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Not enough clusters for a 32 bit FAT!

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to add a virtual hard disk to my virtual machine with Ubuntu. So I create the virtual disk under "Storage", "SATA controller", just underneath my primary ...
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VDI to Hard Drive

Is any way to copy file system from VirtualBox .vdi file (or others like that) to physical partition on a hard drive?
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Is there any way to boot Windows 7 partition in virtual machine?

I have a dual boot machine with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Some time I need Windows 7 during my work. For that I reboot to Windows. It's not a way that I won't access NTFS partition. I need my ...
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Ubuntu disk partioning issue: not enough space

I have a laptop with a 640 HDD and a 20GB SSD. I have installed the OS in the SSD and want to use the HDD to store large files like software, pictures, videos, etc. I installed VirtualBox, but after ...
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Disk space management problem

I have my pc with dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I have a a partition of 62 GB on which I created a Virtual Hard Disk Image using VirtualBox from within Ubuntu and Installed Joli OS. After I ...
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What is the best method to build Ubuntu Linux from scratch?

I want to try out "Linux From Scratch" (LFS) using Ubuntu. Since I know this could mess up my current Linux system, I want to know what is the best way to proceed. What I've read so far is that I ...
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Is there performance issue when using a Virtual Machine in a mounted partition?

I used to have a Windows 7 setup on my desktop. C:\ for system. D:\ for data. Now I've decided to install Ubuntu as the main OS: \ for Ubuntu (80Gb) swap for swap D:\ I kept this partition ...
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Move system to VirtualBox

I have HDD with Windows 7 on one of the partintions which was installed previously on the same machine, connected to the laptop via the USB. Previously the system was booted from this HDD using grub ...
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Should I run Ubuntu alongside Windows or in a virtual machine?

I would like to install Ubuntu on my Windows 7 64-bit PC to do analysis of astronomy data. The data files are often large (can be few hundred MB, possibly a GB). The data files may be located on an ...
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Need to move my swap partition to let my root partition grow. How?

I have a Virtual Box Ubuntu guest and i need to have more space on my disk (actually it's 8 gb). I have already increased the space allocated for the VDI to 16 gb. Now with GParted Live i'm trying ...