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Computer shuts down after a few minutes
I had a similar problem (automatic shutdown after x minutes) once on a Microsoft domain controller. There was a problem with an expired license.
I dont have a windows system to test it actually, but ...
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Computer shuts down after a few minutes
It's hard to tell from the facts available, but what surprises me is that the shutdown screen is orange: Isn't it blue normally?
Actually the Windows Event log should contain details why the system ...
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Install a new HDD in the same file directory as the old HDD
There are lots of ways of solving this problem - but it appears you are missing some important basics. You really want to know how the hard drive is structured - if you have LVM (which is abstracted ...
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Install a new HDD in the same file directory as the old HDD
I would like to know if I could still write in /home/usr and have the storage used from the new one
No, because the disk is currently mounted at /hdd, not at /home/usr.
If you want to use the HDD for ...
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Make disk images for a PC that runs a complicated set of interacting control programs such that if a drive crashes we can swap it for the image?
Step 1 get a storage device
Then you have options, manually move the storage device around or setup some kind of NAS or network attached storage.
For your immediate needs I suggest, Clonezilla. You ...
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New Toshiba P300 3TB hard drive produces strange sounds on startup & more
The click at the end is the sound of the head being parked because disk isn't being used. It is exact same click you will hear repeatedly once your HDD starts failing. "Saving power" (less ...
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How to secure specific folders on a portable SSD that works on multiple devices?
Veracrypt is your best option as it can be made to work on Windows, PC, and I believe Mac. That said **it is unlikely that it will work on devices like Samsung TV's - indeed, I think it's unlikely ...
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How is the capacity of a harddisk faked?
Most common method is firmware 'hacking'. I deal with these cards and flash drives all the time and I have never seen this simplistic file system level hack. There's 2 things the 'hacker' needs to ...
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Sudden increase in available hard drive space
Some of those Windows files of folders that "automatically" grow huge (C:\SystemVolumeInformation, C:\Recovery), sometimes they are also automatically cleaned.
There is also Storage Sense, ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot manager of OS after dual booting with Windows 10
It seems to be an HP bug, this solution worked for me:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=368217
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Wipe unallocated disk space in Windows and clean or rename file in directory structures
You wish to clean out the deleted file names from the MFT, for which
you need a third-party tool.
One such tool is the free
Prevent Recovery.
With it you can either erase the free space or the deleted
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Chkdsk /f /r /x stuck
A drive like this should go in the trash.
If you sold it, you would have to disclose the bad sector situation
Hard drives are generally, one the way out especially at sizes <=2tb.
What is the size ...
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Big size of NTFS/MFT reservation on windows server 2022
First of all I think you're inventing a problem in the sense that your supposed free space problem has got nothing to do with MFT reserved space.
Run chkdsk and it will tell you size of an allocation ...
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Big size of NTFS/MFT reservation on windows server 2022
So, I think that I know more or less what happened as finally I was managed to decreased reserved space to only 5,5 GB.
I achieved it by turning off compression on several folders. As I mentioned ...
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Big size of NTFS/MFT reservation on windows server 2022
You have "Total Reserved Clusters" of 44 GB.
Seems like some program has created a gigantic number of files and
caused the MFT to expand. The files were perhaps temporary and were
never ...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
By design and following all the MSDOS legacy compatibility from the 80's, Windows ALWAYS labels the disk/partition it boots as C:
So when Windows boots, it sets that booting partition as C: and starts ...
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How to correctly boot into Windows D: drive after cloning
In Windows the boot device is always labeled as C:.
If unsure, you may distinguish between the disks in
Disk Management by their characteristics, such as total capacity
and model-number.
To test, I ...
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EVGA GT1300 doesn't power 4TB Dell SAS drives from its SATA connectors, but does when connected to Molex; Why?
The problem was located. There is a power disable feature in modern SAS drives, and maybe even others. There is a WD spec sheet on this here
The issue is the drives are made for a server backplane, ...
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Should I leave or remove the big white foam on top of the hard drive case?
According to the manual available from https://res.cloudinary.com/corsair-pwa/image/upload/corsairmedia/sys_master/productcontent/WW_4000D_4000D_Airflow_QSG_AB.pdf, there are no foam parts included in ...
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Image a drive to network share from Windows
I've used linux live (ultimate boot cd) clonezilla years ago to duplicate a windows disk drive to another disk drive, possibly through USB SATA adapter.
You want to copy a windows PC while you are ...
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I want to increase the size of home partition in Ubuntu 23.04
First, before making any change to the file system make a full disk image and verify it. This not only lets you recover from mistakes, but can be used to restore data to a changed partition.
From that ...
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6TB Errors - Prefailure GSmart Control
I'm not entirely sure if its "really bad" and going to fail or
"somewhat normal"
This is very arbitrary. Some have zero tolerance for bad sectors others may feel differently.
Some ...
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6TB Errors - Prefailure GSmart Control
You see Reallocated sectors have very high value. So soon you will have no "backup" sectors to be used for replace failed. My recommendation is to backup and replace this disk ASAP.
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ExFAT is good for flash drives only or it also gives benefits on external HDD, instead of NTFS?
NTFS is superior to exFAT in many ways.
Only reason it's preferable on flash drives is because it is for example not editing the (file allocation tables) FAT for contiguous files and thus causing less ...
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How to reset an NTFS MFT for no tracks of deleted files names to be found there?
This Windows built-in does it nicely, though takes a while. Both MFT and drivespace on C:
CIPHER /W:C:
/W Removes data from available unused disk space on the entire
volume. If this ...
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can a faulty hard disk make my CPU IDLE so low
A bad disk is a very possible cause for high CPU utilization.
A discovered read error will cause the filesystem using the CPU to try to recover and map out that failed read; i.e. read back the data, ...
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How can I shrink a Windows 10 partition?
I was in the same situation (wanting to shrink partion used by OS (Windows 10)) but with an extra problem that I am using mirrored dynamic disks. Unmirror was easy to be performed without losing any ...
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WD My Passport external disk no longer detected
My own WD Passport suddenly yielded a "no access" error. I could see the drive in File Explorer but clicking upon it did not expand its contents. Chkdsk declared "no access." ...
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Strange beeps while booting and currupt BIOS
BIOS corruption can occur when your mainboard BIOS buffer battery is exhausted and its voltage becomes too low.
Replace the mainboard BIOS buffer battery. Typically this is a CR2032 type.
Upon restart ...
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Encrypt an external hard drive with read+write access on both Windows and Linux
2023 Answer
Unfortunately, there is no cross-platform file system that supports encryption. There is VeraCrypt, which aims to facilitate encryption on the user-space level, but if you use it, you will ...
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How to extend Disk Space with LVM on Linux Server: Limited Hardware, High Capacity Needed
What you can do is to:
Create PVs on /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2
pvcreate -f /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
Create VG from PVs above
vgcreate vg_name /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
Create LV in this VG
lvcreate -L 1024GB -n ...
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Hard disk recognised but doesn't show up
I hope you have backup, as it doesn't look good for this disk.
For diagnostics, get the SMART attributes of the disk and
Edit
them into your post, for us to have a look.
If you don't have a product ...
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Ubuntu hard disk mounted with no partitions
It's entirely possible to put a filesystem on the bare storage (i.e: not in a partition)... but that's not generally how you'd go about doing it.
Partition tables (either MBR or GPT) give you a little ...
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Recovering corrupted NTFS partition on external HDD
I wish to recover the data on that disk and the disk itself if it is
not physically damaged.
How did you determine that?
every action related to the filesystem makes applications like Windows
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Accessing physical disk from VirtualBox: Access Denied
TLDR: You need to make sure that VboxSVC.exe runs as administratior - locate this file and set compatibility option - run as administrator.
Detailed:
In VirtualBox any work with registered virtual ...
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How can I make Linux/Win10/Linux triple-boot work?
I am a fool. Logging in to my Ubuntu instance (where apparently my grub installation originated) then running sudo update-grub solved my issue.
I found inspiration in Adding Other Operating Systems to ...
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