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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?
Lets just say I have 3 hard drives:
c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader
d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect)
g: 3tb random stuff
I want Ubuntu and ...
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Installation of 12.04, Error 30
I am very new to ubuntu so i would really appreciate your help
I am trying to install 12.04 from a CD but the error message causes the installation to crash. Error 30 - they say its possibly a faulty ...
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Repartition HDD to give Ubuntu more space
My Laptop came installed with Windows 7 and 320 GB of hard drive space. A few weeks ago I decided to try Ubuntu for a change, and created a 30GB partition for it.
Now, I want to give more space for ...
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Hard Disk Formatting Error
so here is the situation..
I installed Ubuntu, pretty sweet.... all was going well till i tried to install an application " LPCXpresso IDE for ARM micro controllers" now the PC hung up as soon as the ...
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choose wrong option during install and lost partitions
i tried ubuntu 13.04 beta in my pc with live dvd.
when i wanted to install ubuntu i choose to delete my windows wrongly!.
i see the page that we must to select time location and here i realized my ...
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Cannot find remaining hard drive space after installing in a partition?
Complete Ubuntu newbie here.
I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 on an 11 year-old PC.
Specs to my knowledge are:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
RAM: 512 RAM
Motherboard: Asrock P4VM800
Video ...
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Cannot access, partition or format old Seagate Hard Drive connected via USB
I have a Seagate ST320014A 20Gig hard drive connected via usb using a JMicron hard drive adaptor cable. I cannot mount, partition or format the disk. Please assist.
Here is my dmesg output:
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Boot Ubuntu 12.10 from 2nd partition on external hard drive?
My computer's internal hard drive has windows 7 installed on it. I have a 1Tb external hard drive that is split into 2 partitions. The second partition is a logical partition with Ubuntu 12.10 ...
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TestDisk Analysis (External Hard Disk), What Next?
External hard disk (that requires 2 cable) was plugged into a Macbook Air, but my friend realised the cable doesn't stretch across the computer. So, it was plugged in for a while, powered up, but ...
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Recovering data from an Ubuntu dedicated partion drive after formatting c [duplicate]
I have a laptop on which windows 7 was previously installed.
I then installed Ubuntu on its own dedicated a partion.
Next I stored some data on that Ubuntu dedicated partition which was accessible ...
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Purging Vista from Ubuntu that's partitioned; mechanism and how to
Im a recent convert to Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, I did it alongside of
existing Vista. (Before that, a friend partitioned my HD to make room).
Im so satisfied with Ubuntu that I'm getting rid ...
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How to create a LVM Partition/physical volume > 2TB
I was following this tutorial found here: How to set up multiple hard drives as one volume?
Which was working out great however i have a 3TB drive and every time i create the partition (whether it be ...
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How to create partition without formatting drive?
I am have some doubts in partition my external drive.
I am have external drive of capacity 2TB formatted in NTFS . 1.5 TB is used in hard drive.
I want to create one partition of 200 GB in FAT . But I ...
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Moving Kubuntu from hdd to ssd
I bought a new SSD to install it in my HTPC. Before, I had an HDD with Kubuntu. I would need to copy the files from the / partition from HDD to SSD.
To do this, I booted from the Kubuntu livecd, ...
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Can't enlarge swap drive
Running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Netbook.
Netbook has like .8 gigs of Ram so I'm trying to offset the crappy ram amount with a larger swap drive.
Tried to do it from a pretty detailed tutorial, was ...
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Removing Windows [duplicate]
I've been running Precise and XP in a dual-boot on my laptop for several months now. I'd like to pull the plug on XP and reclaim that wasted NTFS space. What's the easiest way to do that?
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Determining size of the partition when using Ubuntu Installer
I would like to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside with Windows 7 using the Ubuntu installer, following the official guide. I first chose "Install Ubuntu", then "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7", but ...
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How can i save files on my hard drive
as i am new on ubuntu operating system.
how can i save my files , music , photos , doc , ect.
on my hard drive i got two partition each 300GB.
and filesystem.
when i open the partition i found in it ...
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Hard disk partition [closed]
I am new to Ubuntu. So after I installed Ubuntu, I couldn't see the hard disk partition in computer (like in windows C:/ D:/ E:/ etc.).
So I don't know where I can save my files and data. I need to ...
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What are the consequences laptop running out power while GParted is running?
I was fixing my partition with GParted and it seemed to work well.
But, my laptop suddenly ran out of power and I didn't realize it, then it turned off while GParted was still running which was at ...
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How can GParted be used to fix “partition does not start on physical sector boundary problem”? [duplicate]
UPDATED
I tried to learn GParted and use it with all the risks -_- and I think that I found a solution, but I still have problem, please read my question below
this is from terminal after I move ...
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Can I install ubuntu to a partition on my portable hard drive?
Ok I've got a live USB which I can load the ubuntu 12.10 installer from so that's no problem. I am very cautious about losing files and I don't have much space on my computer anyway so I am going to ...
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Hard Drive doesn't show
I have a problem with a hard drive. I recently installed Ubuntu on an old computer to make a media server and since the hard drives are small ATAs, I added a 500 GB SATA drawer.
Now I want it to ...
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How to use GParted for drivers with data
I would like to install Ubuntu on my 640 GB external hard drive.But about 100 gb of its capacity was already used. I heard there is a program called Gparted so I can creat some partition for Ubuntu ...
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unformat formatted hdd [closed]
I am very new to linux. As I wanted to install Ubuntu 7.10 in my laptop, (Which already contains Windows 7) while installing I'd chosen 'Use entire HDD option'. So Ubuntu had formatted my entire HDD. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 /Windows7 dual boot with ssd and hdd - partitioning & setup
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and Win7 64 bit in dual boot. In few days I'm planing to use SSD 128GB and my current 500GB HDD to dual boot and have no idea how to set this up. There's lot of ...
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Can I force grub2-update NOT to use uuid?
I am experiencing install hell trying to add an installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Scientific Linux 6.3 to an old machine (BIOS not EFI) with Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10. The installs seem to go OK ...
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Why won't Ubuntu use the memory I have left on my PC?
I recently installed Ubuntu on my PC. When I tried installing a Valve game on Ubuntu, it said that I only have 2000 megabytes of memory left on my PC.
When I switched back to Windows 7, it said that ...
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Why do I get “exceeds msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum”?
I seem to be having this odd issue with Ubuntu that I had in a previous attempt at installing and have still not been able to successfully install Ubuntu on any of my computers. This most recent ...
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Windows dual boot access to other hard drives
I have a custom built PC with several internal HDDs running Win8. I would like to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on a second partition on the C:. Am I right in assuming I should be able to leave the ...
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Installing Ubuntu 12.04 on portable hard drive and still use it for storing files?
I have seen that you can install Ubuntu on a portable hard drive, but I am asking myself this question: will I be able to keep using the hard drive for personal data storage even after the install. If ...
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can i recover my windows xp files after ubuntu install?
i installed ubuntu 10.04 on windows xp sp3, it used all the space in the of 320 gb in the hard drive. I had 200 gb data on hard disk on this hard disk under windows xp. is it all lost?
can i get it ...
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how can i partition the HDD in ubuntu 12.10 64bit ? - only have ubuntu as OS on notebook
i got a new notebook dell n4050 with os ubuntu 10.10 and i upgrade it
to 12.10 64bit , I have only ubuntu 12.10 64bit on my notebook , HDD
space is 320 GB , when i log into os , i found ...
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How do i add an unallocated partition to another partition
How can I add space from unallocated to extended?
Can someone please simplify the process? I have no idea what to do. I just deleted my windows partition and i want to add it to my Ubuntu one. Also ...
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Create a separate partition like D:\ (of windows) in Ubuntu
I've decided to make a complete switch to Ubuntu..
My thing is, In windows if the OS crashes (which happens very often) all the data in drives D:\, E:\ etc., will be safe.
I format the C:\get the new ...
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Ubuntu crashed once shortly after partitioning during install. My second attempt was successful, but I have some concerns
Is there something I should check, or a procedure I should perform, to make sure that nothing is wrong with my hard-drive or partitions?
And I noticed that I wasn't asked to define a partition size ...
