Questions about hard drives, configuring and formatting them. Hard drives typically provide stateful memory storage for computers, and are the primary location for the operating system and user files.
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After installing Ubuntu on my HP desktop, it fails to boot up, any ideas whats wrong?
I made a Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit USB drive, using that I installed Ubuntu onto the 1 terabyte hdd in the machine, thus erasing my windows 8 installation (I use Ubuntu on all of my computers and have ...
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Dual boot on a UEFI machine with two hard-drives
I built a machine with an ASUS UEFI motherboard (P8Z77-V LK) and two SSDs (a Samsung and an Intel). I installed Windows 8 on the first SSD, the Samsung. Then I went through the Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit ...
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Recover HDD after creating USB installer
I just mistakingly used the wrong device to create a USB installer for Ubuntu. I wanted to use my flash drive which was disk1 and ended up using disk2 which was my external HD. Is there any way I can ...
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How to Mount 2nd SATA Hard Drive and Move /var/www to it
I am relatively new to Linux but not completely green. One of my servers has an 80gb SATA2 drive and 250gb SATA2 drive. Currently, the 80gb has the OS installed on it and I would like to mount the ...
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Force /dev/sd* assignments on boot
I've got a server with 7 hard drives in it. When I run the command "hddtemp" it takes a /dev/sd* path to tell you the temperature of a drive. I'd like to be able to set up my drives to be persistent ...
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How to install Ubuntu on two different hard drives
I have a laptop with a UEFI boot system with two hard drives installed. The first hard drive is a 35GB SSD, and the second is a 500GB mechanical drive. In terms of installation I have no problem. I ...
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How do I boot from ubuntu on my USB drive so I can wipe the ubuntu file system on the hard drive?
How do I boot from ubuntu on my USB drive so I can wipe the ubuntu file system on the hard drive? I have ubuntu on an exterior hard drive and want to boot from that so I can wipe the internal hard ...
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Error creating partition table on NTFS formatted hard drive
I'm having a problem with a friend's old external hard drive. The hard drive (1.5TB WD Caviar Green) isn't detected by any computer regardless of the OS installed.
So I disassembled the hard drive ...
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Merge drives with gparted - data loss [closed]
I have a 1TB external HDD. There were two partitions on this HDD. My first partition was a 60 GB partition and the second partition was a 871 GB partition. I did not need the data on the first ...
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Does restoring dd image override whole disk?
I have a PC running ubuntu 12 (dedicated) that I have created a dd image from, and another laptop with ubuntu as dual-boot with windows 7.
What I have done is I have taken that image from the PC, and ...
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How install a new app from LiveCD into sleeping hard drive installation
I've:
a pc with a running Ubuntu installation.
a LiveCD running in the above pc with access to the hard drive Ubuntu installation filesystem.
and I need to know how install an app from the running ...
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Hard Drive too slow
My computer has been going too slow since I remember, I tried several tips I found on Internet but nothing worked. After spending some time searching about the problem I found that it might be my hard ...
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jdb2 constantly writing to disk
I know there are related issues, but none of them seem to apply to my case. Below is iotop output. jdb2 is constantly above 90% usage. It's been grinding away for 2 days. It stops for a while after a ...
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Hard Disk Drive Ejected
I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 and I have ejected my hard disk drives.
now I cannot find them on my devices list
could anyone please help?
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How to back up your internal hard drive OS before instaling Ubuntu
Hi I was wondering how to back up my computer OS and my stuff before formating the hard drive and instaling Ubuntu because I do not want to lose my stuff and my OS. Also I do not want to buy a new ...
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Slow Performance…Hard drive Problem?
I had my laptop run out of battery twice in the last two weeks. I went to go start it right after plugging it back in, and it hung on the "Ubuntu" screen with the little dots. I started it in the ...
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Swap HDD to change OS?
I'm going to a LAN tomorrow, however, they all use windows and we're planning on playing some games that are only for windows. I have a laptop with a pretty SDD of 60GB with Ubuntu that works perfect ...
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Problems when booting Ubuntu 12.04 on separate hard drive
I just got Ubuntu 12.04 (also have it on my Chromebook), and I installed it on my seperate hard drive. Whenever I try to boot my computer up, I get Windows Boot Manager, as expected. But then there's ...
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can you put pictures from the PC to USB, CD or External hard drive
My computer won't work so im going to see if I can use ubuntu to recover my data. I am planning to use ubuntu to put the pictures from my comuter, to my external hard drive, where all my pictures are.
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Determine if a USB HDD has bad sectors/blocks
How do I scan for bad sectors/blocks on a portable USB HDD using Ubuntu?
The first thing I want to do is determine how many bad sectors/blocks the drive has (if any). The next thing I want to do is ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 lts doesnt recognize my 500gb external hard disk
Previously i had windows 8 installed and changed back to Ubuntu, i think Ive messed up the hdd drive (freecom 500gb)
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Format ASUS external hard drive AN300
I am trying to format a new external HDD of ASUS (model AN300). Ubuntu recognizes only a "CD ROM" when I plug it to the computer, names ASUS Webstorage. I tried to follow instructions, on this link.
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How to find out how many hours a drive has been used?
How can I check how many hours a drive has been used for? I looked in Drive Utility but I didn't see it in the smart data. Is there a better way or program for this?
Thanks
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How to rebuild ZFS pool with new disks of different sector sizes?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 with ZFS installed. There are two pools: rpool (the root filesystem) and rdata (all the data). rdata was built with 2 x 1TB WD EADS drives (with 512 byte physical sectors) in a ZFS ...
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Error opening hard drives on 13.04 [duplicate]
I'm getting the following message while opening hard drives on 13.04:
Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/teja/521C05AA1C0589E5: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o ...
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Grub Error, No such device
I installed a new motherboard and processor combo tonight and can not fix grub.
I tried auto grub reinstall in the ubuntu installer rescue system. Nothing.
I tried several of the guides around the ...
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External Hard Drive Won't Mount But Is Detected
Yesterday I bought an external drive and after reformatting it to ext4, Ubuntu could no longer "see" it. I asked for help, and eventually came to the conclusion that the drive was somewhat defective. ...
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How to show all the Windows partitions on Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with wubi.exe installer. It was installed successfully.
But it is now showing two of my windows drives, but not showing other two. I have four in total.
How can I fix ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 wont mount an External harddrive
I have 2 external 1TB harddrives, both of which normally get mounted on startup. For the past couple of days, one of these drives has not been mounted. I have tried unplugged and plugging the ...
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Can't Mount External Drive After Reformatting
I just bought a Toshiba Canvio 2TB external hard drive. I then installed GParted, and reformatted the drive to ext4 (following the instructions in part 1 & 2, at this blog).
The instructions ...
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Auto mount ntfs drive with permissions of rwx for each user in Ubuntu [duplicate]
I have a drive (logical) with ntfs system. I want it be mounted automatically whenever Ubuntu starts. And since ntfs doesn't support Linux files' permissions (rwx) I want it to be mounted with max ...
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I have recently installed ubuntu after i erased my hdd and I dont know if the hdd has only one partition now
I am new to Ubuntu(coming from windows), and I don't know if the install went right: I understand that by default there should be 2 partitions after the install so i run this command
sudo fdisk -l
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Help understand HDD
Good afternoon.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 ... when installing layout HDD 3 sections: Section 1 to the system (35gb) mount it with a value of "/", part 2 did SWAP (swap file as I understood), 3 section ...
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Black screen after update from 12.04 to 12.10? [duplicate]
Updated from 12.04 (I think) to 12.10 after update manager told me there was updates. I updated it, it finished and then restarted. When restarting it came up with the normal toshiba screen, then the ...
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Open Ubuntu .iso file on blank hard drive? [duplicate]
I downloaded Ubuntu from the web, its a 700MB .ISO file; I transfered this file to a CD-R and to a thumb drive. I am trying to load on a notebook which has a DoD-erased hard drive; it comes up with No ...
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Unable to install Ubuntu 12.10 - Hard Drive not recognized
I have an HP ProBook 4520 and I am trying to do a dual install with Windows 7. The USB device I used only detects itself as an installable location. If I exit the installer and open up the file ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 not booting from hard drive after installing from USB
I installed 13.04 from a USB on my desktop and everything is fine until I shut down, go to suspend or restart. It asks for a boot-able drive. I checked the BIOS and the hard drive is the first ...
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how to install windows xp from the second hard drive on Ubuntu 13.04
i have ubuntu 13.04 on the first HDD but can not recognize the second HDD with Windows XP after reboot of PC in order to nest OS es together, what should i do further?
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terminology of fdisk with no parameters [closed]
I am following the guide on this page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Examples
... to make an image of my entire 2TB hard drive with a destroyed partition table ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on hard drive with bad sectors
So I brought a second had laptop on the cheap, because I am very tight for money. Going to be getting a new hard drive in about a month or so but in the mean time I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 on the ...
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Makeshift Hybrid HDD setup [duplicate]
I have an idea I want to try, but just curious if it would work. I want to install Ubuntu's root folder onto a 16gb SD card and set /home to my 1tb internal drive. Is there a way to accomplish this to ...
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Internal drive sdc sometimes mounts, but sometimes fails to mount and is assigned sda
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 (Kubuntu if it matters) and I have it set up to mount hard drives automatically on start-up (In System Settings under "Removable devices", I have the setting "Enable automatic ...
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Ubuntu Laggy Response over time 64bit
Hello everyone here are my specs:
i7 2600 intel cpu
asus p8p67 motherboard
8gb ram kingston
ocz agility 240gb ssd
1tb seagate hdd 7200rpm
800w corsair psu
evga nvidia gtx680 2gb
I am running on ...
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12.10: External USB HDD detected, but can't use?
I have an old Lacie USB 2.0 external drive I'm trying to use in Ubuntu. It seems to be regonized, however, I can't seem to access the drive. I am a complete noob to Ubuntu, so maybe it is hidden ...
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Install from Boot Disk
I just got a new boot disk, burned the .ISO file on it.
Started my laptop but its stuck on my loading screen!
All i see is the purple screen with "Ubuntu" and the orange dots.
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How to do a 1:1 copy of a Windows HD [migrated]
I have a Windows 7 installation on a separate HDD, since installing Windows takes at least half a day on my machine do to the fact that I have to install a big list of drivers, I would like to do an ...
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Storage space Problems, how to allocate more space to Ubuntu?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my Chromebook AcerC7.
I only have 10 GB that it is allowing me to use. I have tried mounting my 305 GB Hard Drive, but that did not work.
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Hard drive location keeps changing after upgrade to 13.04
After I upgraded to 13.04 the hard drive media location keeps changing. These are installed hard drives not removable media. This issue does not seem to affect usability via the file managers ...
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Mount HFS+ Journaled
I'v got a mac of a friend here, and the hard disk is broken, wich can't be repaired! Now i installed ubuntu on the machine and tried to mount the hfs+ partition to 'save' all possible data.
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Backing up with Deja Dup to multiple hard drives
I'd like to backup 3 hard drives into 2. Problem is, that I have no clue how to configure deja dup so that it would compress the files that it fits. FYI the 3 hard drives I was talking about are ...
