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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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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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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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Installing Windows over Ubuntu 22.04 - No Partitions shown
I have a Predator (PO3-640) PC.
I had windows 11 installed on it.
Using a bootable USB, I installed Ubuntu 22.04 over that Windows 11 install.
Now, I want to overwrite Ubuntu with Windows 11 again (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 ...
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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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How can I recover a partition table on external drive that has been destroyed by Windows?
I recently reinstalled Windows and created a dual booting setup so that I can work on a project that required a Windows environment. I have an external drive that I thought I had formatted as FAT or ...
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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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Merge two partitions which contain different OSes
I have two OSes installed in my laptop, Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Now, I want to remove Ubuntu and merge that partition with the other partition in Windows. How am I supposed to do it?
This is how the ...
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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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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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How can i remove Linux leftover partitions from my computer?
I used to have a Win10/Ubuntu Dual Boot, but now I want to remove Ubuntu.
I deleted the content of two partitions (one of each disk) I was certain they were a part of Ubuntu system, but now i'm left ...
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Can I fix a windows 7 booting issue with ubuntu?
I had a windows 7 machine working fine. Then it crashed and wouldnt boot, it wouldnt even post. So I assumed the motherboard went so I bought a new one and replaced it. Still nothing (i gave the ...
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hard drive not detected in windows but in ubuntu it is detected
I have a problem with my hard drive . After I reinstalled my windows to Windows10 ,there is no sign of my internal hard drive in windows.(I have 128G SSD (2x64 GB RAID0) and 1TB SATA hard drive)
There ...
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Hard Disk which was running on Ubuntu is not recognized in windows
I tried to use my internal hard drive as external from a laptop which was running on Ubuntu Operating system. But the problem is i can't access the drive in windows. I can see the drive in the "...
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Dual booting two different operating systems on a SSD and HDD
I plan to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu for open source. Since my laptop specs are the minimal for dev work, I'm also planning to install a 250GB SSD on my laptop.
I want to ask two questions:
Can ...
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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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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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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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Hard Disk Not Detected Only When Restarting Windows 10
I have ran into an issue that I'm having trouble Googling my way out of. To summarize what has happened:
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10 (Windows was already installed). I have made ...
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Can I connect an old HDD with Windows through my laptop with Ubuntu and boot from it?
I've got a 3.5" HDD from my old desktop PC (which stopped working) with Windows 7 on it. I have some old photos on it and wanted to get them,
so I bought an HDD-to-USB adapter from AliExpress. Anyway, ...
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How do i completely wipe all of my disks with a dual boot
I want to completely reset my PC, i have 3 drives, two HDDs and an SSD. I have Windows installed on the SSD and Ubuntu on a Partition of the smaller HDD.
I guess I would just format the two hdds ...
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Return to Windows from Ubuntu
I have no experience at Ubuntu or any other Linux OS. Yesterday I tried to upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 10 and some problems occurred. I couldn't install Windows 10 and I even lost my Windows 7 ...
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I've deleted one of the win10 drives and got error: no such partition
I have two win10 and a Ubuntu OS in my computer.
I decided to delete on of theme so i formatted one of the drives who contains one of my windows then i deleted it and merged the with the remaining ...
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Not able to install Windows 10 on an existing Ubuntu OS on an HP laptop
I am trying to install Windows 10 on an HP laptop which is currently running Ubuntu 18.04. I go to the boot device options it gives me the option of booting from a USB Flash Drive but when I select it,...
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Not allocating extra partition in dual boot laptop Windows10/Ubuntu18.04?
Above are my drive partitions, the last one (200.63 GB) is for ubuntu 18.04. I want to create an extra partition from DATA (D:) (490 GB). When I shrink volume from DATA (D:) (490 GB) and try to ...
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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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Resizing WIndows partition and add it to Ubuntu partition?
I'm (unfortunately) running 3 OS's on a 128gb SSD. How can I make space for the Ubuntu partition (preferably from the Windows partition)?
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How to expand partition in dual boot system
I am not the person who first partitioned the hard drive. I am just the person assigned to fixing it. Secondly, I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux and dual boot environments.
System: Dual ...
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Hard drive not showing up after windows 10 upgrade
I have two hard drives, the first drive is a ssd which I have installed my OS (windows 10) on. The second is a normal HDD which I use for storage and booting up ubuntu. When I had windows 8.1 I could ...
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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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Can't install Windows 8 on new Hard Drive Sony Vaio
I have a Sony E14127CN laptop. Its hard drive crashed, so I bought a new Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 hard disk as a replacement for the old Toshiba MQ01ABD075. But when I try to install Windows 8, it ...
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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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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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Understanding a HDD data storage and uninstalling windows
Before I go into my exact query here is a small prologue saying what I basically understand about any HDD.
May be some 6 years ago, many as a million notebook computers, mine was also manufactured ...
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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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