Formatting a hard drive is a fundamental task that comes into play when setting up a new storage device or preparing an existing one for reallocation. Whether you’re installing Windows 11 or 10, formatting sets up the disk to store files in a format that the operating system can utilize. This...
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OneDrive had files and folders which were present from a previous Windows 11 installation ('Documents' libraries). Old 'Documents' and old 'Photos' were kept so that I could go through them over a period of time, removing any old files I did not need.
Once I...
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When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...
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Assume I have a certain huge (> 2 GB) file and a second backup version of it on an external hard disk.
Both have exactly the same size and dates.
However when I compare them binary at the cmdprompt simplified with
fc /b D:\myfile123.enc H:\myfile123.enc
Then there are somewhere differences...
I am sick of defragmenting really. My largest free space extent is 234.4GB. Why cant Microsoft just improve NTFS to stop fragmentation instead of relying on defragmentation? look at HFS+ and ext4 they prevent fragmentation first!
Well, my nephew dropped his laptop with win 7 (Dell) and their software/recovery stuff is cr*p (you don't get an actual windows disk when you buy the product - thanks Dell!) and it won't boot so I tried to help him recover gigs of music etc from the "bad disk". Using win 8.1 I was able to buy...
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Hi I am having an issue I use Windows 7 and I use WMP to listen to my music. Recently I noticed that sometimes when I download music in a Zip Drive or just a straight File Download that the Album, Artist, Year, All Meta-Data appears to be missing.
If I add it to my library in WMP, I can edit...
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I had to clean install yesterday and rightfully so, i lost all of my date from drive (D). Now, i would like to know how to recover any of this data after formatting? (How do i make my internal HDD become a slave and therefore readable and able to recover data?)
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Anytime I create a backup with True Image, and then analyze it with O&O Defrag, it always shows the entire backup as being fragmented. I have always let it remain that way, because long ago I asked about this somewhere (can't remember now), and was told it was better not to defrag it. However...
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I have two Internal Hard disks in my system. First one is partitioned and used for system. i don't have problem on this hard disk. My second hard disk is 500 GB, and is not partitioned. I m using this drive for storing movies and music. The problem I faced is two of the folders are...
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Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover joins Charles Torre to discuss Windows Server 2012, cloud computing, modern file systems, modern storage, and the cloud. It's rather mind-boggling how many new technologies have found their way into Windows Server 2012.
Of course, we also talk about...
The statvfs() call in SUA may fail with the following error on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 based system: statvfs(): errno = 88 (Value too large to be stored in data type)
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Why do files moved to an external drive not behave the same as those same files in an internal drive? I noticed that if I do anything to a file that is in an external drive, that file can not be saved under the same name (read only). In order to do so one must save it internally and then copy or...
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Describe a hotfix that adds a new information class to Windows 7 and to Windows Server 2008 R2. This information class is used to return a "FILE_FS_SECTOR_SIZE_INFORMATION" structure that contains information about the physical and logical sector sizes...
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