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Can not copy files after installing windows
I am experiencing a weird problem. I was running Xubuntu on my laptop until yesterday that I had to delete Xubuntu and install Windows.
I had a NTFS partition on my Xubuntu that I kept some files on ...
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Recover removed partition
My Debian system hat a default encrypted installation ("use whole disk with encrypted LVM" in setup). Then I used gnome-disks to do something on an microSD card that had the same setup. EFI Partition, ...
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Recover Partition Table After Remove Partition (parted)
I deleted a partition using (parted) rm 3, so I could extend my ext4 partition. Here was my partition table before I removed it:
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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Gparted crashed during resize. Can I recover data?
I was using Gparted on a live Disk to resize and it crashed midway. Now I'm booting to see this:
BusyBox v1.38.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.1-6ubuntu2) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in ...
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Reliably identify a disk (not a partition) in Linux (Debian)
I want to backup the partition table of a disk in a script like this:
sfdisk --dump /dev/sda > partition_table.dump
But
I do not want to use /dev/sda, because it may not be reliable.
/dev/disk/...
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Btrfs volume management for normal home user
Btrfs is by design for enterprise use, but that doesn't stop normal home users from using it. By normal home user, I mean those people who don't use complicated setup like mirroring, or any level of ...
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Windows reporting less space on SSD. Is it the ex-linux partition?
I attempted a Windows 8.1/ LinuxMint dualboot on the same drive. After giving up on Mint, I would like to have my disk space back. I reserved about 20 GB for Mint when I installed it. As a result ...
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renamed home partition volume in osx with diskutil and now cannot login
It's been a long day and I am pretty tired and that's the only reason I can figure that I thought I would rename one of the volumes on this old macbook (running osx 10.6) without worrying about ...
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linux can't read partition table
My laptop has a Hitachi HTS725050A7E, this is 500GB with 4k block size. It shipped with two partitions, a 10G recovery partition on the front of the disk and the remainder of disk space in one big ...
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Recover/reinstall UEFI partition after dd to /null
Has you can guess from the tittle I'm a moron. I got angry against an USB key and try to format it's partitions with a dd and /null , but instead I deleted my sda1 and sda2 partitions.
I realized ...
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Triple Boot macOS Sierra / Windows 10 Enterprise / Kali Linux
I'm running into a problem trying to get a Triple Boot working on a MacBook Pro (256GB SSD) for macOS Sierra, Windows 10 Enterprise, and Kali Linux.
It all started today when I went to size down my ...
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ext4 partition type unknow after restart and cannot be mount
After restarting my pc, I've stuck on error of my /home partition. It cannot be mount. Partition table is unknown.
For this partition I had dedicated Goodram ssd
250 gb drive. On this disk there was ...
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Ext3 drive empty and detected as ext2 after restoring superblock with e2fsck
I have an ext3 disk from my NAS. I took this drive out of the NAS and mounted it under my Debian Wheezy system.
When I ran fsck it told me that the superblock was bad.
I don't haver a full log, but ...
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Gray Progress Bar in Macbook Boot caused by Partition Fault
Here's my problem:
When I try to load my Macbook it shows the gray progress bar. It takes a while to fill the whole progress and after it Macbook just shuts down.
I tried to boot from a recovery ...
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Can't find partitions
I have a server with two hard disk - in rescue mode because one of the disk failed and had to be replaced -.
I had to hire a data recovery service, few days later they told me that it was ready, but ...
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