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File recovery on external hd with Testdisk (Ubuntu 18.04)

I was doing some organizing on my Seagate 4 TB HDD when I attempted to cut/paste all of the movies in one directory to a new directory. I received an error message (wish I would've screenshot it, but ...
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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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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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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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Install Ubuntu on hard disk externally

I want to install ubuntu on my other laptop.The Laptop wont allow me to boot from CD and i cant change the boot order. I dont have access to BIOS Settings (I am locked out of BIOS). I have an external ...
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How to Format External 3TB Hard Drive as ext4 via Command Line (CLI)?

I know there are several similar questions out there, but many of the answers are terrible. I guess fdisk can NOT support drives larger than 2TB? The interactive menu changed on me so I don't know ...
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Why will only one partition on my external drive show up in Ubuntu?

I running an Ubuntu 10.10 server which I interact with through the command line. It has an external hard drive attached to it, which has two partitions. One of the partitions, which has about 250MB on ...
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How to partion external HD on Ubuntu without erasing

I have an external HDD ADATA, 640GB. I want Partitioning into two parts. The OS I am using is Ubuntu .
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how to make a bootable partition on an external hard drive? or solve my dynamic disk woes

I have a 250 gig external hard drive and I need to make a small partition on it and run Ubuntu live from it to recover files from a corrupt hard drive that Windows can no longer read. I want to make ...
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Partition read/writeable USB drive between Mac OSX and Ubuntu

I am attempting to transfer a 6.1 GB file between a Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and a Mac OSX 10.6. As the file size is over 4GB I can't use Fat32 and I cant seem to format the USB drive to NTFS in either OS. ...
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