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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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