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Using GParted to copy Windows partition. Boot flag on Recovery partition
I am trying to understand how booting works with a Recovery partition. In the past when I have restored a Windows partition using GParted with a copy that I made earlier, I needed to use a Windows ...
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Unable to shink C: Partion [duplicate]
I have been trying to shrink my C: drive partion but currently to no avail. I am unsure about using 3rd party software to do it (such as gParted or EaseUS Partition Master Free). So I have a 1TB ...
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Gparted reduce C drive from unused space only
I have two questions
(1). The C drive has 130 GB space, 64 GB used and 66 unused. So if I resize C drive to 100 GB, the 30 GB will be removed from 66 GB only right and not from 64 GB?
(2). There are ...
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Reallocate some free space to another partition
I'm at the moment in this situation:
and I'd like to take likely 10GB from /dev/sda1 and add them to /dev/sda3
is it possible without damaging other partitions? It's like an hour I'm struggling with ...
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I'm out of ideas how to get my usb drive working again.No solutions on the internet worked
The device is not visible under the section Mount Devices in Parted Magic, nor in my mini-install of Windows XP.
I've tried several things to fix the 16GB flash drive, which is a Kingston Data ...
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Using GParted to convert GPT to MBR without access to an OS
I wiped my Windows 8 thinking I could install Windows 7 x86 but I can't because the disk is GPT. I need to convert to MBR.
I'm trying to use GParted to convert to MBR but it seems GParted can only ...
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Why does a cloned Windows 7 BCD contain incomplete data (and, therefore, prevent booting)?
I have had the misfortune to need to clone a dual-booting Windows XP/7 box to replace its hard drive with a smaller one. I had great trouble getting it to boot and would like to understand what's ...
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Resize partitions after instalation
Is it safe to resize partitions (with gparted live) after successfull instalation dualboot w7-mint? I swapped partition size by mistake so I need to reduce win partition and enlarge mint part.
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Reclaim unallocated space for Windows partition - extend Windows partition on Mac
I'm trying to extend the Windows partition running on my MacBook Air (Bootcamp is used) without losing any data, of course.
What I have done is that I have used GParted live to shrink the OS X Lion ...
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Windows no longer booting after copying partition using Gparted
I originally had 3 partitions on my hard disk:
Vista
Storage
Seven
I just used Gparted to delete the Vista partition and copy the Seven partition onto it. I was going to see if it would boot. If ...
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Missing SSD storage capacity
I recently cloned my windows installation to a new SSD, the partition on my old hard drive was 111 GB whereas my new SSD is 120 GB. I used paragon Paragon Migrate OS to SSD and told it to use the ...
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Partitioning laptop with 4 primary partitions
I have HP laptop with 4 primary partitions.
The second one is windows partition and other 3 are recovery, system and blah blah(i.e. unusable)
So, basically my explorer shows only one partition where i ...
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Reboot fails with "Invalid partition"
My laptop can boot, but it can't reboot. Any time something restarts the laptop (e.g. to apply Windows updates, or Start Menu->Restart, etc), the computer sits at a black screen with the message "...
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Can it cause any kind of REAL problems to resize a partition after having an OS installed on it - or is it just an urban legend?
I just bought a laptop with some pre-setup partitions like recovery partition, OEM partition, a smaller Windows-partition and the Windows system partition. Their structure and size looks like this:
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GParted detects two partitions of 'unknown' file system
I'm copying the files from a windows machine for a friend. He had two HDDs, one was the primary HD that he booted windows from and the other had two partitions in it that are full of data.
He is not ...
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