Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as 'partitions'
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error: no such partition grub rescue> [duplicate]
Ever since I deleted the partitions after uninstalling Ubuntu 13.04 on my Windows 8 laptop, I have been getting the error message:
error: no such partition
grub rescue>
I have tried many ways to get ...
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Will using DMRAID wipe my drive?
I have a sony win8 laptop -- that I like btw, but would love to dual boot ubuntu or multiboot with some other distros.
After much research and banging my head against the wall, it seems I have a ...
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“Disk drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready”
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i-386
I get the message:
Disk Drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready or not present
as I am booting Ubuntu.
It will give me the message about 3 times and then finally load ...
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Accidentally Wiped out Hard Disk With Windows 8 while installing ubuntu 13.04, Is there any way to recover? [duplicate]
I brought my Dell Inspiron 15R (5521) laptop yesterday only, I tried to installing ubuntu 13.04 as I go along with installation (I selected first option for selecting disk) I think wiped out entire ...
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Help me find a tutorial to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 13.04
What I've got is a compatible PC with both systems ,Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 ,I've Windows 7 already installed ,now I want to install Ubuntu, and be able to choose which one I want to boot when I ...
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Is it possible to install Win8 next to an encrypted Ubuntu?
I run Ubuntu on an SDD (encrypted with systemtools since installation). So I want to install Windows 8 on a second partion on the same drive, but it is possible to do so, without chrashing anything, ...
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Hide ubuntu partition in win7 [closed]
I was searching forum but I didn't find solution to my problem.
I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 and Win7 on one HDD in UEFI mode. I'm able to boot in both OS'es separately from grub (added some entries). ...
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How should I partition my 128Gb Crucial SSD in my netbook for Ubuntu 13.04?
I know this is probably a question this is asked over and over again but I'm not finding anything close to an answer that I need. I am installing Ubuntu 13.04 on my Lenovo x130e netbook . It has ...
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“Disk I/O error:” Can not write anything to mounted partitions
Recently I have lot of DISK I/O Errors. I am not able to save anything even on my home partition. I have the same problems in 12.04, 12.10 and now in 13.04.
Following is the output of mtab
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Ubuntu 13.04 not detecting Windows 7 during Install
I am trying to Install the latest Ubuntu 13.04 on my netbook but the installation is not able to detect any operating system installed on the machine. And asking me to either wipe out the whole disk ...
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How can we restore If all kernel has removed by mistaken it has RAID10
how we can restore the server if we removed the all kernels, and I have the RAID 10. in this case I try to recover with live-cd but I am not able to mounting partition because
I have RAID10 ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect Windows 7 partition
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 machine. I have set aside another partition in my only hard drive (1TB). When I put in my CD, the installer does not detect my Windows 7 partition, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 sees NTFS partition but not Windows 7
Trying to install Ubuntu on a Windows machine running Windows 7. I started by using the WUBI, but when I restarted the computer it just went straight to Windows. Then I went into the disk management ...
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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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Problem after installing Ubuntu 13.04
I installed the 13.04 version on my desktop, on it's own partition,formated it as ext4, alongside Windows 8, after the installation finished and the PC rebooted, I can't go in Ubuntu and can't find ...
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resize non-adjacent partitions?
I have a dual boot with three main partitions, one each for Ubuntu, Windows, and my files. I want to make the one with Windows ("OS") a bit larger, which would have to be at the expense of the one ...
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Two home folder. Ubuntu 12.10
Hi to all,
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.10. It's very nice and I like it very much. I have a few doubts about folders, as I was previously using Windows. In Windows, I have 3 local disks C,D,E. Now ...
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Lost Tons of data during Ubuntu 13.04 installation. Please help urgently! [duplicate]
I have a drive of 250 gb which i had partitioned into two. 180 gb had a lot of music. It was my lifetime's collection of music. the other 50 gb had windows installed in it and also had Ubuntu 12.10 on ...
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Partition size for dual boot with Win 8 (UEFI) and Ubuntu (latest desktop version)
If I create a partition on my hard drive for Ubuntu so it can run alongside Win 8 is it possible to alter the size of that partition later?
Does the installation DVD for 13.04 come with a partition ...
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Does LVM enable me to resize my /home partition?
With 13.04 here, I'm planning on wiping my computer and reinstalling. I have two hard drives, and I've heard that LVM allows the two drives to work together, as if they are a single drive.
I've also ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 13.04 & Win 8 dual boot on a samsung series 3 (NP350E5C)?
So I'm trying to install Ubuntu and I've been following the steps in this thread but with limited success.
My first error was after installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, from my USB Live Image, ...
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Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot hard drive issues
I have recently bought a new laptop, and as I use Ubuntu on my desktop, but want to play games on my laptop, i installed both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the laptop. It all went pretty well, I can ...
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Installing fresh Ubuntu 13.04 instead of Ubuntu 12.10
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and I'm going to install Ubuntu 13.04 tomorrow night. In Iran internet speed isn't very good to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04. My partition scheme is / , swap and /home. Is ...
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Ubuntu and Mint errno 5
There is no way I could install ubuntu right now.
I have a laptop - samsung r580
I had:
installed windows 7 on ntfs partition
installed ubuntu 12.10 (12.04 upgraded to 12.10) - i dont remember if i ...
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How to install Ubuntu 13.04 if I don't know how to rezise my partitions?
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 (or whatever the latest version is but I'm pretty sure that's it). When I get to the sliders for partition size it goes to the advanced partition-viewer and there's ...
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Bootloader Partition Question [closed]
I have a quick question. I'm trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer, but I figured my question would be good here since I think the Ubuntu and Mint installers are the same ...
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How should I set up my partitions?
I have a dual boot set up with XP (I know it's ancient but I have a favored game that won't work on anything newer) and Ubuntu 12.10. Both OSs are on a 70gb HDD and I have a 300gb HDD as well.
I have ...
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How to make Ubuntu One work w/ Windows 7 and custom ProfileDir?
I have the following problem:
System resides on drive C:
User data resides on drive A: - it's a partition of a fixed, built-in hdd.
Users directory is on drive A: and it is rewritten in the Registry ...
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partition of HD on ubuntu [duplicate]
I have a new laptop icore 5 with 8GB RAM, 500GB HD, and Ubuntu is already installed on it. I don't have any Windows on it.
I want to have partition of this HD, but don't know how to do it. Can any ...
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Creating a startup disk on a partition of a USB drive
I have a 32 GB USB pendrive which I'd like to use as both a startup/installation disk for Ubuntu, and for regular file storage/transfer purposes. Since the Ubuntu installation stuff only needs a ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - dual boot problem - unable to mount windows 8 partition
i installed ubuntu 13.04 alongside windows 8 and almost everything works fine (dual boot for both windows 8 & ubuntu 13.04 is working great).
but when i try to access my windows 8 partition via ...
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How to partition for single Ubuntu? [duplicate]
My laptop with CPU 2G, hard drive 500G
I find some solution as following:
/, around 15G
swap, 2G
/boot, around 150M
/home, rest of 500G
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Ubuntu doesn't boot after Windows 7 installation?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on my hard drive, then decided to install Windows 7 alongside on a 25 gb partition. I shrank my Ubuntu install by about 25 gb with a GParted Live USB. Ubuntu booted ...
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Invalid partition table after running wubi.exe [closed]
I previously installed Ubuntu 12.10 tried it and wiped it out later. After that I was using only Windows 7. Today, I downloaded the 13.04 installer, extracted the ISO to a USB stick, double-clicked ...
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How to migrate Ubuntu/Windows 7 dualboot from HDD to HDD+SSD without reinstall?
I have a working dual-boot setup (Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7) on my laptop.
I got a 320GB HDD with partitions for /, /home, swap, winsys and a big windata partition. There's more than 250GB space occupied ...
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Keeping the same /home partition after a clean install
I currently have 2 partitions for my ubuntu installation: A / partition and a /home partition.
When Ubuntu 13.04 is released I plan to reinstall ubuntu while keeping the same home partition. Is it ...
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UbuntuStudio installer does not allow partition resize?
I'm running FC18 + virtualbox and trying to install Ub.Studio 12.10 64bit. It works "fine" as live CD (except jackd, the main audio server, isn't working.. supposedly there is a fix for this) but when ...
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How can I create a new partition scheme to prevent total file system corruption?
This is my first time confronting partitioning for this purpose, and I use ubuntu only.. However...
I just recently broke my ubuntu by playing around with firefox from the terminal.. Think I was ...
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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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What to do when GParted tells me: ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent?
I bought a Seagate Expansion 1TB Drive few month's ago. It was working smooth until 3 to 4 days ago, when this problem struck me.
I plugged it to my laptop in Windows 7 (I have Dual Boot, Ubuntu ...
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Guided Partitioning
I read from some documentation that using Ubuntu's guided partitioning defaults will create a root partition and a swap partition. However, when I used that approach it actually created 5 partitions, ...
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Accessing Mac filesystem from xUbuntu
I have a macbook pro with 2 OS's... Mac OSx and Xubuntu (newest release.)
I have followed a lifehacker guide on allowing access of my OSx partition when booted into my linux OS which included ...
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Missing operating system single boot Ubuntu on Mac
I wanted to replace Mac OS X with Ubuntu completely so I put the Ubuntu .img on a USB drive and ran it and chose the
replace osx
option in Ubuntu's install menu. I realize this was a stupid way ...
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Windows 7 to Ubuntu - erased data
I am quite new with Ubuntu and I am not that good with computers at all. I had Windows 7, however due to some problems I didn't like that operational system because of that I decided to install ...
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Extending the size of ubuntu partition
I have a computer which have windows 7,Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 12.10 respectively. This is my partition table
The 21 GB ext4 is the primary partition of Ubuntu 12.10 and 18 GB ext4 is of Ubuntu ...
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Partitioning ubuntu 12.10 hard drive [duplicate]
About a month ago i installed ubuntu 12.10 on my computer, but i installed ubuntu on my whole 600 gb hard drive because i did not like the partition of only 30 gb that i could create from windows with ...
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problems while installing ubuntu?
I want to install Ubuntu with window 7 as a dual boot PC. I am new to Ubuntu.
After Booting from pendrive when I choose "intall ubuntu on Hard disk" , then installation window comes, I choose "do not ...
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Ubuntu installation failed every time after choosing “install ubuntu alongside window 7”
I want to install Ubuntu with window 7 as a dual boot PC.
After Booting from pendrive when I choose "intall ubuntu on Hard disk" , then installation window comes, I choose "do not connect to wifi ...
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How to write Ubuntu in boot.ini?
I have windows xp.
It has ntldr and boot.ini on
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 1
and load Windows from
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 3
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on second hard drive and I ...
