitions on the correct drive.
Some tools ask you to "...
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How to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way
To resolve your issue, first backup all your data before making any changes. Now you can go for a clean installation of Windows 11 which will delete all your data and install a fresh window without ...
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How to Effectively Reverse Windows Storage Spaces?
Just to come full-circle on this, my dad and I ended up paying for data recovery from OnTrack. It costed us $900 back then for them to recover data off of the two 2TB hard disk drives.
The whole ...
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Why am I getting "Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary" warning with this setup?
The error Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary pertains to the device /dev/mapper/pve-vm--1001--disk--0, not /dev/sda as your statement that 2099200 is the start of the partition ...
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