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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retrieving information from a damage hard drive
I heard when you have a windows 7 on laptop ,, and some damage happens to hard Hard driver ,, we can use Ubuntu to retrieve the files and information on the hard drive ,
can anyone tell me how to do ...
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How could I make a Ubuntu installer, but from my hard drive?
I want to use some sort of tool to create a Ubuntu installer on an internal hard drive. Could someone help with this? It would be on the same hard drive that I would be installing to.
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How is it possible to swap linux disk contents with Win7 contents?
I have used Ubuntu 13.04 for some time now and I love it!
Currently I have 2 disks in my PC:
2011 HDD with 1TB of space with Win7 on it.
2006 HDD with 150GB of space with Ubuntu 13.04 on it.
As the ...
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Would like to install Ubuntu on secondary hard drive within my computer
Okay, so here's the story. I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04. I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable ...
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how to run testdisk.exe on a dd image of a 2TB hard drive
BACKGROUND INFO:
I have (2) 2TB hard drives.
HD1 - I hosed the MBR, drive won't mount, can't see data, but it must be there because I didn't do anything much to it except with testdisk
HD2 - was ...
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Installation not asking for formatting/resizing
I am installing Ubuntu from an ISO file loaded on a USB key. The installation does not even detect hard drives or ask for formatting/resizing as it used to do!
Is this normal?
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Does copying files from NTFS to EXT4 degrade/corrupt the files?
The reason I ask is I am very new to Ubuntu, but I want to get into mobile development. I installed Ubuntu alongside windows 8 but it just doesn't run quite as well as I would expect so a friend ...
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Login on 12.04 LTS slow after moving /home to separate HDD
On a prior install I had moved the /home to a different HDD to keep the SSD for the OS only. On Saturday Ubuntu crapped out and I had to reinstall, after getting things back to the point of moving the ...
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Can I use a 3TB hdd as a boot drive?
I need a new HDD and plan on getting a 3TB one to fit all my stuff, ubuntu 12.04 install included.
So far I only have a 5yr old Asus p5qse but sooner rather than later I should have a new system with ...
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Automount with async option
I have a 1 TB Western Digital External Harddisk. The read/write speed was very low, I read on askubuntu that using the async mount option helps. Then I started using it as follows:
mount -o async,rw ...
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grub2 C/H/S value error on Laptop Second hard drive (ODD)
I was living happily with my one hard drive in laptop then I installed a SSD as my first (hd0) then installed the old drive in laptop's second hard drive caddy in CD/DVD drive bay.
now I can't boot ...
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data transfer to an ssd with crucial data transfer kit
so i am thinking about buying "Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD1CCA 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with Data Transfer Kit" to speed up my computer and i was wondering
if the data ...
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Need help with volumes
So it's my first time using ubuntu,(been using windows since 2001) and i have very limited knowledge about linux. I must admit everything works like a charm except one thing which bothers me a lot!. ...
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External HDD not recognized on any system
A few days ago, I pulled out the hard drive without safely ejecting it first. (I know, stupid) After trying to plug it into my Ubuntu system, the HDD doesn't get recognized. I opened up Gparted to ...
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how to mount a hard disk as read-only from the command line
I have searched google, I've searched this website, I've searched using various terms, phrases, using quotes and without quotes and I cannot find the answer to this seemingly easy god damn thing to ...
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need to recover data from a data hard disk that I used testdisk on in my attempt to repair mbr from a rootkit virus
Before I begin to say what my situation is here, please know i would be FOREVER GRATEFUL for anyone who can help me out with this mess. I have photos on here from years and years of painstaking work. ...
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Partitioning issues with easeUS how do i proceed
Ok I installed EaseUS to set up a partition for Ubuntu. My laptop automatically has 4 primary drives:
*:SYSTEM
C:
D: Recovery
*: HP_TOOLS
I have an HP laptop. I read online that HP_TOOLS is a back ...
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Best configuration for 1 SSD and 2 HDD's?
I'm going to be buying a sata 3 motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3) and a new SSD (SATA 3) as my boot/programs disk.
In addition, I will be using my 2 old maxtor diamondback 10's (7200 - 300gb each) ...
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Internal hdd auto-mounted for another user
I'm running ubuntu 13.04, the system is hosted in one hdd. I've recently added a secondary hdd.
Everything is auto-mounted with the Disks GUI tool of ubuntu. It works for my session as main user of ...
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File operations not permitted on ntfs file system on Thoshiba 1TB external hard disk in Ubuntu 11.10
Recently I buy a Thoshiba external hard disk. And I make a NTFS partition. Now it is read only mode in Ubuntu 11.10. Now I can't able to copy from my system / create folder in HDD. But copying from ...
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hdd turning off and on during normal use, endlessly
3.9 kernel. custom.
laptop-mode is installed. sysfsutils installed.
laptop-mode starts on startup. sysfsutils have their files configured (processor p-states and frequencies/governor).
after logging ...
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No /dev/sd for my hard drive?
I recently tried to install lubuntu on an external hard drive and it had an error(just my luck).
I thought everything was fine, so I went to gparted to reset the partitions for use with Windows. It ...
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Hard drive that boots Ubuntu [duplicate]
Is it possible to boot ubuntu from an external Hard drive so that I can carry around a hard drive and plug it into any computer and be able to boot up Ubuntu?
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Want to take several partitions and create one big one in GParted
Basically, I have this mess of partitions and unallocated space on my hard drive, I'd like to take every one except for /dev/sda1 (Windows 7) and create one big partition I can re-install Ubuntu on. ...
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How can I make a RAID array in my Dell Optiplex 745 Mini Tower?
I am wanting to use 3 hdds in my mini tower as a RAID array, but am unsure as to how to do this? Is it as simple as it sounds:
1.Plug in all 3 drives with SATA cables.
2.Install Ubuntu 13.04 after ...
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Trouble with mounting usb hdd on ubuntu server
The hard disk had previously been the primary hdd for this computer. The only OS ever installed was ubuntu server, without encryption or LVM. My intention is to only keep the files that were on ...
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How do I remove a partition from elements external hard-drive?
The hard drive was partitioned to have a ubuntu ISO boot as we didn't have a 2GB USB at the time to just put ubuntu on (What a fail I know -.-'). This partition was made with backtrack 5 KDE R3 ...
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Windows doesn't recognize external hard-drive after installing Ubuntu (on internal hard-drive)
I have installed ubuntu on my internal hard-drive using windows ubuntu installer and everything worked perfectly. I am able to run both windows7 and ubuntu.
I also have an external hard-drive which I ...
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Questions about full disk encryption
Completely new user here, I've been reading for a couple of hours about ubuntu's full disk encryption but I just don't understand some basic points.
When installing ubuntu's full disk encryption, ...
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How should I partition my new SSD? (Journaling on another HDD?)
I know this might seem a strange question and I know I should buy a good UPS but I already had had two of them and none of them did a good job. I'm living in a house where many power outages occur ...
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WD Elements 2TB Desktop External Hard Drive [closed]
I have just purchased a WD Elements 2TB Desktop External Hard Drive online, and as I sometimes do (as I am new to Ubuntu), I forgot to check if it compatible with Ubuntu. I called WD and they said it ...
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How can use a different HDD with another OS to use as a Steam Library?
2nd HDD have XP while 1st have Ubuntu.But the Ubuntu drive is almost full and can't fit other games.The second HDD has enought space but when I try to use it it shows this error:
"New Steam library ...
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resize2fs: Invalid argument while trying to resize /dev/sda1 (dd problems)
I was attempting to copy my Ubuntu installation to a larger HDD following this guide with the dd command. The guide says:
"It's recommended you dd to an identical partition for optimal results."
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Unmount External HDD when Shutdown
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a Touro external HDD because my internal laptop's HDD is breaking down.
Everything runs smoothly but I have one concern. Every time I shut down my laptop, there's ...
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cannot mount my external hard drive anymore
I do not what happened, but i can not anymore automount my hard drive. It contains a vital data for me and have no whish losing it. Any help is very much appreciated
i was trying to copy somes files ...
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Hard Drive Spindown [duplicate]
hi i plan on using lubuntu as my home server OS and as i am new to linux i wanted a GUI to begin with and as i learn more terminal commands i can shift to something like ubuntu server
anyways i am ...
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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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Change Ownership of External Hard Drive?
I recently bought an external hard drive on Ebay, I received it and plugged it into my laptop and when I tried moving files onto it, it refused me to drag them on. I looked into the properties of the ...
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Correctly align Advanced Format drive?
I bought a new WD Hard Drive. 250Gb, WD2500BPT.
I installed Ubuntu (13.04 was it?) on it. I heard that I don't have to worry about the block size/ alignment.
However,
cat ...
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how to install ubuntu permanetly, while being already booted to ubuntu 12.04.2 trough a external HDD?
nothing to provide here..how to install ubuntu permanetly, while being already booted to ubuntu 12.04.2 trough a external HDD and not being able to go back to windows?
I tried the suggestion with ...
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lost HDD Space after reinstalling ubuntu
I had a 200GBS HDD i installed Ubuntu 12.10 over my win vista but it deleted all my windows partitions and data, so I used testdisk from the liveCD and recovered some of the important data not all, ...
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Harddrive not found after 13.04 install
I have a Toshiba laptop with a 500 GB HHD and a 32 GB SSD. I had an issue in the past when I wiped the computer clean and installed 12.04 LTS on the SSD. My HHD vanished. I looked up the answer and it ...
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can i install ubuntu from an external hard drive/ can i run fedora and ubuntu together on one system?
hi i am a totaly new user of ubuntu. i have recently built a new system and want to install ubuntu 13.04, i have downloaded onto an external usb hard drive from a windows system that is running XP. my ...
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Mark bad sectors on hard drive without formating
I've noticed that on my home Ubuntu server one drive is read only for some reason. Digging up I found that this can happen when hard drives have errors. I used badblocks to check for errors, and ...
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Why is 80gb HD read BIG error rate & smart data different and everything SLOW?
Load & run ok via USB stick (real slow, jerkey), then installed (4th time now) having problem. Able to boot from 80 gb SATA HD but everything still slow, jerkey, takes 1 second per charactor on ...
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Why Ubuntu detects my HDD size over than expected size?
I've been trying dual-boot, and chooses Advanced Options. While my HDD is just about 460 GB, Ubuntu reads it about 500.1 GB.
snap:
Larger Image
Why? It's albeit annoying for me...
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What ever I do, I cant get rid of GNU GRUB [closed]
Im dual-booting Windows XP and Zorin OS 6. So I want to get rid of GNU Grub so that I can get rid of Zorin. I tried doing fix mbr and fixboot using the Recovery Console in the Windows Disk, it said ...
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What parts of Ubuntu are not written to often?
I'm thinking of purchasing a solid state drive for my computer, to install my operating systems on. It's my understanding that SSDs don't like being written to often, so I want to make sure that the ...
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external hard drive not detected UBUNTU 12.10
My 1 TB external hard disk is not detected by Ubuntu 12.10.
**lsusb:**
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. ...
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Setting up SSD+HDD Storage Properly
So the other day I purchased a 128gb SSD for my desktop.
Currently I run 12.10 on a SATA drive, but want to do a clean install on the SSD and run that as the main OS drive+apps.
I've been reading ...
