Questions tagged [drive]

A drive is a medium that is used to store digital information. Examples of drives are HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, etc. This is a generic scope tag that should be used in conjunction with a more specific drive tag where available.

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Is there a fairly noob friendly way to transfer a working Ubuntu OS from an external drive, to an internal one?

The primary drive in my laptop crapped out on me and I didn't have the money to fix it right away. So I decided to ubuntu a portable external drive and use the system as a band aid. I'm not linux ...
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Drive Recovery with ddrescue

I'm in the need of recovering data from a 1TB drive. The BIOS reported SMART error(s) and then Ubuntu was kind enough to tell me I have 2 SMART errors. On the drive there is about 250GB worth of ...
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How can I rename an external HDD?

I have an external drive whose name used to be "2nd Brain". I lent it to a friend who renamed it but now I can't manage to rename it again. I followed the instructions from this answer, to use the ...
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What format should my storage hard drive be?

I use a Thinkpad T420 with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 on separate SSDs. I also have a 3rd internal HDD that I use for data storage between the two operating systems. I formatted the storage HDD to ...
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Accidently Formated a 16gb flash drive as a partition?! help! [closed]

I have a 16gb flash drive that I formatted. Now all of a sudden when I connect it to my PC, it neither mounts nor gives any indication that a flash drive is inserted. But when I open Disks from the ...
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What traces are left after booting by usb?

Is it true that a bootable Ubuntu USB drive does not allow anything to be written to the computer's hard drive? If so, would a computer with an SSD drive, like mine, also be left with no trace of a ...
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Cloned Ubuntu won't launch without original drive [duplicate]

I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on a partition of an external HDD, with bootloader placed in my sata SSD /dev/sda (Win10) I wanted to clone the linux system for use on another pc, I succeeded in ...
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I failed to safely eject my USB drive and data became invisible… how do I get it back? [duplicate]

My USB was in the USB port and at the time I was copying something to my HDD I decided to cancel it. Immediately afterwards I decided to remove the USB but I forgot to press safe eject. As a result ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't recognise Cat B25 phone external drive

Ubuntu 16.04, working on a Acer Aspire V5 laptop, can not recognise a CAT B25 phone plugged in through USB port. I already checked that a computer with Mac OS can absolutely recognise it (both phone ...
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Can not access a drive [duplicate]

I am new to Ubuntu and have a basic question. I made a drive called /storage when I was installing Ubuntu (Is it a drive? or a folder?). And I can not write any file to it right now. Can you please ...
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Dual Boot for 2 OS on 2 different drives

I've seen many topics with the same title but none seem to encounter the same issue as I do: I have 2 drives: SSD 250GB All for Windows 10 HDD 1TB Partitioned in: 750GB - NTFS (for personal data) ...
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Install Problem - Install Now Button doesn't bring up the next window

I've noticed a number of people were having an issue with the install now button being greyed out during the installation type stage of installing. However, my problem is not that it is greyed out. I ...
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Is there an issue using external portable USB drives with Windows and Ubuntu?

I had errors with my Western Digital My Passport Ultra 2TB external portable USB disk drive. So I re-formatted it (NTFS) under Windows 10. I then took the formatted drive and hooked it up to my Dell ...
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What is "This location cannot be displayed." telling me with regard to portable USB drive?

I have a Western Digital MY Passport Ultra 2GB drive. I plugged it in and got a popup dialog that said: This location could not be displayed. Sorry, could not display all the contents of "...
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Ubuntu boot error possibly drive

Hello I try to install ubuntu from DVD, I set booting from dvd in bios but I see some errors like failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE or failed command READ FPDMA QUEUED, it looks like hard drive ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 set up with google online account but no drive folder in nautilus

Pretty much as the question says. I followed the steps to set up the online accounts through system settings but my drive folder is not showing up on Nautilus.
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Unplugged while resizing partition - now get GRUB rescue

So today I was trying to expand my Xenial disk par. I accidentally kicked my power extension, and it unplugged the computer while it was working. My computer lost power at about 30 percent of the way ...
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I installed Ubuntu on a separate hard drive but now my computer boots differently

I installed Ubuntu on a separate hard drive but now my computer boots differently and when I try to remove the hard drive my computer can't boot at all. Also my computer now automatically boots to ...
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Mounting second drive with corrupted sectors, common techniques not working

Ubuntu 16.04.1 This laptop has two physical disks, when logged into Ubuntu on one drive, cannot view the other drive, the one with windows. Unable to access “499 GB Volume” Error mounting /dev/...
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How do I hide Windows drive in 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)?

I want to hide the Windows drive in Ubuntu in Terminal and GUI, so that root cannot access it to modify the Windows disk (/dev/sda1/).
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Can't format USB Drive (SanDisk)

I have acquired SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB however i can't use it the windows asked me to format it so i did and now it stopped working. I want to format it however the disks doesn't allows me to do ...
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How to recover a Hard Drive that I acciently formatted?

I used testdisk but it is not showing my deleted partitions so tell me any other way to recover my formatted hdd.
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equivalent to "safely remove hardware" in Windows

I had always guessed that hitting the eject button in a file manager would be the equivalent of the Windows "safely remove hardware" function for drives. However I notice that hitting eject for drives ...
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How can I change the directory of a document with gdrive?

Which command allows me to directly change the directory of a file on Google Drive using gdrive command.
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What is the Linux equivalent for the Windows chkdsk command?

I have an external drive used by Windows and Linux. It suddenly stopped working, suggesting that I should format it before use. I lost all of the data, name of the drive, and it doesn't even display ...
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Optical drive keeps ejecting automatically

I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS a few days ago and after 2 days, my drive started ejecting itself after some time, without my issuing any command. It's not a hardware problem because I ran the BIOS for ...
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Drive has a code instead of its normal name

One of my Hard Disk drives has a code instead of its normal name when I get its address. How can I fix it?
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Mounting OneDrive on Ubuntu Linux command line

For some requirement, I need to mount OneDrive instead of Syncing files through onedrive-d. Also, I need need a command line solution to automate something in my scripts. Can anyone help on this ? I ...
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Root directory mount in a weird location

I recently installed ubuntu on a new computer (I had it with me on an old laptop before). Usually I would follow some guide to install Ubuntu and assign the correct home folders, swap folders. Now I ...
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Ubuntu is renaming my mount point for a hard drive

I have a hard drive connected to my computer, it's located at /media/hassan/Hassan HD. This does not normally change when I reboot, but it did this time. Now it's at /media/hassan/Hassan HD1. Not sure ...
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Map network drive to Win7 share from Ubuntu

To start, I am a complete novice to Ubuntu, and have used Windows exclusively essentially up until a few weeks ago. I am an IT technician working in an MSP, so I am fairly tech savvy. My goal is to ...
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Ubuntu wont read DVD discs

I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. My CD's are being read but my DVD's are not. I have a DVD with a bootable image and even that wont boot on startup. is it because of Ubuntu or is it a problem ...
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How to use Ubuntu pen drive on Windows? [duplicate]

I am totally a new user of Ubuntu 14.04. My problem is that I installed Ubuntu through the USB drive. Now I want to use the pen drive on Windows. I tried to format the pen drive but failed.
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Unable to view drive - receive error message

I installed GRUB to one of my drives, which caused it not to boot, and showing me "Error 17". However, I thought about deleting the GRUB directory, as my LiveCD/DVD Ubuntu can not run the GRUB ...
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How to install google drive on Ubuntu 15.10? [duplicate]

Can anyone tell me how to install google drive in Ubuntu 15.10?
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How to automatically back up multi-partition harddrive?

I have a laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04. I would like a quick process to perform nightly backups of the entire hard drive. The ideal scenario would be to plug laptop into a hard drive, boot ...
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Can't compile programs on flash drive

I have mounted my flash drive to a new mount point inside my home folder. However, when I still try to compile my .cpp file, it tells me permission denied. How can I fix this? 1) In GParted, my flash ...
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Unable to access "Volume 914 GB" while mounting a drive

ubuntu mount error: Unable to access "Volume 914 GB" Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda4: Command-line `mount "/mnt/sda4"` exited with non-zero exit status 12: Failed ...
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Is my flash drive broken ? How to fix?

I run this command "sudo tail -c 0 -f /var/log/syslog" and plug my flash drive. And this is the output : May 12 20:54:09 R124L-PC kernel: [ 1658.098890] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 6 May ...
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Deleting 'core dump' folders/files in root partition for space

On trying to upgrade my system, I keep getting a message that I need to free up space in the root partition. Here's the situation: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 ...
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Is Ubuntu's handling of other internal drives safe?

When ever I restart or shutdown the computer, I have to click on the drive and it takes a few minutes until the drive is technically "mounted". Is it safe? does this means that every time the ...
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Removing Ubuntu from a laptop and install Windows 7 [duplicate]

This may have been asked before, but I can't seem to find an appropriate answer. I've been searching for about two days now, to no avail. Here is my situation. I purchased a new laptop. The original ...
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Resized Primary Partition, Filesystem Size Not Updating

I moved and resized by /boot primary partition using gparted. sudo parted /dev/sda print Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 256MB 255MB primary ext2 ...
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Drive not appearing after reboot

I'm using Ubuntu desktop but it's primarily used as a server. I have data being stored on external drives that the server needs to access, but after rebooting, the drive doesn't appear through ...
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Ubuntu USB stick for Chromebook

I have searched and still can not figure out how to get Ubuntu installed onto a USB drive. I've ran both the "s9yrd" and "tnyga" commands, but to no avail. I either get a no such file directory or ...
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Unable to access “136 GB Volume”

This error message is shown every time I try to access the flash drive. Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /media/hp/868E-F233: Command-line`mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=...
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Why Is my computer screen not turning on and DVDs drive keeps trying to play a disk

When I turn on my computer the cylinder light for hard drive flashes at the same time as the dvd drive light flashes. The screen works intermittently but it never goes past anything but the starting ...
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How can I read a HPFS/NTFS (Bootable) partition on Ubuntu (15.10)?

I would like to read the contents of an old hard drive that is formatted as a HPFS/NTFS (Bootable) partition; I'm not sure if the bootable part makes a difference. I have tried to mount the drive but ...
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Grive will not sync on Ubuntu 14.04

Yesterday I downloaded grive on my Ubuntu 14.04. All my google drive files are now in my grive folder on my PC. The problem is that I deleted some files in the grive folder and synced it (by writing "...
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Mounting error trying to access the drives in Ubuntu 15.04 [duplicate]

While trying to mount the drive I get the error below and the drive is not mounted. Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/ubuntu/B840AE6C40AE30D4: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,...
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