While they hadn’t said as much to the Secretary-General or the public, it was becoming increasingly clear to members of UIDT that they were closing in on the last remnants of the computer virus scourge. Dividing themselves into teams, some Agents picked out the most likely logs and accounts to search for suspicious activities. Others plotted more offensive maneuvers, choosing suspicious targets to strike, consequences be damned. Some even willingly offered their own computers as testing material.
The attacks began in unison. For hours, there was very little noise other than keyboards clacking, mouses clicking, and whispered conversations about the work being done. Then, without warning, computer screens began to turn blue, forcing Agents to leave their stations.
Tensions were high by the end of the day, but no one looked ready to stop the fight.
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My grandmother recently passed, and we are fairly certain the most up to date version of her will is on this computer. I have tried to go through the startup repair and change the password through the command prompt, but when it gets time to access the files Recovery Manger screen is what pops up showing “Cyberlink” and “Contact HP Support”- not allowing me to alter anything. The only options are Microsoft System Restore, Microsoft Startup repair tool, System Recovery, and File Backup Program. Does anybody know what other way I can use to access this computer? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I recently saw someone share a pretty negative post about Vaesen on a discord group, and there was an outpouring of folks sharing ideas for how the user might be able to better tweak or adjust the game to work the way they wanted it to. It got me thinking and I was just curious -- what would you want to see changed or updated if Vaesen ever got a 2nd or revised edition? For me, there are three big things.

• Experience Points: After playing in a long-running campaign (we are having our 21st session this week!), I've found that the XP leveling for the players gets pretty wild. We have all absolutely LOVED the HQ Developments, but the PC leveling feels comparatively underbaked. I would love to see either slower progression (XP at the end of the Mystery rather than the end of the session) or an overhaul to the XP system. Personally, I'd allow characters to increase their Attributes (which currently they can't), scale the cost for Skills and Talents based on what you're getting similar to the old World of Darkness system (so increasing a Skill from 2 to 3 would cost 15 rather than 5 XP, etc.) and Minor and Major Talents with prerequisites to allow a bit more of a "build" for characters. This could make the system a little crunchier, but I don't think it'd be so much that things would get bogged down or that it would really favor min-maxing.
• Healing and Condition Recovery: Right now there are simultaneously too many and too few ways to heal Conditions. Between healing Critical Injuries versus Conditions, mementos, services and resting, it's theoretically easy to remove Conditions but there's just so many options. I think I'd cut everything except for HQ Development Healing and Medicine and Inspiration, and then have PCs heal all Conditions at the end of a Mystery. I would also change mementos from healing Conditions to providing +1 automatic success once per Mystery.
• Specific Damage: This one is admittedly a bit niche, but poison, explosions, fire and drowning all should really have unique Critical Injuries if a character becomes broken via this special damage. Especially given how many vaesen can cause you to drown, it seems especially weird that you might be underwater and suffer splinters in your body or be set on fire and suffer from crushed genitals. I'm fine if they only use a d6 of results, but this is something I'd really like to see and when I have more time might work on a free supplement for.

So how about you? What kinds of changes, updates or revisions would you want to see in Vaesen?

I have an SPX that had been used in a work environment and the bitlocker was tripped, with nowhere to get the recovery key. I've gone down that road as far as it would go, and no dice. So, I tried to reset with the official recovery image, and it would not boot from the drive I had formatted and configured correctly.
I got to the point where I probably should have asked here first, but instead just wiped all partitions with diskpart, which highlights how unfamiliar I am with Surface devices. Now there's no baked in recovery utility to use to try and boot from, since the "recovery image" relies on that.
Now I am attempting to use UUP Dump to get a win11 arm64 iso file, but I have already attempted once, and there seem to be no drivers in the image created. I couldn't get any input to work, even when plugging in mouse/keyboard. No touch or folio keyboard.
Am I completely out of luck? Is there some deep dark depths where I can find drivers to put in the iso? Or is there some other miraculous way I can get this working again?

I have about 20 CDs/DVDs for recovery (some are bot damaged, I just assume it to be safe). Some have been weirdly damaged from close proximity to an rfid reader, some have been quickly and completely erased (is recovery possible?) and some are just old.
What is the equivalent to a HDD image with DVDs? (Or is it just the logical image the drive gets? Any recommended drives?) Also, what software should I use, ex. Is IsoBuster superior to DDrescue? I want to get the best possible image.

I wanted to add my own interesting experience here for anyone on Ubuntu 22.04 running Bookstack v24.02.3 and Nginx.
The latest Bookstack v24.05 requires PHP 8.1 or higher. FYI, stock 22.04 has PHP v8.1.x, so you should be OK.
I thought - why not upgrade the Ubuntu distribution to 24.04 (latest at time of this writing) in order to get PHP 8.3 and hedge against future releases? I've been able to do Ubuntu in-place upgrades for the last one or two releases without issue. We are on hypervisors so snapshotting and attempting upgrades has very little risk.
My initial installation of Ubuntu basically stock wizard-click - not much attention to partitioning because everything is running on a SAN / virtual machine. So the /boot partition was the abysmally small 450MB or so default, and the rest of everything is on an LVM2 partition which can be easily managed in various ways.
As it turns out, you have to first upgrade to 23.x and then to 24.04 beacuse the normal release cadence doesn't get exposed until August 2024 when they release 24.04.1. The upgrade stopped short because there wasn't enough room on the /boot partition to support this process. Running apt autoremove didn't come anywhere close to solving the problem.
And thus began my hours long trail of tears attempting to expand the /boot drive. Never did I imagine how difficult this would be to do, and I sorely wish I had paid more attention to partitioning it properly in the first place, or (despite 'best practices') putting the /boot in the LVM parition.
Let's just say you'll need Kubuntu mountable .iso, and a carefully curated series of steps to do it properly. Here are my steps in general; you still need to know what you're doing, this is not a point click manual. Try at your own risk, this is just a hope it could save people time.

Assumptions

• You're on a virtual machine. If not, this is still possible, but it won't be an exact recipe.
• Ensure you have a backup.
• We're going to move the default Ubuntu installation "/boot" partition to another, larger "/boot" partition. It will remain outside of and not participating in an LVM.
• This assumes you're on a simplistic "/dev/sda" kind of configuration. If not, pay special attention to what you're editing in order to match your setup.
• You have sudo privileges.
• If you encounter an error, stop and revert or get help.

How to

This was performed on 22.04.x LTS.
Before starting, know the boot partition format (ext2, ext4, etc.) and its size. It should hopefully be easily recognizable by its very small size. You can get this by simply Do: "df -h"

• Download the latest Kubuntu release.
• Mount the Kubuntu .iso to your VM.
• Add 5GB of unallocated space to the exsting VM disk using VMWare, Nutanix, hypervisor of choice.
• Power on VM.
• Choose "Try Kubuntu" at boot prompt
• Choose "Try Kubuntu" when presented to get live boot, close welcome screen
• Start / Run "KDE Partition Manager" (no root password when prompted just continue)
• Ensure entire disk is selected on the left hand side
• You'll see a small (probably ext2) partition. Just ensure you're choosing the boot partition. Right-click "COPY".
• Choose the unallocated partition and right-click "PASTE".
  • A new screen will appear.
  • Expand the bar to the right by click-dragging it to be the maximum. This can be frustrating because the ability to drag is like a pixel wide. Just ensure it consumes the entire bar.
  • Click OK.
• At the bottom in pending operations it will state something like, "Copy parition /dev/sda1 (XXXmb) to unallocated space starting at (something) on /dev/sda and grow it to 5.00 GiB"
• Click "Apply"
• You will now have a new partition "/dev/sda3" or the like, depending on your original installation.
• Right-click the original boot partition and click "Properties".
• Uncheck the "boot" flag. Click "OK".
• Click "Apply"
• Right-click the new partition and click "Properties".
• Check the "boot" flag. Click "OK".
• Click "Apply"
• Right-click the new partition and click "Edit Mount Point". In the Path, type, "/boot" and click OK. It should spout something about overwriting "/etc/fstab", which it claims to do but doesn't... probably because it's a live CD. Click "Save Changes".
• Right-click the new parition and click "Properties".
• Screenshot the new UUID. We can get it again easily later for copy/paste.
• Close the partition manager and reboot to your normal Ubuntu installation.

It's going to use the old partition to boot, because we haven't updated the rest yet in the live system. Once the system is back up, do the following:

• Do: "df -h" you should see "/boot" still on the old partition with very little room. This is normal.
• Do: "sudo blkid"
• This should show you the UUID of the new partition as something like /dev/sda3 or the like. Copy it.
• Do "sudo nano /etc/fstab". Consider making a backup before you edit, just in case.
  • Copy the old /boot entry to another line, then comment out the old one.
  • Replace the new line UUID with the new UUID. Save changes.
• Reboot, log in.
• Now we want to tell Grub about our new boot partition.
  • Do: "sudo grub-install /dev/sda".
  • Do: "sudo update-grub".
• Reboot, log in.
• Do: "df -h". You should see your new partition (mine was /dev/sda3) as the "/boot" partition with lots of free space! If not, stop here and read up or revert.
• We're going to remove the old partition:
  • Do "sudo parted"
  • Do "print all". This will show you the partitions - get the number of the old boot partition you want to remove.
  • Do "rm 1" (or whatever number your original boot partition was).
  • Do "print all" and ensure the partition is gone.
  • Do "quit" to quit.
• Reboot and ensure all is well.

You will have a partition left that you can't do anything about, or at least that I'm aware of. Considering it's probably 500MB, it's not a worry to me. If you look at it in Kubuntu, it is unallocated space.

Hello,
I have a customer who's R630 is not successfully booting.
We were getting Error UEFI0116.
With Error UEFI0116 we were not able to boot to System Setup through F2. It was giving us only access to the Integrated RAID Controller Configuration Utility which showed;
Virtual Disk 0: VDisk1, RAID10, 2.181TB, Failed.
I was also able to check the Associated Physical Disks and it was only showing bays 2,5,6,7.
I had to make some changes in order to clear that error and be able to boot and access any other menus. I tried troubleshooting with the information the customer provided and seeing if any possible bios changes through a potential firmware update were giving us errors that were not allowing boot to fully complete.
Unfortunately we kept hitting that wall:"Virtual Disk 0: VDisk1, RAID10, 2.181TB, Failed."
I saw a number of logs like this:
//
Disk 0 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 is not functioning correctly.
Virtual Disk 0 on Integrated RAID Controller 1 has failed.
Disk 0 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 was reset.
//
...
I have continued troubleshooting and moved some disks around to test the bays and my results are weird. For example, some disks work on some slots but not others. ie; Disk 0 will not work in Bay 0, but will work in Bay 6. Then it stops working completely.
Other times the menu "Physical Disk Management" will show
"Physical Disk 00:01:02: HDD..."
Sometimes it will show:
"Physical Disk --:--:02: HDD..."

My issue are...
I don't have a working configuration to compare this to.
I don't have any information on this system from the customer.
His brother set it up long ago and he is now retired and does not know much about the system or how it was configured.
I know the RAID was in RAID10, but that is all.
I don't know if there were any hot spares. I don't know what is the minimum amount of drives we need to rebuild the RAID. (IF we were to get Data Recovery on some possibly failed drives.)
I am drawing at straws trying to fix this.
The customer suggested I re-seat the PERC controller and cabling with the power off. (Probably suggested by his brother). Now no previous virtual disks show.

(TL:DR;) Some questions:
1) Back when there was a Virtual Disk in the PERC Menu; I went to View Associated Physical Disks and it only showed 2,5,6,7. Does this mean this was the ONLY disk Associated? Or was it only showing the Associate disks that were available?
2) How screwed is this system? I read once a RAID reaches Failed State it is difficult to recover. Customer did absolutely no maintenance on this system and left it very neglected. His main goal is to get one data file for his "Dispatching Software".
Worst comes to worst we can't fix this RAID, but would we be able to at least use Data Recovery to try to find this specific file?
Help much appreciated.

Hi everyone,
I'm reaching out for assistance with troubleshooting an Acer Aspire EasyStore H340 network-attached storage server, which I'm repairing for a friend.
The server is running Windows Home Server, and the laptop used for accessing it is running Windows 7. We want to figure out a way to use the home server despite it being so old.
Here's a summary of the issues I'm encountering and the steps I've taken so far:

1. Accessing the Console: Unfortunately, we've forgotten the password to access the Windows Home Server console. Attempts to reinstall the client resulted in a network connectivity error.
2. Connection: Despite being on the same network, the tray icon on the Windows 7 laptop indicates that the home server and laptop are not connected. We're unsure why they aren't connecting.
3. Resetting the Server: Following the instructions in the online manual, we attempted to reset the server using a paperclip on the reset button, but it didn't yield any changes or improvements in connectivity.
4. Assessing Indicators: After booting, the System Status indicator turns solid red. The HDD Access indicators for slots 2 and 3 turn red regardless of whether disks are present. The HDD Status indicator doesn't react despite the access indicators turning red.
5. Running Diagnostic Test: We tried to run a diagnostic test using an "annie.gho" file on a USB drive, but it didn't work as expected. The HDD Access indicators didn't flash, and no log file was generated. We’re not exactly sure how to use that file to run the test though, so it could be an error on our part.

Current issues include:

• Lack of access to the home server console due to a forgotten password.
• Inability to establish a connection between the server and the Windows 7 laptop.
• Absence of recovery disks for resetting the server.
• Indicators not responding correctly, particularly the HDD Access indicators.
• The diagnostic test not returning results.

There is currently no data saved on the disks so we’re open to any factory reset type of methods.
If anyone has experience troubleshooting Acer Aspire EasyStore H340 servers or similar NAS devices, I would greatly appreciate any advice or guidance on resolving these issues.

I wanted to track my progress and also maybe provide helpful insight for those looking to get surgery. I'll be updating this every few days.
SYMPTOMS/CONTEXT:
I 28f had a severe herniated disk at the l4/l5 disc since 2021 was working towards treatment in 2022 but lost my insurance at the new year of 2023 and went the entire year without seeing any doctors. In Dec of 2023 i was able to get a new job and back on the original insurance and pick up where i left off. At the time of my most recent MRI in Feb 2024 the herniation was described as severe causing severe stenosis and nerve impingement it measured 19x10x19mm. My symptoms continued to worsen to the point I was unable to do much of anything, sitting, standing, laying down all hurt, I barely slept because I'd be in severe pain from laying down within a few hours. I couldn't drive, I lost weight because I couldn't sit or stand long enough to cook and just laid in bed tossing and turning. I didn't shower, brush my hair, walk my dog, clean my house or go anywhere unless I absolutely had to. I could likely count the number of times I left my house between February and May on both hands. Pain was majority in my left side, hip and gluten, behind my knee and I had numbness in the front of my lower left leg and the top of my left foot. My right leg and foot had existing nerve damage because I have had this issue before from a snowboarding accident. I had existing numbness and weakness in the right leg which worsened to the point I couldn't wiggle my toes and had poor balance. I have saddle area numbness, urinary retention and incontinence and bowel incontinence when my stool is too soft. Again all of which worsened.
THE SURGERY:
I had surgery on May 9th, I was expected to be admitted for 1 day because my surgeon expected he would need to remove bone on the right side not just the left to get all the disc material. He was able to open me up on the left side and get everything out. However, my disc material had pressed my nerve into the bone and wore it very very thing and the dura tore causing a CSF leak. A neurosurgeon assisted in closing up the leak. My surgeon was impressed by the size of the herniation and took pictures to show me at our next post op appointment, saying my entire disc had essentally been blown out into the small space which was what was making my symptoms so bad, there was no room left for my nerve. There were no complications.
RECOVERY
DAY 1-5: I ended up having to lay flat for 48 hours due to the dural tear. After which I was allowed to sit up. The pain was mostly from soreness but I have having nerve pain that pulsed from my back into my glute. It would wake me up out of my drug induced sleep. I also ended up getting my period on the 2nd day which caused a lot of back soreness and cramping. I think a lot of my discomfort was due to being stuck in bed because PT and OT had not seen me and I wasn't able to leave the bed unattended. On day 3 I was able to get up and they removed my foley and the little leg wraps that fill with air to keep up with circulation. I was able to go to the bathroom and move pretty well with my cane around the room. This continued until day 5 where I was able to meet with PT and OT we walked the halls of the hospital and I was permitted to go home. The car ride was extremely uncomfortable. I was able to shower for the first time since the day before surgery using a shower chair and while difficult to not twist etc it was tolerable. The least painful shower ive had in almost 2 years. I found myself extremely sore by the end of day 5.
DAY 6: (05/14) as of this post this is my current day. I still have the throbbing pain but mostly this seems to be stirred up by movement. Mostly going from a laying down to sitting position. Though it does still randomly occur while I am laying down but not nearly as much. I'm about half way through the day and have found that laying on my right side is far more comfortable than my left side. I have tried sitting in a recliner and just leaning back but this seems to put too much pressure on my back and incision site so I have been mostly in bed or laying on my couch which is very firm and easy to get up and down from. I won't have anyone staying with me after today and I'm confident that I'll be able to handle things on my own. Other than the pain relief I have not noticed any improvement to the other symptoms I had, numbness, weakness etc remain the same.

I wanted to track my progress and also maybe provide helpful insight for those looking to get surgery. I'll be updating this every few days.
SYMPTOMS/CONTEXT:
I 28f had a severe herniated disk at the l4/l5 disc since 2021 was working towards treatment in 2022 but lost my insurance at the new year of 2023 and went the entire year without seeing any doctors. In Dec of 2023 i was able to get a new job and back on the original insurance and pick up where i left off. At the time of my most recent MRI in Feb 2024 the herniation was described as severe causing severe stenosis and nerve impingement it measured 19x10x19mm. My symptoms continued to worsen to the point I was unable to do much of anything, sitting, standing, laying down all hurt, I barely slept because I'd be in severe pain from laying down within a few hours. I couldn't drive, I lost weight because I couldn't sit or stand long enough to cook and just laid in bed tossing and turning. I didn't shower, brush my hair, walk my dog, clean my house or go anywhere unless I absolutely had to. I could likely count the number of times I left my house between February and May on both hands. Pain was majority in my left side, hip and gluten, behind my knee and I had numbness in the front of my lower left leg and the top of my left foot. My right leg and foot had existing nerve damage because I have had this issue before from a snowboarding accident. I had existing numbness and weakness in the right leg which worsened to the point I couldn't wiggle my toes and had poor balance. I have saddle area numbness, urinary retention and incontinence and bowel incontinence when my stool is too soft. Again all of which worsened.
THE SURGERY:
I had surgery on May 9th, I was expected to be admitted for 1 day because my surgeon expected he would need to remove bone on the right side not just the left to get all the disc material. He was able to open me up on the left side and get everything out. However, my disc material had pressed my nerve into the bone and wore it very very thing and the dura tore causing a CSF leak. A neurosurgeon assisted in closing up the leak. My surgeon was impressed by the size of the herniation and took pictures to show me at our next post op appointment, saying my entire disc had essentally been blown out into the small space which was what was making my symptoms so bad, there was no room left for my nerve. There were no complications.
RECOVERY
DAY 1-5: I ended up having to lay flat for 48 hours due to the dural tear. After which I was allowed to sit up. The pain was mostly from soreness but I have having nerve pain that pulsed from my back into my glute. It would wake me up out of my drug induced sleep. I also ended up getting my period on the 2nd day which caused a lot of back soreness and cramping. I think a lot of my discomfort was due to being stuck in bed because PT and OT had not seen me and I wasn't able to leave the bed unattended. On day 3 I was able to get up and they removed my foley and the little leg wraps that fill with air to keep up with circulation. I was able to go to the bathroom and move pretty well with my cane around the room. This continued until day 5 where I was able to meet with PT and OT we walked the halls of the hospital and I was permitted to go home. The car ride was extremely uncomfortable. I was able to shower for the first time since the day before surgery using a shower chair and while difficult to not twist etc it was tolerable. The least painful shower ive had in almost 2 years. I found myself extremely sore by the end of day 5.
DAY 6: (05/14) as of this post this is my current day. I still have the throbbing pain but mostly this seems to be stirred up by movement. Mostly going from a laying down to sitting position. Though it does still randomly occur while I am laying down but not nearly as much. I'm about half way through the day and have found that laying on my right side is far more comfortable than my left side. I have tried sitting in a recliner and just leaning back but this seems to put too much pressure on my back and incision site so I have been mostly in bed or laying on my couch which is very firm and easy to get up and down from. I won't have anyone staying with me after today and I'm confident that I'll be able to handle things on my own. Other than the pain relief I have not noticed any improvement to the other symptoms I had, numbness, weakness etc remain the same.

According to Valve’s SteamOS 3.6 patch notes, there’s quite a lot for Deck users to be looking forward to. Here’s a (slightly) truncated summary of what’s coming to the Steam Deck with this version of the SteamOS:
**A more up-to-date Arch Linux base, with Linux kernel now at version 6.5
**Updated GPU driver to Mesa 24.1, leading to performance and rendering correctness improvements
**Updated KDE Plasma to 5.27.10 in Desktop mode
**Added Steam Deck LCD BIOS overclock controls
**SD cards can now be used as the default boot devices
**Improved Apple AirPod pairing experience
**Improved session recovery speed after GPU crashes
**SanDisk microSD card misdetection workaround
**Improved speed of subsequent OS updates
**Enabled support for Bluetooth A2DP and BAP profiles
**Resolved the issue with an accrual of temporary files while using Flatpaks
**Improved Bluetooth connection speed with some devices
**Improved performance and stability in memory pressure use cases
**Resolved the problem with the performance UI automatically turning itself on
**Improved display uniformity (Mura compensation problems), color balance, and yellow tinting issues under some conditions
**Improved Steam UI responsiveness

My friend has an old Macbook Pro which hasn't been opened for a long time. A few days ago, we tried opening it, but the screen only seems to display a Folder Icon with a question mark. We were able to get it to internet recovery mode using Option/Option + Command + R. Both ways prompts us to connect to a Wifi and use internet recovery mode.
Using a different device, we browsed the net for a while, and it seems like we need to reinstall the Lion OS on it. We tried doing this through internet recovery mode but it displays an error. We searched the internet for answers and we found out that old OS such as lion are no longer available through internet recovery mode.
Using a Windows PC(it's the only available option) and Transmac, we made a bootable drive that contains Lion OS, however the Install Option doesn't seem to appear(started the macbook using the "option" button). The only choice given to us is to connect to Wifi and use the internet recovery mode which would then load for a very long time.
Here are the available options presented to us after the very long loading bar: - Restore from time machine back up - Reinstall Mac OS X - Get help offline - Disk utility (we confirmed that the flashdrive is readable because it appears here)
The model is a Macbook Pro A1286 (we don't know which specific year tho)
We are currently stuck and don't know what to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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My friend has an old Macbook Pro which hasn't been opened for a long time. A few days ago, we tried opening it, but the screen only seems to display a Folder Icon with a question mark. We were able to get it to internet recovery mode using Option/Option + Command + R. Both ways prompts us to connect to a Wifi and use internet recovery mode.
Using a different device, we browsed the net for a while, and it seems like we need to reinstall the Lion OS on it. We tried doing this through internet recovery mode but it displays an error. We searched the internet for answers and we found out that old OS such as lion are no longer available through internet recovery mode.
Using a Windows PC(it's the only available option) and Transmac, we made a bootable drive that contains Lion OS, however the Install Option doesn't seem to appear(started the macbook using the "option" button). The only choice given to us is to connect to Wifi and use the internet recovery mode which would then load for a very long time.
Here are the available options presented to us after the very long loading bar: - Restore from time machine back up - Reinstall Mac OS X - Get help offline - Disk utility (we confirmed that the flashdrive is readable because it appears here)
The model is a Macbook Pro A1286 (we don't know which specific year tho)
We are currently stuck and don't know what to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
Even if I consider myself a rather experienced user, I finally reach to this community after struggling for more than 2 days.
So here was my disk setup before I start messing everything, I then will explain my difficulties.

• 1 NVME SSD with a Windows 10 (that I still use sometimes) and Garuda Linux (which I do not use anymore) dual-boot
• 2 HHDs dedicated to Windows
• 1 256Gb SATA SSD with my Nobara (Fedora-based distro) install, of Corsair brand

The partition layout of this disk is as following: - 1Gb ext4 boot partion - 188Gb btrfs partition (with "/" and "home" subvolumes) - 32Gb swap partition
This Nobara SSD was becoming a bit small for me so I bought a Samsung SSD 870 QVO (SATA) of 1To as replacement.
I then tried to move my install to this new disk: First I booted on a gparted live ISO copied all partitions 1 by 1 but since the partitions UUIDs where kept the same, when I tried to boot with both the old and new disks, I found out the swap partition used was the one from the old disk.
So I tried to boot without the old disk connected, but wasn't able to reach Grub.
I then changed my strategy and did a fresh Nobara install then tried to copy my old partition onto the new one using btrfs tooling, but still couldn't achieve to boot and get the grub menu. I tried to change partions UUIDs, edit the /etc/fstab to reflect these changes, tried to use a boot repair live ISO but nothing worked. With the boot repair ISO I got an error "Please enable a repository containing the [grub-efi] in the software sources of Fedora Linux" that I could not manage to fix.
And to make matters worse, I managed in the process to corrupt the source partition, I don't know how, so it's not recognized as a btrfs partition anymore. "Luckily" if have a copy of this partition in my new install (that is still not booting) but resized so it takes advantage of the larger disk space, the only difference is that the /etc/fstab file has been modified.
Here is the current layout of my 2 disks: old one: - 1Gb ext4 boot flagged partion (no esp flag) - 188Gb unrecognized filesystem partition - 32Gb swap partition
new one: - 600Mb FAT32 with "boot, esp" flags partition - 1Gb "boot" named ext4 partition - 895Gb btrfs partition - 32Gb swap partition.
Now I want at least to restore my small disk so I can at least boot again then if possible the better option is to be able to boot on this new disk with my old data.
Can you help me please ?
PS: Sorry for my English, it's not my native language

Hi Evreybody,
Yesterday I've accidentaly formated an sd card with some pictures I need for work without backing it up (I did it directly on the camera menu, model: sony a6000 ). I've been messing around with data recovery software such as DiskDrill and Recuva but nothing is showing up, I'm pretty sure they're lost but before giving up I wanted to see if anybody had a second opinion.
Thanks in advance!

Very much a thought experiment as don't have anywhere near the disposable income needed lol but wondering if it's possible to store the entire rom/iso sets for every retro console (up to 7th gen?) in a playable form without any externally obvious hardware changes
So flashcarts are fine because they use cartridge slots as intended but no optical disk emulators that remove the original drive or usb hard drives sticking out the back. The idea of being able to take them back in time to when the console was released and the average player wouldn't notice until they boot it up and see a list of every game is pretty cool, like if your friend's uncle actually did work at Nintendo this is the magic console they'd bring back from work
It seems the cartridge based systems are pretty straight forward, everdrives exist for all the popular ones and support SD cards which can easily store more than enough, i.e NES ~1.5GB, ~SNES 4GB, N64 ~16GB, although file system and folder limits might complicate things a bit?
Optical media is where storage sizes start to get too big for the 2TB max size for current SD cards, Dreamcast is <1TB but OG Xbox is >16TB so you'd have to swap to HDDs/SSDs, most of Sony's and Microsoft's had support for HDDs and there's tons of complications with ide/sata support and bios limitations but feel like you could mod your way around them?
The Wii seems bit more difficult as it's >6TB so too big for SD cards and not much space internally but especially if you removed the case for a 8TB 2.5 SSD you should be able to, possibly with some hardware mods but going by the amount of DIY portables that's definitely an option
Kind of pointless to include releases for every region and revision but guess you could argue there's plenty of games no one will bother playing so the whole thing is just for bragging rights. I just really like the idea from a preservation point of view of having like a museum where you can interact with the consoles the same way as when they were released but also play every game?

This is my first time posting on here but I was wondering if anyone could help me out. Also I'm in a rush so sorry if my grammaspelling is bad.
Last week I tried to upload some of my older university class notes from Pages to Google Drive. After that I dumped the Apple files on my macbook into the trash bin then proceeded to empty it. But it seems that most of those documents somehow never uploaded & idk if it's possible to recover the documents.
I tried to use Time Machine to recover the files but I don't have a backup disk/location registered. I'm also trying out DiskDrill but I can't find any of the document atm.
Is there any way to recover the documents?
Update: I was able to find the documents through iCloud’s data recovery. I’m also setting up Time Machine to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Thanks for all the advice.

We are using a standalone media task sequence .iso mounted on windows 10 to start the IPU task sequence. Reason fot it is that we are not allowed attach USB devices and computers do mot have DVD drive. After the computer updates OS and reboots, it asks for Disk #1 for task sequence since mounted iso is no longer present. So, I created HKLM/ Softaware/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run "Mount ISO" with path to .iso file. But we still get the same error. After, the task sequence fails and I logon, I can see that iso is mounted. How can I make sure iso is mounted early enough for the task sequenece see it after the reboot and continue? Also, I thought just copy the entire media contenet to a directory ans start. But when i launch the task sequence from a copied directory it does not start. Any ideas?
Thank you, Sung