Questions tagged [hard-drive]

Questions about hard drives, configuring and formatting them. Hard drives typically provide stateful memory storage for computers, and are the primary location for the operating system and user files.

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USB IDE HDD in Ubuntu 22.04 is not working

I have have some IDE disks very old stuff, I would like to backup all data to a newer HDD or SSD, so I buy an USB IDE adapter to do the work. When I plug the HDD on the adapter the SO only recognize ...
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Copying files to a SSD without problems

I am planning to buy a SSD external disk with some terabytes of capacity. I want to copy some files, repos, code, documents etc that I have in my ubuntu machine In the past, I vaguely remember that ...
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I couldn't mount my external ssd (ntfs) to my ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

I tried something, but it's not working. For me, the sudo fdisk -l command gives me this output: ... loop devices removed from output ... Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 ...
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Unresponsive storage ssd

I have a ssd with very important data in my workstation. It has a ext4 and a ntfs partition. This morning, the ext4 partition (sda1) didn't mount, and the filesystem was listed as "unknown" ...
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Partition windows does not exit

Why does the 500GB HDD appear here while in Other Locations it's not coming out?
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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?

I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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Accidentally deleted folder containing system volume information

I am unable to see folders or files. Please see the attached image and give me a solution.
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the folder content could not be displayed input/output error

I'm new to Linux and I have Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS) (Budgie version: 10.6.1) (OS Type: 64-bit) I have this ntfs type HDD: I checked its file system: I saw that it's not damaged: but when ...
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How can I use/extend a new hard drive on ubuntu from my main ssd? [duplicate]

I have my main(120gb SSD) drive with Ubuntu 22.04 installed on: dev/sda1 I have another 3 TB hard drive which is formatted as ext4: dev/sdb1 What I would ideally like: I would like to "fuse&...
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Hard drive usage unreported/ can't find what's taking up space

So I have my ubuntu installed on a 500GO NVMe drive, and, because I needed the space, I decided I wanted to relocate it to a 120GO SATA SSD. I figured it would be enough, and, based on my information, ...
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Bootable hard disk image locked my hard drive

I recently followed this guide in an attempt to create a Windows bootable hard disk. Without any warning or confirmation, the console command chose and locked up my middle/largest hard drive with 7 ...
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Ubuntu not booting after hard drive failure

I have a 4yo Lenovo IdeaFlex5 running Ubuntu 23.10, with umis rpjtj512mee1owx storage (some say it's SSD, but in ubuntu it was always /dev/nvme... so NVMe). It worked perfectly fine until it froze out ...
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Setting timeshift backup to harddrive, getting "Device not found" error

I'm trying to set the backup location for timeshift to a new external hard drive I just bought. I formatted the drive w/ an ext4 filesystem w/ the command: sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde I then ran the ...
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failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED. Should I replace HDD?

Unfortunately after a blackout my small home media server went down. Now when I try to start it up again I get various errors, among which I often get ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED. The ...
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External HDD not detected on HP Laptop 15s-eq1

I connected an external hard disk drive (HGST 500GB) to my ubuntu laptop yesterday, the hdd took some time but connected successfully and I transferred a few of my files to it. I had one more hard ...
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How can I increase partition sizes when adding a new drive on Ubuntu 22.04?

Do the answers in How can I add more disk space to /boot for update still work in the newest Ubuntu 22.04? Can I just order a new drive format it and resize boot to the right and be done? And does ...
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Incorrect shutdown of HDD

I have 2 HDD on my laptop. I installed the latest version of Ubuntu on hard drive No. 2 But I think I have a problem When entering the Ubuntu system and turning off the device The second hard drive is ...
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Mounting Drives

The last time I touched Unix of any flavor it was Solaris, so please forgive me. I'm am so very rusty. I decided to build a home lab and get back into things. I've built, destroyed, and rebuilt my ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition

I have a raw disk file as bellow $fdisk -l Monterey.img Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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Ubuntu 22.04 wont boot after disk clone

I am attempting to migrate my OS boot disk from a 512GB to a 1TB drive. I booted off a live USB and used dd to clone the orignal drive to the new drive. Then I shut it down and unplugged the old ...
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I seem to have completely messed up my filesystem

Ubuntu 22.04 on a lenovo ThinkPad W520. I #think# I have an external disc mounted on /media/claus and the terminal finds it. In my sidepane though the "500 GB Volume" symbol that should ...
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Unknown error while mounting an external USB device

I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on my laptop. I was copying some folders from an external USB device into my Windows virtual machine. The process stuck unexpectedly, the mouse was blocked as well ...
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Flash drive won't mount on Ubuntu, NTFS corruption issue with IO error

To make a long story short I have a flash drive device that I have wiped out, and now it would not mount onto my linux system. I had written a program that has flipped all of the bits inside the ...
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Creating a partition on /dev/loop

I have a school task to create/delete a partition in Ubuntu. The example says it would show me /dev/sda, but mine shows me /dev/loop, so I could not proceed with this task any further. What to do for ...
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File disappearing after transfer to hard drive

I am copying data from my internal hard drive (ext4) to an external hard drive (NTFS) on Ubuntu 20.04. Once the copy is done, I unmount the external drive, plug it back, and the previously copied ...
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Seagate Basic USB HDD - error showing an empty directory

I purchased a Seagate Basic 1TB USB HDD. I connected the USB-drive into my Dell-desktop-PC running UBUNTU 22.04. It mounts/unmounts and otherwise behaves normally. I used FreeFileSync to back up ~...
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How can I install old HDD with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption from old PC hardware(Intel) to new PC hardware(AMD)

I had an old PC (Intel) with a HDD encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption. Unfortunately, the hardware failed. Thankfully, the HDD seems intact. So I bought a new AMD-based PC (new CPU, new ...
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When shutting down the computer all mechanical hard drives make a strange sound

When shutting down the computer (Kubuntu 23.10), all mechanical hard drives (Seagate IronWolf) make a strange sound and the SMART 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count indicator increases steadily. When ...
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Multiple phantom Hard Drives

I've got a weird problem with 20.04 server. The system had a drive failure and I had to rebuild it. Everything went fine during the install, but when I run lsblk, I show sda - sdf. There are only 2 ...
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How to determine sizes of partitions on a fresh install?

I want to fresh install Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS any my HD is 500GB. Are there guidelines for what sizes to use per partition (and what mounts) e.g. best size for swap, best size for EFI partition etc? E.g....
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Problem with NTFS disk

I have HDD disk with two NTFS partitions, which I created in Windows 10, but Ubuntu sees only one. Disks utility shows both partitions as one. Disk model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 Windows 10 is on a ...
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unable to access location ssd

I have three different drives on my PC and when trying to open one of the SSD's it gives me this error message Unable to access location Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /media/milly/Large: wrong fs type, ...
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How Does the Smart Control Parameter #173 from Ubuntu smarctl / gnome-disks for the Samsung MZ-7TY2560 reconcile with Linux HDSentinel Rating of 52%

From the Ubuntu version of HDSentinel, it reports health of 52% because of: # HDSentinel Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.20.10851 (c) 2023 [email protected] Start with -r [reportfile] to ...
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Battery died while transferring files

my laptop's battery is very old and while I was transferring some important files on an external drive, it died on me. Unfortunately, this happened before I could transfer everything over. When I ...
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Disk cloning and bootability

I recently purchased a new laptop that comes pre-installed with Windows. However, my intention is to erase the Windows installation entirely and replace it with Ubuntu, as I've always done with my ...
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gnome-disks Partition Type mismatch on IDE drive - not allowing mount

I have an old IDE hard drive whose contents I'm trying to backup. I connected the hard drive to my PC, running Ubuntu 23.10, via a USB/IDE adapter, the hard drive's capacity (80 GB) is correctly ...
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Ubuntu issue with external HDDs unmounting

I'm running into an issue with my media server running Ubuntu 22.04.2. I'm running Plex in a docker container with a few other containers on the server. I have two HDDs that stay permanently connected ...
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Help understanding remaining HDD space

So I'm trying to figure out if I can use a good chunk of hdd space that appears to be unmounted in my system. lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 ...
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My western Digital hard disk was failed to be recognized by Ubuntu system recently. It seems have error sectors. How to recover data from it?

I have a 6T internal hard drive in my Desktop with Ubuntu 20.0.4 system. It works well before, but very recently it happened twice that it can't be recognized by the system (unmounted). The first time ...
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LUKS Container lost due to partitioning by Windows?

I plugged a HDD with a LUKS container on it into Windows and opened the Disk Manager. A dialog appeared where I clicked "Format as GPT", not knowing what I was doing. Apparently Windows wasn'...
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I did mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0 without knowing it wipes the whole data

So guys I got panicked since my data gone, I tried the solution to use backup Superblock from this askubuntu page but still no luck. but when I tried sudo fsck.ext4 -vy /dev/md0 I got this message /...
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Is it possible to install disks in raid post installation?

I have just received my new Ubuntu 22.04 workstation from Lenovo. It has 2 1TB disks, that I want to use in RAID 1 for /, and 4 2TB disks that I want to use in RAID 5 for /home. However the machine ...
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Can't auto mount partition through fstab during boot

help me understand. I have this line in my /etc/fstab UUID=13958fbc-ce35-4a2a-a144-9b1543270cf4 /DAS1TB ext4 defaults 0 0 this UUID corresponds to /dev/sdb1 that should be ...
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exFAT Mounted HDD partition not mounting as specified user and instead as root

Forgive me if this question has been asked before but I have tried to find an answer to no avail leading me to write this. Please link me the solution if this or something similar has been asked. I ...
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Harddisks appear as ata in ubuntu server 20.04 and as scsi in server 23.10 -- zpool won't recognise disks

I decided to make a fresh OS-install for my home-server. I attached a new SSD for the root OS and installed ubuntu server 23.10. After installation and first boot, some installed software etc., I ...
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Error when mounting ntfs disk after crash

I ran rdfind on my backup disk, causing my system to freeze. After a forced restart, the disk showed 0 bytes in partition manager. I managed to mount it in Windows, and then the bytes used got fixed ...
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Full Storage issue with second Hard Disk on Ubuntu 22.04

I am trying to mount a second hard disk on my Ubuntu 22.04 Virtual machine to get rid of the full storage warning, but I can't seem to mount it correctly to extend the volume of the original hard disk ...
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Addressing Initial High Transfer Speeds Causing Data Loss in USB File Transfers: Community Insights Needed

Experiencing Challenges with USB (NTFS) File Transfers: Anomalies in Initial Write Speeds Leading to Data Loss I am currently encountering a perplexing issue during file transfers to an NTFS-formatted ...
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/dev/sdb1 partition full but /dev/sda empty

I am new to Ubuntu and I tried to download recently a large file, but it stopped because it said the disk was full, even though I'm supposed to have almost 1Tb of disk space. I tried to look at ...
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Recovering data from HDD

I used to have a problem with WD Mycloud Gen 2, but I replaced an HDD with a new one and now it's working. But I need to read my old data from an old HDD (WD RED 3 TB) In Disk Utility I see the ...
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