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Gparted doesn't allow adding free space to partition at end of table
I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my ...
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Is it safe to move Windows system partitions with gparted
My disk has the following partitions structure:
old windows recovery partition
EFI
main windows system partition
new Windows recovery partition
free space
I'd like to extend the main partition to ...
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Can't restore partition table
I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Asus ROG laptop. I previously installed a second NVME SSD and used it under Windows to store stuff. I did, however, leave ~200GiB free for a Linux installation.
When I ...
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Windows 10 0xc0000001 error after Using Gparted
I have a dual boot system (Fedora + Windows 10), I wanted to add some extra space to the windows side using Gparted but when i launch windows 10 i got into the automatic repair bootloop so i disabled ...
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Partition/Data inaccessible after using GParted Live to Extend Partition
I had some unallocated Free Space of 260MB on my 1TB HDD. I used Gparted Live OS to extend my HDD's Size. Gparted moved all the data to left side of the HDD and had extended the partition size. Took a ...
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Moving a (suspected) grub partition safety when resizing partitions
I am trying to allocate more space to a windows partition by shrinking a linux partition on the same drive, but there is an EFI partition in between the linux and window partitions. This is a picture ...
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How can I expand a partition to the left in Linux (or any other OS)?
I want to expand my 54 GB partition by 11 GB.
How can I do it? I know copying the data might do the trick, but I want some other solution as there isn't enough space for me to copy the data.
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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.
GParted has an option to hide a partition, but ...
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How to resize system partition in Win 10 on a physical machine when unallocated space is not next to the partition?
I asked a very similar question earlier
Previous question:
I've read some guides about resizing the system partition. But they all seem to require the unallocated space to come directly after the ...
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Unable to format/wipe Window Disk without Error (Tried Ubuntu Gparted and Diskpart [duplicate]
I am trying to wipe/reinstall Windows, however, all have no success.
In usb live boot to Window installation set up, install new Window to override it, unable to delete or format any of my exisiting ...
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How can I make my windows partition functional again.l after shrinking volume with gparted
I tried to shrink my windows partition, although I had over 100GB of space, it only allowed me to shrink 20GB. So I tried using gparted from my Linux partition. Now my windows partition is very very ...
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Moving msftres partition with gparted
I've found various answers to this question online, ranging from "you definitely can't do this" to "this is doable with gparted," so I was hoping to get a straight answer here. I'...
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e2fsck error when trying to move Windows MSR partition with GParted
I have a dual boot Linux / Windows system, and I only allocated about 120 GB of the 2 TB drive for Windows, and now I want to make it bigger.
I have read similar posts such as
https://askubuntu.com/...
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Can I jump move the Microsoft reserved partition in Gparted?
There is similar question about moving msr, but it asks about previous version of gparted which did not supported that: Move MSR partition?
Now, I know I can move msr left and right without a ...
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Recovering partitions from a disk image
I've done this before and it worked; now I have a problem when recovering
a Win10 partition from a disk image.
Steps taken:
Booted gparted USB image; working (bootable) system:
Mounted external ...
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Windows stuck in reboot loop after moving and resizing partitions in gparted
I was running low on space on my C drive, so I shrank my linux /home partition, leaving around 30gb of free space. This, however, was adjacent to a 16mb windows reserved partition. I moved this ...
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How can I resize a windows-bitlocker partition with gparted?
I want to shrink my windows partition, and windows does not allow to shrink more than a few GB. Can I access that bitlocker partition with GParted, parted or any other partitioning program?
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Combining non-adjacent partitions
I mainly use Linux Mint, but have a dual-boot setup with Windows 10. I choose which OS to boot in Grub on boot up.
My partitions look like this from Windows:
I want to add the space from the (empty) ...
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How do I move around entire partitions in order to extend one (by having free space beside it)?
I can't extend my Windows 10 partition (using GParted from my Ubuntu install, Partition Manager on Windows, or EaseUS Partition Master on Windows), most likely because there's no free space directly ...
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Moving an OEM partition (on Windows 10) to the end of the disk
I'm planning to use gparted to move a(the?) OEM partition created by Windows 10 to the end of the disk. The disk looks like:
Can the OEM partition be safely moved to the end of the disk?
I tried it ...
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Recover MBR after overwriting it with an empty one
I've accidentally messed up my Windows XP hard drive.
I wanted to copy the MBR from this disk to a new SSD, but I've done the opposite. I do not have a shadow copy of that volume and thought that ...
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Is there a way to move Windows partition on the same drive?
I shrunk my Windows partition by ~30GB to make room for a Linux installation. At this point the 30GB of unallocated space was shown as one single block on Windows Disk Manager.
I installed ArchLinux, ...
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Shrink C: with GParted
I tried to shrink the C: partition on my PC to make space for a GNU/Linux System. My Drive is GPT formatted and has these partition on it:
DISKPART> lis par
Partition ### Type Size ...
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Is there a difference between Windows-created NTFS and Gparted-created NTFS?
So I'm reinstalling a whole system, which has Linux and Windows, and I'm making a "shared" NTFS partition to hold data for both.
Thing is, would affect anything if I setup the partitioning scheme ...
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Windows 10 will not boot with source of clone attached
I cloned a windows 10 installation from a 1T HDD to a 500G SSD using clonezilla.
Everything is fine as long as I don't attached the HDD drive that I used as the source of the clone. Here is what I ...
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Editing partitions on USB drive disabled
I recently bought a 128GB USB drive, on which I'd like to make 4 partitions, but when I use Disk Management (Windows) and try to edit the main partition, the items in the list when right-clicked are ...
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How to interpret this case of probable overlapping partitions (unallocated drive in Gparted)?
I may have played too much with different operating systems and now I'm in trouble.
I'll promise not to do it again, but first please help me put my machine back on track! :))
I had three Linux ...
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Cannot move/resize ubuntu partition to unallocated space
I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 dual booting from a partitioned SSD. I decided I need a little more room for Ubuntu. In GParted, the 12.50GB which I shrunk from Windows (in Windows) shows as ...
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All hdd seen as unallocated space in gparted - partitions overlapping - some unaccessible
This odd but funny problem is rather urgent, so until I get an answer this is cross-posted here and here.
I have an extended partition containing three Linux systems, each in its own partition. Each ...
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GParted shows there are overlapping partitions
GParted shows that I have overlapping partitions. I don't understand much from partitions, but this is my output "fdisk -l -u":
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/...
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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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Installing Windows 7 from a USB Hard Drive
I have a Western Digital Passport External Hard Drive (320GB) that I want to partition to keep the data on, but use some of the free space to install Windows 7 onto my desktop computer. Microsoft has ...
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Can a partitioning gone wrong reduce HD size?
I've got a new 500 Gb hard drive. I want to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu in it, so I've booted it with Ubuntu and GParted shows me the 500 Gb.
I set up a primary partition for Win7 and logical ...
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Windows reports discrepancy in partition sizes after resizing with gparted
My drive was formatted to look like the following:
Partition 1 - NTFS - 100Gb for Windows XP
Partition 4 - Extended Partition
Partition 5 - EXT3 - Linux boot partition - 200 Mb
Partition 6 - XFS - ...
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