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grub2 C/H/S value error on Laptop Second hard drive (ODD)
I was living happily with my one hard drive in laptop then I installed a SSD as my first (hd0) then installed the old drive in laptop's second hard drive caddy in CD/DVD drive bay.
now I can't boot ...
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Can the bootloader be stored outside the HDD?
If the Ubuntu boot loader is stored on the Hard Drive, is there an alternative to loading the boot loader from the hard drive?
Can it be stored on alternate storage such as a CD or even an external ...
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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?
Lets just say I have 3 hard drives:
c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader
d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect)
g: 3tb random stuff
I want Ubuntu and ...
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Help Lost Ubuntu operating system and data
I need help in how to recover my Ubuntu, I lost the entire operating system.
I was using the windows booting system with wubi.
My system is asking me to reinstall windows, I do not want to do this,
I ...
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Ubuntu server - Make sure server can always boot and a hard drive is mounted before sharing with Samba
I have two 2-TB hard drives (not the boot/system drives) with a single partition in each, that I share with Samba. Mountpoints are in /mnt/drive01 and /mnt/drive02 .
These are also the path of two ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 does not see my internal hard drive. [duplicate]
Total newbie, installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside windows 8. everything looks fine, ubuntu boots correctly, I can see external hdds connected to any usb port, but cannot find my internal hdd.
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How do i use another hard drive? and dual boot
okay, i need help ive got ubuntu 12.04 installed and updated on my external hard drive , and i want too be able to access my internal hard drives via ubuntu , the internal hard drives , one has ...
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Boot Ubuntu 12.10 from 2nd partition on external hard drive?
My computer's internal hard drive has windows 7 installed on it. I have a 1Tb external hard drive that is split into 2 partitions. The second partition is a logical partition with Ubuntu 12.10 ...
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Burning windows 7 iso to an Internal HDD
Background
I took a HDD from a new laptop I bought and replaced it with an SSD and placed the cheap HDD enclosure I bought from Amazon. I recently discovered after trying to format the HDD using ...
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Cannot boot into linux (HDD, LiveCD, LiveUSB)
My system specs are:
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4
CPU Type: Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU Speed: 3.52 GHz
System Memory: 15.89 GB
Video Card Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Video Card ...
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Disk check on booting - 12.10 [duplicate]
Every time i boot my device it's running check disk on disk errors. I just correctly shutdown or reboot my device but it still runs check disk every time. Sometimes when itś done it freezes at a ...
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Can't boot into windows?
I installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive inside the computer by booting with the CD.
I now want to switch back to my main hard drive but I don't know how. When I unplug the Linux HD it goes into ...
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How to let ubuntu ignore a internal hard-drive when start up?
I am dual-booting Ubuntu(12.10) and Windows on different hard drives in my laptop.
For battery life and noise issue, it is possible for me to ignore the Windows drive and prevent it from being ...
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ubuntu won't boot
So my configuration is such that my windows 7 is installed on a msata ssd drive and I am trying to install ubuntu on my regular sata hdd. Overall the windows installer copies the files but ubuntu ...
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Running ubuntu from LIveCD with no harddisk [duplicate]
can i boot Linus from LiveCD into a copmuter system where computer system doesnot have a physical hard drive.
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ubuntu 12.04 does not always boot at the first time
I have a recurring problem: my Ubuntu 12.4 does not always boots at once. I often get a message on a black screen, saying "Media test failure, check cable" (it is not only this what's on the screen), ...
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Can I install ubuntu to a partition on my portable hard drive?
Ok I've got a live USB which I can load the ubuntu 12.10 installer from so that's no problem. I am very cautious about losing files and I don't have much space on my computer anyway so I am going to ...
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Will i get a Multiple OS boot choice after installing Ubuntu with Windows 7?
I have Windows 7 operating off an HDD and am going to install Ubuntu on to another seperate HDD.
How will I determine the boot options? through Bios by the HDD each time I start, or is there a bit ...
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Can I force grub2-update NOT to use uuid?
I am experiencing install hell trying to add an installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Scientific Linux 6.3 to an old machine (BIOS not EFI) with Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10. The installs seem to go OK ...
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installing ubuntu with full disk encryption including encrpyted boot on i-USB Pendrive ii-A regular HDD
Hi how to install Ubuntu 12.04+ with full disk encryption including encrypted boot partition :
a- to a USB drive ie. 16GB or 32GB
b- to a HDD
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How can I boot a live system from a hard disk and then install to the same drive?
I need to install Lubuntu on to a hard drive that has no other means of installation other than the hard drive itself (USB, CD, Net, none of those are available on this system).
What I have already ...
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Ways to make persistent iso-bootings from hard disk
Here I asked How can I save settings when booting an ISO file from HARD DRIVE.
After trying different combinations around Sadi's solution, the only thing that has worked for me is to place the ext2 ...
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When i start ubuntu it says it has an error missing tmp/
This is the third time, when I start Ubuntu, it says it has an error, that there is a missing tmp/ file and I'm getting worried because I lost my information last time.
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12.04 server freezes at startup after adding new UFS drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
I have installed Ubuntu on an HP 7100 with 2GB ram on an 8GB USB flash drive. It booted ok. I've added an 2TB UFS drive (old ...
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12.10 Won't Boot after Install
Did a 12.10 install to a raw, fresh out of the box, hard-drive. Installation completed without errors, but the laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1750) won't boot. I'm not talking about getting a purple screen; ...
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Error: hd0 cannot get C/H/S values. grub rescue >
The power supply went out on our machine. We replaced the power supply.
Now when we boot up, all we get is a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
So we hold shift during boot up, and this error is ...
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1answer
159 views
Fsck Error on startup [closed]
I was playing Minecraft when I decided to leave, so I closed it down. After about ten minutes, I came back and Minecraft wouldn't start, so I restarted my computer. I now have,
fsck from ...
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Recover data from unreadable NTFS partition
I have an Asus laptop with Windows and Ubuntu alongside. When I try to boot Windows, it gets to the Windows logo and restarts automatically. Looks like recovery starts but all the recovery options ...
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Installed ubuntu over windows vista..cant reinstall windows [closed]
I recently used the "compress hard drive" option within windows. i got the horid "boot mngr is compressed" after the restart. i tried booting my system back to windows vista but it doesnt read the cd ...
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1answer
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Cannot boot ubuntu after remove failed data disk (system on different disk)
Our Ubuntu server has four hard disks, but we didn't make them a RAID. Yesterday, one of the disk was reported to be failing, and this disk was /dev/sdb and was mounted as /data (was used to store ...
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Quantal analyzes the HD in any boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 formating the HDD. Any time that I turn on the PC and boot Ubuntu, it always analyzes my HDD in search for bad blocks. This is what happens:
When I turn on the PC and ...
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Ubuntu wont recognize my internal SSD
I just bought a Lenovo u310 and installed Ubuntu 12.10 with Wubi to try it out. After a couple of days I decided to fully replace windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 12.10 fully with a usb drive in my HDD. ...
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“ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient” during boot
I have a KINGSTON SV100S264G solid-state drive in my Lenovo ThinkPad. Ubuntu 12.04 was booting just fine until a few days ago, it started to boot very slowly. More like it did not want to boot up ...
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After installing ubuntu, windows does not recognize hard drive
I installed ubuntu alongside windows on my netbook. The ubuntu install corrupted my windows. So, I formatted the windows partition in ubuntu ntfs by itself. Only now boot windows does not recognize my ...
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CLOSED - Mistake - Changed it to readonly filesystem [closed]
I was using a program named mount-manager to get my external hard drive to mount automatically on boot. Apparently, I changed some other settings too, and I was so stupid that I applied the settings, ...
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Maximizing speed on hybrid drive
I have a hybrid drive (ST750LX003 to be exact), is 750 GB including an 8 GB SSD. I currently have Ubuntu 12.04 installed, and I recently had a dual-boot installed with Windows 8. The problem is, Win8 ...
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System doesn't boot when ubuntu is installed on an SSD
I've recently discovered Ubuntu and decided to give it a try.
I am using a Samsung Series 5 p530u3c-ad1 which comes with a 24gb SSD and a ~500gb HDD, My intention is to set the system files to the ...
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Ubuntu slow at boot because of gnome-set~ngs-daemon
When I boot my computer, the process gnome-set~ngs-daemon need a lot of disk access, according to sudo iotop, it require 100%...
Any idea how I can solve it?
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How to retrieve files after hard drive crash?
My hard disk was working fine. Then suddenly after moving it from another room (it is a laptop).
I did what I found suggested as I feel the HD is a now dead but?? may be I can retrieve some files?
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“Bootmgr is missing…” Upon reboot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install/running ubuntu on extarnal HDD with a windows laptop?
Ill take you through the steps I did. Sorry if this question has already been resolved, I'm new to Ubuntu ...
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I can't boot system after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
Yesterday I upgraded a server from 10.04 to 12.04. I do not detect any problem but when rebooting system, a message appears saying that it could not mount partitions. In contrast, if recovery mode I ...
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Will computer being shut down due to power failure affect my system files, or speed in any way? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How resilient is Ubuntu to repeated “power-off” shutdowns?
I've asked before as well but need to confirm again, in my country there are a lot of electricity ...
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Failure to boot from USB
I have created a USB live disk and am trying to boot from it. The computer Im using to learn Linux on is a Dell Optiplex 755 4gb ram C2D 3.0ghz and Im running windows 7 ultimate without any problems.
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Mounting the hard drive when booting from a cd
Is it possible to mount the hard drive when booting from a cd ? If so, how can I achieve this ?
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Save to Hard Drive instead of bootable USB
I followed the instructions on the Ubuntu website on how to put Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB and make it a bootable USB stick for windows.
It worked fine and I can boot up and run Ubuntu, but every time I ...
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New HD - Can't get USB boot working to install Ubuntu
Here's my setup:
-Windows 7 (legit)
- Acer Revo Nettop (it's my htpc)
-Hard drive is failing
- Followed this article:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
- When i take ...
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Is Seagate's new “FAST Factor Boot” technology compatible with Ubuntu?
I'm looking at buying a new laptop and considering buying one with a hybrid HDD/SSD drive. Specifically I am looking at the new second generation Seagate Momentus XT. For some reviews look here and ...
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Ubuntu suddenly asks for password and reboots in the middle of a session. How to correct this?
Encountering a problem... suddenly in the middle of a session a dialogue box opens and asks for pc password. on putting the password and clicking the enter ubuntu goes through a short boot where it ...
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Can't boot into ubuntu. Have Windows installed on one HD an ubuntu on the other
I decided to put Ubuntu on my old PC that is running windows xp, I found an old HD laying around, formatted it and installed Ubuntu. I wanted to make them separate so I installed in completely ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 installed on hard disk using USB pendrive does not boot from hard disk
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 using USB pendirve but it only boots if that USB is connected. It does not boot from the hard disk. Any solutions?
