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Linux file access on external drive using Windows 10
I have multiple machines (3 Windows 10 and 1 Ubuntu Bionic Beaver).
I back them up, or back up files/folders using drag and drop.
The external drive is all NTFS and is not set up as a NAS device. ...
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Unable to submit the files by Rsync from the Windows terminal to Ubuntu VPS (code 12 error) while normal SSH authentication works fine
Although the Rsync is available for Windows, there are some problems with SSH. Here is the first one: the files are simply could not be submitted because of unclear error "error in rsync protocol ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)
A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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How to configure linux guest that will have dynamic space , did set 25.00 GB virtual size but it keep running out of space
Virtual box Version 7.0.8 r156879 (Qt5.15.2) on windows ,
i configured ubuntu as guest OS on windows VB , all working good , i was thinking that if i set
virtual size to 25g it will be enough .
But it ...
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Remote desktop gives me a black screen
I am trying to connect remotely with remote desktop from my windows machine to my ubuntu 20 machine but I get only a black screen
First I did (as I wrote in this question)
>sudo systemctl status ...
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How can I view something running on a linux machine from a windows machine?
The setting is a bit confusing but please keep up with me
I have a linux machine on a remote location. There is also a windows machine there. All of them connected with a LAN
There is a program ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 File sharing (write permissions issue) with Windows 10/11
I have been struggling with getting a shared Samba share in Linux to be writable from Windows 10/11. I have found several questions on this but can't find a solution. I can see and list the samba ...
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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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Not able to boot from Windows USB on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a laptop running Ubuntu.
But the problem is, it's not booting from the USB.
Details:
Tried formatting USB drive as FAT and NTFS.
It get's detected in BIOS menu, so ...
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Stuck in emergency mode (Ubuntu) after Windows 10 reinstall
After reinstalling Windows 10, I am now unable to boot into Ubuntu 22.04.
The message displayed right after the boot failure is the following:
Right afterwards, I entered maintenance mode and typed ...
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Multi-booting: Installing multiple Windows 10 OS's alongside multiple Linux OS's
When searching online regarding installing multiple versions of Windows 10. Every site mentions that Windows 10 will have it own "Selection screen" for OS's.
E.g. when you boot your PC, ...
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Installing Linux without disabling Bitlocker encryption
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption?
Possible approach
The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
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Can’t boot from USB on Windows tablet
I have a Windows tablet ZTE W105 that I want to install Linux on. The tablet finds the USB stick but when I boot from it nothing happens, it just restarts and returns to Windows. I have tried changing ...
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How to recover folder overwritten by `mv` command in ubuntu
How to recover folder overwritten by mv command in Ubuntu-20.04 on wsl2?
I was moving two folders, folderA and folderB from current directory to dest.
Here is what I did:
mv folderA ./dest/folderA
mv ...
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Creating shared folder between two Windows Subsystem for Linux
I discovered today that I have two WSL installed on my computer (Windows 10): one for Ubuntu 18.01 (will call it WSL 18.01) and one for Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL 20.04). WSL 18.04 is the only one I have used ...
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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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Activation of network connection failed - Ubuntu 18.04 VM guest on Windows 10 Hyper-V Host
I have a Ubuntu 18.04 VM guest running in Windows 10 hyper-v.
The VM had previously been able to connect to the internet successfully. It recently stopped being able to connect and I cannot recall ...
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Dual booting linux and windows on 2 hard drives
first I wanna say that I’m new to both linux and dual booting so mistakes can be made while I’m trying to explain this.
My situation is the following.
I’ve always have been a windows user, I did ...
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Cannot flash SD Card within Guest OS - VirtualBox
Background:
Host OS: Windows 10 Professional
Guest OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Host OS:
I am able to add files, edit files and add folders.
Verified that SD card is read and write card
Guest OS:
I am able to ...
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How to get back windows 10 boot loader after uninstalling ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu a few months ago now I had to uninstall it die to some reason but I forgot to install windows boot loader and restarted the pc. It is showing a black screen how to boot again with ...
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Hyper-V Generic Failure + Ubuntu error 0x8007023e on Windows 10 Pro
I've been experiencing some problems with running Ubuntu 20.04 as a distribution of Windows Subsystem on Linux. I want to run it as a virtual machine on Hyper-V. I'm rather new to this, so I'm not ...
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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 Uninstall Ubuntu 20.04 from WSL Windows 10? [duplicate]
I have Windows 10 (build 19042.1110) installed on my PC, and I wanted to install Ubuntu 20.04 using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). So I enabled the WSL. However, I've not used the Microsoft Store ...
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Dual-Boot system with Ubuntu cannot access Windows 10 (grub update and boot-repair not working)
I've recently entered in possess of a desktop computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10. Booting it, it will immediately start Ubuntu and I'm currently not able to log in into windows. I've already ...
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Computer keeps freezing after ubuntu installation
Recently, I decided to shift to Ubuntu 20.04. So, I installed it on dual boot setup along with my already installed Windows 10. It worked great for 3 days (great enough for me to shift a lot of my ...
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Backing up Windows drive under Linux OS?
I have a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine, each having a separate 1TB SSD drive. Mostly Linux is used, Windows just occasionally.
An incremental daily/weekly/monthly backup using rsnapshot is set-up on ...
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Installing Linux ubuntu on Hp omen 15
I have an HP omen 15-dh1059nr. Is it possible to install ubuntu on it with no issues?
Specs:
Intel 1-7 10750h
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
16gb ram
Windows 10 UEFI mode
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Connect to Windows shared folder in Ubuntu
I have recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. Moreover, I have a share folder in windows of another computer. I have to access the share folder in Ubuntu. Therefore, I installed samba client using this ...
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Cannot boot from bootable Windows USB
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed and I want to dual boot Windows 10. I downloaded the official ISO and flashed it using dd. The ISO was correctly flashed and verified with MD5. The dd command was:
sudo ...
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how to implement wifi direct between windows 10 and linux (ubuntu)
I'm trying to establish WIFI DIRECT connection between windows 10 and Linux (ubuntu).
I'm following steps as per the below link.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-implement-...
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Dual boot - tried to mount Windows drive on Ubuntu 20, failed, now Windows won't boot
I installed Ubuntu on my laptop today in place of Mint. I was able to boot the Windows drive under Mint, but it failed in Ubuntu with the error described in this page.
However, when I tried to start ...
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Linux shell for Windows can't "see" files on a NAS
I have a NAS and I'm trying to open a Linux shell on a folder in this NAS, but when I right-click a folder (holding shift) and open the Linux shell it doesn't show the files there, It doesn't even ...
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Should I uninstall WSL or the old Linux distro before installing WSL2?
I was using Windows 10 version 1909 yesterday. I had WSL enabled with Ubuntu 18.04 installed.
Now I have updated to Windows 10 version 2004. How do I update to WSL 2 the cleanest way with no residue ...
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How can I safely disable Intel RST?
I want to dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. But I can't do it because I have Intel RST on. So how can I turn it off without causing any harm to system? I have Lenovo IdeaPad laptop, which has one ...
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Can you simply mount a new OS image from within an existing operating system to install it?
I am currently using Windows 10 and wanted to install Ubuntu 20.04 on it (dual boot).
I know that the standard way is to use a USB Flash drive or some other external source to install a new ...
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Access Win10 Partition using Linux Live Boot with Usb
Recently I got and error on Windows 10, receiving Blue Screens, and unable to boot Windows. I made a bootable Ubuntu LiveUSB, booted it, managed to find my Windows partition via command line (dev/sda4)...
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WSL2 GUI not working
I am trying to get GUIs working with WSL2, but nothing I tried works.
I turned off the Firewall for home networks (just for testing).
I started Vcxsrv with the following options: Multiple Windows, ...
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How to work on a project using Windows 10 using an Ubuntu server set on a VM? (for an almost total linux env feel)
I have a Windows 10 desktop computer
I have installed Ubuntu server, docker & git.
I set up nginx (via docker) and pulled a project (via git)
Hurray! I have everything working on the VM side. ...
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OS not booting from secondary hard disk
Recently I replaced my Optical Drive with another Hard drive (so it is my secondary hard drive) on my laptop Dell Inspiron 15 3542.
Now I installed my Windows 10 on the primary hard drive and Ubuntu ...
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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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Why is Windows reporting an empty NTFS partition, when files are written/viewable by Linux? - (happened with exFAT too !!!)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; Windows 10; Lenovo Ideapad i7. The exfat and NTFS drivers are at highest available upgrade (Ubuntu).
Photorec and testdisk are being ran in Linux.
Please note that this particular ...
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Why is Linux so slow on VirtualBox for Windows 10?
I need to create a Virtual Machine running a Linux-based OS. I have tried with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS. The problem that I can't help having is that its interface is laggy and slow in terms of ...
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ubuntu and LAMP security precautions for newbies [closed]
Currently I am a Windows user and I use WAMP. I have a new project with very sensitive information, security is extremely critical. I will carry private keys of my clients for external services. I ...
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Retrieving win10 serial key from Ubuntu
I own an XPS 9370 (the windows version). I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and wiped out windows from my SSD(for college reasons). Since my XPS comes with a serial key for win 10 pro, which is there ...
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I mounted an Ubuntu VHD in Disk Manager on Windows 10 can this be cloned to USB and booted from?
Because the GPU cannot be accessed in Hyper-V, I'm going to need to create a separate means of booting my computer into my Linux image. I'd rather have the image stored on a removable USB so I'm ...
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Dual ubuntu 16.04 can't mount hard drive after a upgrading Windows 10
My computer are installing Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 in dual. I worked normal on Ubuntu until I came back Windows 10 and got an update/upgrade after 2 months from the last time.
When I back to ...
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Need help booting Linux disk in virtualized environment (Windows 10 host)
I have a laptop, originally installed with Windows 10, and it has a second internal disk. I've installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 on that disk. When the computer starts up, Grub gives me the choices I need for ...
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After deleting ubuntu 18.04 can I install ubuntu 16.04 on top of the same grub bootloader?
I deleted my previous ubuntu 18.04 partition (alongside my primary Windows 10 system) without deleting the grub bootloader. Now it shows a black screen every time I log on to my system. I want to ...
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Ubuntu - can't see my folders
First question here - please do let me know if I'm missing any necessary details / any structures and protocols that I may not be adhering to.
I've downloaded Ubuntu (version 18.04) on my Windows 10 ...
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Installed Ubuntu Linux on Windows; cannot upgrade to latest LTS version
I installed Ubuntu Linux on Windows 10. Everything seems to be working fine. The version I installed has no version number, and from the command line the kernel version is:
$ uname -r
4.4.0-17763-...
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