Questions tagged [format]
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Will Ubuntu format and erase the partition I intend to install it on?
I've never installed Ubuntu (or any linux distro) on a hard drive before but now I want to install it on a partition and have a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 being on the C drive and Ubuntu on the ...
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Which option to choose in the advanced formatting? [duplicate]
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my Netbook Asus Eeepc-900 from bootable USB. When I see partitions screen I just wanna one single partition and then install Ubuntu, but has some many options that I ...
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what will happen if I format the drive with ubuntu while in windows?
I have a dual boot windows-ubuntu and I am running out of Windows space. My ubuntu partition is atleast 200GB and now I need some of it, so I could have more space for windows. Can I format the drive ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Wipe
I would like to know how to wipe the contents of my hard drive completely?
Also, It will be able to boot new Ubuntu on this hard drive after wiping, or it will be completely broken?
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Installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 and formating partitions
I will install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Will any partition be formated,or things will stay as they are?
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users and shares on external partition
I have tried my upmost to get this working and have lost the will to live but am not going to give up!
Basically, I have 1 SSD which I have just installed Ubuntu 14.4.01 on fresh and I have created a ...
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Replacing Win 8.1 & Clearing Hardrive
I'd like to completely remove all files from my drive (factory reset, basically) and also uninstall Windows 8.1 from my machine. How would I do this, and if there are multiple ways to do it, what ...
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Problem with formatting memory card
I have memory card which I remove during a format on phone and is now not working.
In windows it is showing in Device manager as other devices and not showing in disk management.
I ubuntu 12.04 I ...
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Format a ext2/ext3 drive with open permissions
I need to be able to access an external hard drive on multiple linux computers. The drive needs to be formatted ext2 or ext3. How do I change the permissions after formatting in gparted. Or is there a ...
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Partitioning in Ubuntu?
I just want to ask what "/" and "/home" means? What if I format my PC and re-install Ubuntu? Does it affect the / and /home directory? I want to protect my files in case Ubuntu crashes and I need to ...
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How to format entire HDD to it's factory condition? [closed]
I tried to install an image onto a secondary HDD but wasn't able to make it work. Now I want to wipe out everything on the HDD to it's original factory condition so I can try again. I tried using ...
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Sandisk USB not detected by Ubuntu 14.04 but detected by Windows 7
I have a SanDisk 16GB USB drive that is not being detected by Ubuntu 14.04 but is detected by Windows 7.
lsusb detects it but sudo fdisk -l or blkid doesn't.
Even GParted and Disks don't detect it.
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How to format a HDD in ubuntu 14.04
So i recently switched to Ubuntu from Opensuse, and i'm loving it. There's one problem though. I've found that the control centre is minimalistic (to say the least) and, coming from a guy with Yast2, ...
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USB pen (Kingston 16GB) is not detecting / mount in the system (Ubuntu 12.10 or Windows)
My USB pen (Kingston 16GB) is not detecting in the system (Ubuntu 12.10 or Windows). I tried followings but no any luck. Could any one give an idea to try... I want it with / without current data on ...
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Ubuntu Format volume for windows
While trying to wipe a drive with DBan I accidentally started the process on my laptop drive. The process ran for about 2 seconds before I stopped it but not before it caused some damage. I now have ...
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Floppy is read but not written on Ubuntu 14.04
I'm trying to mount a floppy drive (tested on windows98, it works) but I still encounter mounting errors.
I enabled the floppy drive for my user - which has been disabled - and installed udisks.
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why is my ubuntu 14.04 32 bit fresh install painfully slow on my fitpc2
I have 14.04 64 on another machine running well on another machine.
I installed 14.04 32 bit on this Fitpc2 mini pc with an intel 40 gig ssd drive because it has 1 gig of ram.
I erased the SSD drive ...
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New HDD formating on Ext4 root permission
I have this new 80Gb HDD I want to use it as a backup storage for my actual system (14.04) not a server. I formatted it with Gpart but I just can't write in it, when I search for permissions it tells ...
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Recovery of formatted hard drive!
i had accidentally erase everything option while switching to ubuntu. can you please help me to tell me how recover that drive please as there are many important documents and photos. please if i can ...
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Make ext3 filesystem with 128 bytes inode size
I need to format external hard disks to EXT3 MBR with the iNode size set to 128 bits. This is for a very specific use, i.e. the delivery of DCP to digital cinema servers.
I'd like to be able to do ...
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does live DVD totally erase windows?
I'm buying a new laptop august 13th, the Asus X551MAV-RCLN06 is the front runner. It has the Intel Celeron N2830 dual core processor, 4 gb ram. The two options with the Live DVD are to use the whole ...
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Upgrade 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS
I want to upgrade my Ubuntu version 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS .
Is there a way that I can install it with fresh copy and a formatted partition ???
I don't want my other drives to get formatted. But ...
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Recover ext2 filesystem after reformat?
I had an ext2 partition and by mistake I reformatted it to ext4.
I immediately noticed the problem because at the next reboot my system wouldn't mount the reformatted partition, which got a new UUID ...
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Cannot repair a corrupted usb flash drive [duplicate]
I have an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive (no-name), on which I tried a few days ago to copy a film of about 6GB. The flash drive had NTFS file system so I thought there will be no problems. But at some point ...
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Unable to correctly format and boot certain USB drives
I've just bought a small laptop, with no optical drive at all, and I would like to install an OS (in this case Crunchbang) on it. I couldn't have been create a bootable drive, on my Ubuntu desktop, ...
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Format 12.04lts and install newest version
I have 12.04lts installed but had troubles while upgrading it.
All graphics configurations died and I can not change them.
Dash disappeared and the applications bar vanished.
I can not upgrade or ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 14.04 without losing data on a Windows 7 PC (physically)?
I have this windows PC, and I want to install this Ubuntu physically without VMware. Last time I installed this, I lost up-to 160GB, and it was all of my hard drive. I have 4 drives C:, D:, F: and E:. ...
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Delete Ubuntu from dual boot Windows 8.1 in GPT disk [duplicate]
I'm using Windows dual booting with Ubuntu.
I have uninstalled, and at that time my disk was formated as MBR. After deleting all partitions of Ubuntu I choose to rebuild the MBR in my disk. That way ...
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How to format a USB drive for Startup disk?
I want to make a bootable live USB from Ubuntu 14.04. When I insert a free USB, Startup Disk Creator says Capacity: 7.5GB; Free 0.0GB.
This is a free and working USB, as I can copy file on it. I ...
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Quick format of USB drive or external HDD
I remember that in order versions of Ubuntu, there was a GUI option for Quick Format of flash drive.
I am looking for a GUI app to format USB drive with one-click. A simple app to take care of ...
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Ubuntu 10.04: Can I format a drive on one server and move it to a different server?
I'm not very familiar with the intricacies of Linux filesystems, and have minimal experience with formatting and mounting drives, so please excuse this noob question...
We recently upgraded a ...
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Formating window without affecting Ubuntu [closed]
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 with the help of vmware workstation. Now I want to format window xp without affecting Ubuntu and ns 2.29 which is installed in Ubuntu, is it possible?
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formated windows without uninstalling ubuntu
I have formatted my laptop before I uninstalled Ubuntu from it and now it has it as a "choice" in my boot options but I can't boot it because the drive was formatted. If I install it, it duplicates ...
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Unknown ERROR from Startup Disk Creator
I don't understand this error from the Startup Disk Creator:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", ...
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Ubuntu Server does not detect RAID HDD
I have formatted in a low level the hard disks of my computer. When I try to install Ubuntu Server I get this error message:
[!!] Partition disks
No root file system
No root file system is defined.
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Pen drive format
i installed UBUNTU 14.04 using my pen drive. the problem is i need my pen drive back with the same storage. is there is any way to do like that please.
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Cannot format micro sd card
I apparently did something wrong while trying to format my micro sd card 8 GB. I have used it for one and a half year in my old phone without any problems and now I wanted to format it to use in my ...
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Nothing I do remains after restart
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 from a CD on my 64GB SSD. I made 2 partitions; 10GB for swap and the rest for the OS. I formatted them as ext4.
Ubuntu ran fine, but I am facing a strange problem. No matter ...
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Can I use same external drive to backup and install new version?
I have an old laptop with sadly out of date 10.04 Lucid on it. The internal drive is partitioned and contains Windows 7, which I never use. Gradually, it's losing functionality, as more software ...
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Cannot format my SD card [duplicate]
I am new to Ubuntu, using 14.04 I am trying to format an SD card to make space on it, and it's not working. I tried in terminal:
format mmcblk0
hformat mmcblk0
and it says:
hformat: /home/michael/...
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Bulk converting images from one format to another?
I want to convert a batch of images, nearly 100, from jpg to png format. How can I do this without renaming them, but instead actually converting the format?
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Does removing a partition automatically increase another?
Is it possible to format a partition and then converge it with the other partition so that the storage capacity of the other partition with the OS increases?
Actually, I am suffering that. I got two ...
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How can I delete ubuntu from usb installer?
I used a usb to install ubuntu to my friend. After the installation finished, I can't delete contents, what can I do to format it? Since this reading this as just being part of the system and does not ...
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Do I absolutely need to format my Ext HDD in order to use it to install Ubuntu?
My goal is to run Windows 8.1 on my Laptop from the factory-installed HDD, and use the same EXT USB 3.0 HDD that I use to backup my files as the location for my Ubuntu Install. I am under the ...
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My USB drive is not working
I inserted my Sandisk Cruzor Blade (4 GB) into my Ubuntu laptop few days ago and formatted it. And a message appeared: unable to mount your drive. Now when I insert the USB drive into it, it does not ...
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Cannot recognize/format usb flash
I had a Flash stick with Ubuntu to run as live USB. I didn't need it anymore so I used the Disks utility and I formatted it. Disks sees it now as unallocated space. I want to format it to NTFS but I ...
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format a flash drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Is it even possible to do that on Ubuntu? I need to format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to install OSX and I don't have a Mac available :/ Could is even install the image with ubuntu?
Thanks in ...
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How can I format my USB drive in Lubuntu?
I have created a bootable USB drive to install Lubuntu. Now I would like to format the drive so I can use it normally. How can I do that?
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Installing Ubuntu while dealing with partitions (Windows XP)
I want to switch over to Ubuntu from XP. I looked at my C: drive and noticed that it is divided into 3 sections: my antiquated floppy drive (at least, I think that is correct), the C drive, and an ...
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Error mounting/format/part bootable USB
Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sde2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other ...