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  1. ddresmew

    Question Is there a way to backup/clone a partition without wiping data on the destination drive?

    Hi everyone, I've been trying for days, and out of frustration I thought I should ask for advice from you guys. Here's my issue: I have this external 500GB HDD that contains very important files. It's formatted to NTFS and has been failing to read/write, shows some bad sectors (forgot how many...
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    Question Partition disppeared , again even after fresh windows install.

    I was downloading some thing and then suddenly my downloaded file disappear. That's when I found out all of my drive that isn't boot drive are disappear again. Around 15 days ago, I encouter this problem after I change my motherboard from B450 to X570. I thought I fix it by fresh install window...
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    [SOLVED] Partition keep disappearing after changing the MB

    I changed my motherboard from B450 Tomahawk Max to X570 Aorus Elite. Everything went fine except all of my sata device all disappear. If I went to Disk Management , it said that all the sata disk need to be intialize before logical disk manager can access it. I found a way to fix this problem...
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    [SOLVED] Testdisk deleted all partitions?

    So I recently deleted my Linux partition on accident, and I found out that Testdisk is able to recover it, so I went ahead and downloaded it and tried to recover the partition. I found the partition listed as "D - Linux", then I changed it to "* - Linux", then chose "write". It then prompted...
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    4TB external HDD, witch one is the best? STDT4000100 or STBV4000100?

    This one is 20 dolars more expensive: - Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Desktop External Hard Drive STDT4000100 http://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Backup-Desktop-External-STDT4000100/dp/B00HFRWXQ0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396907874&sr=8-2&keywords=4tb This one is cheapper: - Seagate Expansion 4TB Desktop...