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    Yet more problems

    So I'll give intro of what I did in windows 10 before moving onto Linux as this is a Linux forum section. I wanted to run a program in windows, I don't know why but I suspected it might have had a virus or malware in it. I had no intention of running it in windows but may or may not have...
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    Windows 8.1 CRC error reading volume.

    I am using CreateFile to open a snapshot volume, and ReadFile to read from it. On one system I had an attempt to read 1 mb fail with a CRC error. As I understand it, the drive should be doing its own bad sector mapping, but apparently it's not. I know that NTFS has bad sector handling, does...
  3. Windows 10 Missing folders and driver errors

    Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...
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    Windows 8 drive is not accessible after extend using partition wizard 9.

    Drive E 'main data partition which contains all my important files' becomes RAW (not NTFS) after extending OS Drive C using partition wizard 9 software which finished successfully without errors! (all details available below): MY HARDDISK WAS RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE...
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    Windows 7 Can't move or delete files on portable USB 2.5" drive

    I run Win 7 on a Dell XPS M1530 running on AC power. I attached an Iomega USB 2.5" portable drive and booted up. This drive worked OK when last used with a desktop PC. I wanted to delete unused and old files from the drive, but can't. I also can't transfer them to the laptop. They do open...
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    Windows 7 CD problem

    I have had a problem with my cd accepting different types of cd's. I purchased some 4x 4.7gb cd-rw disk that I was assured would work on my newer model HP laptop. I had trouble getting a new cd's to format at first, but somehow got one to format and select data. Now my cd works fine with the...
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    Windows 7 HELP Remove Vista and stay with 7

    hello to everyone, First of all i want to say thanks in advanced to any person who helps me with the problem I am about to present to your guys. I have two hard disk drive(not 1 with 2 partition), first HDD 55GB with Windows Vista Ultimate, and the second HDD 460GB it used to be empty. I...
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    Windows 7 Back up failure

    I've been having tremendous difficulty backing up my drives. I keep getting the following atapi and volsnap source errors in event view - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. volsnap - The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure...
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    Windows 7 BitLocker drive Decryption

    Hi, I had set one of my drives to start Encrypting using BitLocker and it was taking too long so I decided to cancel the encryption. This then started Decrypting my drive which was going well... Now I keep getting an error message from BitLocker on the bottom right next to the time saying...
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    Windows 7 64 bit installation issue

    I have installed W7 32 on a laptop. It is running. I am now trying to install W7 64 on my desktop. I can't get past the drive partitioning screen. I deleted the partitions and repartitioned it and formatted it but it is still telling me it can't install on this drive because the hardware may not...