Questions tagged [hard-drive]
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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Xubuntu 19.10 can't mount XFS partitions
Have a machine with Xubuntu 19.10 on it. I previously formatted a drive with EXT4 and had no problems mounting it (i put it in FSTAB)
I decided I wanted XFS on it as it was previously an XFS drive ...
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Cannot access ext drive properly (rwx problems)
When auto-mounted the drive is not read- or writable so I remount using:
mount -o remount,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw /dev/..
mount says:
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,...
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Dual boot and Installing Ubuntu On F drive
Currently I have two hard disks ,
a. Local Disk C (where Windows is installed)
b. Linux F ( where I want to install Linux)
Images of Drive
From what I have researched, people are doing windows ...
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Why my ubuntu freezes while copying or extracting 2+ GB files
System info through Neofetch:
OS: Ubuntu 19.10 x86_64
Host: 81DE Lenovo ideapad 330-15IKB
Kernel: 5.3.0-42-generic
Uptime: 12 hours, 20 mins
Packages: 3194 (dpkg), 4 (flatpak),
Shell: bash 5.0.3 ...
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Do recovery partitions that don't have drive number belong to Ubuntu?
I want to resize my Ubuntu disk space (from 20GB to 60GB).
Currently, I got Ubuntu alongside my Windows 8.1
What I want to do is I want to delete disk that contains Ubuntu altogether and reinstall it....
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Ubuntu terminal taking a very long time, because of import 'keras'
I have a Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows dual boot on my SSD. And HDD is common to both, for storage.
Now the problem is that the terminal takes a very very long time to open when run from hdd, but opens up ...
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New Acer Nitro 5 with Ubuntu 16.04 show No space available 0.0KB
I tried to set up new Acer Nitro 5 with a new installation of Ubuntu 16.04, but no storage space shows up.
Motherboard information:
Error message:
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fsck still going 24 hours later
I have a 1TB NVMe with Ubuntu (~300GB used). Using a live USB + GParted, I resized the root partition to 400GB.
When I rebooted I got the error "File system check of the root filesystem failed. The ...
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hard drive problem
I have a problem with my laptop that I am unable to solve.
I bought this Lenovo E495 Laptop with two hard drives:
1 SSD with windows preinstalled
1 HD
I installed Ubuntu after a while, with ...
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Ubuntu and Windows on different drives
Dual boot but the os on different drives. Is it okay or would I have some booting problems?
Should the windows be on ssd and ubuntu installed on hdd? Or there will be a specific problem? Is it okay ...
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Dual boot with ubuntu and windows
I am facing a problem of dual boot in my laptop. I have SSD drive of 256 GB and HDD drive of 1 tb. Windows 10 installed on my SSD drive.
When I try to dual boot it doesn't show my SSD and also HDD. ...
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Clonezilla saving files to a directory, but I want to save the files to a different drive
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 at the moment.
I'm using Clonezilla (more documentation) to save images. The images are saved within a folder I created, titled "images", on the same drive where the operating ...
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Cannot partition 3TB drive with GParted
I have a 3TB drive which I hope to partition as ext4. GParted is being partially helpful. The device is connected via an eSATA cable into a disk caddy.
This is the gparted_details.html
What's ...
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Error from alx network driver since installing new SSD drive
Yesterday I added a new 1TB SATA SSD (Seagate 120)
I see in the logs since yesterday that I have an error happening over and over. Google searching for this error generally people say "use a kerrnel ...
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HDD error: print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdb, sector 16128
I believe I have a USB hard drive that's damaged. When I run dmesg, it shows:
[80489.847168] ---[ end trace 66bad045bd32e5be ]---
[80577.323943] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ...
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Small internal drive, need far more space in /tmp, shall I put it on external drive or internal one?
I have a small internal SDD drive with Ubuntu and I often run-out of /tmp space. I am going to add another, large HDD. It is critical for me that /tmp is as fast as possible not to impact performance ...
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How to make use of an additional hard drive as system space?
The problem is that my computer consists of 2 hard drives a 500 GB SSD and a 2TB HDD the problem is that the 50GB partition allocated for linux on my SSD is almost full and I would like to utilize the ...
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Intermittent data corruption, how to diagnose?
TL;DR: I thought I had a data-at-rest corruption error on 2 SSDs, but I think it is after reading the data. How can I diagnose where the failing part is?
My ML training algorithm opens thousands of ...
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Accessing files on a what was a Synology NAS HDD
I have a HDD that was part of a Synology NAS (replaced as failing).
I have it connected by USB to my Ubuntu PC.
GParted sees the HDD and lists the partitions.
Files (explorer) does not see the HDD.
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I am trying to access both of my 2TB HDD's and find this error
When I go to the files folder on my Ubuntu 16.04 dash, I get this error on both drives:
Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/rod/Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS amd64:
Command-line `mount -t "iso9660" -o "...
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Can't import audio files into audacity from mounted drives
I've recently started experimenting with dual-booting Ubuntu 18.04 on my Windows 10 machine in hopes of eventually building a full linux rig down the line. I work on a lot of sound projects, so having ...
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Viewing files from a corrupted Windows hard drive
I apologize if I sound really nooby ahead of time; this hard drive is giving me so many problems...
So, it's a windows laptop hard drive that has the notorious "Blue screen of death," I can install ...
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How to move grub from one disk to another?
For what it's worth, I have reviewed all the other questions similar to this and the suggested steps did not work. Here is my situation:
I have a 10+ year old system (don't say upgrade it, because I ...
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defective hard disk what should I do [duplicate]
My hd has "449 defective sectors", although system says it's "ok". What does that mean and what should I do to solve the problem? Thanks!
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Geometry of USB Memory - heads per cylinder is 124
i have a USB Stick,
and this stick has some problems,
how to set up for it proper geometry
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www....
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How can i install linux in a different hard drive?
Recently i am using windows 10.I want to use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS alongsinde it.There are two drives in my laptop.One ssd and a hdd.My windows os is installed in the ssd.Now i want to install linux in my ...
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How can i install only ubuntu on my ssd and keeps my hdd untouched?
I have 120 GB ssd and 1 TB hard drive on my laptop, currently i have my windows installed on ssd but i want to install ubuntu on my ssd and delete windows but i want my hdd untouched as i have ...
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Does anyone know how to get multi-bay USB HDD docking station to recognize more than the HDD1?
I have a Vantec Dual Bay SATA HDD docking station and a Hornettek quad bay SATA HDD docking station. Ubuntu 18.04 will recognize ONLY HDD1 on these devices. Anyone have a solution? Seems like a ...
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Will files backed up to a NTFS drive preserve permissions?
When I connect my NTFS external hard drive via USB it auto-mounts. I don't know which mount options it used so I looked at the output of /proc/mounts which says
/dev/sdb1 /media/qwr/Elements fuseblk ...
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Hard Drive Mounting Error
I am running Ubuntu 18.04, there are (were, at least) two hard drives: a 650 GB one, where the OS is installed (one of the partitions) and another 2TB hard drive that holds (held) several partitions - ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 freezes Randomly with 8 GB RAM and 1TB HARD DISK (crash report)
Recently, I have installed Ubuntu 18 & then upgrade it to Ubuntu 19.10.
On the other side, I have Windows 10 OS.
During the partition of the disk, I allow 218 GB for Ubuntu and rest for Windows ...
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How to fix an External 4TB HDD with HFSPlus Filesystem stuck on Read-Only
I am running Ubuntu 19.10 with a 4TB External HDD attached with a HFSPlus Filesystem, non-journaled. At some point the HDD would become read-only despite all efforts to mount it at another location ...
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Ubuntu Disks says : disk is likely to fail soon
I have a problem that every time I log into my Ubuntu 18 I see, the notification says: "this is likely to fail soon".
Thus I installed a software named smartmontools , and here is it's log (the ...
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Read only hard disk dual boot windows ubuntu
i have two os on my ssd, windows and ubuntu, and a secondary hard disk for data only.
Sometimes after using windows, ubuntu is not able to write on that hard disk.
I tried to mount and unmount that ...
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How do I combine an SSD and HDD for existing setup on Ubuntu 19.10?
I've been trying to combine my SSD and HDD under one partition so my user data ends up on the HDD and everything else ends up on the SSD. However, I've been having the hardest time doing this. Here's ...
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19.10 installer not recognising hard drives
I am trying to install Ubuntu 19.10 onto my dad's brand new machine (it's an Acer ConceptD CN315-71P). It did have Windows on there but that was completely wiped, so there's currently no other OS on ...
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Partition corruption after resizing with KDE partition manager... lost the superblock?
I have an old 120 GB hard drive that I would like to use for backup. It had an old Lubuntu installation on it, while I'm currently running Kubuntu LTS. It had boot, root, home (ext4), and swap ...
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How to get a HDD running status led monitor in the taskbar
I use Ubuntu Studio 19.10.
I want to know if there is a way to get a HHD running status (as a led monitor light) into the standard taskbar of the screen.
It is intended because my Laptop PC has this ...
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How do i move my Linux boot and root partition to an SSD while retaining my home partition on the HDD
I already have Linux installed on my 1TB HDD to separate partition the boot, root, and home are on a different partition.
My system partitioning scheme:
I got a 256GB SSD and I want to move the ...
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ata1: failed to read log page 10h (errno=-5). Is it a hardrive failure? If yes is it repairable( physical or using software)?
So,i was trying to copy a huge load of data of my external hdd to my laptop's internal hdd using debian based distro. Suddenly my screen went all black. I waited for some time, pressed random keys(esc,...
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Slow disk speed with rsync, but not in benchmark or with other disks
I have some problems with my self builded multimediabox. I have 4HDDs in it to store music, movies and backups from computers from the network.
I got all backups on one buffer disk (Seagate 8TB ...
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how can I mount this lvm2 partition?
I have a hard drive from 2012, I would like the data off from it.
I am trying to mount the devices, but I cant figure out the filesystem type.
I have tried lsblk, file -s, and blkid, which havent ...
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Ubuntu lags when copying big files from external disk
I have a dual boot system(Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 on ASUS K556UQ-K).
When I copy a big file from windows partition or from an external hard drive to ubuntu, ubuntu lags.
Or for example when I work ...
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Swapped from Mint to Ubuntu and now cannot copy from/to my data drives
I just changed from Mint to Ubuntu. Ubuntu works fine but I cannot copy to/from my 2 data drives. I have 1 ssd with the system (250gb) 1 tb drive and 1 3 tb drive. I can mount the data drives. I ...
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Disk space has become an inefficient badly utilized mess. Please help!
I have a Ubuntu PC using Ubuntu 19.10.
In 2011 I had a serious car accident and one of the by products of said accident is an extreme difficulty holding things in my memory. Long term things are fine, ...
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How to install the OS when testing a bare-metal recovery?
I run a home server on Ubuntu 18.04. It boots from a M2 internal drive (/dev/sda1) and basically
mounts another drive (/dev/sdc1)
mounts an LVM partition (/dev/mapper/data-data)
starts docker which ...
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sata hdd recognizing problem
Here is the simple lshw result
efirlus@Efirlus-NAS:~$ sudo lshw -c storage -c disk
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
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cannot install Ubuntu on Acer Aspire A515-54G Laptop, hard drive not detected
My original intention was to install ubuntu along side of windows 10 (dual boot) on newly purchased Acer Aspire A515-54G but live/install cannot find hard-drive.
After trying all the suggestions i ...
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Copying files from old Ubuntu HDD to a new Ubuntu HDD
BACKGROUND: I installed Ubuntu (latest version at the time) several months ago to an old PC. It worked great, but recently the hard drive has had some errors when booting. Sometimes it boots fine, ...
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Dual boot to single boot(SSD and HDD)
I have installed windows in SSD and linux in HDD.Now I want to delete linux.How can I do it with or without losing data?