For questions regarding file formats, or formatting hard drives.
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I want to reformat my home partition from ext3 to ntfs
I have three partitions: one with Ubuntu 12.04, the other is a data partition (the largest of the three) and the last one has Windows 7.
First I installed Ubuntu, then I formatted the data partition ...
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how to format a partition containing Master boot record in Linux 12.10?
few days ago I have installed Linux 12.10 in my 16 GB USB drive. It was working fine. After some days, I wanted USB for my other uses, so I tried to format it. Whole USB gets formatted but the ...
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USB Hard Drives being only Read-Only?
I have finally gotten my Hard drive to be formatted in FAT32 but now, when ever I try to move a file onto it, it says: "The destination is read-only." I have been looking through it in GParted and ...
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tried ntfs format in terminal but says internal error
I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 with Linux kernel 3.8 which has ntfs-3g package but again asks to install it, when tried the terminal does not respond!
as I am new to ask Ubuntu I'm not allowed to post ...
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How to add year in date section on top panel from christian to buddhist year?
From tutorial in
http://choorucode.com/2010/04/02/how-to-change-the-date-and-time-format-of-clock-in-panel-of-ubuntu/
According to strftime format, I have only %Y for full 4-digit year in Christian ...
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Can't format / delete locked partition from gparted?
I can't format my hard disk for Ubuntu installation. It has Fedora installed in it. I wonder how to unlock the locked partition to delete and format it, since I am stuck at installing Ubuntu. I am now ...
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How to format a USB flash drive?
In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?
I understand there's always standard partition management command line stuff ...
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How to format a USB or external drive?
Using Ubuntu 11.10, how do I format an external or USB drive? I don't find an option to 'format' when I right click. In the new version, the drives don't come up on the desktop but instead come on ...
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How to Fix “Read-only file system” error when I run something as sudo and try to make a folder/file?
When I try to save something or rename a file/folder it say this error " Read-only file system" or run something as root in the terminal it say this error
sudo: unable to open /var/lib/sudo/"My User ...
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Change Ubuntu to Windows
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. And now I want to use Windows as Ubuntu have lots of fail
and my laptop is all time is overheated. I mean by overheated that you can't touch fan postion because it's so hot.
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How to format ubuntu bootable usb?
I am new in Ubuntu. First I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my usb stick which is of 16 gb. So, it installed with 2 partitions of 9 and 7 gb. Now I want to format that usb. But when I try it to format, only ...
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Ubuntu Gnome 3 and Windwos FAIL BOOT
I have a strange issue:
I wanted to install Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome edition on a usb and every time I wanted to use this Ubuntu to plug my usb into my laptop and boot the usb enjoy the cool OS. I made a ...
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Installing from USB to a new HD - Drive not found
I just bought a new hard drive and attached it to my Windows 7 machine to format it (NTFS) and create a single, primary partition.
Then I put it into the machine I want to install Ubuntu on and ran ...
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How do I unlock a microsd card?
I have a locked microSD (locked by Nokia symbian phone), I forgot the password, how do I unlock it? I don't mind if I lost my data in microSD. I can't mount it.
Output of mkdir ~/sd_mount ...
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Formatting C:/ in Windows while ubuntu is installed in D:/
I had installed Ubuntu 11.10 through wubi installer in Windows Vista in D:\ a few months ago. I am able to dual boot to anyone OS. But, now I have a problem with the Windows so I want to format my C:\ ...
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How to reformat a drive with NTFS?
I currently have a corrupted NTFS external drive that I want to re-format in a format that can be read by Linux and Windows - suggestions?
I want to reformat my 1TB NTFS drive to a format that can be ...
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Is it safe to use a USB external drive without a valid partition table?
Here's what I did:
Installed the SATA hard disk in the enclosure
Connected it via USB
With Disk Utility I formatted the drive with an EXT4 file system
Started using the hard drive without any issue ...
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No Such Device or Address
I have an external 250GB Seagate Hard Drive. System gives an error while trying to mount it. Here's the error.
"Unable to mount ANKIT
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: The disk contains ...
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Windows formated disks; are they any use on Ubuntu?
I have a bunch of disks (digital dictionaries, encyclopedia) on Windows format. Is it possible to read them with Ubuntu?(12:10) When I just put them in my drive, window says "no respinse" and it ...
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Formatting hard drive failed
I am fairly new to ubuntu, so please don bite my head off if I ask a stupid question.
Anyway, I tried formatting one of my hard drives using the gnome disks tool, and that returned an error.
Error ...
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Cannot Create Bootable USB Drive from .iso file
I've tried formatting the flash drive as FAT as well as Mac OS journaled through diskutility but still cannot successfully create a bootable drive. I'm following the directions here exactly: ...
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How to format a read-only NTFS formatted USB Drive?
I'm trying to repair my USB drive because I can't write to it. It's a Transcend Jetflash 700 USB 3.0
This is the information I get via g-parted:
Trying to mount the USB drive:
The file system ...
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No operating system or formatted partition(s) on laptop
I have about 20 IBM Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, R52, that are being donated to a school in the Dominican Repulic. There is absolutely nothing on them! I am trying to load Ubuntu Mint on them and have ...
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Retrieve file of a deleted partition
A hard-drive with four partitions
Ubuntu
Swap
Data
Free
was accidentally formated and then partitioned in the same way with the same partition sizes again. I am looking for a way to retrieve a ...
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Partition does not start on physical sector boundary?
I've one HD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap).
fdisk is giving me a Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary warning. What is the ...
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How can I uninstall Ubuntu in order to install Windows 7? [duplicate]
I can't work out how to do it. When I try to use my Windows installation disk, it won't even show a setup menu.
I installed Ubuntu via a USB stick, and it is the only OS on my hard drive.
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Recover data from NTFS partition after being formatted to ext4
I understand this is EXTREMELY unlikely, I was just wondering if someone might have a tip or two?
I have an external 500GB HDD that was formatted to NTFS and I (VERY stupidly...) left it plugged in ...
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Thunderbird date format?
I have ubuntu 10.04 running Thunderbird 14.0
How do I change the date format to international standard? (eg; 2012-07-26)
My system date already shows this format.
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Distinguishing partition format types
How can I tell whether a partition is formatted with FAT32 or exFAT?
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can't get Ubuntu format partition and continue installing
All goes well until the fresh install starts formatting the desired partition - 200 GB drive with XP-64 on the original 100 GB partition (resized from 60 GB using it externally in a W7 box). 2 ...
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Cannot format 500GB USB HD: cannot create partition table
When I use disk utility I get the following error:
Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb: Input/output error
gparted also cannot create ...
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How can I format a hard drive in Ubuntu to use it as storage?
I have an extra internal hard drive that I just want to use for storage. I want it to work with Windows (7) and Ubuntu. How could I just format it to have no operating system and just be used as ...
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unable to format external hard disk
I have an external wd my passport connected via USB 2.0. Yesterday I have tried to format it using disk utility but somehow it could not complete successfully. Now its showing unknown volume 0.0kb. I ...
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Can't open/view in windows 8 the screenshots taken in Ubuntu [closed]
I have a problem and i can't figure it out. I have taken some screenshots in Ubuntu and now i want to batch-edit them with Photoshop. I cannot open or view with no any program under windows 8. Do you ...
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cannot boot from pen drive [closed]
hi am using old compaq c700 precerio laptop with 120gb hd space
iam having a problem .am using pinguy linux and it is working fine but i want to clean install arch linux so i mounted iso image in ...
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Where did Ubuntu go? [duplicate]
I just formatted my PC and added Windows 7, alongside Ubuntu. I installed them in a separated disk partition so Ubuntu and my files should be ok, though I cannot find them anywhere. When I try to ...
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Why doesn't Gparted show my USB stick?
I have a new 16 GB kingston flash pen that I cannot format
Gparted doesn't seem to see it
It has some windows exe and files on it
In do not have the format option as described here for ...
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Installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows7, now win7 wants me to format drive D?
I have an ssd boot drive and a Hard disk drive, C: and D: respectively. I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside windows 7 and when I rebooted to go to windows, drive D says it must be formatted. Is ...
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Can't format USB drive
I have a 4 Gig USB drive that I'd like to format.
I go to the Disk Utility, and try to format it, but it says that the device is busy. (This same error occurs no matter whether I tried to format the ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LST along windows without formatting any drive
I am facing a problem while installing ubuntu along with win8. The specs about my pc are following:
500 GB HDD (c:100, d:100, f:50, g:100 h:100 i:50)
and every drive has important data, and are NTFS
...
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FAT32 drive formatted in Ubuntu shows as unallocated in Windows [closed]
I formatted an HDD as FAT32 in Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Mac OSX both see the drive perfectly fine and know that it is indeed FAT32. But in Windows 7, Disk Management sees it as unallocated, so I cannot even ...
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How to format my dual boot HDD with windows and ubuntu?
I started installing Ubuntu 12.10 on my windows 7 (64bit), but then I installed a new windows and therefore deleted the old windows.
I now want to uninstall Ubuntu and GRUB, but my ...
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Low level format of hard drive
Can somebody please tell me how can I format a hard drive at a low enough level that the boot sector is re-written? I guess the equivalent of fdisk /mbr.
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formating old computer with win
I have an older computer which runs windows with multiple viruses that I can`t get rid of.
So what I want is to format the computer and only run a Linux program without windows. How can I make this ...
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How do I choose M4A format music downloads in the Music Store?
The albums in the Ubuntu Music Store are shown to be available as mp3 or M4A files. How can I decide which format to download? I am not using Mac but I would prefer to download M4A.
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Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 4684514
I'm trying to format a hard drive.
I've used mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1 after the fdisk command, but mkfs doesn't work!
And when I press Ctrl+Alt+F6 I see this message:
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, ...
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Will Ubuntu One delete or restore files in the cloud after formatting my PC?
One of PCs the Windows is having typically Windows issues and needs a reformat. I have my documents, pictures, music files etc syncing across Ubuntu One to access on Smartphone and my Ubuntu dedicated ...
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How to make a readable FAT16/FAT32 partition on usb stick for Windows access?
I want to create a windows accessible partition(FAT16/FAT32). But even the created partition can read under linux. It can not see on Windows. Just display a driver symbol like E:.
I'm using parted ...
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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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Trying to use Windows Vista Recovery Disc to re-install Windows Vista back. [closed]
I am not very computer literate. I have been trying to reinstall Windows Vista on my computer with a Recovery Disc but I get the response that the Hard Drive must be converted to NTFS format. I ...
