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Setting a NTFS partition as a removable drive in Windows 10
First message here.
I'm trying to set up my laptop for double booting Linux and Windows. I have two SSD, one SATA and one NVME.m2. Both are GPT formatted
I'm following the instructions from Arch Wiki ...
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SN730 NVME disk broken, disk is read only, SMART errors, can it be fixed?
I use a dual boot Fedora 33 - KDE and Windows 10 on my MSI GL75 Laptop, with a WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY-1T disk.
After booting Windows after a long time, I tried resizing my partitions, I only clicked on &...
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How to extend existing GRUB-based dual-boot to triple-boot
In my HP notebook I'm currently running a 250GB SSD as a primary drive in dual-boot mode using GRUB (Linux Mint and Windows 10 with Windows being the default OS).
There is a second classic HDD ...
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How to install Windows 10 without using external media
Is there any way to create a partition on my drive and use it to boot and install another system on the same drive as if it was a bootable USB, for example?
My scenario: I have one single drive in ...
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windows disk partitions are not coming up while downloading popos in a uefi bios system
So I finally decided to download Linux and chose popos for the purpose.
I had already turned off the secure boot but my SSD and its partitions are not showing up while trying to install it only the ...
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Why my pc doesn't display the boot menu to choose an OS when I start the pc? [duplicate]
I originally had a Windows OS and I wanted to also have a Linux OS. So I added Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows. However, when I start my pc, it doesn't display the boot menu and goes on the Windows ...
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how to make a partition and the hard drive seen by a linux distribution (dell inspiron 14)
I've resized my main partition on a Windows 10. The Pc is a Dell Inspiron 14.
I've used diskmgmt.msc
So far, so good as you can on the picture below
There is a free space, 224Gb almost, non-alloué ...
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How to restore an entire Windows 10 installation using Linux disk images
I had created disk images of my Windows 10 installation using the dd command via a Ubuntu Live CD.
The old hard disk size was of 2TB and I wanted to restore it to a fresh hard disk of the same size ...
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Partition shrink with diskpart does nothing
I ran a disk shrink command in DISKPART, to shrink the C: volume 100 GB.
It took over 13 hours, and when I came back, nothing had happened. The volume size was exactly the same, but the operation had ...
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I changed my secondary drive to EFI after a Gentoo install. Can I get my files back?
I'll try to explain the situation, because my setup was really strange and I never bothered to fix it.
Basically I had a main 256 GB Crucial SSD with the Windows 10 OS and all of my main work on it. ...
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How to set un-executable permission for the file in ntfs partition in linux?
Enter into debian whose filesystem is ext4:
vim /tmp/sphinx.rst
sphinx tutorial
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installation
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::
sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx
create a new project
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linux and windows 10 having issues in dual booting
I've installed Pop OS alongside my windows 10, but now I have a problem: I have to choose which partition has to boot in my boot settings, no dual boot menu at all.
This is how I installed the pop OS:
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How to remove linux swap partition from a disk?
I need to tell details about my disk first: I bought SSD drive (223 Gb) a while ago and decide install on it Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04, I have split drive 450 Mb + 100 Mb + 173 Gb for Windows 10 and ...
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How to tell which is Linux partition by looking at the partition manager
In the past, windows 10 used to say "Raw" for a Linux partition
I had manjaro, I need to reinstall Linux, it's in the D drive, either the 50GB partition or the 62 GB portion, if another small ...
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How to properly format and image a Win10 USB boot media from Linux?
I recently built a custom desktop, and am severely struggling to get Windows10 to install (Mint worked the first try). I've searched forums (including Microsoft), and the frequent answer is that the ...
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