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How to move linux partition from C drive to F drive in windows 10?
I partitioned my C drive in windows 10 to create 30 GB of unallocated space and then installed Linux on it. Then I read somewhere that it is not good practice to install linux on C drive where you ...
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Which Windows partition can I remove?
So I have a dual-boot Acer S371 laptop with Windows 10 and Linux Mint. The laptop itself came with Windows 10. I have been trying to transition myself to use Linux only, so I started with dual-boot in ...
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Moving Windows system reserved partition
I just installed the Windows as a dual boot. I've decided I want to expand my Windows partition, but in between the Windows partition, which I want to make bigger, and my Linux partition, which I want ...
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Hyper-V - Boot to OS on physical Disk
I installed Linux Mint on a physical SSD, and ran like that for several years.
Now, for work, I need to run Windows 10 Pro on my desktop. To do that, I used a separate physical SSD, but left the old ...
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How to increase disk space using non allocated memory from a deleted partition?
The partitions on my disk storage are disposed as follows:
A | B | C | D | E | F
I use Windows 10 on A and B. On C to F, Linux. The partition C is dedicated to Linux Swap. E ...
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Can I put both Linux and Windows on a SSD and let them both access files on a HDD?
I am building a new computer soon and I intend on having a 120 GB SSD and a 2 TB Hard Drive. I am also planning on dual booting Arch Linux and Windows 10. I would like to have both OSes on the SSD and ...
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Unfound linux partition after installing windows 10
I had win7 alongside ubuntu 16.04, having a problem with win7 boot, I installed win10 and launched boot repair (macrium reflect) from there (win7 was fixed).
I think, I made a big mistake, cause now ...
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Can I make a backup of a single partition in a dual boot system, and restore that later?
I am running a dual boot Windows 10/Linux Mint 18 on my Lenovo Thinkpad 13.
Last week I tried to siphon off some of the free space in the Windows partition to make a new partition to store some data ...
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Laptop already has 4 partitions - need an extra one
I am trying to dual-boot my laptop with linux, which requires you to add a partition where the OS will be installed, however, my laptop (which runs Windows 10) already has these 4 partitions (I have ...
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Cannot delete partition in Windows 10
I have a Linux partition that I want to delete. I want to then transfer the free space to the Windows partition. I am using Windows. I try and delete it from the Disk Management tool and it hangs. If ...
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Cannot remove Micro SD card's read-only attribute after Ubuntu image
I can't remove the read-only attribute from a Kingston 32 GB Micro SD Card. I want to wipe clean the whole card.
I was given a Raspberry Pi 3 and a 32 GB Micro SD Card and an Echo to play around with....
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So much Hard Disk storage is wasted [duplicate]
I have 1TB of hard disk and I don't know why but only 930gb is usable and then I have 4 partition 3 NTFS and 1 for Linux they all have 2-6gb less storage than there actual size ie: Linux partition ...
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How to resize the EFI System Partition?
I want to increase the size of the EFI System Partition to 750MiB so.i can install Arch Linux alongside Windows 10 because EFI System Partition Windows gave me which is only 100MiB is too small. Arch ...
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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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HDD appears to have both MBR and GPT
I have an external HDD which appear to have both MBR and GPT. The result is that Windows reads different partitions than Ubuntu and OS X. The GPT seems correct to me (I can access and use the disk ...
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