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Tagged with external-hard-drive ubuntu
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Can I delete Microsoft Reserved Partition in Hard-Drive?
Currently, I need to install Ubuntu on my laptop (originally using window 10) to run Drone robotics Studio. But I have only 10GB left, so I am planning to install Ubuntu on my external hard drive.
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Unexpected file modifications on external exFAT SSD
After moving an external drive from
I have a 1TB external SSD with a single exFAT partition. I plugged this into Mac OS X and write about 250GB worth of files. File contents seem normal. After ...
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Copying large amount of files freezes Ubuntu and Windows
I have two machines: an old one (core i7-920/12 GB RAM) and a new one (AMD 1950X, 96 GB RAM). Both machines have Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 in a dual boot setup. When I backup my NAS on the old one, ...
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Accidentally unplugged external HDD while transferring files; now windows & ubuntu can't mount it. Can I get the data from it? If not, format it?
My external HDD has two partitions; one for windows and one for ubuntu. I was in Windows 10 transferring files to back them up when I accidentally knocked the cable out. Now neither OS will mount the ...
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Make my GRUB not dependent of my external disk
I bought an external drive to put an Ubuntu in it. I will use it in multiple computers to work.
Problem is, when I installed it, it remplaced my initial grub by an another one, and the result of this ...
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How to get rid of grub boot loader from external HDD
For a while, I tried Linux Ubuntu as my OS. Like any OS, Linux has its drawbacks, some of which are a big issue for me. So I went back to Windows 7.
To prevent modifications to my system while I was ...
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Accessing external HDD ext3 (Ubuntu/Linux) files from Windows 10
I took out a sata hard disk from my PC and put it in an adapter case, so that I can read its files through USB ports. This HDD had a double partition (Windows/Ubuntu).
Now I want to access the ...
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booting ubuntu from an external drive
I just bought an external drive (seagate backup plus) to make backups of my ubuntu system. There's something I've been thinking about: is it possible to make a copy of my system on the drive, so I can ...
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Transcend 1 TB external HDD is not gettting detected on Windows systems after I installed Ubuntu on it
I recently installed Ubuntu (full Ubuntu, not a persistent Ubuntu) on an external 1 TB Hard disk.
While doing so, I had the hard disk formatted to ext4 journaling file system. The OS works on the ...
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External hard drive stops responding for 30+ seconds every once in a while
I have this 4TB external hard drive, when I am writing to it, it stops responding every few minutes for 30+ seconds when I try to read from it at the same time.
Is this common? The drive is a NTFS ...
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Booting Ubuntu to Blank Screen
I have installed CentOS on the same disk before and booted with rEFInd no problem, but I didn't like CentOS too much since I couldn't easily port Ubuntu packages over and I wanted Ubuntu back, so I ...
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LxD container on external drive not starting on another host
I have identical OSes (Ubuntu 16.04) running on 2 hosts, with identical OS updates.
I also have identical LxD service installed (via sudo apt-get install lxd) and configured (via sudo lxd init) on ...
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external usb hard drive for win7 + ubuntu
I bought a new laptop and removed the hard drive and plugged it in an external HDD enclosure. I would like to use this external hard drive on Ubunutu and Windows.
I used the "Disk" utility from ...
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External disk not accessible
My WD Elements external disk connected via USB 3.0 cable is not accessible. I tried it with two versions of Windows and with Ubuntu 16.04 kernel 4.6.0.
The disk was working some days ago. Then, ...
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Ubuntu on external drive
Can I put a full version of Ubuntu on an external hard drive and boot off of that hard drive and ignore the built in one. So I dont have to partion drives for dual boot but can boot just from a Ubuntu ...
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