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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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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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How to encrypt a dual boot system with Veracrypt?
I want to dual boot Windows 10 alongside Arch Linux on 1 SSD. The SSD is 465GB and I want to use Veracrypt to encrypt the hard drive and enable pre-boot authentication.
I haven't attempted to do this ...
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How to enlarge Windows 10 EFI partition
My system currently has this partition setup:
I would like to enlarge /dev/sdb2, the EFI System Partition, to 500MB.
The problem is that I do not want to delete the Windows Recovery Partition (/dev/...
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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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Linux Sees and Can Write to HDD but Windows Can’t
I have 3 NTFS partitions on my 2TB Seagate HDD. Only recently, my drives have stopped being recognised in windows.
I can look in device manager with hidden devices turned on and see that the device ...
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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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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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How to boot Windows from an internal Hard disk partition for installation?
I would like to boot Windows 10 from a partition in my internal hard disk? I currently have Linux Live USB (Linux Mint 18 Xfce) through which I will be able to download Windows 10 ISO, but I need to ...
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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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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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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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How can I enlarge the EFI partition on a dual boot-system with Windows and Linux?
I intend to install Windows and Linux on my system which is booted in UEFI-mode.
For Linux, I intend to do the following things:
install the LTS kernel and whatever current version the mainline ...
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Can I delete one of these windows partitions?
I've been googling around trying to figure out if I can remove one or more of my partitions. But couldn't find a answer for my case. It's a pre-built laptop HP Probook 650, It came with Win 8, and now ...
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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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