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Hidden RAW Disk Partition
While installing Windows 10 I formatted and created the new partition on disk 1 and disk 2 and I selected disk 1 for the Windows 10 installation location.
But now, the second disk is set as RAW and ...
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Removed an internal hard drive with windows and ubuntu dual boot; can only see windows partition
I removed the hard drive of a laptop with Ubuntu and Windows on two partitions and put it into an enclosure. On plugging it into a windows PC, I only see my windows partition. I am unable to plug it ...
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Shared Windows-Ubuntu HDD freezing
I have a Lenovo B50-80 (laptop) with two disks. One 512GiB SSD with Windows 10 and Ubuntu separately installed on it, and one 1TiB HDD used only for data storage. The HDD is installed with a caddy (...
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New to installing SSD
First time installing SSD so I have bunch of questions
I want to have Ubuntu on HDD and Windows 10 on SSD
I only have Windows 8.1 on HDD right now. Should I install Windows 10 then migrate to SSD or ...
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Partition Limit Reached in Windows [duplicate]
I'm trying to do a triple boot with Windows, Ubuntu and Kali. Yet I already have 4 partitions in my SSD. These are:
100 MB NTFS (System, Active, Primary Partition)
Windows C: (Boot, Page File, Crash ...
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Can I partition my hard drive without formatting Windows?
I have Windows 8.1 running on my work computer which is a 64-bit desktop PC, and I want to install Ubuntu with dual boot.
Currently there are no other partitions on the hard drive, but there is more ...
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Windows 7 is corrupt; How to save Windows settings on clean install
Last week I had problems with my PC and I fixed all hardware related issues, but the result window doesnt start up anymore.
I want to reinstall Windows and delete everything I currently have on the ...
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Windows 10 Black screen after moutherboard logo,no cursor,no safe mode
I had windows 7 and upgraded via windows update to windows 10.Everything ran smoothly but i deleted my windows 7 recovery backup to free up space.The next time i turned on my pc i get to moutherboard ...
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How to restore a hard drive from a usb disk image using ubuntu
As a result of a series of events to convoluted to get into, I have a 128gb flashdrive with a windows 7 system disk image on it and a harddrive that I would like to restore it to. That harddrive is ...
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Replace Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 by converting to MBR, but keeping Ubuntu partition intact?
I have a Lenovo G500 laptop and I've had a dual boot of Ubuntu 14.10 and Windows 8.1 for a while. I decided to upgrade Windows 8.1 to the Windows 10 technical preview, however it's fairly buggy so I ...
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Unable to mount windows hard drive on linux live usb
I am fully shutting down windows with "shutdown /s /t 0".
I also tried "shutdown /s /f /t 0"
I then insert my linux live usb and boot from it. Everything works fine, but when I try to access my ...
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Seagate External Hard zero size
I have a seagate external hard disk and recently I encountered some problem with that. I am using both windows and Ubuntu environment and my hard disk detecting on both but, in windows it's says the ...
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How can I repair my hard drive without losing files?
In short. I have problems with accessing files on my hard drive. I also assume that it is not a hardware problem (it is more on the "software level"). I would like to know if there are ways (Linux ...
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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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Transferring data from windows hosting disk to Ubuntu hosting disk from within Windows 8.1
I have two disks in my pc (disk 1: a SSD hosting Ubuntu. Disk 2: a mechanical hard disk hosting Windows 8.1) I basically have no internet connection on my Ubuntu operating system due to the fact that ...
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