Questions tagged [format]
The arrangement of data for storage or display, also used as a term to empty a partition.
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How to reuse a SAS Samsung 1.92TB SSD after NIST800-88?
I bought a SAS (serial SCSI, not serial SATA) SSD from this eBay listing titled: "EMC MZILS1T9HCHP-000C3 1.92TB PM1633 SAS 12GBPS 2.5" SSD, Erased with NIST800-88".
I have read that ...
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Sd card suddenly dead [duplicate]
I had a kingston canvas select plus 128gb sd card in my s9+ (SM-G965F). One day i woke up and i saw some images of apps grey and when i tried to open them "app isn't installed". Also checked ...
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How can I solve DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)?
I was trying to clean up my SSD through the command prompt and installed the window. However, I could not clean the SSD and it showed Data error (cyclic redundacy check) - image below? Does anyone ...
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Copy and preserve formatting when copy pasting from WhatsApp web to any editor
I have WhatsApp open in a browser using WhatsApp web. There are messages that I receive that have formatting included, say bolding of a few words, italics, underlines etc. Now I want to copy the ...
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Unable to re-rip CDs in Windows Media Player
Using Windows Media Player to rip my CD collection I had noise issues with MP3 even at highest quality. I have a few dozen ripped this way. I started using WAV format and all is great. I have plenty ...
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Microsoft Word Styles; Apply only text color and spacing?
I'm new here!
I love using the styles in MS Word, super helpful keeping the document consistent with formatting. My only issue is that some of my text have different indentations. So when I apply ...
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Excel: Custom format of date that excel cannot notice
My problem looks like this:
Dec 8, 2022, 8:35:04 AM
I need to let excel see this format as. I tried date to columns option, it didn't work. I did it in like 10 steps. Can it be done any simpler by ...
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reformatting my ssd from ps4 to PC (windows 11)
I have a portable SSD I would like to use to store games on. I have used this ssd on my PS4 and now want to use it on my PC but i can't seem to open it on my PC the only thing i can do with it is ...
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Trying to format hdd that was in my NAS
I purchased two 12tb hdd's for my ZyXel Nas326 and put them into the nas and started fresh.
Now I am stuck trying to get my win11 machine to recognize either of the two 4tb hdd's I took out.
I really ...
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Under Windows, what is the best way to format a drive on each boot?
I have an SSD I use as a cache drive for a few different applications. Rather than manually clean it all the time, I think it'd be nice to have the drive be formatted at boot time, since the ...
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Hide row in excel and maintain table format
I'm hidding a row using VBA when a cell is selected.
The problem is that when I hide the row the colors of the table format mess up.
Any way to keep the table format updated when hidding a row?
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Formatting Lat/Long via an exiftool format file
I used
exiftool -c "%.6f" -p ~/bin/gpx.fmt (dir) > (file).gpx
to create a GPX file for all ages in the directory.
I copied ~/bin/gpx.fmt from GitHub
With the syntax I used, -c is ignored ...
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Horizental axis label disappears when changed to log scale
In excel, i tried to draw the forest plot using risk ratio and confidence interval. However, when i change the horizontal axis lab to scale, scale labels disappear? What could be wrong here?
I have ...
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Formatting currency with two decimal places
When formatting a cell as currency with two decimal place, the value shows something different when increasing to 12 or more decimal places.
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A dollar value of $268.97. I type in 268.97, it's ...
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I have formated encrypted disk to install new is and now it's not being recognized
I was a long time Ubuntu user but decided to use that laptop for gaming. So i wanted to install Windows back. I had encrypted main boot Ubuntu drive,and when I formated it, it's no longer being ...
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How do i format multiple USB drives at once in CMD?
i work at a school. And when we have examns, we provide the students with USB sticks.
After the examns we need to format all the drives. So far we've been using the following CMD script
How ever, i ...
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7TB SSD cannot be formatted and restored, shows as 58GB
I had problems with my drive, I presumed that it was due to it being in exFAT. Started deep formatting with cmd, but since it was taking forever, I unplugged the drive.
I am now unable to use it.
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How to randomize sensitve numerical data in Excel while maintaining existing data format(s) for public post? RAND each digit each cell
How to randomize sensitve numerical data in Excel while maintaining existing data format(s) for public post? This is to supply Technical Support all information (format, shape ) except confidential ...
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VBA , if then statement with data and color change
I am using an if then statement to change value of cell to "test' if true. I also want to change fill color if changed
Then Cells(myRows,"AB") = "Test" ( how do I add fill in ...
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What is the format 6-0-VS16-installer for?
I am downloading XAMPP for Windows from the official webpage and it is downloading the installer in a weird format called 6-0-VS16-installer.
Am I losing something or is this a problem on their side?
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Formating a drive that is locked by Windows Bitlocker
A friend asked me if I could save her laptop. A year ago her Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 has locked her out and nobody so far was able to bring it back to life. A very interesting and annoying fact ...
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Windows 10 drive is locked by bitlocker and do not know password to login
I have a few old laptops with windows 10 on them. We used them previously for a few coworkers and we do not know the password to unlock them and it looks like some of them have the bitlocker ...
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Prevent Excel from autocalculating Fractions when using Find and Replace
I am trying to replace data formatted like this:
##"/##"
(see this picture via link for example:
Before find-and-replace text)
using find-and-replace to find every quotation mark ( " ) ...
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Heading 3 not seen as subheading of heading 2
I have an issue as shown below.
Any idea how I could solve it? Basically, all that is below "4.2. App Implementation" should be a subheading of of "4.2.". This means two things.
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First page of new section does not include page number
First page of new section does not include page number (the new section has two-column layout format). Any idea why and how to solve this?
I could hardcode the page number, but I am afraid of messing ...
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Excel format numbers so there is space after second number
I am working with 5 and 6 digit numbers, 2 + 3(4) (maybe +5 in the future, like 22 123 or 22 1234). I must write these numbers without space and want it to be formated with space. Simple enough, I ...
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External Drive Shows in Sys.Profiler but Won't Mount/absent from DiskUtility (OSX 10 & 11)
I have a Sandisk 1TB Extreme USB-C external SSD that I bought and filled with an important 900GB dataset on about 16 months ago. I have not used it since. I have probably updated my mac OS to several ...
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I can not format my ssd m.2 corrupted?
the windows crashed after an update, and i was trying to install a new windows.
the windows 10 installer was not able to format the disk, tried the cmd, diskpart also didnt work, doesnt give any error ...
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How to format computer just after BIOS and before OS is loaded
I have a bunch of computers to format (desktops and laptops). Until now, I used an usb key with the windows' boot but it's not really fast.
Do you know a script (on a usb key) that can run before the ...
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Powering up my external hard drive enclosure makes Windows 10 display alerts for every available drive letter, asking me to format them. Why?
I have a 4TB USB HD in an enclosure. When I hit Power, Windows does these things:
Makes a list of all available drive letters. I only have C, D, E, and this one which is mounted as B.
Asks what I want ...
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Can I format my HD from running Linux system?
I have a Debian Linux PC which I would like to have the HD completely wiped.
Is it possible to do this while running Linux, without having to insert a removable media and boot it?
The HD to be format ...
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What does Windows's "format X: /P:count" do?
What does format X: /P:count do in Windows? The documentation says:
/P:count Zero every sector on the volume. After that, the volume
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How do I remove uninstalled program in 'open with > choose another app' menu?
Something like this, I've checked the registry but no idea which one I should remove. Should I do it for each file extension?
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MicroSDHC cannot be formatted, deleted, only read [duplicate]
I have a MicroSDHC SanDisk Ultra (Red Grey) with 10 Speed Class, UHS-I Bus Interface, and 16GB Size Storage. I put this on the SanDisk Adapter to connect it on PC (Windows 10) and it is readable. But ...
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Excel previously changed text to dates. How do I get it back to what I originally typed?
I have a large Excel (xlsx) spreadsheet full of various types of data. I had initially downloaded this data from Google Sheets. At some point (I'm not sure when), one of my columns of data that had ...
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Break hours by minutes instead of decimals when formating a cell, but keeping the formula intact. Is that possible?
I recently used this formula for time calculation within one cell and it worked great!
But I remained with a top up question: Is there a way to allow breakdown hours?
For example, using this:
9pm - 4:...
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Reformatting old m2 nvme ssd with windows OS with active partition
I have recently installed windows 10 to a new M2 NVME SSD, I didn't use the previous one with OS boot as I also installed it into a new motherboard. When everything was up and working, I also ...
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Can't format SD Disks on Apple Mac or delete data from SD Cards [duplicate]
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No matter what I do, I can't seem to format an SD Card, or even delete its data, on my 2021 M1 Mac Mini. Here's what's happening:
I buy a new SD Card, and use Raspberry Pi Imager to burn an ...
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Is it possible to hide both value AND percentage in the label of an Excel chart when the value is 0?
We use both the value and percentages in the label of our charts, and I would like to know if there is a way to hide both when the value is 0. I understand how to hide it with the number format code ...
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How to understand the LogFormat directive in the apache2.conf configuration file?
In the comments before the LogFormat directive is used the following is written:
# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive.
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How to convert old PEF pentax raw format to jpg or mp4?
I have some old pentax .PEF files and I want to convert it updated jpg or mp4 formats. How do I go about this?
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In Excel, how can I round or display numbers to 2 significant figures (the two leading non-zero digits of a decimal number)?
In Excel 2016 I need to show zeros out to the leading non-zero digits and then just the two digits after that. For example:
0.00002423 should read 0.000024,
0.242 should read 0.24,
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How was this video made
ok guys I'm genuinely confused how this video was made and was wondering whether anyone could shed light on how this video might have been made or encoded or something.
this video in discord is 51 ...
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Recovering data and fixing RAW format on Seagate Backup Plus 4TB External Hard Drive
I need some help from you.
I'm on Windows 10 with a 4TB Seagate Backup Plus External Hard Drive and it seems to be in RAW format. I say "it seems" because it is really hard to try to load/...
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How to get LibreOffice Calc to recognize dates in YYYY/MM/DD format?
I've been given a large tab-separated-values (TSV) text file that contains dates in the format YYYY/MM/DD.
I tried copy and pasting the dates into LibreOffice Calc, but it didn't recognize the strings ...
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Unistalled usb drivers Windows 10
The story begins when I formated my pc. Everything was perfect except a small problem. The screen was going black for a second and the usb connected sound was made.
I googled the problem and found ...
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Can't format M.2 SSD as ext4
I'm not able to format my new M.2 as ext4 or xfs
I tried using the Kubuntu installer as well as GParted live CD with no luck
What could be the cause?
Drive info
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Can’t see a 1TB WD blue Caviar HDD in Windows 10
The HDD appears in BIOS and Windows devices but not in “Disk Manager” so I can get it online, neither with cmd -> diskpart as well.
I also tried reinstalling the new BIOS and software again for the ...
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What happens technically when a MicroSD (Secure Digital Storage Device) is not formattable, delectable, or reusable [duplicate]
My question detected as a similar question, and the similar answer is to throw your SD in the garbage! I want to update my question by asking, what happens technically when a microSD card happens to ...
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MicroSD (Secure Digital Storage Device) is not formattable, deletable or reusable [duplicate]
My question detected as a similar question, and the similar answer is to throw your SD in the garbage! I want to update my question by asking, what happens technically when a microSD card happens to ...
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