Use this tag if you have problems using HDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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How do I fix an Input/Output error using dd?
Hi i'm Trying fixing my Windows 7 system with a broken harddrive, but it's still running.
I'm trying copy all data to a new drive to reinstall Windows 7. Drive called SQSERVICE.
I can't copy at all ...
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Ubuntu formatted my hard drive [duplicate]
I am in a very bad situation. Initially, I had windows 7 and windows 8 installed on two separate partitions and a third partition for data(music and such). I wanted to install Ubuntu 13.04 instead of ...
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Boot Ubuntu from flash drive help
I recently had a problem with my windows 7 computer, where after it loads windows and goes to the login screen, my keyboard and mouse won't work. I've tried a lot of stuff, and I've decided to just ...
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Ubuntu 12.4 on 3.4.45 kernel: Can't access USB memory stick
I installed kernel version 3.4.45 [LTS] on ubuntu 12.4 on a Acer laptop. With this configuration, the USB memory drives can't be accessed, some details are follows.
Upon inserting the USB drive dmesg ...
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Can't mount any partitions - ACL error
I've install Ubuntu 12.10 and now I can't mount any partitions.
I get the same error with drives: Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to/media/proachfailed: Operation not supported
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DVD drive missing after upgrade to 12.04
I cannot find a way to read cd/dvd since upgrade to 12.04. If I re-boot with my old 10.10 live disc in the drive the computer boots from the CD so I assume it is not a hardware issue ( also, dual boot ...
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Install on usb external hard drive
I am new to ubuntu and i would like some help.
I have a laptop with windows 7 installed but i would love to have ubuntu too because it's a great OS.
So i would like to install ubuntu on an external ...
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I cant see my windows drive in ubuntu
I'm n00ber than any n00b you ever seen, so bear with me...
I just downloaded wubi and installed ubuntu 12.10 along with Windows 7 on the same HDD.
Linux works fine, but doesnt show files from drive ...
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I cannot read second internal HD
I reformatted my Win "C" drive and loaded Ubuntu 11.04. The second internal HD of course is not read. It is shown in 'disk utility'. I try to mount it in disk utility but I get an error message
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Restoring deleted partitions/files
I had Windows 7 installed on my computer and four partitions, namely, C (where Windows was installed), D, E, and F. I decided to install Ubuntu and ended up deleting all my partitions, but one with ...
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Ubuntu will not boot from my external hard drive
I got a 16GB Flash Drive and turned it to a bootable USB with Pen Drive Linux using the 13.04 64 bit iso. I then booted from it and went to the setup procedure and installed it on a 500 GB external ...
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How to make a Ubuntu USB Flash Drive Installer?
How to make a Ubuntu USB Flash Drive Installer with the latest version of Ubuntu (13.04 right now)
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I can't see my IDE hard drives in Ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu to replace my Windows system. I have 5 HDD in my pc, the main 3 Ubuntu picks up, the SATA ones, but the two connected by the IDE cables I cannot see.
I am new and this is ...
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How can I access my Ubuntu boot disk files as external USB disk on Centos 6.3?
Not sure whether this would be more appropriate in a Centos forum, but I'll post it here for starters as I am more comfortable and familiar with Ubuntu. I recently purchased a server with Centos 6.3 ...
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Create bootable flash drive on mac for PC
I've got a PC with a crashed HD, which I am replacing with a new HD. I want to create a bootable flash drive ubuntu to install ubuntu on that PC. Obviously I can't do that on the dead PC and the only ...
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SSH login wakes spun-down storage drives
I'm running 12.04 on a home server/HTPC, and have several storage drives which spin down using values set in /etc/hdparm.conf.
Sometimes, logging in via ssh causes some or all of the drives to wake ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 can't detect new hard drive
So I was creating a partition table on my brand new Seagate 3TB HDD when a short power outage hit. Now, Ubuntu won't detect that the hard drive is their; it doesn't show up in gparted or fdisk -l.
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My /media/E8648A94648A64E2 shows empty
My folders inside /media/E8648A94648A64E2 is not shown in GUI.
Previously there used to come everything normally but suddenly it didn't came.However, i can access those files and folder inside ...
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Repair a broken hard drive? [closed]
I have a newer Toshiba hard drive with bad sectors... I don't hear anything loose, so I think maybe there is just a scratch in the disk somewhere... I heard of products that can "buff" out those ...
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Can not access windows 8 drive from Ubuntu
I am dual booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu ...i finally got them both working
my problem is i can not see my windows drive from ubuntu ....i can see it listed with i open up nautilus ...but when i click ...
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Drive Misaligned when creating RAID
I've created a RAID using 4 disks on GUID file partition and one of the drives says it is misaligned by 3072 bytes which may affect performance. The drives are all WD. If I dismount the raid, the ...
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Disk Drive Not Ready / Not Yet Present
i was trying to upgrade my ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. on the half way the power went off.when i reboot my laptop first i got a error message E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room.increase your apt cache ...
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Is there a way to auto remount a drive without a reboot
I have an external drive that apparently won't automount anymore. If I didn't want to restart the machine. Is there a way to automount the drive.
It shows up under /dev/sdb1 if I do:
fstab -l
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Error when mounting hard drive
I have a hot swapable hard drive tray 5.5". When it loads the hard drive it give me this when I try to mount it:
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/av/disk: Command-line `mount -t "ufs" -o ...
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How can I restore the swap drive used by ubuntu, back to windows 7?
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop (which has windows 7) but I used my second data drive as a swap for Ubuntu. How can I restore this swap drive back so it can be accessed by Windows 7 again?
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I failed to safely eject my USB drive and lost data…how do I get it back?
I have to admit I didn't "Safetly Eject", but I have done this a million times... what gives, and how do I get my data back??
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Can't see Hidden Data, Ctrl-H doesn't help
I am newbie for ubuntu I Know by making folder starting wid .makes it hidden in Linux so I did the same on My Kingstan Flash drive. but I can't see i back. I have tried Ctrl-h but it didn't work. but ...
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PCman filemanager displays old data on USB mounted drive
When I plug in usb flash drive, or even my camera and open File Manager only old data that was previously on usb drive (or Camera's memory card) is shown. I can't open any of those files or see any ...
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No hard drive how can i install this tool/os?
My system wont boot because it says there is no hard drive (witch there is but may have just given out)if this is so would ubuntu work to recover the data on that drive or is it a done deal?
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how do i install ubuntu on ssd cache and maintain windows acceleration? [duplicate]
I hope this is the right place to ask this question.
I just bought a lenovo u310 preinstalled with windows 7. It has a 32 GB ssd cache drive and a 500 GB hard drive. I want to install Ubuntu root ...
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How to give priority to auto-mount on boot in Ubuntu 12.10?
One of those things that I like in Ubuntu 12.10, is that for some reason my ntfs partition is automatically mounted on boot, without having to use some application like ntfs-config.
However, it's not ...
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mount two hard drives on start up
I have two hard-drives (one internal and one external) that I want to mount on start up (ntfs, but it doesn’t matter).
I can mount them fine with the "Disk Utility" aplication and I can mount them ...
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change permission of usb drive
I have linked a new USB drive with my system and i am not able to copy any file to it. I tried to change the permission by using below command:
/media$ sudo chmod 777 0000-7D6C
"0000-7D6C" is the ...
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Wine Auto drive assign/add on connection
As the title states, how do you make wine auto add a drive when a USB is connected. I need this as I am creating a windows software for a user(s) who cannot use winecfg e.t.c.
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How to add drive/partition-icon to the launcher?
My dualboot-system (win7 / ubuntu 12.04) has a ntfs-formatted partition called "/share" for files I use both in win7 and ubuntu (e.g. pictures, music etc.).
I'd like to have a symbol of this drive in ...
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How to move an EXE file to Wine's fake C: drive
can anyone tell me how I can move a .exe file to Wine's fake C: drive? Thanks!
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Ubuntu hard drive space error during install
I am installing Ubuntu 12.10 on a Virtual pc and every time I get an error that there needs to be at least 4.8 GB available drive space. I have 16 GB on the virtual drive and I have tried to set it to ...
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Will not boot from 2nd HD
I am running Windows 7 on my main HD and I put Ubuntu 12.10 on my 2nd internal HD. However, when I boot up like normal, Windows starts right away. If I try to boot from the drive manually, it doesn't ...
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My Ubuntu has less disk space than it should
I'm trying to install Steam in Ubuntu, after a nights worth of errors, re installing, and much anger, however after Ubuntu didn't immediately crashed, and I finally got steam working, I went to ...
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Converting a windows drive to Ubuntu Drive
I am recent convert to Ubuntu and just loving it. Right now, I can access my windows drive from ubuntu, however, I want to delete the windows partition and make it an ubuntu partition. I have already ...
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Can a modified Ubuntu flash drive installation be installed on another system?
Would it be possible to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to a flash drive, install all the updates and desired apps such as flash and THEN install it updates and all to another system? I'm hoping I can save a ...
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How to mount external drive directly under “/media/” and not under “/media/username/”?
I have been facing a new and annoying problem after installing Apache2 on my new 12.10 distribution.
I have done this at least 20 times before with older distributions and had no problems up until ...
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Difficulties Burning with DVD-R ubuntu12.04 LTS
My optical drive does not detect DVD-r but detects DVD+r on ubuntu How should i preceed.
Drives detects and burns with DVD+R CD-R
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Problems mounting ntfs hard disk on boot
I've followed this tutorial:
Can I change personal folder locations
to mount my two disks on boot.
The funny thing is that I was able to mount one (Datos), but the second (Programs) gives me this ...
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I can't access secondary hard drive
I have Ubuntu installed on a primary hard drive and Windows 8 on a secondary one.
When I try to access the secondary hard drive the following message appears:
Error mounting: mount exited with ...
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How can I fix my NTFS partition after shrinking in Windows?
In attempting to shrink my NTFS drive to a smaller size, so I can dual boot my currnet Windows 7 with a brand new Ubuntu 12.10 (didn't want to use Wubi), I've somehow managed to stuff up the drive and ...
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Can I install Ubuntu without installation media?
I was curious what the best way to install Ubuntu would be in my current situation. I have second HDD, completely clean. I want to install Ubuntu but I don't have a disk to burn to or a USB flash ...
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startup problem : the disk drive /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present (12.10)
hi this message is appearing during start up, I'm a bit of a Linux noob and have no idea how to remedy this or what it even means. I also realise this is almost an exact replica of a question that has ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 fails to recognise my blu-ray drive
This blu-ray drive was working fine in Windows (before Windows became corrupted and I used the opportunity to move to Linux). I have checked SATA connections and the drive is picked up by the BIOS ...
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disk has many bad sectors
i've just installed ubuntu on my pc for the second time. when it started, i got a message about how bad my disk status is. after a short investigation, i found whats the problem exactly. it says:
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