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Hi all About a month ago i formatted my windows laptop and installed Fedora. I kinda regret doing it now, and want to get a dual-boot setup going. Do you know if it's possible to get this done without having to reformat the entire drive and reinstall both the os-s? -
Hello Everyone, i recently failed miserably while formatting a flash drive, and ended up formatting my secondary HDD in my laptop :(. the HDD was encrypted with Bitlocker and it was just a quick format, i was able to get all my data back using "Get data back" and putting everything in an external disk, but my problems began here, after i had everything in the external disk, i moved everything back to the previously formatted HDD, and everything was fine, i even checked many files to see if they will open. an then i restarted the laptop and the first thing i noticed was that to open the secondary HDD i needed to put the Bitlocker key, and then the drive was empty.... why? how? i don't know.... any explanation? did i miss something, did bitlocker f* with me?. Regards
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I'll be selling my SSD and HDD soon, how do I make sure all the Data is gone and cannot be recovered? I already formatted it but some people say that it is not enough, anyone of you guys can help me out?
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Hi, So i just recently received a second hand hard drive, TOSHIBA DT01ACA100. I was on a scrap run and i found this hard drive from my brother's prebuilt computer, and i checked before hand if it worked or not (which it did). So then i plugged it in to my main pc to reformat it, but before i could the option was grayed out in the disk management window. So then i opted out to 3rd party software and they gave me errors, so then i turned to command prompt and ran DISKPART and executed the CLEAN command and that gave me a virtual disk service error : Clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot. So i got the cause of the error, now all i need is a solution to fix it; the thing is i'm not an expert and i don't want to be accidently doing something that is not going to fix my problem so im turning to the forums for help. Thanks in advance.
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Heyo, I found out about the "Reset this PC" option when I was looking for a reformat tutorial and it has an option to keep files. I want to know if it will uninstall any programs/apps when it gets reset this way or lose any files from other hard drives. Or do I lose any files at all from any drives for that matter. Will it also reset overclocks? RAM, CPU and GPU. Also, do I need any programs on a USB stick like how normal formatting is done as a prep to do this?
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So I have a very big problem. About three months ago I needed to install fresh windows into a new laptop, so I used my Samsung M3 Portable 1TB hard drive as a bootable usb, as I didn't have a real usb i could use at the time. I moved all of the files to my other computer and did everything else on the Samsung hdd. When I installed windows and everything, I wanted to reformat the portable hdd into a usable one. And I did such a big mistake, being a dummy, I formatted it into FAT32 instead of NTFS that it should've been. So later on thinking everything was okay I moved the files from my other PC into the samsung and everything was moving like it should've been, the speed was good and everything was fine. Thinking everything was done I tried to see if files moved out of the samsung hdd the same speed as before and to my surprise it didn't. Files moved from the samsung hdd into my pc veeery slow - like 1 picture in 1 minute, the speed fluctuates from 30mbs down to 0 like every 2 seconds and doesn't come back up for atleast 15 more seconds before coming down really fast. Now to fix this I know that I need to reformat it again, but the problem is I NEED EVERY SINGLE FILE FROM IT, which is over 200GB, so what should I do? I am really hopeless at this point and any help would be really appreciated. Maybe I should just bring it to the proffesionals or can I fix this an home? Some things that may be helpful: I didn't touch (plugged in) the samsung hdd for 3months so it shouldn't be corrupted as I read somewhere. I am trying Photorec right now and it doesn't work, I tried searching two times, first time it recovered one photo and now the second time I used different settings or something and I hope it recovers more. I didn't leave the files on my PC, just moved it into the Samsung HDD
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Hi, I have a Macbook air early 2015 from my school and it has so much crap and restrictions on it that it is barely usable. I tried holding the CMD R on startup but it had a lock screen on it. I was thinking of removing the SSD from the device and putting it into my PC and format it from there, then putting it back into the macbook and reinstalling MACOS on it (Currently has macOS Sierra 10.12.5) to get all the admin privileges. So my questions are: - Will it work? - Will I need an adapter? - Can I successfully reinstall macOS? I know I'm not supposed to do anything like that to it but I stand responsible for any damages that could possibly happen to it. Anyways it would be great to get an answer, Thanks!
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Ive done just about everything to fix the “hard drive wont show up” problem. And i never got an answer that works. My HDD only shows in BIOS but not in windows 10. I even tried the memory diagnostics that should’ve fixed it. I just want to format a hard drive to repurpose it. Is there a way to do it from bios?
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Hi, Linus community, Two days ago a got a virus on my pc. At the time it was working fine, but when I restarted it, there was a black screen with a pop-up window of cmd command mentioning "C:\windows\system32>". Since then, I don't have access to windows nor can I access bios to boot from USB in order to format windows. What can I do to fix this issue? Can I recover windows or do I need to format it? If its the later, how do I access bios? Any suggestions? -
Hello, my name is Zachariah Hoel. I'm currently in a very stressful situation. I recently backed up all of my irrecoverable data in a internal HDD just before I wipe everything from my other drives, and install a clean version of windows. During the process, I accidentally clicked "Delete" or something like that to my back-up drive on the windows 10 OS installer. After realizing what I did, I immediately shut down my computer, and plugged out the drive. It was very stupid of me to leave my Back-up drive plugged in while doing this, but now I'm desperate. Since then, I have applied a file format (NTFS) In attempt to recover my data, I've tried MiniTool Power Data Recovery, but I'm at a loss now. I had this drive Bitlocker encrypted. I have the codes, that's not the problem. How do I enter them in, is the real question. How do I unencrypt the drive, and pull the files out of it via MiniTool Power Data Recovery? Best regards, Zachariah Hoel
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Hello guys i need help.So i want to buy this Mobo: Asrock B450M and this CPU :Ryzen 1700 and i dont know what drivers i should download.I checked Asrock's site and they have a AMD all in 1 with VGA driver ver:18.10.20_NHDA option. Should i download this?Its about 750mb.Does this file contain LAN/Audio etc?Also i have GTX 1060 and i dont know how to download its drivers.All i know is how o update them using Geforce Experience. Btw sorry for bad English i live in Greece.
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I am having some problems with my 32gb usb 3.0 device(Lexar), i wanted to burn windows 10 on it using Rufus, but in the process my PC shut down. Now i cannot do anything with the USB, cannot format(tried windows format and using the CMD method to delete the drive but to no avail), if i delete something from it it comes right back, trying to delete a folder causes the device to freeze up. Also the usb doesnt give out how much GB it has used/in total until i change its name then it displays, but again i cannot delete anything. Is there any hope for this usb?
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Hello ppl i need help in recovering my lost data. Recently i lost my data during a formatting and installation of new windows. The data is around 20gb. Now i have tried many recovery softwares and none of them are getting me the desired results. I would appreciate if someone could suggest a good recovery software for recovering my lost formatted data. By the way i am using windows 10 enterprise edition.
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Hey guys, I'd like to uninstall Windows 10 from my SSD. Because I cannot boot my operating system from it. Is it enough to just right click and format it or how should I do it? (I want to install Wibdows again from start but on another system that doesn't allow me to install Wibdows from a USB Stick.) thank you in advance
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Hey guys, I've formated my SSD into NTFS as a volume and want to install Windows 10 on a seperat system on this drive. But I can't see it in the BIOS options now. Before I have seen it as "UEFI HARD DISK XXXXXX" - niw I can only choose UEFI HARD DISK". Since I want to boot Windows 10 from USB Stick anyway to install Windows I don't know if it's relevant anyway but somehow I get only Windows error messages with my new cpu (that's why I want to install Windows from scratch) and it crashes when the setup Window opens. I can see the SSD without a problem on my other computer.
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**UPDATE** The issue is not as it seemed at first. It appears that the disk is indeed nearly full, and the discrepancy is a result of Windows failing to include all files in its calculation of the disks capacity. For example the first folder "Active Projects" in the drive Active Projects shows as being around 200gb, but just one of its subfolders has over 2TB of media. I'm now trying to figure out why Windows is drastically underreporting the amount of data in some folders. Here is the original post: I'm a video editor, and my system has a boot drive and 3 others for media and backups. These 3 drives are: Active Projects (2x HGST 3TB NAS HDDs in an OWC Mercury Electra Pro Dual, hardware RAID 0, 5.28TB NTFS formatted capacity, USB3.1) Scratch (1TB HGST HDD, NTFS, internal SATA3) Backups (8TB Seagate HDD, NTFS, USB3) Active Projects currently has 1.7TB of data stored on it, but Windows reports that it only has 177GB free. There is one hidden file (sync.ffs_db which is used for my backup system FreeFileSync, less than 1MB) and nothing in the recycle bin. Windows thinks there are 5.28TB of files on Active Projects alone, but the total capacity used by Backups (which contains Active Projects, Scratch, and my boot drive) is only 3.74TB. Adding up the sizes of the projects saved on Active Projects and Backups, there is absolutely no way I have over 5TB of media on Active Projects. I have attached many screenshots for your reference, and would be happy to provide any other information to diagnose this. Any idea how to correct this, ideally without reformatting the RAID?
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I got a new SSD that I will use as my boot drive, so I decided to delete everything off my 1tb WD hard drive. A person recommended DBAN to me, so I started the process with DoD short. But being the naive person that I am, I didn't do any research, and I found a thread made by another person that said this was overkill and it hurts my hard drive and it will decrease it's lifespan. Is this true, and if it is, how bad will the damage be? I included a picture, and it says it will take 7 hours. It's too late now, I tried to stop it and launch windows but it didn't work, so now I can only hope for the best.
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I was wondering what is the best way to backup your android phone and format/reset it to maintain performance on the phone for future use? -
Hey, long story short i changed security camera provider last week and have an extra hard drive from the other system we used, so instead of just throwing it away i decided to use it on my pc but it wont format or let me create any partitions for me to use, it says there's an I/O error. it is recognized though and it also says it is 0 bytes in size, I've used windows disk management tool and also cmd diskpart to try and fix the issue to no avail, please any suggestions? thanks. its a Western Digital Green Wd20EARx 2TB
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Hello guys I have one question, first of all if you buy some parts for example a b450 tomahawk max and a ryzen cpu and Nvidia gpu you have to put windows 10 when you do that you go to nvidia site and you install your graphics card drivers after you go to your motherboard site as I said msi and you install all the drivers my question is if you have a laptop and you want to format it after format what you have to do ? You have to check your graphics card and go and install the drivers ? And with chipset, realtek and all that drivers ?? What i have to find the motherboard model ? I'm confused if anybody can help me thanks and have a nice day! ( I don't want to do it with program for example driver booster I want to do it manually)
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I am about for the first time to "build" a computer, in fact it is an upgrade but everything will change except my HDD. So I got 2 HDDs, one was for windows and the other for pure storage. And I plan on using them the same way with this upgrade. My question is : Will both of my hard drive gets formatted ? Or just the windows one as I will obviously install a new win 10 on it. I have nothing on that drive only windows stuff... But I have all my personal files stored on my other HDD so do I need to back up everything on this one ? Do you always have to format all your drives when upgrading the motherboard ? -
So I've been trying to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 on the new Team MP33 NVMe SSD I got. I put it into the slot of my Asus Crosshair VI motherboard, and then tried using a bootable USB to install windows. However, I am met with the following: Error code 0x80300024 when trying to install Windows onto the drive after getting to the installation and seeing the drive listed properly. I attempted to format the drive to gpt and mbr but was met with a "Virtual Disk Service Error: The Object Is Not Found." Using the "detail disk" command yielded everything about the drive, and it was not in read only or any other mode preventing it from operating. Then I re-mounted the nvme ssd, and kept unplugging USB devices and other non-essential things. I also reset my computer a few times, and occasionally the BIOS would read the drive as SM2263 instead of Team <Name>, and when it did this it only read the capacity as 1023MB. I am at a loss of what to do. I tried disabling fast boot, CSM, resetting the CMOS, and nothing is working. Any ideas?
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I recently formatted an old Vista laptop. I installed it, did all the updates and went to IE to download chrome. It kept popping up a security threat for every website I entered that was https! Even Google! Once I downloaded chrome and tried it, the same thing was happening! Some(if not all) Google images couldn't show up neither could I see a YouTube video. My time is all correct, I have tried to restart my wifi, clear ask cache and even deleted McAfee. I even tried to re format the laptop again but nothing! The exact same. Please help me! Thanks
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I know you can do this by switching it over to the NTFS format. But if this HDD is sent to you from factory as HFS+ are u able to even get the damn thing detected on a PC to then format it?? Or will you need a mac to switch the file format to NTFS then as it finishes it disconnects from mac and is ready for windows. How does this all work. Need to know cause a mac formated hdd is cheaper then the PC formated one. If i just have to format them quickly which saves me money I will waste the time. Thanks! -
If I'm understanding this correctly (and there's a chance that I am) - there are 3 variables to video file formatting: 1.) Container (I've chosen .MOV); 2.) Video codec (I've chosen H.264); and 3.) Audio codec (I've chosen AAC). How stable are these formats in the long run? I am in the midst of a long and arduous process of creating a beautifully organized archive of all of the data I've created and accumulated over the course of my life. I'd like to one day pass it along to my kids, and hopefully they can even pass it along for a few more generations as well. So far, all of my video files are in the stated format. Ideally, I do not want to run them through another compression. For those who are curious, my photos are all in .JPG format and my documents are all in plain text .TXT format. I welcome any input on improving the long-term stability of this archiving project.
