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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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How to reinstall Ubuntu on encrypted SSD?
Ubuntu crashed and I am no longer able to boot. I'd like to keep or recover files on the encrypted SSD.
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Ubuntu could not resolve symbol, give a AE_NOT_FOUND message and boot procedure gets stuck
I am on Ubuntu 22 and did a SW update on July 13th, 2023. The previous update was done on Aug 5th, 2023. After this latest update, I get the following messages:
ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not ...
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External harddisk detected but not mounting
I have a WD MyPassport that is NTFS formatted with only 1 partition, and works perfectly fine on Windows. It was working well with Ubuntu until a few days ago (points 3 and 4 explains what changes I ...
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Mount encrypted volume in read/write mode
The canonical method to mount encrypted volumes from the command line on later Ubuntu editions involves udisksctl. However, that recipe mounts the volume in read-only mode.
$ udisksctl unlock -b /dev/...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu 18.04 , kernel panic, trying to upgrade nvidia drivers, recovery mode fails - how to get to terminal?
My desktop machine is unable to boot. I strongly suspect it is related to nvidia driver issues, I would love to get to a console so I can nuke it from the system and see if I can boot again.
This ...
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Backup encrypted Ubuntu LUKS/LVM partition, then replace a new LUKS/LVM partition with it
Since a number of days, a Ubuntu 20.04 machine won't boot. Its internal drive has 3 partitions, and the boot problem seems to come from partition 1 and/or 2:
/dev/nvme0n1p1, EFI system partition, ...
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Deleted initrd.img and vmlinuz
Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and I accidentally deleted initrd.img of ONE kernel and vmlinuz of the OTHER kernel. I can not boot the OS up, not even in recovery mode. How do I restore either initrd.img or ...
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cannot mount luks-encrypted partition from live usb
For a while my Ubuntu hasn't been booting anymore as it tells me to update the microcode. I've asked about it here but wasn't able to resolve it. I had my hard drive encrypted so I've decided to focus ...
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Deleted Menu Entries in Grub, ubuntu 20.04, cannot access hard encrypted hard drive
I made a mistake when I deleted menu entries in grub and I cannot access my encrypted hard drive any more. There is a lot of medical data that i need to retrieve.
I need help with step by step ...
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Deleted EFI Partition, see my old encrypted Partition, WANT MY FILES BACK. How?
I need a step-by-step guide made for a toddler to help me get this computer recognizing what I assume is the still-present/available partition that contains all of my files & settings.
I deleted ...
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Opening LUKS encrypted drive in nautilus results in "operation cancelled"
I'm on a Ubuntu 16.04 computer with a LUKS encrypted drive trying to mount an old Ubuntu 16.04 LUKS encrypted drive. When I open the drive in Nautilus, after entering the correct password I get the ...
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Getting files from an internal harddrive that ran ubuntu 18
So my last laptop broke and I tried to restore the files from my internal ssd harddrive. I bought an adapter from the harddrive and plugged it into another computer running ubuntu. It asked me for a ...
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How to access hard drive files from liveCD?
I don't know what files or file types are there on the hard drive nor do I know the file system in which the hard disk is written on. I am not able to view it in the home folder after booting from the ...
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ubuntu boot issues
I recently made a live USB stick of Lubuntu and ran boot repair on my system. I was given this URL. http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/G9Zpd7CJTx/. Please help as I already have a partition set up and an ...
