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Bootable Windows USB UEFI and GPT table
I have an Windows 10 iso
I have an SD card with an SD card reader (basically a slow pen drive)
I have created an GPT partition table on the pen drive* with one partition of full space.I have copied ...
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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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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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How to make my win 11 bootable
Here is my situation:
I inherited a machine that has already fully used the 4 Primary partitions:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 1026047 ...
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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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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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How to Hibernate on Dual-Boot of Arch and Windows
I'm using Artix OpenRC actually, which is just Arch with OpenRC instead of Systemd.
This is my first time attempting to make hibernation work with Linux, and so far I'm really afraid of trying it. ...
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Formatted windows partition [duplicate]
I searched for hours what I can do, but I didn't find anything for my specific case.
I'll try to be synthetic: I had a disk with 3 partitions, respectively 2 with linux and the third with windows. I ...
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Position and type of linux partition in dual boot with windows 10?
I have a mbr partition style and use BIOS system. I shrank volume C:\ to make a new partition for linux. Linux partitions are detected as primary partition by windows and they're on the left side of ...
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Install multiple OS's on a new SSD from an HDD-based system
First of all, I want to ask a lot of related things, so I was lazy and wrote a question suiting my needs, which I can retire if it doesn't fall under the community's requirements. Please let me know ...
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USB Drive with FAT 32 partition created in Linux not seen by Windows
I have a old USB drive reformatted several times. Lately I wanted to share some files with some Windows PCs and I reformatted it again. From a Linux PC I created a ms-dos partition table and a single ...
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Multiple bootable OS in primary partition
I have a primary partition in kali linux. Now, I want to install Windows 10 also. I have a primary partition
Kali Linux is still in the partition. I have a bootable USB. Now, I want to install ...
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SSD with Linux installation shows in windows
Due to the convenience of only needing one PC, I have two OSs in my System. On one SSD I am running Windows and on another, I run Kubuntu Linux.
Problem: A 512MB Fat32 partition on the Linux SSD is ...
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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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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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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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