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Hey, everyone! I own a Lenovo W540 which had a 512GB Mushkin SSD. Recently I found out that there are Reallocated Sector Count = 38 and Reallocated Event Count = 86 on it so I decided to take action and replace it. I got a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO and I created an image of my Mushkin SSD using Macrium Reflect. I restored the image on the Samsung SSD and now I got 454 GB Unallocated Space which I can't use for some reason. I tried to create a new simple volume but I saw this: I clicked Yes and saw this: I found out that the max number of partitions on an MBR drive is 4 which I already have: System Reserver (S), Local Disk (D), Local Disk (C), and the Healthy Recovery partition. I also watched a video of a dude converting his MBD disk to GPT and it looks like everything worked just fine for him. I'm wondering a few things: 1. Are there any advantages/disadvantages of converting an MBR disk to a GPT one? 2. Why I can't extend my D drive? The option is greyed out. 3. Why is D on the left of C? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? 4. Why is the System Reserved partition visible in File Explorer? How to hide it? 5. Why there are 3 Primary Partitions on the Samsung SSD? Isn't it supposed to be only 1? Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer these questions!
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I really screwed up. I was trying to clone my disk with Aomie partition assistant. Once it was cloned the clone wasn't recognised in BIOS. I tried to convert to GPT, but I converted the wrong disk. Which was my actual OS. I think where I originally fkd up is that I choose clone disk instead of migrate OS Disk 2 is what I'm trying to save. I convert the 1st partition back to Fat32 and it still won't be recognised in the BIOS So now I have 2 ssd's with unbootable OS's How to fix this?
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Some context before the question (and apologies for the length): I had an Asus G752VS gaming laptop like, one and a half years ago, until I spilled tea on it. I immediately shut it down and turned it over to dry, but that didn't save so I have sent it to Amazon Protect, which ended me being able to claim a full refund (because it'd take a long time to get the parts needed for the fix). Before I sent it though, I had to get my data from my NVMe drive inside and delete my work related documents (company policy to not disclose any info about me and the company, even like contracts etc.). So I ordered an enclosure, put the drive in and plugged it to my Pi 3B and got my files. However, during the process the drive was disconnecting, not being able to connect for 10-15mins, and then can be reconnected again. I managed to get my files, delete the ones I needed to be gone from the drive, and formatted it with MBR for good measure (again, company policy) before putting it back in the laptop. I always thought it was a temperature issue. However, the repairer at Amazon Protect deemed it broken and wanted to replace (which in the end it did not happen). Regardless, I asked if I can get my drives back (since the HDD was fine, and wanted the data on it if I can), and they have graciously sent both back. Recently I wanted to do a full health check on the NVMe drive and to see if it's ok to use, to install it on my PC. It was doing the same thing. I first full-formatted it (knowing that filling with 0s will degrade some life out of the drive), but that did not change it as well. In addition, when I plugged it in to my motherboard, it did not show up at the next boot. At last, when I changed its system from MBR to GPT, with an enclosure, I never saw the issue of connecting it to my PC. So I am not sure if the MBR was the issue (which from what I know, shouldn't be related to) or the drive is simply in an almost-dead state. Is there a way to check the health of the drive fully? I already did surface tests with partition managers and the disk check from cmd in Windows, which shows no issues.
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I put the files from the windows repair iso on my external hard drive, but when i rebooted the files from the iso are all that are left, and there is a fat32 mbr partition, and the rest of the drive has been unallocated. I could have also done this accidentally with the mount command in the repair command prompt section? Wondering if i can somehow easily repair the drive partition and get my data back Recovery software seems to want to pull 8tb off the 4tb drive, which i do not have space for at the moment, so i'm also wondering if i can just change the headers and get the files back, somehow
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I was studying partitioning for Comptia A+ using Mike Meyers' course and I am stuck on MBR. So how can we define MBR? Is it a partition type or is it a partition itself?
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So I was actually checking if my pc is compatible for windows 11 but it shows that my pc isn't compatible because secure boot is unsupported and when I checked system info it was also showing that secure boot is not supported but in the bios I can see an option for secure boot and its disabled but it is giving me a option to enable it , so any suggestion how should I fix it? my partition style is mbr if that helps.
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hello all, maybe i need to put the context of the build to better understand the question in the title. and if there's another thread that asked this question but in "the correct terminology", sorry for posting an already answered question. also, if there's another solution for my problem, every suggestion would be helpfull. so this is my PC, an old LGA1156 System still using BIOS, not UEFI. and for the longest time i have just using a 1TB HDD for boot drive & also storage. i've ran out of space, so i bought a 6TB HDD. but as soon as i plugged it in, it only read 2TB of it. after a quick google troubleshooting, it's because my windows install is still using MBR, so it can't read more than 2TB. so i tried to reinstall my OS, making sure in Rufus to select GPT. got into the BIOS and then trying to boot to the USB, and it won't even recognize my USB. ---------------------------------------------------so here's the problem i've encountered--------------------------------------------------- 1. because i'm using an MBR OS, i can't use my 6TB Drive 2. because it's still using a motherboard with BIOS, i can't install Windows using GPT. ----------------------------------------------------------and here's my full question------------------------------------------------------------ i am forced to use MBR on my OS, so is there a way for me to format my 6TB HDD using GPT? is it possible, will it even solve my problem? in case you need all the neccesary info, this is my spec: Motherboard : Acer Veriton M680G Salvaged Motherboard OS : Windows 10 21H1 Edition still with "activate windows" watermark RAM :12GB on a SODIMM to DIMM adapter CPU : Secondhand Intel Xeon X3470 @2.93GHz GPU : unbranded nVidia GT720... also salvaged HDD : 1TB Seagate & 6TB WD Purple note : build was inspired mostly by linus. especially the SODIMM to DIMM Adapter, i went full scrapyard wars on this pc. BRING US SEASON 9 OF SCRAPYARD WARS : COVID EDITION
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Hello guys, I've been playing all my life with 1080p 60hz monitors and I just recently upgraded to 1440p 144hz. I've read about V-sinc, free-sync and MBR and I can say that I understand what they do but I still get a really hard time trying to understand how would they benefit me, so I'd like to give you 2 scenarios of very different fps games (which I think is the most relevant genre for these settings) and hear what you think I should do. Valorant: my PC can push between 300 and 500 fps on 1440p depending on graphics settings, I know more fps equals less input lag but I'd guess that the jump from 300 to 500 its unnoticeable compared to let's say 100 to 300 (please correct me if I'm wrong) so I normally go for higher settings with 300~350 fps just for the looks. Warzone: I'm playing with 100~120 fps on 1440p but I'm considering to downscale to 1080p so I can get at least 144fps without sacrificing fov (depending in what I learn here). So, these two games are played very differently, in Valorant I'd prioritize input lag and response time while in Warzone I'd prioritize sight clearness during quick, long camera movements. Knowing this, should I enable any of the mentioned settings? and if I should, how would they benefit me?
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I recently decided to upgrade my PC's RAM by adding two 8GB sticks to the present two 8GB sticks. I have done this before on other PCs with minimal issues. This time gave me more trouble, with the two new sticks never being recognized no matter what steps I took. The only settings I've ever edited in my BIOS are the RAM setting, enabling DOCP to get my RAM to it's advertised speed. I thought, maybe setting those back to default would help, putting all the RAM sticks at the same settings makes sense to me, and since the MoBo ran fine prior on it's default settings, this seemed harmless to me. Famous last words I guess. Upon booting up after setting things to default, my boot priority menu was blank, along with the boot menu. The BIOS recognized both my SSD and my CD ROM as storage devices, but not as bootable options. After some troubleshooting of my own, I ended up enabling the Launch CSM option, and it worked. Everything booted up normal, besides the new RAM, but that's no longer the priority. However, with some more research, I came to find that my SDD and CD ROM are now categorized as MBR, and not GPT. From what I can tell. MBR is a older partition style, and GPT is now the norm, supporting more storage, drives, and is more stable; but I also never looked at my partition style before. Who would unless you need to? From what I've read online, without using third party software, changing partition style requires you to delete the partition, which I'm pretty sure erases your data. So how did my drives become MBR, by accident, and without erasing any data? Did my drives convert? Is there a chance that all of my drives were MBR to begin with? The PC was built in 2020, so it's not old. How did my boot priority list get wiped just from putting BIOS settings back to default? Is it possible I have been on CSM Legacy the whole time? Maybe the BIOS saw MBR drives on the initial boot up and changed that setting on it's own. Is that a thing? If my drives did convert from GPT to MBR somehow without losing any data, should I risk going back to GPT? My Motherboard is an Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus. Thanks for any responses.
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Ok this seems nuts but I have my reasons. I would like to quad boot from my laptop so I can run win server 16, win 10, win 7 32bit and ubuntu. So far I got my server installation done minus a couple Bluetooth drivers and created a win 10 vhdx that shows up as a boot option and works. Issue is win 7 32 bit on a uefi setup. That vhdx won't boot. Enable legacy option ROMs makes it show on the boot menu though. Win 7 32 bit is on a mbr vhdx everything else is gpt. So I'm posting here because I think grub 2 can help. From what I've read I can maybe boot win 7 and ubuntu from grub and chainload over to server and 10. This is a really unfamiliar territory for me so I'm looking for advice. I also don't know how to create a bootable Ubuntu vhdx from my server 16. Any and all help will be appreciated.
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Hi Guys, So I've recently gotten round to building up my new tower and couldn't be happier - Win10 on a WD Black NVMe Drive, i7-9700k @ 4.9GHz, GTX 1060 6Gb etc etc. My problem comes in that I want to have a dual boot option from my old tower so I can access a load of stuff I have on there when I want to. I figured this would be easy. It should be in theory. However, my old rig started life as a HP Enterprise system. It ran what I believe to be a cache raid system whereby it has a tiny 20Gb Intel SSD, as well as the 500Gb spinning disc. The way it was explained to me at the time was that read and write went to the SSD first and then was written to the HDD. This brings me onto the issue. When I plug in my HDD to my new rig and mash F2 to get into the BIOS, the HDD is not there as a boot option! Exiting from that and heading into my Win10 boot, it allows me to see the Win7 drive. I can see the OS files. I can see the public documents (although not the documents of specific users). When I enter the disc management tool in Win10, I can see the partitions of the HDD, including one which shows as OS, however underneath it, it only says "Primary Partition". The "boot, pagefile and crash dump" monikers are missing. When I plug in the old 20Gb SSD, there's nothing on it. It just shows as "Unallocated". It seems to me that my MBR has gone missing somewhere along the line here and since I have no experience of undoing the witchcraft that seems to be cache raid, I'm reaching out for help. Can anyone explain how I can make my old HDD bootable again? Couple more points to note: I've not got an image or backup of the Win7 disc so simply doing a fresh install is not an option. Also, the tipping point for me building a new rig was the power supply failing on the old tower. Since it's HP Enterprise and therefore proprietary (rip off merchants!!!), I cannot even plug the old drives in back the way they were and do anything from the old system. Anyone any ideas? All help appreciated. All the best, Rob
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Hello, I finished installing my Samsung SSD and needed to do a Secure Erase because of some issues. I was wondering whether I should set the the partion to MBR or GPT? I will be Migrating my current C Partition over to the M.2 drive later. I do not have a product key because this was a laptop and I do not plan on buying or reinstalling a fresh copy of windows without a key.
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Hello all, I was trying to set up a triple boot system (Windows 10, Linux Mint, Remix OS) as an upgrade from the current dual-boot system I run. I'm aware that an MBR partition table can only have 4 primary partitions; however, I have somehow accidentally created 5... Should I be concerned that this might corrupt my files on this drive? There's no problems with files so far, but I am worried that they might appear in the future. It does appear to have caused an issue elsewhere though. When booting the computer, I get an error which says 'Unknown Filesystem', and I am sent into GRUB rescue mode. This is what I am typing into the rescue mode command line to make the computer boot: >set boot=(hd0,msdos6) >set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub >insmod normal >normal After entering the last line above, the computer then shows the normal GRUB menu, and I can choose to boot into either Windows or Mint (I haven't set Remix up yet due to this issue) I was wondering if there was a permanent fix to this issue, so that the GRUB menu would show up straight away as normal? Finally, is it safe to delete the 5th partition which has caused the issue, or will editing the partitions further cause more issues? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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I just installed VMware on my Dell R310 rackmount server. I am now installing Ubuntu. In the install process, it is asking if it should add a new MBR. Should I or would that screw up everything else?
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Yesterday I was scamed by someone who said to be from Microsoft. Anyway, I am now locked out of my computer and want to just wipe everything off my harddrive and do a clean installation of windows 10. However the windows key that I own is windows 8.1 and the ability to upgrade to windows 10 for free is not valid anymore. Is there any chance that windows know that I upgraded my key while the option was avaliable and could offer to upgrade me now? Also, I downloaded a windows 10 iso file to an usb stick but when I try to install windows on to that SSD it just tells me that it can't be done because my chosen disk has a MBR while windows can only be installed on GPT discs. What is the deal here? Did the guy reform my SSD or something? The harddrive The SSD is an120GB kingston.
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So I'm REALLY confused tight now. There's so much to ask but i don't know where to begin, so I guess I start from the beginning... I recently bought an upgrade to my PC and ended up with this: Ryzen 5 1600 w/ wraith spire cooling MSI B350 Gaming pro carbon Corsair vengence LPX DDR4 3200MHz CL16 16GB MSI gtx 960 (this wasn't upgraded) Crucial BX100 256GB SSD (This wasn't upgraded) WD Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM (This wasn't upgraded) The rest I think is not needed but tell me if you want it. And here is a list of my problems/concerns/confusion and what made me go crazy: 1. I don't know what is Windows 10 WHQL support 2. I installed new BOX windows 10 64/32 bit USB but on the non UEFI mode because of this error: windows can only be installed to gpt disks 3. If I switched the whql support, would I be able to install the UEFI windows 10? 4. Does this have to do with my board not recognizing my DVD drive plugged into SATA3 port and that I can see 4 USB drives in windows though they don't exist? (E:/ F:/ G:/ and H:/) 5. does this have to do with my audio problem? 6. Should I update my bios to v15? I have v14 7. Should I reinstall windows but this time with WHQL support enabled and with UEFI mode? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's that the USB windows stick has 2 install modes: w/ and w/o UEFI and I don't know anything else about it) 8. Why can't I turn my ram to 3200MHz though the board can read it's XMP profile, changes it to the profile but still shows ram running 2133MHz (the ram is tested for 3200MHz by the manufacturer on their website (search for CMK16GX4M2B3200C16R) and is even samsung B-Die) 9. And last but not least, Can I kill myself now? Because I hate this sh*t and I'm going crazy. If it sounds confusing to you, it's because it is. AMA if you need more explanation over this situation. and please tell me quickly if I should reinstall, because I don't want to settle down too much and have to format everything again. EDIT: Audio is solved, trying the reinstall tomorrow morning, will update my status EDIT2: DVD is working now, I had a bad SATA cable EDIT3: reinstalled windows, did all the stuff you told me to and most of the problems are fixed. I also updated bios which significantly improved post time and now after leaving bios it turns on and off a few times but eventually boots up. Above you can see the remaining problems.
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So I closed my SSD to my NVMe and even though my NVMe was supposed to be GPT, because my SSD (Win 10 OS) had MBR, it converted the NVMe to MBR. I tried using the mbr2gpt tool in windows\system32 but kept getting an error. After looking deeper into it, I realized it was because my BIOS mode was in legacy (verified in System Information). How do I change this without reinstalling Windows 10 from a USB? I already changed in my motherboard's BIOS from legacy to UEFI but this doesn't seem to affect the BIOS mode in Windows. I'm pretty sure this is all that's preventing me from converting my NVMe from MBR to GPT.
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Evening all, In need of some serious help. This evening has entailed a lot of recalibration of my plex server. Somehow.. don't ask how, 2 drives do not want to show themselves on boot without a third party program to nudge them into action. nothing mechanical related however I suspect some how the partition orders are not right as it appears that the drive does not assign a drive letter. manage to do so and it work fine... until I reboot when it goes back to normal. Ive been doing this via Mini Tool Partition wizard pro and it seems to work. My thinking is that the wrong path is linked atm toward my 2 drives some how or the Boot record is messed up. could anybody help get me out as I'm lost... Oh it says the drives are empty... most certainly not empty and defo there!
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Hi, I'm having 2 Hard Disks. (I'll say "C" for Disk 1 and "D" for Disk 2 from now) And I installed Fresh Win 10 over a years ago.So I don't remember what was the reason. But This is the situation. There is 2 Windows version when booting.But only one is booting properly.So the 'working windows files' are in C disk but the 'damaged windows files and the MBR' is in D drive. But I have to replace the D drive now.(without reinstalling / formatting Disk C) I can't simply unplug D because MBR is in D.But all windows files are in C. Is there are a way to copy just the MBR to C?
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Hello, I added a 250 GB SSD to my PC, along with a 3 TB HDD. I used to have only the HDD and it was working perfectly fine. When I added the SSD, I did a fresh install of Windows. In the installation menu I just deleted all the existing partitions on the HDD (without formatting them!) and I then installed the Windows to the SSD. During the setup, I noticed that the HDD was separated into 2 parts: 2 TB + 1 TB (700+ GB actually), but I thought I could fix this in the Windows. Now it seems that I can only use 2 TB and I formatted it successfully in the Disk Manager, but the remaining 1 TB part is left there as "Unallocated space" and it doesn't give me any options to format it, nor the option to expand the 2 TB part. I did my digging in the realms of internets, downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard and found out that this unallocated space is formatted as MBR (Master Boot Record). I can't seem to find a solution to format it to NTSC so I can use it only as storage. The HDD is now completely empty and I have all my data on the SSD so I have no HDD data to lose. However, I don't want to reinstall the Windows because I have a fresh install right now and it took me hours to download all the programs and set it up as I like. I also can't just "unplug" the SSD because it's an M.2 and it's located under the GPU so it would be too much fuss. How do I change the format of the HDD from MBR to NTSC or something so I can use its whole capacity? Thanks for your help.
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I'm going to get it out of the way that GPT is the standard when initializing drives, don't need to debate that. However, in theory wouldn't it be possible to expand the storage capacity of MBR drives by using Advanced Format or e512 drives? Standard hard drives have sector sizes of 512 bytes, and MBR works on a 32 bit addressing system so naturally, 2^32*512B gives you 2.199TB which is how we get to the 2TB storage cap on MBR. But consider those AF drives, which generally have 4096 Byte sectors. In theory we could get 2^32*4096B = 17.596TB in storage. There's no point in actually putting this into practice realistically but would it be possible? Currently those drives will emulate the 512B sector system by putting 8 512B virtual sectors on the 4096B physical sector allowing applications and OSs to function normally. Only problem is, you're still limited by the 2.199TB cap as discussed earlier. So this begs the questions, what would be involved in getting a system to run 4096B MBR? Or is it only possible on paper? Thoughts?
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So I installed an NVME drive 960 evo in my PC and now windows wants me to initialize it . MBR or GPT ? I will eventually make it the boot drive and my MB ( X99S SLI PLUS says *Intel RST does not support PCIe M.2 SSD with Legacy ROM.* on the website Im not sure what im supposed to do.
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Hlw linus i have a problem. i have a western digital blue internal 1 tb hdd. few month ago it crashed after installing windows 10. then when i try to re use it by formating from disk management is says "Disk is write protected" i also try to fix the problem by using HDD HDD Regenerator it says " Master Boot Record of This Hard drive is Damaged !" Please Help me that how can Restore MBR to the Hard disk or others way . i attached some screenshot below . Thank You
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Hi I goofed up real bad. I ran a .sln file, which had a OTR exploit in it, that downloaded a file which caused BSOD and overwrote my biggest drive. How can I repair this?