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Rescue Your Data from a Failing NTFS Drive: Image It, Then Copy It

When an NTFS external drive develops thousands of bad sectors, choosing between a block-level image and a file-level copy determines whether your data survives. Here's how to do both safely on Linux.

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Ubuntu LTS Upgrade Fails with "Could Not Calculate the Upgrade": Find and Clear the Broken Packages

A release upgrade that aborts with "unable to evaluate the upgrade" is almost always caused by a few unsatisfiable packages. Learn to spot them in apt.log, remove them, and restore your sources after a failed attempt.

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Why Your USB 3.1 SD Card Reader Only Writes at 14 MB/s — and What Actually Determines the Speed

A UHS-I, V30-rated microSD card behind a SuperSpeed reader can still crawl along at 14 MB/s. The bottleneck is usually the card's flash memory and the file mix, not the USB link.

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Audacity Meter Moves but HDMI Audio Is Silent on Ubuntu: Fix the Audio Host or Replace the Snap

Audacity's meter moves but HDMI stays silent on Ubuntu because the app is using the wrong audio host. Switch to PulseAudio in Preferences, or replace the App Center Snap with the apt package.

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Give One Dolphin Folder Its Own Permanent Sort Order Without Customizing Everything Else

Dolphin can keep a single folder permanently sorted by modified date while every other folder stays on name, ascending — using the Apply to scope in view properties and a hidden .directory override.

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Stop Ubuntu Blank the Screen During DVD Playback — and Get Louder Sound

Ubuntu blanks the screen after a few idle minutes even while a DVD plays. Fix it in Settings > Power, optionally add Caffeine as a toggle, and enable over-amplification to push volume to 150%.

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Why Windows Can't Shrink Your Partition (and How an Offline Shrink Fixes It)

Windows often refuses to shrink a volume by more than a few gigabytes because in-use system files sit at the end of the partition. This article explains why that happens and walks through shrinking the volume offline ins...

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Laptop Wakes From Hibernation While Charging: Why It Happens and How to Stop It

A hibernated Windows laptop that powers on during charging is usually not in true hibernation, or something is deliberately waking it. Here's how to diagnose the cause and restore genuine hibernate behavior.

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Point a Duplicate File Name to a Master File on Windows 11 Using mklink

Replace a redundant copy with a symbolic link so the old path opens the master file, and fix the "Incorrect function" error that mklink reports when a link is built the wrong way.

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How to Carry Saved WiFi Credentials from Ubuntu 24.04 to a Fresh Kubuntu 26.04 Install

Yes — saved Wi-Fi profiles survive a clean reinstall. Restore the netplan YAML and NetworkManager keyfiles to their original paths, fix permissions, and run netplan apply.

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