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I can not access my files and other data which is in Ubuntu installation drive
I am using Windows7 and before few days ago I was installed Ubuntu. My hard drive have 3 partitions. In one part Windows7 installed and in another part Ubuntu was installed.
Now my problem is that I ...
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How do I remove a partition from elements external hard-drive?
The hard drive was partitioned to have a ubuntu ISO boot as we didn't have a 2GB USB at the time to just put ubuntu on (What a fail I know -.-'). This partition was made with backtrack 5 KDE R3 ...
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partition wiped after distribution update
My problem: a partition and its files disappeared unbeknownst to me, most likely after updating from 12.10 to 13.04 (though not sure).
Before Ubuntu 12.10 I was running Windows 7, with a hard drive ...
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I deleted windows and I am having trouble merging the unused partition [duplicate]
I tried Ubuntu. I like it, I cleared the partition that had windows on it, now I can't seem to merge my /dev/sda5 ext4 partition with my unallocated partition. Ubuntu is installed on a 42 Gig ...
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Mounting an extended partition
I have checked Disks and saw how Ubuntu sees my partitions. The question is:
How can I mount an extended partition?
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How to copy recovered files in testdisk to a USB? [duplicate]
I used testdisk to recover files and folders lost after Ubuntu 12.10 installation over Win Vista
Now I need to copy some of these files and folders to a USB attached, I am now runing through a live ...
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How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?
I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions
(C:) Vista
(D:) Entertainment
(E:) Work
(F:) Sources
and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried ...
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Detect and mount devices?
I upgraded Ubuntu today and everything works smooth except that Ubuntu doesn't detect any other storage devices. My / and /home partitions work fine, but my other partitions are just not detected. I ...
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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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I cannot boot my ubuntu desktop
I'm new to managing hard disks, and was editing partition table. Today, I accidentally restarted my ubuntu after deleted partition(/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2/, /dev/sda5) and before create new partition ...
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Persistent device naming for Windows 7-partition in Ubuntu
I'd like to give the Windows partition of my Ubuntu installation a persistent device name, so different applications (like the local folder-account of my email software, or my local dropbox client) ...
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How can I access and edit Ubuntu files from a Windows 7 partition?
How can I access and edit ubuntu files from a windows 7 partition? should I start saving my files on windows partition so it becomes more accessible to both partitions or just create a separate ...
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Access, from Windows, files copied from Ubuntu to a media partition
I have a laptop with 3 partitions on a 500gb hdd:
Windows 8 - 60gb - ntfs
Ubuntu 12.4 - 40gb - ext4
A media partition - 390gb - ntfs
I copied music files to the media partition while using Ubuntu ...
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How shall I partition my disk
I installed Ubuntu 64bit on a new Dell XPS 8500.
As I had no idea how to partition my disk, I installed everything in one partition.
The disk has 2TB and there is an additional 64GB SSD inside, ...
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Windows NTFS partition shows up as HFS+
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 (beta 2) on my MacBook. Was using Windows 8 (with no OS X) up until today, and I've decided to move to Ubuntu 13.04 today.
However, I have a storage partition formatted as NTFS ...
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I have lost data but it's not deleted or overwritten
I am a beginner, so I know nothing. I installed lubuntu 12.04 so that I can learn, but I mistakenly installed it on a partition that contains 90 gigabytes of data. However, my data wasn't deleted: I ...
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Storing files in the partition containing OS
My hdd is partitioned into 220gigs n 250 gigs approx.Im able to store files on one of these partitions but I cant store any files on the other partition having the OS.The paste option never appears.I ...
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how to rename partitions?
I'm new at Ubuntu; I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and the partitions appear like 30 GB volume and like 78EF-2C5E in task bar. I tried to rename it but rename and remove buttons are deactivated so I tried by ...
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unable to find windows files using unbuntu
I'm using a samsung rv520 i3. Windows 7 crashed and fails to load past the initial windows logo screen. I am now using unbuntu 12.10 form a usb
I'm trying to find files i had saved on windows before ...
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Need Help For Partition
My laptops (compaqcq43-400tu) hard disk space is 500 GB.
How can I maintenance partitioning for my system?
I mean, for root/home/swap- How many spaces should I include for these categories?
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how to get the correct partition to boot
I have just installed Ubuntu into one of two 60GB partitions on my hard disc. I think it is sda2 and that the other partition (sda1) contains a failed installation of Ubuntu. Sda2 is further divided ...
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Folder lost after reboot
So I know there's a lot of info already around about recovered folders and files, but I hope there might be an slightly easier solution for me.
I'd just finished reorganizing and moving photos around ...
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Not able to access windows partition
Whenever I am clicking on windows drive I am getting this error as in screenshot here:
What can I do to fix this?
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UBUNTU EXT2 Partitionen
english and german written,
I used windows partition manager to do away 2 ubuntu partitions or 1 ubuntu and 1 windows nt. I used "Delete Volume". What i didn't say is put it together with my working ...
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How can I restore the swap drive used by ubuntu, back to windows 7?
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop (which has windows 7) but I used my second data drive as a swap for Ubuntu. How can I restore this swap drive back so it can be accessed by Windows 7 again?
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How to merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition?
How can I merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition ?
I'm having trouble moving this unallocated space to the Linux portion.
Here is my partition space:
Thanks.
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How can I install Ubuntu on a already 4-partition drive? [duplicate]
I have an HP Pavilion g6 with Windows 7 installed from factory. Now I want to install Ubuntu, but without using wubi. I downloaded the 12.04 LTS installer, booted from an USB and when I tried to ...
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Replace Fedora Partition With Ubuntu
So I tried installing Fedora along side Windows 7 and after a week of using Fedora, I can't stand it and I'm switching back to Ubuntu. I'm unsure of how to install Ubuntu in place of Fedora.
Below is ...
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How do I remove windows 7 from dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and then install windows 8? [closed]
I have a dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I want to remove Windows 7 only and then install Windows 8. What should I do?
All I want is to replace Windows 7 With Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu from ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't recognize partitions
I just did a clean install of Windows 7 on a brand new laptop (Packard Bell EasyNote LE).
I created 3 partitions:
150 GB on which I installed Windows 7
50 GB for Ubuntu
270 GB for file storage
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Can't install Ubuntu 12.04 - Can't reconize partitions
Here's my fdisk -lu
Disk identifier: 0xbbc58b91
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 1607679 802816 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 ...
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Formatting windows 7 partition to give it to ubuntu?
I have 2 partitions Windows7 and Ubuntu.
Both are installed and running well, except I would like to get rid of my windows 7 or at least a part of it and give that space to ubuntu.
So I am looking ...
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Installation Ubuntu can't read my HDD
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I just about to dualboot Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 on my laptop. But when I want to select where I'll install Ubuntu at installation setup, there's no options for freespace. But I just give a ...
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How to view and manage encrypted LVM partitions after installation?
I did a full disk LVM installation. I now want to share the /home folder with another linux distribution installed on another hard disk. But I can't work out how to do this because I can't see what's ...
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Install Windows 8 alongside with Ubuntu
I used Windows 8 before install Ubuntu. I left 40GB space to install Ubuntu alongside with Win 8. I manage to install Ubuntu 12.10 and I created 4GB space for swap partition and rest of them for the ...
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Partition: Read error
My laptop came to a grinding halt. On reboot, I got grub, which failed to load linus. I managed to get an initramfs prompt once but no further that way. Using LinuxLive USB Creator and a ...
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How safe is it to shrink the root (EXT4) partition?
Note:
I'm not asking how. I've found nice tutorials on how to do this and will try it myself and I'll dig some more or ask questions about it after my first attempt.
Background:
I installed Ubuntu ...
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How to mount all partitions at system startup
Hello I searched for this query(mounting all partitions on system startup) and found answer near to it. I added this command to startup applications "/usr/bin/udisks --mount ...
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Windows Partition not shown in Ubuntu
Recently my laptop Win7 was crashed and I trying to backup the data before trying any recovery. For this I booted Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386 (USB booted not installed on my HDD) and trying mount ...
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Make a live CD in a partition of my EHD?
I have about 2GB unallocated space in my 1TB EHD. I want to put a live CD image on it (and if possible, with persistence too). Is this possible?
I do this before on smaller flash drives using dd but ...
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Getting files from an external partition
So I had an external partition on Windows where I used to save (Not important stuff) stuff. Whatever I've been looking around but there's no tool that let's you check the partition.
Is there any tool ...
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Install Ubuntu 12.10 instead of Windows 8 [duplicate]
I have a laptop (4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel core i3 2.4 GHz) with 2 Partitions: one For data and one for windows 8 x64.
Actually, I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 instead of Windows 8 but keeping Data ...
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Picking a Partition in installer
I was installing Ubuntu and I had no idea which partition was the one I created for Linux. I called it Linux and its a "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I think thats what it's supposed to be but I can't ...
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how to access windows partitions from linux terminal?
how to access windows partitions like C or D from Linux terminal
using commands
because I want to work on some .cpp files there using "GCC" compiler
as I don't want to change their directory to e.g. ...
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Dual boot missing ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,now only Windows is directly starting?
Previously i have window7 and ubuntu with dual boot. But now window 7 is directly starting there is no option for ubuntu (no boot manager) but i checked via live cd ubuntu partiton ext4 is there and ...
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How to copy /sda3 to /sda1? UUID's can't be similar
/dev/sda is a 400 gig drive. It's partitions WERE: /sda1 - Windows boot partition (100 meg); /sda2 Windows "C:\" (68 gig); /sda3 is Linux boot partition; /sda5 is /home partition; /sda6 is linux-swap.
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How to read/mount a .gz.dd image file?
I have a partition file (a .gz.dd file) that I need to read the files from. I'm new to Linux and I don't know how I can read/mount .dd files in Ubuntu. Would you guys tell me the procedure of reading ...
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Why does Ubuntu 12.10 not detect my Win7 partition?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows 7 on my ASUS laptop and I'm new to all of this.
I'm using the Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit ISO burned onto a CD.
The first time I tried to install it, ...
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How are partitons handled in Ubuntu, compared to Windows?
How are partitions in my hard disk handled in Ubuntu? I want to draw parallels with what Windows does.
Let's say I have a HDD formatted as ext4, if I create 2 partitions and mount them at /data-part ...
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HP ProBook over heating, shutting down
I'm rather a amateur user. I have a single OS - Ubuntu 12.4. Lately my laptop (HP ProBook 4530s) heating up until it automatically shuts down. It wasn't happening with the older Ubuntu version. After ...
