Clone a drive using dd in Linux

In Terminal identify source and target drives:

sudo fdisk -l

Note the devices (e.g., /dev/sda, /dev/sdb).

Run DD to clone the drive:

sudo dd if=/dev/source of=/dev/target bs=1M status=progress conv=noerror,sync

Replace /dev/source and /dev/target with the correct device names, e.g./dev/sda, /dev/sdb

Wait for completion and sync data to force all pending writes in memory to be flushed to disk

sudo sync

Note optional arguments to clone a defective drive for recovery:

• conv=noerror: continues copying after read errors instead of stopping
• sync: Pads missing data with null bytes to maintain alignment
• dd stands for “data definition”,

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The issue of a USB WiFi adapter losing its settings after a cold boot in Windows 10 is commonly linked to power management settings that cause the device to power down to save energy. To resolve this, you should disable power-saving features for the USB adapter and related USB hubs. Specifically, navigate to the device properties in Device Manager, go to the Power Management tab, and uncheck the option “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power” for the USB WiFi adapter.

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If you wish to hide the New Outlook toggle or prevent the automatic migration, you can set a registry key. The specific key is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\General

Create a new DWORD type entry with the name “HideNewOutlookToggle” and a value of “1“.

This will hide the “Try the new Outlook” toggle. Conversely setting it to 0 or deleting the value will re-enable it.

The “bootrec /fixboot access denied” error in Windows occurs when the bootrec /fixboot command cannot access or modify the boot sector and similarly Windows Boot Manager missing in the BIOS Boot Order are often due to issues with the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) or partition structure.

To resolve this, try using bcdboot to rebuild the BCD store, or attempt to fix the issue using the Windows Recovery Environment

Here’s a breakdown of how to troubleshoot and resolve the issue:

1.

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This fix works around the issue of Firefox randomly selecting “Change Search Settings” to search for the entered string in Firefox Settings when you want to search the web with the default search engine. When this happens you also lose the search string and have to retype it.

Place the following code in userContent.css or userChrome.css and place it in the chrome (lower case) folder within the Firefox default profile directory. If the chrome folder does not exist then create it.

* Update: best to have both userContent.css and userChrome.css in chrome folder as it is noticed that some pages,

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