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restore data on external disk after windows repair
Here is an issue my friend faced:
He has an external hard drive NTFS formatted. First he was putting photos to it using MacBook. Then he was putting photos using Ubuntu laptop. Then he moved to a ...
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Why did my disk suddenly stop working?
I have a hdd and I am using it for about 3 months, I always used it in Ubuntu and everything was great until yesterday I put it on a windows laptop, the windows laptop could not read it and now I put ...
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Hard Disk which was running on Ubuntu is not recognized in windows
I tried to use my internal hard drive as external from a laptop which was running on Ubuntu Operating system. But the problem is i can't access the drive in windows. I can see the drive in the "...
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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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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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How to boot my PC to Windows 10 after installing Ubuntu to an External HD?
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 to an external Hard Drive, planning on having Dual Boot on my laptop - which runs Windows 10. I have successfully configured the Dual Boot to have Windows as default, ran ...
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Seagate External Hard zero size
I have a seagate external hard disk and recently I encountered some problem with that. I am using both windows and Ubuntu environment and my hard disk detecting on both but, in windows it's says the ...
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Can my laptop's Hard Disk be cloned and loaded to another laptop? [duplicate]
I bought an Asus X202E laptop and installed Ubuntu on it and then completely formatted it which deleted everything including the recovery partition. So i could not restore it. Then I installed Windows ...
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External drive detects on linux but not on windows
I was copying a few files over onto a directory and suddenly I noticed that there was already a directory that I previously had! So I decided to delete it. Now something happened and I decided to ...
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NTFS external hard drive only usable on linux
My Dad has a 2TB Seagate USB external hard drive (formatted NTFS) that is about 3 or 4 months old and has begun acting very strangely.
If the hard drive is plugged in when you are starting or shutting ...
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Looking for a 1TB/2TB drive that will work with Both Windows and Ubuntu 10.10 / 10.04 [closed]
I just bought a new laptop with 500 GB disk space. I plan to install Windows as well as Ubuntu 10.10 and others on it. While 500GB is a decent size for a disk, media now days takes up a lot of room. I ...
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My NTFS Partition keeps becoming "unusable" on Ubuntu, Any Ideas?
I just purchased a new 2TB Drive External Seagate, My main system uses both Windows and Ubuntu So I am pretty much stuck with keeping my drive as NTFS. I have done this without any problems before ...
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