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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How do I copy files onto the hard drive?
I have never used Linux before, but I am temporarily until I can afford Win 7. I want to pre-install some programs onto the HDD so that I will already have them when I get Win 7. I have the programs ...
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How set properly hdd sleep time on ubuntu 12.04
I've tried add in /etc/hdparam.conf
/dev/sdb {
spindown_time=140
}
But it have no effect. From console
sudo hdparm -S 140 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
setting standby to 140 (11 minutes + ...
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How to make DD make a copy of my iPod's harddrive into my computer?
I'm trying to do this, I'm sure you don't wanna read all that then I'll make a resume on it: A file was accidentally deleted on a iPod4, I need to recover it and I've been able to do all the process ...
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Do symlinks from HDD to SSD give a performance hit?
I am planning to install Kubuntu onto an SSD, but have /home mounted on a hard disk drive.
But also, I would like some /home/... subdirectories to benefit from SSD's performance (they will be read ...
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Ubuntu shows disk volumes as one partition
When I was installing Ubuntu(12.04 and 11.10) showed 2 partitions, whereas I have 4 partitions on Windows 7: C(70GB),D(300GB),E(300GB),F(30GB). Ubuntu is only 2 disks: one is 70GB, the latter is ...
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Accidentally formated external hard drive
Today I was trying to copy some files from my external hard drive (1TB) to a flash drive (4GB) on Ubuntu 12.10. My flash drive contained an operating system, so I decided to format it using the disk ...
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I cannot open my files
I had two partitions on my HD under windows. I decided to install Ubuntu, hoping it will install on partition where was Windows, so I transferred all my files to second partition, and now I cannot ...
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Dual boot on two hard drives : can't access secondary HD through BIOS
I installed Ubuntu today for the first time on a Dell desktop running Windows XP SP3.
I opted to install on a second hard drive, following these instructions.
When I reboot my computer, and enter the ...
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How to use a different partition in Ubuntu
I had partitioned my Hard Disk when I was installing Ubuntu 12.04, I made two partitions one of 80GB and another one of 140GB. But for some reason by default it only uses sda1 as show in this ...
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Settings/mounts to install and boot Ubuntu from DMraid? (after windows installed on disk)
Settings/mounts to install and boot Ubuntu from DMraid?
Will this work? Drive Makup and partitions:
SDD--SDA [____MSR|____][_______NTFS_Win7______]
2TB--HDD--SDB [_____________RAID_1/2__________]
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Setup of two additional SSD drives in RAID 1
I have an ubuntu 12.04 setup with two HDD that is setup in a software raid 1. Now I need to add two additional SSD drives for separate storage of some database files. They need to be setup in their ...
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Problem booting the Ubuntu 12.04.01 OS due to bad sectors on the HDD
I use Ubuntu 12.04LTS(64-bit) desktop edition.
Lately I tried to upgrade it to Ubuntu 12.10. Everything was going good, but due to some work I couldn't complete the upgrade, so I disconnected the ...
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remove '500 GB Hard Disk'-symbol in computer:/// (nautilus)
at the location computer:/// in nautilus i have a needless symbol '500 GB Hard Disk' how can I remove it?
it's like this problem:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=117655
thank ...
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Cloning a dual boot system from HDD to SSD
I'm planning on replacing my laptop's HDD with a 256GB SSD, but I have a dual-boot (12.04 and Windows 7) setup and I'd like to be able to directly migrate Ubuntu over without having to reinstall and ...
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Question on Partitions for Dual Boost
I am wanting to go back to dual booting Windows 7 and Linux. (I'm not sure if I'll be going with Ubuntu or openSUSE yet, bcuz I want the interface openSUSE has, which I think is Gnome 3.2.1)
My ...
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ThinkPad hard-drive motion detection support
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS on a ThinkPad X220. Does Ubuntu support the hard-drive "motion detection" features that I have always found on ThinkPads, since I first got an X31 running Windows XP? ...
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Creating folder in new HDD
I just bought a brand new 2TB harddrive mainly for storage. I formatted it as ext2.
However, I cannot create a folder inside the harddrive, nor can I move files to the harddrive
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Unable to detect HDD from windows 7 bootable disc
I tried making and running live Ubuntu zip drive and succeeded but somehow i messed up my previous MBR, HDD drivers, file system or maybe something else while trying to make a dual boot system. Now i ...
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Harddisk makes noise but Disk Utility says its healthy
I am using seagate Barracuda Internal Desktop 500gb hard drive. From few months i found my hard drive makes some different noise(Crushing or like metal rubbing spinning disk) but so far all SMART ...
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Proof Identify stolen computer getting computer identification info from Launchpad bugs and comparing
I sold my old laptop to neighbours and it was stolen from them. Well i think i have found thief so i want to check his computer id and compare it to my old Launchpad bugs id.
How in Launchpad i can ...
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How can i use the unused space in my HDD and restore it back to original form ?? does Gparted tool help?
I installed a couple of Ubuntu versions previously only to be deleted or unused leaving the allocated space they used haunted.Using a tool like GParted how can I merge all those pieces into my ...
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Why is fsck not working for me?
I have some bad sectors on my hard drive, so I followed the guide from this website
To detect the bad sectors, I did the following command:
sudo badblocks /dev/sda5 > /media/3865-6163/sda5
That ...
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Can't Even Try Ubuntu Due to error: failure reading sector 0x5b500 from 'hd1'
After years of hearing about how much better Linux is than Windows, I finally decided to make the leap starting with Ubuntu Desktop (I've tried to install both the x86 and x64 versions of 12.04 and ...
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Stop ubuntu from reading a drive automatically
I'm running my laptop using Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB HDD as the laptop's HDD has failed. Whenever I boot or do a grub update etc, it takes forever because it scans for the failed drive about 20 times and ...
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No other users can access external hdd since upgrade to 12.10
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 no other user can access the external hdd. This is awkward as its a family pc and we use the hdd to store music and save backups across the several accounts.
The ...
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raid advice with SSD and two HDD
I have a new machine with one 128GB SSD and two 1TB HDD. On the SSD is the OS and my initial thought was to put the two HDD in RAID 1 for user data.
After some more thought I came up with two other ...
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Whats wrong with my hard drive?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer Aspire one D225, and recently replaced my hard drive to a 60gb SSD. The first day I did, I got a kernal panic error about an I/O error to a superblock. It only ...
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Unable to write in mounted driver Kubuntu 12.10
I installed Kubuntu 12.10 in SSD but unable to use HDD because I do not have write permission.
kisun@ejo129:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kisun:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected ...
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Cannot boot ubuntu after remove failed data disk (system on different disk)
Our Ubuntu server has four hard disks, but we didn't make them a RAID. Yesterday, one of the disk was reported to be failing, and this disk was /dev/sdb and was mounted as /data (was used to store ...
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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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Unable to mount media hard drivrs. after [user@machine ~]$ sudo usermod -G dialout user
I wasn't able to download date from my USB cradle from a Powertap cycling computer after upgrading to 12.10. I thought I found the answer with a google search that suggested using this code where user ...
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Partition does not start on physical sector boundary [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Partition does not start on physical sector boundary?
I just installed Ubuntu two times and keep on getting the following message:
Partition 2 does not start on ...
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Ubuntu on SSD does not show my 650GB HDD under devices
I installed Ubuntu on the 64GB SSD storage my laptop which also has a 650GB HDD. When I go into SYSTEM SETTINGS>DETAILS, it says I have a disk of 730GB but when I go into the file system under ...
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How to use gddrescue/ddrescue?
I am looking for any one who has previously used Gddrescue/ddrescue to teach me how to use it. Does it delete all the files on the output?
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Force mount Fat16 partiton?
I have a Windows XP HDD that no longer wants to mount. Long story short, I tried to acces my data through a Ubuntu Live USB. The hard drive wouldn't auto mount, thus I created a mount point using:
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How to best check my hardware (mem and HD) for errors? [duplicate]
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How can I check my RAM and harddrive for errors?
Lately, I have been experiencing problems using an Apple (macbook pro 3,1 2GB ram) with Natty installed. In three ...
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Need Help Changing Owner of External HArd Drive
My understanding of code is about zero. I can open a terminal window, and type commands that are given to me, but that's about it. If someone can help me with this question, and explain at a level I'm ...
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Zero bytes on home partition [duplicate]
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Why can’t Ubuntu see any free space?
I decided to replace the hard drive on my machine running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS . After using the new hard drive for a few days, I ...
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Disk/RAID Monitoring for HP Proliant Servers and Ubuntu 12.04
How can I monitor the status of the hard disks and the RAIDs of an HP Proliant server using Ubuntu 12.04. In Ubuntu 10.04 I could use the cciss-vol-status to query the RAID status periodically but ...
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Is it possible to add more HDD space to Ubuntu? (12.10) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Increase size of root partition after installing Ubuntu in Windows
I recently installed Ubuntu about a week back. I used the Wubi installer because it seemed good (Which ...
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Getting windows 7 to boot from external hard drive. Using Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu 12.04LTS as my current operating system, and I have a Windows 7 iso on a disk. I'm using an external hard drive because my internal hard drive has become damaged. I need to get Windows ...
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Completely remove ubuntu and install windows 8 instead [closed]
I've been having a lot of trouble today attempting to install windows 8. I recently got a computer that runs Ubuntu, and would like to completely remove Ubuntu and install Windows 8 over it. I have ...
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Hard drive won't mount
I am running Ubuntu from a USB Stick. I can't install it because my hard drive on my laptop won't mount. It shows up, but there is no info for it and it's unable to mount file. Same with the DVD ...
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find out which process wakes my hard drive from sleep state
I have an external drive connected to my computer, I want this drive to be in sleep mode unless i'm executing some backup tool.
For some reason, after 14 minutes I think, the hard drive always wakes ...
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How to make partition in large volume for internal hdd?
I have acer win7 laptop with 640gb hdd. I want to make large volume like 350gb for the other partition but I can make only 73gb >_< I need to save my document before I reformat it. So how can I ...
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pros and cons for hard drive partition solutions [closed]
I just bought a new 1T hard drive to replace the dead one for my desktop. I use it mainly for number crunching, doing higher performance computations that consume lots of memory and CPU, and also read ...
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Why is my HDD going back from standy?
My hard drives, connected to Ubuntu server are producing the following log every exactly 5 minutes.
Nov 1 14:10:50 localhost kernel: [ 1602.884936] ata2.00: hard resetting link
Nov 1 14:10:51 ...
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Will installing 12.04 delete contents on a hard drive?
Back story: I just built a new computer about a month and installed an SSD and an HDD. Today my SSD (OCZ Vertex 4) died on me resulting in a loss of my Windows 7 OS. Being a Ubuntu user on another pc, ...
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Can Ubuntu partition and format?
Can Ubuntu partition and format before installing itself on a Dell Dimension 4400 whose HD is wiped clean of Windows XP?
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Quantal analyzes the HD in any boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 formating the HDD. Any time that I turn on the PC and boot Ubuntu, it always analyzes my HDD in search for bad blocks. This is what happens:
When I turn on the PC and ...
