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chkdsk /f /r alternative in ubuntu linux
In windows os chkdsk /f /r will fix a hdd error automatically.i have lost access in my laptop though i am able to live boot into my laptop using linux.I have live boot ubuntu 14.04 and i am in a need ...
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How do you use an existing ext4 hard drive with VirtualBox?
I have an existing hard drive, an nvme drive with Ubuntu Linux on it. I have another nvme drive with Windows 10 that I use as my primary OS (games, web browsing, etc). While I could reboot between ...
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Transcend 1 TB external HDD is not gettting detected on Windows systems after I installed Ubuntu on it
I recently installed Ubuntu (full Ubuntu, not a persistent Ubuntu) on an external 1 TB Hard disk.
While doing so, I had the hard disk formatted to ext4 journaling file system. The OS works on the ...
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Windows is unable to detect disk partitions
I installed Windows 8.1 Preview using the DVD yesterday after wiping off my HDD (I made a backup prior to that). While installing Windows I created only the partitions necessary to install Windows (...
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Can't mount old IDE hdd using an USB adapter
I have an old IDE hard drive that has some data I must recover, so I bought an usb adapter to plug it to my new pc and copy everything.
But Windows installed the drivers when I plugged it in, but ...
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Intermittent HDD problems?
Every now and then when I boot up and login to my machine I will be taken to the default screen on Windows 7 (Blue fish background, default theme, etc...). 97% of the time I am taken to my regular ...
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Ubuntu Live CD not seeing windows files
I have booted using an Ubuntu Live CD as my Vista installation hangs after startup, I want to try and copy all files on the drive to an external drive.
The internal drive was partitioned so in vista ...
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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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SMART results shows serious disk problems?
I have bought a new computer 2 months ago. Computer performance has continuously gone down until a point that Windows7 freezes a lot with the light that indicates the disk usage fixed and turned on. I ...
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Transitioning to Ubuntu
I am currently running Windows 7 with 2 hard drives.
An SSD where the OS and apps are stored.
A HDD which stores all my videos, music, files. (NTFS)
If I was to format the SSD and install Ubuntu, ...
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I can see a HD but im not able to mount it
I think some hard disk files are damaged because windows is slow at loading...Now i'm using ubuntu and even if I can see the disk i cannot mount it..... how i can fix this thing?
thanks
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Why too many partitions on Windows 10?
I have just installed Windows 10 (20H2) by partitioning disk as C and D drives and shrink the C drive using Disk Management Tool of Windows for installing Ubuntu. Then I installed Ubuntu and on ...
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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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Can my laptop's Hard Disk be cloned and loaded to another laptop? [duplicate]
I bought an Asus X202E laptop and installed Ubuntu on it and then completely formatted it which deleted everything including the recovery partition. So i could not restore it. Then I installed Windows ...
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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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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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Strange HDD noise on Linux but not Windows
I have Windows 11 and Linux Mint dual boot on my notebook. When I use Windows, HDD (WDC WD10JPVX-22JC3T0) works without much noise (almost silently). However, when I use Linux Mint and Ubuntu, HDD ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20 on different drives, can't see Ubuntu drive from Windows
I have 3 disks, C, D and E.
Initially I had Windows 10 installed on disk C, then I formatted and made a clean install of Ubuntu on disk E. When I start my computer I can choose to boot to Ubuntu or ...
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Accidentally unplugged external HDD while transferring files; now windows & ubuntu can't mount it. Can I get the data from it? If not, format it?
My external HDD has two partitions; one for windows and one for ubuntu. I was in Windows 10 transferring files to back them up when I accidentally knocked the cable out. Now neither OS will mount the ...
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Switch partition drive on dual boot
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD.
The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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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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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 to view windows files while running Ubuntu from a CD?
After crashing, my windows laptop stopped booting up correctly (it boot loops instead of booting into windows). I used a windows recovery disk, and saw via the console that files could still be viewed ...
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How can I share file in Linux and Windows?
I have three M.2 solid state drives and a hard disk drive.
My plan is intalling Windows 11, Ubuntu 20.04, Arch-Linux systems respectively in the three SSD and restoring some important files in the ...
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Two different physical ssd's for two different OS
i have 1st SSD formatted as ext4 and installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it and i plan to get 2nd SSD and format it to NTFS and install Windows 8 on it.
Can i switch hard drives in a bios? e.g.:
if i want to ...
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How do I shrink a non-boot drive?
How do I go about shrinking a non-boot drive? I've read through all of the questions on here and can't find a thread similar to mine. I have a 931.51GB NTFS partition (D:/), and I'm trying to Shrink ...
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Installing Windows from Ubuntu while booting only from hard drive
My problem is unrelated to this workaround (the question) here, but the end result is that I cannot change boot order (or use a boot menu) on my laptop. It is currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with a ...
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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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How to free space on hard disk to install another OS?
Here is the scenario.
I have Windows 7 installed on my Dell Inspiron 15" C: drive. The C: partition size is equal to the capacity of the hard disk, but the used space on C: is far less than that.
I ...
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How do I move all 3 windows 10 partitions into 1 extended partition
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but hopefully it is. My Windows 10 installation is using up 3 partitions on my hard drive which has a limit of 4 partitions. The 4th(and last) partition ...
