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Yes you can. Easiest tool to do so I find is gparted, so if you think you need to add more space or you need more space in windows you can do so on the fly.
Just search for 'gparted' in the software center.
If for whatever reason you like using terminal,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gparted
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First don't use the drive to install or transfer any data onto there.
Run testdisk and follow the instructions to recover your partition
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You want to create a separate /home partition. This is most easily done during system installation by selecting the "something else" partitioning option and setting up /home on the spinning disk. You can do it after installing the OS, but this requires more effort. Numerous Web sites describe the process in detail. A Web search turns up quite a few, starting ...
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To wipe the drive clean, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=4k conv=notrunc
If you would like to make multiple passes on your hard disk I would recommend using the shred command.
sudo shred -n2 -v /dev/sdx
Note: Replace x with your device ID.
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If I understood clearly, you have an external HDD with an Ubuntu installed on it. You want to boot your system from that external hard drive, and use Ubuntu to wipe the internal HDD.
Start your system, and go to the BIOS and change the boot priority in the following order:
-USB
-HDD
-etc.
It won't be exactly like this but make sure the first boot device is ...
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You can boot from your USB stick and do dd on it, but be carefull not to wipe other drives.
Usually the command I do is simple:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=16M
NOTE: sdX should be the drive you're wiping. I only have an internal HD so the name is "sda", but for external drives could be sdb, sdc etc.
For my 1TB drive it takes about 3 and a half ...
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It would probably be easiest to burn the Ubuntu image on the external drive to a disc and boot as a Live CD. Otherwise, if booting from the external hard drive is a requirement, follow many of the tutorials online concerning USB booting Linux.
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Try using Disk Utility to check the drive's SMART information. You can also run some low-level tests on the disk from here which should help confirm whether the drive is faulty.
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What command did you use ?
When you did it like (example here) :
dd if=/dev/sdb(external harddisk) of=/dev/sda(notebook)
Then you have overriden your notebook.
When /boot partition is located e.g. in sda3 and you have not-of-use-files in sda4 (sda1 and sda2 are swap) - then you could make
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda4
But you have probably to edit the ...
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Chroot to the drive containing existing ubuntu installation
2 . sudo apt-get install <package name>
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Well, Wubi isn't compatible with my mainboard. I tried the graphical install from the LiveUSB... with UEFI, which was stupid because I couldn't see the GUI... then I used Legacy boot. It works! Thanks for all of your help guys :)
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Explanation:
the error message you got means you tried to install Ubuntu inside Windows (via the Wubi installer).
The problem is that Wubi is not compatible with GPT (preinstalled Windows8 and some Win7 are on GPT disks).
Solution:
Install Ubuntu the standard way, on its own partitions, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall
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i say you should use crashplan so that you can move your files then to linux but the only issue with crashplan is that its a little complex to setup
here it is: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html
(its a full version if you use it with local and friend computers so dont worry its no virus, if your unsure i made a virus scan here: ...
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eject -t <device>
is probably what you are looking for
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You should back up your hard drive before you install Ubuntu just like you back up your hard drive all the other times you regularly back up your hard drive. If you don't regularly back up, this is a great time to start, whether you continue and install Ubuntu or not. To do this, you need a second hard drive, because you need someplace to copy your files to, ...
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Try booting form the Ubuntu 13.041 CD. Once it starts, press the Esc. After that you will get the languge selection screen, choose your languge, and press Enter.
After that you will get the screen shown in the image below, just choose Check disc for defects, to be able to test your Hard Drive.
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Providing that Windows and Ubuntu are both on their own respective drive, running on the same computer, you shouldn't have any problems.
Now what you can do if your system hardware, and BIOS allows you, you can have both drive physically attached, and all you have to do is change boot-up priority, when you power on the machine.
Again make sure that your ...
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Swapping the HDD should work fine. The BIOS is not modified by a Windows installation. I did this for myself some time ago on an IBM Thinkpad.
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As an answer to your first question, you should be able to access your internal hard drives by mounting them in nautilus. You can do this by opening up 'files', then clicking on the partitions on the left panel.
For your second question, there is no way to do this as far as I know. This is by design of the boot system, as if you install GRUB onto your hard ...
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Take a look at gThumb. It is quite simple but yet very powerful underneath. It facilitates file system folder structure and has more on top of it (tags, catalogs, marks, batch processes, simple image editing, export/import). So it won't be a problem to manage PC photos and external HDD photos from one program and move them one way around.
As to having a set ...
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Should work. Boot Ubuntu, plug in the external drive, and copy over the data. Data recovery of course depends on the underlying problem.
See also -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/
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You can boot form the Ubuntu CD, and get the choose Try Ubuntu, once you get the desktop, you can open file manager, and mount your drives. If these drives are windows drives, the you might want to look at Mounting Windows Partitions. Once that's done you can view the contents of your partitions, and at that point you can copy the data that you want.
If ...
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To clarify, based on your additional comments:
If you converted your Ubuntu partion into an NTFS formatted drive, then yes, your Ubuntu installation will no longer work, regardless of whether it was on an external HDD or not.
It sounds like you're going to probably need to start over. Ubuntu would want (by default) an ext4 formatted drive.
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You can use baobab or similar tools [kdirstat, filelight] to see what files are using up your disk space, too.
Baobab is also called "Disk Usage Analyzer" on Ubuntu.
Here's a sample screenshot of baobab:
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sorry, have totally overseen your comment. sometimes I am blind.
I don't know what you are using in your home-directory. But I would then put any folder resp. Partition on to your ssd and then put /home onto your normal hard-disk-partitions.
for example it is good when /tmp-folder has a size not smaller than 4.7 GB, because then burning dvds has no trouble ...
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In the end, the matter was forced by an error on my part. The procedure I used in the end was:
Shutdown system and disconnect one element of the original pool; replacing it with one on the new disks.
Power on and create a new pool with the single new disk
use rsync to move the data across rather than zpool recv
export both pools
import the new pool using ...
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Have you tried to run full smartctl test of the hard drive?
smartctl is provided by smartmontools package in Debian.
smartctl -t long /dev/sdb
Check if the test is still in progress (test takes ~2h on my 120GB HD)
smartctl -c /dev/sdb
Check test result
smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
Your device name (sdb) may be different
If your HD is "healthy" ...
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Open Disk from Dash, and follow the images below:
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smartctl -A <device> as root from the command line will show you SMART parameter 9, "Power_On_Hours", if the drive supports it.
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I have had this very issue before. It appears to be a corrupt Windows (NTFS) partition, so if you can, boot into a Windows environment (this could even include WinPE*) and run chkdsk /f in a command prompt. (if on Windows Vista/7/8, it must be ran as administrator) If you cannot boot into Windows, see this website on how to repair anything from a corrupt ...
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The BIOS had a IDE emulator setting for the sata drives. This caused confusion in grub because It was trying to communicate with the sata directly rather than the emulated IDE.
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You say it works in Windows 8, is that using the same hardware and port?
With the "disconnect" message ~1100ms after insertion, I wonder if the USB port doesn't have quite enough power for the drive.
See this article from Toshiba: http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Drivers-and-Utilities-Knowledge/External-USB-3-0-Hard-Drive-not-recognized/ta-p/379941
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list drives: sudo fdisk -l
list mounted: sudo mount -l
mount all: sudo mount -a
read more: MountingWindowsPartitions
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There sure is! Use the mount command to force it to mount, and umount to un-mount it when you are done and if you decide that you want it un-mounted.
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Don't worry.. not setting a boot flag will not brick your drive (trust me-I've managed to think I've bricked more than one router!)
If your problem is having the drive mount upon boot, realize that the uuid changes upon format, so you will have to issue another sudo blkid and change /etc/fstab accordingly.
So your new fstab might look something like ...
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Don't worry; your drive is just fine.
When you unmount a drive in Linux (which you had to do in order to format it,) sometimes it won't be re-recognized until you reboot your computer.
Try rebooting, and see if that fixes the problem.
There's nothing that GParted can do anyway that would prevent sudo fdisk -l from noticing the drive. (you did remember ...
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You could try disconnecting the external drive and then entering the following in a terminal:
tail -f /var/log/messages
This will give you a running commentary of what your machine is up to.
Reconnect your drive and see what (if anything) is happens here and if your machine is getting an error or anything when trying to read or mount the drive.
If ...
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Auto mounting NTFS can be tricky. I found this page very helpful.
Good luck!
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You have two hard disks that seem to have valid partitions.
Because of:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 501758 312313855 155906049 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 501760 312313855 155906048 83 Linux
your have a HDD (/dev/sdb: 159.9 ...
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you may try with ntfs-config. it might work for you. read this
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If you're going entirely by BIOS order, you need to do one of two things:
Have GRUB recognize the secondary HDD's boot sector (Windows) and be able to launch off of the 2nd drive on its own. Run boot-repair while in Ubuntu, and have it Scan your available HDDs/systems (will do this automatically usually), or if you're aware of how to configure GRUB on ...
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Solved. I had a SanDisk card plugged in that I was using with my camera. Removing that media allowed the hard drive to be shown.
Not sure why that had an effect on the installation but taking the SDHC card out worked.
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If you want to want to boot from the CD-Rom without messing around with UNETBOOTIN, you can:
put the iso file on the CD
change the options of the bootloader so that the CD is the first thing to load
follow the installation prompt, choosing your harddrive as the install location
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Is it 700KB or 700MB?
If you trying to install using USB you have to make .ISO boot-able on there. Download UNETBOOTIN from here.Or if you burn in DVD(latest Ubuntu need DVD) you should burn it as an image file.
Now restart and install from boot menu.
Copying to the blank hard drive is not useful.
How to use UNETBOOTIN:
1. Connect a usb pen-drive with your ...
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All I had to do was change my NVIDIA driver and now it runs well:
Go to top left icon and search for Software and Updates.
Click on software and updates
Go to the tab named Additional Drivers
I originally had NVIDIA binary Xorg, kernel module and VDPAU library from nvidia-304 (proprietary) OPTION 5.
I changed to NVIDIA binary Xorg, kernel module and VDPAU ...
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Boot from your Ubuntu USB drive.
Then follow these instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
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After resizing and not being able to view the resizing on my windows XP guest machine, I had to
clone it
resize it with
"VBoxManage modifyhd winxppro\ Clone.vdi --resize 30720"
and everything worked
I saw in other forums that snapshots can interfere for resizing and not being able to remove all snapshots for different errors I got, the only found ...
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Try using Testdisk to find the drive. (Available as a download or on Parted Magic). You may be able to recover lost partition information and reset it to get the drive going again.
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Since they're internal drives, it makes most sense to mount them statically. You can add lines to your /etc/fstab file in order to define your own mount point. See for example mine (I have two partitions apart from /, which I have mounted to /data/ and /media/Windows, for instance)
First, run sudo blkid, this will tell you the UUID for all drives attached ...
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I don't know if this is useful to anyone, but if I found this page in my search, maybe it will help someone (other than the OP who hopefully solved his problem months ago).
ddrescue may be the best choice in this case, for data recovery (different from "fixing" the error/disk as the original question was worded), as Dennis suggested.
Alternatively, you ...
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