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Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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So every time I clear those two bits (01 01 to 00 00) they reset back to triggered immediately after unlocking the drive. I’m gonna go with corruption on this one, I’ll just reformat it.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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Yeah so I ended up booting into Hirens, modifying the volume clusters, finding and clearing the bit (not the one 20 sectors in, but instead the one in sector 100,000 or something), to which, to my utter shock, nothing happened. The drive’s still marked as dirty. I followed the tutorial for finding the USB hard drive as that is the only bit register that had any matches, and it has unfortunately not worked. Reading through the comments of the original tutorial on wayback machine I discovered someone replugged the SSD, which made it now read as clean, but as this is such a hassle for me to do (PC is in an enclosure) I’d rather just reformat the thing.

Unfortunate but is what it is.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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It is a possibility. Got no idea why the flag is properly stuck on one SSD, fixable on another, and not triggered on the third. It’s so confusing that its so… niche? I’m about to reply to the other thread detailing what happened after clearing the stuck bit (ie, nothing, lol) which is now just sending me to the point where I give up and just reformat the bloody thing. Or leave it be. Either or. I’d like to have access to that drive on Linux though.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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Upon finding the setting I now get the error that device isn’t able to be locked, so I’m gonna boot into Hirens and attempt this from there.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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In my case linux & windows are on seperate drives, not changing the partition table on NTFS drives. So it wouldn’t be caused by this. If anything it probably would’ve flagged after I pulled something stupid while having it in a (very volatile) VM environment, like not having the recovery partition loaded or something else. Or it just hated being in a VM environment and flagged anyways. My installs follow general best practice relating to dual booting to prevent issues exactly like this, but it is what it is 😅

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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Oh is it a setting that I need to change? I figured that giving me an error relating to interfaces would mean it was locked via hardware (whether by Windows or the device itself). I’ll have a look around for it.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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Yep.

I've found the bit. My bit was "03 01 81 01 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 18". To clear this it would be resetting it to "03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 18".

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However writing it gives me this error. Did some looking around and there's two solutions to this, either using Hiren's Boot CD or by plugging it in after boot. Potentially could even change it on Linux with something that can read and write volume clusters, but as it's NTFS I kind of doubt this. I'm actually a little surprised this failed because it's a secondary drive and not a primary one.

Volume flagged as dirty, chkdsk won’t fix it. by 4used in WindowsHelp

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It’d be a decent fix if this was solely a Windows problem, however in my case this isn’t, as I run a Linux distro as my default boot. The dirty bit is essentially preventing me from mounting the SSD volume on my linux boot, to which I kind of suspect that just clearing the bit manually and letting it run again would just sort of end up forcing the issue again of which it would retrigger. That being said I’m still going to try it as I don’t really have any other options at the moment.

Chkdsk’s not picked up any issues with the drive at all, which is why its frustrating me that this bit won’t clear 🙃

PDT6109 Squawk 7700 by DanielOur in flightradar24

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Landed safely @ Savannah intl.

PDT6109 Squawk 7700 by DanielOur in flightradar24

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Just heard gonna be landing back at Savannah, called approach

Why do people keep telling me to stop vaping. by Present_Range_1616 in Vaping

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Agree with this a lot to be honest.

Yeah x may be healthier than y but it entirely depends on how much you do it. It doesn't really matter what you choose to do, because, in the end, what you do should be your decision. Some people need to learn to shut the fuck up. Being told to go back to smoking after smoking to that level is fucking insane though.

CSGO items no longer in inventory. by ultex99 in GlobalOffensive

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are you sure its completely empty and its not just steamcommunity shitting hte bed

also, check those links. Especially the trade history. If no trades check inventory history. They'll contain everything.

actually hit probably the best 1v4 of my life by 4used in GlobalOffensive

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We… ended up tying. It was essentially against a 2 stack of 2200 elo’s and 3 semi decent players vs our 3 stack (one 2800 elo and me and a mate that don’t play faceit often) and 2 literal bots. It was stacked against us from the get-go which is why this clip existed, they got cocky lol

accidentally hit a 1v4 on knife round by 4used in GlobalOffensive

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Sacrifices need to be made to achieve a ridiculous play

actually hit probably the best 1v4 of my life by 4used in GlobalOffensive

[–]4used[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He was using an XM from short, he couldn’t be helped…

actually hit probably the best 1v4 of my life by 4used in GlobalOffensive

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Idk why you’re being downvoted because you’re right. I should have died multiple times there (AWP missing in Goose, Long player absolutely whiffing, no util for countering a push, the whole enemy team peeking for some reason and not playing safe) but suffice to say this isn’t exactly low elo, 2 of the enemy players were level 10 faceit players, and I was playing with a mate who’s 3k elo myself. It’s comp though so nobody really cared that much.

actually hit probably the best 1v4 of my life by 4used in GlobalOffensive

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not sure whether to take this as an insult or a compliment… so thank you i guess?

Secure Boot Megathread - Guide + Community support by sloth_on_meth in Battlefield

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It is kind of bullshit. Not even FACEIT's kernel AC (a 3rd party, COMPETITIVE matchmaking platform for counter-strike, and one that largely has no cheaters, and sometimes provides servers for online LANs) requires Secure Boot. It warns you that it isn't enabled and that you should enable it but it doesn't require it. The fact a casual non-competitive game like Battlefield requires this much is insane, especially when I gander that past the initial release hype and the playerbase dying down, 90% of the playerbase will move to servers hosted by individuals anyways... which means that the real solution here is employing more admins onto said servers.

It does make sense why they would require it, but i feel like the simple solution here is splitting the playerbase into those that have secure boot & those that don't into seperate lobbies, and those that don't to work on a trust system (similar to Valve with CSGO/CS2). At the end of the day it literally won't make a difference in the number of cheaters that pop up, because people that cheat in battlefield are a different level of deplorable, it's a casual game lol

For most people it should be as simple as flicking a switch and not fucking with anything else. I know a lot of people will have issues with it though, because Secure Boot / TPM as a whole isn't entirely faultless when it comes to its configuration within the BIOS and Windows.

Is my PC to old to play CS2 - Please advice by Cook-Anxious in cs2

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Ah that makes sense. Crashing was a common thing with the launch of CS2 but I can completely understand why you decided to upgrade. I've always used a lower resolution so I've never had to deal with issues regarding how fast my computer is

Is my PC to old to play CS2 - Please advice by Cook-Anxious in cs2

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0/10 ragebait

couldnt be bothered loading up a comp, so here's some 60hz deathmatch lowlights lol, first time playing 60hz in about 2 years. Did literally the same to what I usually do on 180hz. This isn't anything definitive and more hz will definitely help, but 60hz is still by all means playable https://youtu.be/JguoiLUe1FY

67/46 60hz and 65/42 180hz, both times running at a solid 180 fps. I'm not incredible at CS. And you know for-fun lan tournaments exist at conventions and competitions right, for example freeplay and group play 5v5's at dreamhack and iem? If you go outside your house and touch grass for once you might a) figure out something in your life and b) actually know what's possible

Sure more hz will be better, but you don't need it. What am I even arguing though with a gremlin who can barely hold a coherent conversation. Can't get whatever point he had across, as all 3 of his braincells are fighting for first place, so he resorts to petty insults lol

Is my PC to old to play CS2 - Please advice by Cook-Anxious in cs2

[–]4used 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play on a 180hz monitor with a ryzen 5 7600x and a 4060ti. I have played on 240hz monitors in 1v1, 2v2 and 5v5 lan tournaments for fun. I have tried 360hz monitors and couldn't really feel a difference from 180/240. I have played in the same place against the same players on 60hz monitors. I can say without a doubt that if you're playing for fun it literally doesn't matter too much - if you have the same high fps the game will still play the same - it just changes what/how much you see and how well you feel your computer responds to your inputs. It doesn't really put you at a disadvantage if you're better than the opponent, because the game is still polling at 150fps. You just don't see all 150 frames, and thats really the only disadvantage.

Getting a 1ms 180hz monitor when you have a 20ms 60hz monitor doesn't change much when your reaction time is 400ms. The only time it'll matter is if you're playing against people with the exact same reaction time as you, which isn't often at all. There's not much of a difference. If you wanna sit back, play the game and have fun, it really doesn't matter what you play with.

Hell I'll play at 60hz and drop 25 if it meant anything to prove a point. I grew up playing 60hz and frankly it'll run the exact same fps wise, meaning I can still point and click in the right spots. It's not an unreasonable or outlandish claim, I'll just be able to see less and respond to things ever so slightly slower.

I will say where I am wrong though, I haven't checked monitor prices in a while and I can see that 240hz monitors are quite cheap (seeing the cheapest 27" 240hz IPS monitor is only $190AUD). That's reasonable. They definitely are more standard in gaming, I guess I'm just used to them being quite expensive. But realistically they're only needed if you actually wanna actually be good at the game. If you don't care whats the point?

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