Use this tag if you have problems using HDs or SSDs in Ubuntu.
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Why does the installer say I don't have enough drive space on a new drive?
I have a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I am trying to install it on a new (bare) hard drive and can't get past the first screen (the one that says "For best results, please ensure that this computer: ...
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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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Cannot mount USB drive — FSTAB error
Recently, one of my desktops seems to have developed a problem with the fstab and mounting USB drives. The specific error I receive is...
Unable to mount TRAVELDRIVE
Error mounting: mount exited with ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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cannot see my external drive
Hi I can't see my usb external hard drive.
With disk utility it says it's mounted. But I can't find it on the right of nautilus file explorer.
When I try to mounted again, obviously it says it's ...
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How to recover flash drive lost after formatting with GParted?
I was just copying audio files into my 2GB USB mp3 player, then i had a problem saying that it could not copy files into the drive any more, i tried removing it and trying again, but it didn't work, ...
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how can i safely remove an external hard drive?
Two of the three icons of the drive's partitions show on the desktop. One has disappeared and the contents are not accessible. Right clicking on the desktop icon of the partition gives the option to ...
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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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New lvm install to pick up existing home drive and reinstate swap partition
I've read so many variables on what I'm trying to do, I thought it better to ask outright.
I've been through a few installs and upgrades of Ubuntu but never had my system (root) drive encrypted. Just ...
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Cannot find wireless after installation, please help
I recently posted a question but couldn't get any help from it so here goes again:
I am new to Linux. I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 onto a USB drive to put on an old laptop just for fun. I realized that ...
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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?
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Can't install ubuntu, continue button doesnt work
I have a laptop without an internal hard drive and I'm struggling to make it work from a USB drive.
I have used Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.0.1 to install Ubuntu onto my USB drive. I specified a 250 ...
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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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Unable to write in mounted driver Kubuntu 12.10
I installed Kubuntu 12.10 in SSD but unable to use HDD because I do not have write permission.
kisun@ejo129:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kisun:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected ...
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Can't mount my USB Drive
~> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/Disk
Did not find any restart pages in $LogFile and it was not empty.
The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing.
I have a USB Hard Disk and Windows ...
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Ubuntu Server Edition won't boot with second hard drive plugged in
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu server edition running on my home server. I cannot (for the life of me) get it to boot with a second hard drive plugged in. I have checked boot priority and made sure ...
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Kubuntu 12.10 not seeing usb drive formatted ntfs
I have a 160gb hard disk (model WD1600BEVT) that I've installed in a USB casing. I formatted it as NTFS in Windows 7. A few days ago, I have installed Kubuntu 12.10 on my computer at home, but when I ...
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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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Why does my FAT32 USB attached disk not mount in 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04?
I run Ubuntu 12.04 x64. I have a FAT32 USB disk with valuable data on it but it does not mount.
I can see and access it when I plug it in to a Windows machine, but not on Ubuntu. I tried all kind 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I correct my graphics issue, Very pixely and grainy
After downloading ubuntu from wubi i restarted my computer and and booted ubuntu on my desktop gpu radeon hd 6670, fx 4100 8gb ram, built myself. I noticed many pixels and distortion on the screen, ...
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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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Not sure if hard drive is mounted and file system contents reads 140 TB
I have just installed ubuntu 12.10 and everything is running fine but there are a few things that I am not sure about.
In computer, when I click on the hard disk it says "unable to mount location - ...
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How to partition an external hard drive
I would very much appreciate your kind help with making multiple 50 GB partitions in my 500GB external hard drive. My System information is:
edmond@Dell:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a
Linux Dell ...
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Addition drivers on a installation usb
Is there a way to install additional drivers on 12.10 64bit installation usb drive? 12.10 usb does not start up properly (holds on blank screen with blinking underscore). I believe this is because I ...
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Why would my USB remote just stop working? (Compro K100 USB MCE)
So I recently installed again and I am finding small things to be super frustrating. For example getting my stupid Compro K100 USB MCE Remote to work.
When I installed Ubuntu 12.04 TLS it was ...
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switching from ubuntu to windows on same hard drive
I just portioned my hard drive for ubuntu and windows 7. since I have a wireless keyboard I cant change the option to boot to windows at start-up. Is there another way to change from ubuntu to windows ...
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network drive automounitng after upgrading to 12.10
I have a usb hard drive hooked up to my netgear router that I have been using to store music, documents, etc. and access on my netbook. Since 10.04, I have been able to automount it at login by:
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Copying entire root drive to flash drive with different drive sizes on VirtualBox
I have my modified Lubuntu version installed on VirtualBox and I want to copy the entire root filesystem to flash drive in order to boot it on my physical PC.
My flash drive has 1.90GB and the entire ...
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My external hardrive doesn't save anything on Ubuntu
When I try to save anything into my external disk (Verbatim) from Ubuntu, I always see the warning:
Error saving (name of file) /non existent
I cannot save anything from Ubuntu to external disk. ...
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Ubuntu installation froze on black screen similar to command line
Any help is greatly appreciated as I do a large sum of my work on my PC.
Okay so whats happened is I came upstairs and saw my computer running Windows 7 with a blue screen so I assumed nothing of it ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 32 bit Live CD unable to detect windos XP OS and Drives
I m trying to install Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 32 bit (Dual Boot) , but its not detecting Xp OS and the drives.
Instead it shows complete hard disk in one section
1)No previous detected
2)Drives not ...
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Missing files on mountable drive after cleaning filesystem with a LiveCD
Recently my Ubuntu box failed to boot due to a hard drive error. I booted into a Live CD, cleaned the file systems and everything seemed fine.
One issue is that before the incident, I had a drive ...
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Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk
There is no operating system currently on my computer.Hard drive has been a dynamic(when installing Ubuntu).Windows is cannot installing.(so hard drive is dynamic).How to convert dynamic disk to basic ...
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something happend on my character interface under ubuntu 12.04
after my ACER ASPIRE 4752G be installed Ubuntu 12.04,some string like this:
[ 1670.897971] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[ 1670.898663] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port ...
