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USB drive detected as a char device (not block device) on Linux?
If this were only happening on Linux, the most common answer would be that the necessary driver modules are missing (e.g. incomplete kernel upgrade).
But given that it also happens on Windows, it's ...
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How to fix corrupted USB flash drive?
The screenshot of the MPtool is pretty conclusive evidence the NAND chip is not detected. It's either dead or not properly connected. The USB flash drive can't be repaired.
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How can I interrupt a GParted move filesystem operation and recover the data?
GParted's GUI cancel button has rollback function built in.
It'll cancel the partition move, then reverse what it has done.
I'll update the answer once the rollback is done.
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Restoring Windows Apps (UWP) after cloning an internal disk drive
I just spent several hours on this one. eg: it boots ok and apps all work, except for windows stuff like Disc Management, Device manager, Command Prompt, Windows Explorer (if you right click on the 'C'...
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How to convert ext4 partition on raid 1 to btrfs?
Solved by booting in recovery mode, removing the mdadm array entry from fstab and then rebooting again in recovery mode. After that I was able to proceed with the conversion.
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How to test for ext4 Partition? Not ext4 Filesystem
There's no such thing as an "ext4" partition. A partition containing an ext4 filesystem would usually (but not necessarily, all of my Linux filesystems are in partitions with type ...
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How to test for ext4 Partition? Not ext4 Filesystem
The mkpart command does not actually create the file system: the fs-type parameter [ext4 in your case] will simply be used by parted to set partition type GUID for GPT partitions or partition type ID ...
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How can I create a single partition from three different disks to install Windows on it?
What you want is called "Disk Spanning" and is a feature of windows.
It is accessed by disk management or diskpart.exe. I am not sure about third party tools to do this but I bet they do ...
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Convert drive from exFAT to NTFS without losing contents (Workaround)
Bro just do it
But windows sometimes is buggy and you will not be able to extend the new ntfs partition after restoring backed up data
So i recommend using AOMEI Partition assistant because it's ...
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Is it possible to split partition on Bitlocker encrypted drive?
I did it with Disk Management in Windows 11.
First I shrink the C:\ drive (ssd) and D:\ drive (hdd) of PC, both with BitLocker enabled; it took 10 seconds and created an unallocated memory which I ...
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How can I have a "main" bootloader, on the first partition? (UEFI)
Instead of doing what I belive most people do, which is replacing the Windows bootloader with GRUB
That's not exactly what people do – kind of, yes, but they don't outright replace the Windows ...
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Can't restore partition table
For future people who might find this useful. The problem was that I used the suggested "Intel" partition table which means MBR, and MBR does not allow over 4 "primary" partitions. ...
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Consequences of a screwed up recovery environment?
Windows Recovery does not immediately nuke anything. It boots into a WinPE image, then you get a bunch of menus where you can choose what you want to do (ranging from a full reimage to just opening a ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux
It sounds like the drive itself might be bad. I would try wiping the drive and make a new partition and see if it works. Try MiniTool Partition Wizard or Gnome Partition Editor. If this doesnt work,...
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How to best repair a lost or broken partition on a valued external hard drive without losing data
The best answer is "don't".
Yes unallocated does point to a missing partition table entry. But people working in data recovery will always assume there's more to it (potentially) and so ...
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How to fix corrupted USB flash drive?
USB drives die without warning.
That appears to be what happened here.
Can you recover the files on your phone?
Otherwise for Windows, if it will not format (as per your post), then you need to ...
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Am I using foremost (disk recovery tool) correctly?
The problem could be that foremost did not have permission to read the disk.
The solution for me was running it as administrator with:
sudo foremost ...
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How do computers know which operating system to boot?
Please stop explaining that bios is nolonger around and that we understood it. Please explain if you have 2 harddrives plugged into motherboard through sata cables. computer is booting through wrong ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty
As mentioned in the other answers, a second directory entry is created with the long filename, since "txt" is lowercase (instead of uppercase) and thus a LFN entry is generated to store that....
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No space left in device error despite being empty
FAT32 32-bit short file names must also be uppercase (technically any ASCII character in the range below 0x80, excluding space), to hit the maximum of 65,534 files.
Long file names will take up more ...
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No space left in device error despite being empty
You already have the answer
I keep reading online that FAT32/vFat have some limitations, including:
Maximum of 65,534 files in a single directory. Less if the file names are not (8.3).
You are ...
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Burn ISO to USB with free space left
So it is possible to burn an iso to usb without using entire storage, only the required space?
Since ISO9660 was originally meant for CDs it does not contain a partition table, so no OS will know ...
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Convert my drive from MBR to GPT
I had this same problem when upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 (and there were many paid solutions/apps online with few simple solutions I could find). However, it's pretty easy to do it yourself with a ...
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How to prevent small ISO from marking incorrect size on large target drive?
Thankfully, I tried using parted (a command line partition manager for Linux), and just running its print command to show the existing partitions made it detect the flaw in the partition table and ...
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Trouble booting in any OS / USB disk
Is GRUB an OS like Windows that you can boot into
No, it is not considered an OS. While there are subtle differences, you may consider it an equivalent of the Windows Boot Manager (WBM) in the GNU/...
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How to prevent small ISO from marking incorrect size on large target drive?
To the extent that "dd" implies some Linux OS, and "small ISO" really means disk image (an ISO is a CDROM/DVD image, and would not be 20GB)
The solution is to delete the partition ...
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