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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Continuous hard drive access noise

I have an Asus X201E netbook (with 2 GB of RAM) and Ubuntu 12.10. The hard drive can almost always be heard being accessed, even when doing nothing. It is as if a search had been run on the entire ...
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Change Ubuntu Software Center Download directory to Different drive from OS drive? [duplicate]

Ok, Im relatively new to Ubuntu and have a custom built computer. I am utilizing three drives, 1 ssd, and 2 hard drives. I have installed my OS to my ssd, and want to use the other two for gaming and ...
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HDD makes high-pitched noise in Windows, but it is silent in Ubuntu!

I was just wondering what's different about Ubuntu that makes my HDD work more silently than in Windows. In Windows my hard disk makes a very audible high-pitch noise (no vibrations), but in Ubuntu it ...
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Nonresponsive while copying files

I just switched from Win8 to Ubuntu 13.04 as my sole OS and it's pretty nice overall. But as the last time I tried using Linux I see I still have problems simply moving large files around and ...
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Cant open second hard disk "permission denied"

I just did a clean install of 13.04 and now cant open any hard disks or hard disk partitions, it says "permission denied". I can open them as root but when I try and change the permissions it says I ...
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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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How can I get my western digital hd to work?

The program in the hd won't respond to the cursor.
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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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Will upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 wipe my hard drive?

This is not about not being able to upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04, its about whether upgrading will wipe hard drive or mess up other personal settings. I've been thinking about upgrading my computer ...
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How do i use another hard drive? and dual boot

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed and updated on my external hard drive, and I want to be able to access my internal hard drives via Ubuntu. One of the internal hard drives has windows 7 on it and the ...
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I/O errors when trying to copy data off a drive

I'm trying to copy data off of an old SATA drive that ran Ubuntu but it erroring out saying Input/Output Error. What would cause that error and how can I fix it?
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Do I need Intel Smart Response when installing Ubuntu?

With lots of guides and setup variations all over the internet, I find it confusing which is which to really follow. Normally, in Windows 8 my setup would be install everything in the HDD and use ...
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Problem connecting encrypted Buffalo external 500GB hard disk in Ubuntu 12.04LTS

I am having problems connecting my Buffalo external 500GB hard disk in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The HDD is password protected and when I connect it on my PC, it just shows up the CD icon on the launcher. It ...
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Hard Disk Formatting Error

so here is the situation.. I installed Ubuntu, pretty sweet.... all was going well till i tried to install an application " LPCXpresso IDE for ARM micro controllers" now the PC hung up as soon as the ...
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Is it possible to have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on the same hard drive? [duplicate]

It's my understanding that you can't have two different filesystems (NTFS and ext4) on the same hard drive, but that's exactly what I need to do to run both operating systems on the laptop I've ...
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choose wrong option during install and lost partitions

i tried ubuntu 13.04 beta in my pc with live dvd. when i wanted to install ubuntu i choose to delete my windows wrongly!. i see the page that we must to select time location and here i realized my ...
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Cannot find remaining hard drive space after installing in a partition?

Complete Ubuntu newbie here. I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 on an 11 year-old PC. Specs to my knowledge are: Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz RAM: 512 RAM Motherboard: Asrock P4VM800 Video ...
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Can I securely erase a hard drive by running `wipe` against `/dev/sdb`?

I was looking for a comparatively fast way to securely delete a hard drive I intend to sell and I found this in a German Ubuntu wiki: wipe -q -Q 1 -R /dev/zero -S r -r $PATH It said that according ...
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Windows filesystems on Ubuntu

I currently have 2 hard drives, 1 running my Windows OS and all my applications, and another for saving all my chunky media files. If I was to wipe my hard drive which holds Windows and install ...
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How to make it impossible to mount an ntfs partition?

I have this external HDD, which has two partitions: one ext4 and one ntfs. However, when I connect it to some devices, the ntfs-3g driver goes crazy and stays in a loop of mounting->unmounting->...
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Using Windows 7 to access files on a Ubuntu PC

I have a laptop that I'm currently using to dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. Works great... no problems with that part. I've recently been given a couple of old hand-me-down Dell PCs with moderately ...
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Using an SSD - things to consider? [closed]

I am considering to buy an SSD disk for my laptop. I know it's very fast, but i am concerned about its lifetime and data integrity. Can you please share your experience about using SSD in your ...
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how do I clear out log files and such [duplicate]

I have 9.5 GB of log files and would like to clear them from my system and keep that much stuff from being created, how do I do this? Here is the output from sudo du -sh /var/* ~/.xsession-errors: ...
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How do I stop this constant loss of free space?

I was running Ubuntu, as normal, when suddenly I got a dialog box that said I only had 1.2 GB of free space left. An hour before, I had 30 GB of free space. I deleted some stuff and brought the free ...
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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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secondary HDD problems with gnome

I have two HDDs running in my computer,however when I logon using GNOME,the drives do not appear unless I logout,log back in using the default ubuntu shell,open the drives,then logout and back in with ...
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Purging Vista from Ubuntu that's partitioned; mechanism and how to

Im a recent convert to Ubuntu. When I installed Ubuntu, I did it alongside of existing Vista. (Before that, a friend partitioned my HD to make room). Im so satisfied with Ubuntu that I'm getting rid ...
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Drive partition missing after installing ubuntu

Drive partition missing after installing ubuntu, looks like the partitions have merged together and files on the missing partition are not there. I have opted to use ubuntu instead of windows and i ...
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How to monitor disk activity?

How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage? I am looking for an application similar to ...
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Ubuntu 12.10, suddenly HD performing ultra slow for no aparent reason

On Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64. I have been using this computer with Ubuntu for a couple of years, and it has worked perfectly. This HD is just one year old. It is a 2TB HD. I have been using it mostly for ...
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Can Ubuntu be installed to a Portable Hard Drive?

Here is my question- Can I install Ubuntu of a partition of a portable hard drive? Hard drive in question is this one. I want to give it half the total size available and also want to know if the OS ...
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Shotwell: Storing part of library on external HDD

I am trying to sort out my Ubuntu photo workflow, and I wondered if anyone could offer some advice. I store my photo library on an external HDD, which is on my desk at home. I would like to be able ...
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Files disappearing from internal NTFS hard drive

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with the Xubuntu Desktop package installed and am having problems with an internal NTFS hard drive. Entire directories seem to be emptied without warning or going to the waste ...
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How to create a LVM Partition/physical volume > 2TB

I was following this tutorial found here: How to set up multiple hard drives as one volume? Which was working out great however i have a 3TB drive and every time i create the partition (whether it be ...
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Formatting hard drive failed

I am fairly new to ubuntu, so please don bite my head off if I ask a stupid question. Anyway, I tried formatting one of my hard drives using the gnome disks tool, and that returned an error. Error ...
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How to create partition without formatting drive?

I am have some doubts in partition my external drive. I am have external drive of capacity 2TB formatted in NTFS . 1.5 TB is used in hard drive. I want to create one partition of 200 GB in FAT . But I ...
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How to automount usb external hardisks in ubuntu server 12.04?

How can I automount USB HDs ? I installed usbmount but seems not working. Here below a few details: sudo fdisk -lu: Disk /dev/sda: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 ...
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Moving Kubuntu from hdd to ssd

I bought a new SSD to install it in my HTPC. Before, I had an HDD with Kubuntu. I would need to copy the files from the / partition from HDD to SSD. To do this, I booted from the Kubuntu livecd, ...
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Can't enlarge swap drive

Running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Toshiba Netbook. Netbook has like .8 gigs of Ram so I'm trying to offset the crappy ram amount with a larger swap drive. Tried to do it from a pretty detailed tutorial, was ...
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Booting randomly changes device nodes of HDDs, problem with munin

I have an Ubuntu Server running 12.10 with an internal (Mainboard) SATA controller and an additional PCIe SATA controller and also external USB HDDs. My problem is that the links to the devices (/...
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Error message: unable to mount location Ubuntu 12.10

When trying to open the internal hard drive, the error message: unable to mount location, can't mount file appears. Note: Ubuntu was installed over windows
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I can't find my hard drive to make a backup of it

2 weeks ago my computer stopped working. I thought it wasn't going to work anymore but I heard about ubuntu and I burned it in a DVD and try to restore or "backup" all my files and my information ...
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How to restore files from unusable Ubuntu?

My Ubuntu installation got messed up because of an upgrade (on archive manager - which is definitely my fault). Every time I boot my laptop, after logging in, its background is blue with plain and ...
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CLI mounting vs. GUI mounting

On Ubuntu 12.10, when I want to mount a hard drive, I can just click on the unmounted drive and everything works fine (by mounting to /media/username/partitionlabel). Basically, I would like to do ...
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disk failure is imminent

ok, i have one question, i got an error that my disk failure is imminent, i tryed everything possible to recover it but not success. then i completelly removed my ubuntu 12.04 by installing windows xp ...
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Ubuntu suspended - external harddrive no longer powers?

I recently got a new laptop and I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I went to transfer files over from my old laptop using my external hard drive and closed the lid when I went away, forgetting I ...
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Can't boot into windows? [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive inside the computer by booting with the CD. I now want to switch back to my main hard drive but I don't know how. When I unplug the Linux HD it goes into ...
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Does "No such device"->grub rescue on on an established system herald a catastrophic event?

I've already found plenty of threads on "no such device" and grub rescue on AskUbuntu, but I'm wondering what this signifies if it happens not on a fresh install, but on a computer that has been ...
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Removing Windows [duplicate]

I've been running Precise and XP in a dual-boot on my laptop for several months now. I'd like to pull the plug on XP and reclaim that wasted NTFS space. What's the easiest way to do that?
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How can I uninstall Ubuntu in order to install Windows 7? [duplicate]

I can't work out how to do it. When I try to use my Windows installation disk, it won't even show a setup menu. I installed Ubuntu via a USB stick, and it is the only OS on my hard drive.
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