Use this tag if you have problems using HDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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FULL install Ubuntu on 4GB USB drive
Is there a way to full install Ubuntu 11.04 in a 4gb USB drive?
It says that I need at least a 4.6 GB drive. I want the full install, not the live persistent installation. I think that it don't need ...
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How do I remove mounted drives from the unity launcher? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove launcher drive icons?
In 11.10 how do I go about removing the mounted drives icons on the Unity Launcher?
This article:
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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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Inserted DVD disc not recognized
I was trying to watch a DVD on my Ubuntu laptop, however, whenever I insert the disc, the CD/DVD drive icon on the Computer pane disappears, seems that it cannot detect what type of disc was inserted.
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how can i give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names (in nautilus)?
I have 4 disk drives in my 64-bit ubuntu 12.04 LTS computer at the moment, plus one external USB drive. In nautilus and unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all ...
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Why won't my setup see the partitions on my hard drive?
I currently have a dual boot system with 6 partitions on my 180GB hard disk (4 NTFS, 1 for swap and the other one ext4). Ive got WIndows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 (upgraded from 10.10) installed.
The 11.04 ...
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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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Can't Find Windows's partitions in Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to access Windows partition?
I have made dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows 7 (Preinstalled given by manufacturer on Laptop). I am not able to find my windows ...
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What is the Linux drive naming scheme?
In Windows; you have the C: drive. This is the primary drive upon which Windows is installed.
However, Linux uses a different naming scheme; sda and sba 1,2,3,4, etc. Can anyone give me a brief ...
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How to make a USB drive bootable after live image is copied into it using `dd` command?
I was unable to create live USB drive using dd command while unetbootin works. The former method used to work fine on the particular USB Drive. Is the USB drive filesystem corrupted? If yes, how do I ...
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1answer
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Change default location of programs / users
I just bought a new SSD hard drive and want to minimize writing to the drive by moving users and applications to another 1TB hard drive.
Windows 7 accomplishes this fairly easily.
I want to know how ...
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How can I stop Gnome Shell's drive pop up notifications?
I have an NFS drive mapped in Ubuntu 11.10 using autofs which automatically mounts a drive on every boot. But if I use the Gnome Shell interface, a pop up notification keeps popping up from the ...
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Permanently disable CD drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
disable the cdrom in Ubuntu 11.10 OS
I have no use for a CD drive, ever. Yet it exists, consumes power, opens inadvertently when in its case or in my bed and makes noise ...
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2answers
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How do I format my entire HDD?
Ok I have recently made some mistakes with installing some operating systems that I should have just kept on a live cd not ubuntu but another os and with my ocd when I saw my lot's of different ...
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2answers
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How can I recover data from a clicking/dying external drive?
Windows asks me to reformat every time I plug it into my computer, so I fired up Ubuntu via VirtualBox (selecting the external hard drive in the USB settings for VirtualBox beforehand) to see if I can ...
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NAS device for Ubuntu
Fellows,
I would like to know if you use, how you use and which device as Network Attached Storage. I've being reading some reviews online, and there is a lot off downsides in many models - more ...
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1answer
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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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Can Ubuntu recognize an external disk drive created by windows xp?
I have an external Hard Drive Formatted under Windows XP, Can I manage this drive in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Right now the drive is invisible to Ubuntu. How can I use such a drive without reformatting it?
