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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hard disk of a Virtual XP/Ubuntu under Hyper-V wont reduce its size even when i delete or empty Recycle Bin files?
i am running Hyper-V on Windows 8, with few Virtual machines like XP,Ubuntu, etc..
i have set hard drive to be on demand, so it's starting small.
Now i have downloaded few files on my Virtual XP, i ...
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Best Way to "Connect" Windows Server 2003 & Ubuntu 10
If I have two servers, one running Windows Server 2003, and one running Ubuntu 10, what would be the best way to 'map' one's drive to another? Either way is fine. They are each in a different state, ...
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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 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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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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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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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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