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how to recover grub using GNU Parted [closed]
I'm installing Windows 8 on my machine, but I need to install ubuntu 12:10 for academic purposes, but when I go into the terminal and command fdisk-l, it says I have: The utility fdisk does not ...
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EFI - GPT dual-boot quantal AMD64 - impossible boot windows 7
I tried to install Ubuntu Quantal AM64 on a EFI - GPT notebook (asus X501U) in dualboot.
Ubuntu works fine, but i can't boot windows anymore.
HDD is partitioned in this way:
sda1 0.2 Gb ...
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Problem installing Ubuntu 13 alongside Windows8 - cannot see partition system
I got quite a problem for some time that prevents me from installing Ubuntu (finally). I got an ASUS laptop bought in late 2012, that came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I upgraded it to Windows 8 (due ...
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Ubuntu will not boot
I had Ubuntu running on an acer easyStore box. When the power supply got too loud, I decided to move the harddrive to a desktop box. However, when I tried to boot up, the screen tells me to pick a cd ...
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Dual Boot ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 on two separate SSDs with UEFI
With the following setup I get a blinking cursor after installation:
Windows 7 64bit installed in first SSD (not UEFI, using MBR)
Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit on gpt partioned disk seems to ...
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GPT partition table problem: Windows 7 and Ubuntu dual boot
I hope you guys will help me get through this situation I have gotten myself into.
I bought a new samsung ultra book running windows 8. I knew going into the purchase that I wanted to ditch windows ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a 64bit PC with UEFI and GPT SSD disk, with no current OS?
How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a new 64bit PC which has UEFI instead of BIOS and a GPT formatted SSD disk, with no current OS ?
I have already tried and although it seemed to install, it would not ...
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Copy a “bad” GPT partition table to another drive
I'm trying to copy a GPT partition table. To make a long story short, I had a RAID5 on 4 drives (Intel Matrix Storage Manager, not Linux software RAID). What I have now is:
1 empty drive
2 drives ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 installation on GPT + RAID going into grub rescue [closed]
I have two 2TB disks. I am installing Ubuntu 12.04 using the alternate version of the server cd. On the partitioning page I have done my partitioning as follows
/dev/sda1 - 32 MB - bios_grub
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Windows doesn't boot after Ubuntu installation
I have had serious problems installing Ubuntu and Windows and have dual boot. Recently I installed both operating systems, Ubuntu was the last one, and after that my computer was booting directly to ...
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Windows 7 and 11.10 side by side from scratch what am I doing wrong?
I have tried everything I can think of at this point and I'm at a total loss.
I have a 2TB drive I want to install Windows 7 and 11.10 (both are 64 bit) side by side, but once I install Windows it ...
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How to install Xubuntu 12.10 after getting an incompatible gpt table message?
I tried to install Xubuntu 12.10 X64 and in the section about partitioning it got stuck with the message that it is not compatible with gpt table partition, I had a Windows 7 which I re-installed for ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 installer does not recognize Windows 7
I recently purchased an ASUS N56VZ-ES71 laptop which came with Windows 7 Home Premium installed on it. I wish to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I shrank the hard drive partitions to leave ...
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grub error: out of disk when booting 12.04 server with hardware RAID5 and gpt
I'm trying to do a new install of 12.04 server on one node of a Dell PowerEdge C6145 with the following spec:
48 cores
512GB RAM
LSI MegaRAID 9265 controller
4x2TB disks, configured with RAID5 giving ...
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Problems with partitioning on GUID Partition Table
I installed Xubuntu on my new Lenovo G580 notebook. When I tried to partition the HDD and it kept making extra 1 MB partitions at the beginning and the end and they looked like unformatted free space. ...
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I want to get rid of Ubuntu and boot my Windows 8 partition
I've installed Ubuntu many times but since I purchased a new laptop (Lenovo Y580) I wanted to try Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 on it. So, without knowing what was UEFI nor GPT I installed it and everything was ...
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Installing ubuntu on uefi enabled PC
Wait. this is not just another question on running ubuntu alongside windows 8!
I have asus n56VJ notebook that comes preinstalled with windows 8.
My final aim is to have ubuntu with windows 8,which ...
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Plans to automatically support existing GPT partitions during installation?
I have a desktop with a 2TB HD (Used for data) and a 120GB SSD currently used for Windows. The drives use GPT partition tables.
I wanted to install Ubuntu side by side with Windows but had a LOT of ...
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Backup recovery partition of windows 8 in GPT
My friend have acer Laptop which had windows 8 pre installed and a recovery partition(SDA 7). He want to use only windows 8 but wants to make a backup of his recovery partition(sda 7) since "recovery ...
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GPT partition table warning message during install of ubuntu
/dev/sda contains GPT signatures indicating that it has a GPT table. However, it has a fake msdos partition table as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted? Is this a GPT partition table?
So, that's the ...
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GPT table error when trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 64
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 64b on dual-boot with preinstalled W8.
I already burnt a bootable USB with ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64 and configured my BIOS (EFI, secure boot disabled) to boot ...
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Accidentally partitioned drive from MBR to GUID
[SOLVED]
Thanks everybody, the MBR schema now is restored via TestDisk, and thanks to the author for this piece of software.
I wanted to format only my Data (NTFS) partition for a fresh start. But I ...
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How do I solve the “unknown command: guid” error? [closed]
I just received a Dell Vostro 3460 with Ubuntu 10.10 preinstalled. I followed the instructions for configuring it and when asked I plugged in a USB device containing a software to handle multimedia ...
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Ubuntu LiveUSB doesn't recognize my Windows 8 installation
I have a laptop with UEFI (secure boot disabled) with Windows 8.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04 along side Windows 8 on my primary hard drive, which uses GPT. I am only presented with ...
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GPT and os x - partition missing
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I'm fixing my fiends USB drive.
AFIK it was inserted into Windows, and partition were corrupted.
I did manage to fix GUID headers with gpt_surgeon.py and mount it, but then mac did got messy, ...
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How to install linux on a computer with GPT?
I recently installed Windows 7 on a computer. Left a partition to install linux. Today when I tried to install linux, the installer (of two distros that I tried) failed to recognise the already ...
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How to fix MBR partition prior to Ubuntu Installation? A partition overlaps GPT backup sectors
My main problem is that i have just acquired an ASUS laptop with WINDOWS 7 and I want to install Ubuntu on it.
I want to have a dual boot to choose between both Operating systems, I read that it's ...
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How to install Ubuntu on an (U)EFI device with existing GPT?
I had Ubuntu 11.04 running till now. Now I want to reinstall Ubuntu with nearly fresh 12.04. I had much trouble last time to install Ubuntu because of EFI. Yet somehow I somehow got it running. But I ...
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If I need to Erase GPT data after doing a fixpart, will it also erase all my files on that drive?
Ubuntu 12.04 installer is not recognizing my partition,
so I searched for that problem here and found the solution in this link:
Ubuntu installation does not recognize drive partinioning
So my ...
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HP ProBook 4720s UEFI boot only manually into 12.04
I'm trying to get UEFI boot on my ProBook 4720s.
Because I swapped the HDD for a SSD I had a blank canvas to start.
The 12.04 Live DVD refuses to boot into UEFI, as do Alternate and desktop CD's.
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Unable to install Ubuntu 12.10 on windows 8 machine/ error no5
Installing crashes halfway through "Copying Files," showing an I/O device error error number 5.
There was problem in beginning of installation too--Ubuntu was not detecting the installed Windows 8 ...
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How do I create a multiboot environment using LVM for your *buntu operating systems on a GPT formatted system drive, in a UEFI based system?
My reason for using LVM is that I reinstall, upgrade and generally mess around with my OS installs so much that I have found that LVM gives me fantastic flexibility in moving, expanding, cloning and ...
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Create a GPT on a new volume during installation
I'd like to install Ubuntu Precise (current LTS) on a drive, and I'd like to discard the current partitioning and instead create a new GPT on that drive. The ubuntu installer allows me to partition ...
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GPT Not mounting using “normal” GPT mounting techniques 12.04
I've got two 2TB drivess: one MBR and the other GPT.
sudo blckid /dev/sdb1
returns a blank.
gdisk shows:
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
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Dual boot 10.04 and Windows 7
Before downvote, please this is not a duplicate I read the related questions and couldn't solve my problem.
I bought a new laptop that originally had Win8 installed, I formatted it, installed Windows ...
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How to remove GPT from HDD?
I have a Asus K55VM-Sx027V laptop and I formated it with Ubuntu because whenever I tried to install Windows 7 64bit, it wouldn't let me because my HDD had GPT protection.
Now that I have Ubuntu ...
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Full hdd capacity not recognised on new additional disk
I've added a new 3TB hdd to my Ubuntu Server 12.04 system for media (already has another drive for the OS), but it's only showing 2.2TB capacity
df -H
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/dev/sdb1 2.2T ...
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3TB non-boot hard disk on older motherboard
It is time to expand the capacity of my Ubuntu home file server so I would like to purchase some 3TB hard disks. However, I am concerned with potential compatibility issues. I've tried searching ...
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ubuntu 12.10 grub doesn't appear efi mode
After a number of failed attempts on installing Ubuntu and Linux in the hybrid-gpt of Windows, in which I wanted different partitions by gparted, I ended up creating againg a conventional partitions ...
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no aparece grub con gpt windows/ubuntu [closed]
I have an asus k55VM. The problem is that after installing Windows 7, and then Ubuntu 12.10, grub does not appear.
Created the partition table with gparted, I did it in msdos format, but later ...
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How to update multiple EFI system partitions on several disks?
I have three identical disks with identical partitioning using the GPT partition table format:
# sudo parted /dev/sda p
Model: ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size ...
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Proper alignment of partitions on an Advanced Format HDD using Parted
First I create a properly aligned partition in a new GPT table using parted by specifying percentages for start and end of the partition:
# parted -a optimal /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sdb
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Why does the first partition start at sector 34 when I choose “Guided - Use entire disk” during install?
After choosing "Guided - Use entire disk" during installation of Ubunsut Server 12.04 I find that the first partition starts on sector 34. Why that specific sector and not the first one?
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Partitions mixing up
I am trying to install ubuntu alongside my windows 7. The problem is that ubuntu is not detecting all of my partitions and basically clubs together many of them. The same thing is done by using ...
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Dual Boot Installing Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 (64) on a non UEFI system
I cannot seem to install the correct boot loader for a non-UEFI firmware system. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 (64) which are technically compatible with GPT but for windows only if ...
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GPTsync mismatch problem
I have a hybrid disk. After trying to copy some files from another disk to this one, I lost my OSX and Ubuntu boot capability. Ran gptsync and got:
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA ...
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Mount exited with exit code 13
I have a 1TB external hard drive that I recently formatted to NTFS. It was mounting on my Ubuntu 11.10 fine until just now. I didn't make any changes to affect my OS or my exhdd.
The error that I get ...
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Desktop doesn't load after install/restart (dual boot)
I've just finished installing Ubuntu and Windows for dual boot on separate partitions. I installed Windows first because it's pickier about partition style (MBR) and that went fine. I shrank the disk ...
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Comprehensive guide to install Ubuntu 12.10 x64 after Windows 7 on UEFI and GPT disk [closed]
My laptop is currently running Windows 7 64-bit on a GPT disk. Instead of BIOS, the laptop also uses UEFI. After googling around, I cannot find any guide for this problem (maybe my googling skill is ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 installer and gparted do not detect the existing windows partitions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to fix MBR partition prior to Ubuntu Installation? A partition overlaps GPT backup sectors
I just bought a new laptop that comes with Windows 7 preinstalled and I ...
