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Windows Disk Management
I dual-booted Linux mint a while ago and saved almost 50GB for it. I was successful somehow. But now I want to delete it but I cannot find any way. So basically this 50GB of space is not usable, I ...
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Install Windows 10 after Ubuntu 19.10 on a secondary HDD
This is my primary SSD which has Ubuntu 19.10 installed.
SSD_Ubuntu
This is my secondary HDD which has 500 GB allocated to Kali(/dev/sda2) and two ext4 partitions /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5
HDD
I'd ...
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Which partitions are important?
I'm currently using Windows 10, but I'd love to work with a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux. I'm a little confused what all these partitions are and which of them are important for Windows booting ...
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Installed CentOS on unallocated space for dual boot with Windows 10 and now CentOS cannot see Window 10
I have a Window 10 laptop. To install CentOS 7 on it, I shrunk the C drive (that is the only drive I saw). This gave me 100+ GB unallocated space. I went ahead and installed CentOS. After reboot, ...
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Microsoft reserved partition created on new SSD, is it safe to delete it?
I recently got a new SSD (Samsung 860 EVO 1TB) and I setup the GPT partition table in Windows 10 and made one partition (NTFS) which is 931.5GiB in size.
Everything looked fine in Windows, there was ...
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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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Store data across two or more removable disks in Windows, perhaps also in Linux, for security
I want to store some data in something like a stripped or spanned volume, or a RAID, but on flash drives. I'm basically trying to replicate this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dougISKs2vQ) in ...
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unable to extend parition to unallocated space to the right of it
I need to extend an ex4 partition,
I have 43 GB of free space to the right of the it. I am booted to another drive.
What I tried:
using EaseUS partition master
using MiniTool partition master
using ...
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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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How to mount ext4 in Windows in read-write mode permanently?
I have dual boot model that is looking like that:
HDD (/dev/sda)
- Partition 1 NTFS (Windows stuff)
- Partition 2 NTFS (Windows itself)
- Partition 3 NTFS (Looks like windows stuff too)
- Partition 4 ...
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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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VirtualBox: two or more OS in one usb disk "unmountable boot volume"
My goal:
For education purposes I've been asked to install Windows and Linux on the same usb and be able to boot them from virtual box
My problem:
Windows crashes with "unmountable boot volume"
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Can't reset Windows 10 to factory state- am currently dual booting Linux Mint
I currently have Windows 10 and Linux Mint dual booting on my computer. My Windows 10 partition has been acting up for years and I wanted to do a factory reset. I have had a variety of issues doing ...
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GParted detects 3 partitions instead of 1?
So, I want to use my 2nd HDD for Arch Linux and as storage for my Windows 10 installation. My 2nd HDD only has 1 partition on it (as seen by Windows 10's disk management utility) and that's where all ...
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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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