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    [SOLVED] SD card detected by Ubuntu but not by Windows.

    Hi Hard Toms, I have an issue with working with SD cards on my ThinkPad T550. The laptop has a built-in SD card reader. Windows 10 absolutely does not detect the SD cards, not in the Partition Manager, not with diskpart. In the Device Manager, I don't even find anything that looks like the...
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    [SOLVED] Windows drive broken after being used as storage for different system

    Sage advice for real. If I hypothetically were to screw with the new laptop next Monday morning, I'd definitely make a disk clone first and <Mod Edit> with the clone instead.
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    [SOLVED] Windows drive broken after being used as storage for different system

    Thanks anyways. I'll be in my room, pondering why bad things happen to good people. By the way, my boss' reaction: "Oh the thing is broken? All right, just put it back in the office, label it 'broken', and grab a new laptop from the rack." Gotta love that IT stoicism.
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    [SOLVED] Windows drive broken after being used as storage for different system

    It fails, unfortunately. I tried system recovery to an earlier point while the drive was in the original work laptop.
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    [SOLVED] Windows drive broken after being used as storage for different system

    Hey guys, it seems I have broken my work PC, possibly corrupted the drive with my recklessness. I'm in home office, so I recently removed the SSD from my work laptop and put it in my personal drive. For one week, it was amazing - whenever I wanted to work, I could just boot from the work SSD...