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Partition table messed up. Cant see any partition using Gparted, though everything works?

Yesterday I was trying to install Mageia Linux along with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. After several tries I finally installed Mageia and created an entry for the Mageia boot-loader in the Windows boot ...
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HP ProBook over heating, shutting down

I'm rather a amateur user. I have a single OS - Ubuntu 12.4. Lately my laptop (HP ProBook 4530s) heating up until it automatically shuts down. It wasn't happening with the older Ubuntu version. After ...
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Safely removing eSATA disks

Is there any way to safely remove any external disk connected via eSATA? Disks make an ugly noise when unplugged, even if there are no mounted partitions... I found somewhere this little command: ...
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How to increase disk space on ubuntu 12.04 LTS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to extend the disk space available to a wubi install? I would like to allocate more disk space (300GB) on ubuntu with windows 7. I installed ubuntu 11.01 ...
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Upgrade 11.04 to 12.04

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. My computer is no longer supported and my computer is now trying to get me to upgrade to 12.10. But I want to upgrade to 12.04. Can I upgrade to 12.04 using the update manager ...
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Booting stops at disk checking

I am constantly face this problem. When i start my laptop it checks the disk for errors , after that it shows , " some defects are found " when i press 'F' to Fix errors , it shows /tmp is not ready ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 running slow: How to improve performance? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I improve overall system performance? I used to work in a computer (Dell Inspiron) with 2GB RAM, 80GB dd and Intel Core Processor with Ubuntu 10 under Gnome, and ...
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 on sata drive within hard disk enclosure

I had a sata hard disk drive, then after my motherboard's sata drive ports got fried, I brought a hard disk enclosure and connected it to my computer and tried to install ubuntu 12.04 on it. But ...
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Ubuntu Hangs after Disk Goes to Sleep

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise onto a Western Digital 500GB My Passport connected to my laptop through a USB 2.0 connection. (My computer's BIOS supports booting from USB.) If I leave the computer ...
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Disk partitioning for 12.04 install

I have 6 partitions with grub from an existing Linux OS on /dev/sda8. I want to install 12.04 on /dev/sda1 but since this partition has 31G allocated i want to resize it to 10G and create 2 more ...
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Invalid system disc on boot

When I boot my laptop which has ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 I get a message "Invalid system disc Please replace the disc,then press any key" If on this command I press random keys my grub menu ...
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12.04, Slow load, VMWare Player

Everything, including booting, apt-get install, and web browser page load is snappy, but anything that requires random disk IO seems to be slow. The examples include: application launch, sudo command, ...
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How can I overwrite Windows 7 with Ubuntu?

Windows 7 runs unreasonably slow, so I decided to install Ubuntu instead. I clicked Install but it says that I do not have at least 4. 4GB of disk space. But my hard disk's capacity is is 320 GB. ...
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Increasing Disk size for ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]

I already have 11.10 ubuntu installed within windows(wubi) and has a disk size of 8GB. updating to 12.04 requires more disk size,how do i increase the disk size for succesful 12.04 installation ?
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How to handle out of space errors

I'm using Ubuntu installed inside windows with Wubi. During upgrade to 12.04 I came across a rather devious trap. About 25% through the installation of packages, I get the message that packages can't ...
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How to mount disk.root into my new Ubuntu?

I tried sudo mount -t /media/66CC2BC0CC2B88FF/ubuntu/disks/disk.root -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 but it didn't work. Any suggestions? TY!