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    [SOLVED] Re-use disks from Linux software RAID array

    Hi, Thanks all for your help! After considering the risk of loosing the data, I decided to follow another path that worked at the end fine. In the Disk Utility of the Debian OS, I removed one disk from the RAID 1 array For that disk (/dev/sdb) o I deleted the RAID partition...
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    [SOLVED] Re-use disks from Linux software RAID array

    Hi! I have a RAID 1 array with two disks running Debian (not an up to date OS version). I provide at the bottom of the email the fdisk -l command output. The disks are formatted with NTFS-3G, they have only data and not any primary partition for booting the OS. What I want to do is: stop the...
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    Question How to create an MBR/Boot loader on a Windows 10 laptop

    It finally worked when using the below commands diskpart list disk (select disk containing windows. If one disk present, then disk number is 0) select disk 0 list partition (select 100MB system partition, partition number either 1, 2 or 3) select partition 3 format active assign letter=H list...
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    Question How to create an MBR/Boot loader on a Windows 10 laptop

    I have followed the above instructions, all commands successfully executed. I entered BIOS, I can only see my Windows hard disk as one entity (no volumes or partitions). When I try to boot the laptop, I get the below error message: "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any...
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    Question How to create an MBR/Boot loader on a Windows 10 laptop

    I cannot boot my laptop, the data disk with the boot loader has got corrupted some how. Now this disk is removed and I only have the Windows 10 disk that I cannot boot. Is there any tool to boot with and use it for this purpose? Can I boot with the abovementioned tools and get into a runtime...
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    Question How to create an MBR/Boot loader on a Windows 10 laptop

    Hi! I have a laptop with two disk bays, I have one hard disk with Windows 10 and another hard disk with data files. The MBR/bootloader was initially installed in the data disk (as it was in position 0). Now I need to replace it with a bigger disk. When I remove it and try to start the laptop...
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    Intel NUC cannot standby

    This is now solved! I ran a 'energy report' by typing "powercfg -energy" into the command prompt (at administrator level). This showed that there were some errors triggered by a service called irmtservice.exe After doing some investigation, I found out that this was the Intel(R) Ready Mode...
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    Intel NUC cannot standby

    Hi, I have installed Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit on an Intel NUC NUC6i5SYH. My computer cannot enter standby, neither automatically nor manually. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? I have checked all potential devices including keyboard, mouse, NIC in the device manager. Thanks! Akis