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How can I make a drive accessible to Linux / Bash subsystem on Windows? [duplicate]
I have a laptop which I've dual-booted with Ubuntu and Windows 10.
My goal is to use a bash shell inside windows to access the linux partition.
Inside Windows, I've installed the Linux subsystem and ...
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Formatting a 3TB hard drive for media
I recently bought a 3TB internal SATA hard drive.
This drive is strictly for my Anime collection.
I want to use it to store my huge media (Video|Audio) collection. I don't have executables.
I don't ...
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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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Migrating windows partition of a dual boot to an ssd
Let me describe my storage.
One HDD of 1To (/dev/sda)
one hold SSD of 64 Go (/dev/sdc)
A new SSD of 465 Go (/dev/sdb)
These are the partitions of my hdd (/dev/sda) :
I have Three systems :
A ...
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Windows and Linux confusing and different partition info
I removed my old OS to install Windows and Ubuntu alongside each other and faced a problem. Here are the steps that I did and the problem I am facing:
Formatted the C drive and installed Windows 10.
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How to let linux mount an NTFS partition in an "unsafe state" due to Windows crash?
I have an NTFS partition that's shared between Windows and Linux. This partition holds my linux home folder, so it's important that I can mount it in read-write mode, and that it is mounted before I ...
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Windows Partition Not Bootable
I have Linux installed on a different partition on my drive than windows. Me, being really stupid, I run sudo rm -rf /*(I wanted to delete the contents of a folder obviously, not all the contents of ...
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Computer seems completely "fried" after an unsuccessful Windows 10 update
I'll try to make it short. It all started from a Windows 10 update that I have let my computer do on shutdown, I do it immediately before I leave for two days shutting my house power off, thinking ...
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Upgrading to a bigger SSD without loosing my dual boot?
I have installed a dual boot Windows 10/Kali Linux with grub on a 250 GB SSD. I have been happy with it for a while, but now I'm starting to run low on space. I would like to upgrade to a bigger SSD (...
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Is it possible to install bootloaders on respective partitions?
I have Win10 on my laptop right now, but I would really rather switch back to Linux and just keep Win10 for games (especially since MS can't put out a decent update anymore it seems). I installed ...
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raw partition as mounted vmdk not detected by windows installer in virtualbox
(Arch newbie here) I am running Arch 4.10, and would like to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine, but on a separate partition.
Background:
My drive layout (GPT Partition schema):
Device ...
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multi boot: deleting a GPT partition with sgdisk before the Windows 10 partition breaks Windows 10 boot
After deleting my first partition from Debian with sgdisk, I get a BSOD when booting Windows 10:
Votre appareil a rencontré un problème et doit être redémarré. Nous
allons redémarrer l'ordinateur ...
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How to restrict root access to other users/partitions
Setup:
Laptop dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10 or 11 (both are fine for me).
I have the issue where I need to install some anti-virus software as root on Ubuntu. However this software is really ...
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Decrease partition size for ubuntu dual boot
I have windows 10 and ubuntu 20.04 dual booted and I don't use ubuntu much. I gave ubuntu a lot of space which I can use for windows. Now I want to reduce the size of the partition😐. I have ...
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How to turn free space into unallocated on windows 10?
I have a windows 10 computer with two partitions: C:\ for programs and F:\ for documents. I would like to dual boot in Linux. I've shrinked the F:\ to create unallocated space, however it created free ...
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