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Some manufacturers of external hard drives with capacity exceeding MBR partition capacity seem to sell them pre-partitioned to a 2TiB partition and one with the remaining capacity. Tools are available to make a single, larger partition out of these (at least I think I learned as much from amazon reviews of such products; presumably the disk is in GPT mode afterwards). Can I go the other way, i.e. use the full space of a 3TB drive, while at least one partition can be used in MBR mode (for booting Windows in a non-UEFI machine)? The drive is a 3.5" HD Seagate Barracuda something currently inside a USB 3 box. This Seagate Disk Wizard (pdf) for Windows, which may not be helpful anyway, refuses to install for alleged lack of a Seagate HD. I have a (non-UEFI) PC (with SATA I only) available and would not be afraid to use linux-based tools.

I currently own a HP EliteBook 8530p laptop. The screen resolution is 1280x800. This is way too low for my standards, so I'm considering ordering another laptop screen with a higher resolution (for example this one , 1920x1200). Problem is, I searched some forums and it seems some people succeed in replacing their laptop screen with another resolution, but some other people don't. The laptop just doesn't recognize the new resolution, they are forced into the original resolution. My question is: will this work on my laptop? Answer This will often depend on the graphics chip in your laptop. Replacing your screen with a replacement provided by HP should generally work, assuming your graphics chip supports the resolution you're moving to. Another issue could be with the drivers provided by HP. A generic driver provided by ATI or Nvidia should be able to scale to the maximum resolution for your chip and monitor, but theoretically, HP could limit the maximum resolution supp...

I'm looking for a program to show me which files/directories occupy the most space, something like: 74% music \- 60% music1 \- 14% music2 12% code 13% other I know that it's possible in KDE3, but I'd rather not do that - KDE4 or command line are preferred. Answer To find the largest 10 files (linux/bash): find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} To find the largest 10 directories: find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} Only difference is -type {d:f} . Handles files with spaces in the names, and produces human readable file sizes in the output. Largest file listed last. The argument to tail is the number of results you see (here the 10 largest). There are two techniques used to handle spaces in file names. The find -print0 | xargs -0 uses null delimiters instead of spaces, and the second xargs -I{} uses newlines instead of spaces to terminate input items. example: $ fi...

I have a Pen-drive of 8GB, I have 2 partitions on it, one of 15MB and another of the remaining (7GB+). I know that Windows only recognizes the first partition, is there any way to mount the second partition on Windows. Answer There seems to be a registry hack available for windows. Try the following post. USB-Sticks and multiple Partitions

Note: I've read several solutions to this problem, all of which seem to involve looking for a key in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration , which is prefixed with SIMULATED_ . I have no such key in there. I only have two keys: One that represents two of my 3 monitors, and another that represents all three. I tried deleting everything in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration and in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Connectivity and rebooted. This reset my monitor settings, and I had to re-arrange the desktops accordingly... but the problem still comes up now and again. Edit 1: I've noticed just now that when I woke the monitors, my center monitor was set to a resolution of 1920x1080 while the side monitors were 2560x1440. So somehow, the resolution is getting changed at random, and (most of the time) it gets reverted back, thus causing the ...

This happens to me on a regular basis if I leave the computer for upwards of 10 minutes. It didnt do so at first but started after a couple of days. This is possibly related to further windows updates although nothing seems to tie in obviously when looking at my update history. I have to hold the power button in to power off. If the screens have switched off aswell they wont come back on, if they haven't I see the login picture and can move the mouse pointer but nothing happens and no combination of keyboard mashes or mouse clicks lets me see the login prompt. In the event log (type event viewer into the start menu) under system before every Critical problem (me powering down the machine without restarting) I get distributedCOM errors talking about this guid: "The server {BF6C1E47-86EC-4194-9CE5-13C15DCB2001} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout." I also get the same error for this 1B1F472E-3221-4826-97DB-2C2324D389AE. This seems to be a common theme and...

I am working on a project that uses a CSV file supplied by the client to populate a database. The client is to create the spreadsheet, then save it as a CSV to be uploaded, which is then parsed into a database. The problem is, whenever the client saves the excel spreadsheet as an MS-DOS .csv file, many of the special characters get converted to question marks "?" (symbols such as ' " / ). However, if we then open the CSV file and manually replace each ? with the right character it works fine. The problem is that the data file is HUGE, and we can't reasonably do this, so I was hoping there was a way to save it. We have tried exporting as Unicode and ASCII to no avail. We have also tried uploading to google docs, and re-saving, however, it also breaks those characters.