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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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