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  1. Windows 11 M2.NVME 4TB is no longer displayed after unsuccessful data transfer

    Hello everyone, I have a problem with NVME hard drives, 3 of them by now. I work with Windows 11 Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz and I have done the data transfer with EaseUS Partition Wizard Pro. The NVME's are installed as follows: 1 x directly on the mainboard (MACHINIST...
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    How do I manage all partition flag types in Windows

    In Linux GParted, I may remove or add partition flags on GPT disk. How do I manage all of the same flags in Windows? Low hanging fruit, I already have several softwares can change partition type ID, I am not asking about that. Please only reply if you have personally done it. Thanks.
  3. Booting a cloned disk

    Hello! I'm trying to clone my 512GB SSD to my much larger 4TB USB hard drive, without disrupting the other partitions. I've tried cloning 3 different ways: GParted, Macrium reflect cloning, and Macrium Reflect image and then restored to the drive. In each case I cannot boot. Though the clone is...
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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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    File permissions changed by themselves?

    Hi, I went to made a new virtual box on a drive which was recently convertde to go from several partitions to just one, and although I can read files I cannot delete them or indeed write a new file to the drive. Not sure how this has come about. How can I get it back to normal? The username of...
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    Understanding GParted's Cancel Function During HDD Partition Resizing

    Hi, As I have been getting on well with my installation of Linux Ubtuntu 20.04 on a SSD I installed it to a few months back, I decided to delete the partition I was using it from on a HDD and extend the partition for saved data to utilised the entire HDD. However rather than simply extend the...
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    ISO images bootable only in Legacy BIOS OR (!) UEFI ? Decision at ISO creation time or at storage on USB flash drive?

    As you known there are many sofwtare tools available which offer not only a setup.exe but an ISO to download. This ISO can either be burned on a CD/DVD or put onto an USB Flash drive. I am NOT talking about Win10 ISO images but other software like (examples): - Gparted GParted -- Live...
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    booting to external drive

    For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Next I use...
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    Windows 7 Create "System Reserved" partition on second D: drive.

    Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing". Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...
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    Windows 7 I'm in Hel... strange partition errors keeping me from installing W7 64-bit

    Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...
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    Windows 10 Problem installing to a GPT partition

    I'm trying to install win10 to a new SSD on an intel NUC5i5RYK. I created a GPT partition table containing two equal size partitions using GPARTED (Knoppix). Then I booted to a win10 install DVD (usb device) using the default bios settings. Windows setup shows the two primary partitions...
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    Windows 7 Need help installing a OS

    I have removed all the partitions on my hard drive(which was probably stupid) so that i could start from scratch. The problem i have is that when i try and use the windows 7 installation disk i get a message saying that my hard drive needs a partition. I have a created a ntfs partition with...
  13. Windows 8 Windows 8 OEM on logical partition

    I'm getting a new Lenovo G510 (or possibly Z500) in a few days, and was trying to decide how to manage the operating systems I'm going to install. What I would like to do is: Primary Partition - Ubuntu or Mint (Most Frequently Used) Primary Partition - Storage Extended Partition 2 logical...
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    Windows 7 Windows gone

    Hi there guys and girls. So I decided to try Windows 8 on my Windows 7 PC so I went ahead and try dual boot. I entered the W8 setup screen and when I got to the part where I need to select a partition I wasn't able to because I was told I needed a GPT partition so I went ahead and opened a...
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    Windows 7 registration key not accept ed

    I have a netbook that originally had XP installed. I upgraded to Win7 and experienced no problems. Thought I would try Linux Ubuntu...too much for me. Had to download Gparted to slick disk. Worked well, reinstalled Win7 using a legally purchased upgrade disk...no probs until activation time...
  16. Windows 7 Merging unallocated space boot partition

    I added an SSD to my PC yesterday and have managed to get windows installed on it. As I didn't remove my old HDD with windows on it before there was a little messing around to get windows installed on the SSD and I've somehow managed to end up with the 100Mb of unallocated space that would be...
  17. Windows 7 [Windows 7 x64] Computer restarts/reboots after loading logo

    Hello everyone, I thought I'd make this one easy to read. I basically am stuck inside a boot-loop. My actions: I thought I'd speed up my computer by getting rid of all my partition on my system drive and moving my windows 7 partition at the beginning of the the disk, as it was previously...
  18. Windows 8 Windows 8 won't allow me to add a second hard drive

    I try to add a second internal SATA 6 hard drive to my computer. On restart, Windows 8 gives a message "Preparing for Repair" and after few seconds it restarts computer and again the same message and continues to restart. This SATA was already working smoothly with Windows 7 and Windows 8 RP...
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    Windows 7 Extended primary partition and can no loger dual boot

    Hi all: I'm running windows 7 in a dual boot configuration. Both OS installs are on a single physical drive (drive 0) and partitioned as C: and D: The primary install is on C: and I needed to extend the partition as I was running out of space; however the D: partition was immediately to the...
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    Windows 7 BSOD on brand new build, please advise

    Hello everyone, I just finished with a brand new custom built computer, and it's BSOD'd on me twice. The first time borked Windows so hard that it messed with the MBR and I had to use gparted to get it all ironed out so that I could reinstall. The second time wasn't so fatal so I have all the...