On my late 2009 iMac, Disk Utility tells me my internal HDD is corrupted, and to boot from the recovery partition to repair it. I am running the system off the external HDD right now and holding option at start has no result. How do I get back to a working state? Answer Presumably holding … Read more
I have a btrfs filesystem with redundant metadata in a virtualbox image. After a host system crash the btrfs partition experienced some corruption, which is counter to the guarantees of the filesystem, which suggests that virtualbox is violating those guarantees. How do I get VBox to behave? Answer There appear to be two solutions disable … Read more
So I have two 3TB HDDs, one being the backup of the other, almost full (containing mostly videos, TV documentaries and whatnot), with no hardware issues (SMART parameters are all fine). I plugged one of them through an Akasa Integral external enclosure, in USB 2.0, to my laptop PC running on Windows Vista. The HDD … Read more
How to reset my acer predator laptop? My C drive is corrupted as my laptop force shut down during an update. It’s stuck in boot and won’t go past troubleshooting screen. Tried: Alt+f10 to reset, no option to be seen Media creation tool to repair Media creation tool to install new windows (Says the drive … Read more
I posted this on stackexcange but people say it would be better to post here. So I copied and pasted I have an sd card and I normally use it on a chromebook and it has no problems, but when I put it into my windows computer The SDcard will show 100% active time with … Read more
I have recently encountered the error “upcase table is not found” on my SD card formatted with exFAT, after it worked just fine the previous day. No tool I tried on Windows or Linux could fix that issue, even though it seems rather trivial from my investigations. I know the supposed contents of the upcase … Read more
So I turned on my laptop today only to discover my laptop was restoring the bios, meaning the bios got corrupted. I never have done a bios update on this laptop, so I am wondering how did the bios get corrupted than? Usually if this happens it is because during a bios update, the laptop … Read more
This question already has answers here: How to fix corrupted filesystem (shows as RAW) in USB device? (9 answers) 8GB USB drive shows 8MB size, can’t format (1 answer) What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only? (3 answers) Closed 6 months ago. What happened. I just got a usb … Read more
I have a windows 7 desktop. Today when I tried to start it. A black screen appeared. With option 1) continue with resume data 2)delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu But the keyboard and mouse is not working I tried myself with this methods 1) removed the motherboard battery and put it … Read more
I have a 32 GB USB stick with totally corrupted filesystem and a laptop with Ubuntu. I have run the command dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/sdb1 16 days ago and it is still running. It has been using 100% of one cpu all this time. In stdout I currently see messages like … Read more
