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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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How did I set up this USB multi-partition?
I have a Corsair Voyager GTX flash drive and I partitioned it to have four partitions, one of which I'm using for Kali Linux live, there other for my portable apps and portable gamestation folder and ...
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partitioning for dual boot with shared data on a single drive?
So I've bought a new laptop (lenovo x1 yoga, win10) and want to set up dual-boot.
Having completely separated windows and linux on my last laptop, I'd like to be smarter, this time.
Meaning, I ...
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Partition on Flash drive to have ubuntu + files
I have Windows 10 installed and it currently occupies all of my disk. I want to make a new partition to install Debian Linux. The problem is that i already have 4 disks on my windows: One for system ...
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Is it possible to create a partition that is usable by both Linux and Windows and supports the features of both? [duplicate]
I recently received a new computer that I would like to dual boot both Windows 10 and some flavor of Linux on. I am planning on creating a separate partition for Windows and a separate partition for ...
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raw partition as mounted vmdk not detected by windows installer in virtualbox
(Arch newbie here) I am running Arch 4.10, and would like to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine, but on a separate partition.
Background:
My drive layout (GPT Partition schema):
Device ...
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How can I make a drive accessible to Linux / Bash subsystem on Windows? [duplicate]
I have a laptop which I've dual-booted with Ubuntu and Windows 10.
My goal is to use a bash shell inside windows to access the linux partition.
Inside Windows, I've installed the Linux subsystem and ...
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Cannot see GPT partitions
I recently did a byte copy (using dd) of my laptop HDD to an SSD and installed the SSD into the laptop. I had Windows and Ubuntu on the drive. There may not have been enough room to copy over 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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Broke(?) my USB flash drive while burning a Windows 10 ISO from Linux
I have a working Linux distribution running (Arch Linux) on my computer, I followed tutorials on burning an ISO of Windows 10 on my USB drive.
Came across this answer on Ask Ubuntu: https://askubuntu....
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Can't write into other partitions after installing Kubuntu 16.10
I have Windows 10 64-bit installed on my system. Then I installed Kubuntu 16.10 into another partition, and everything was successful. But the problem is it seems that I can't modify or add new data ...
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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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Bootable Linux partition alongside an NTFS partition on USB flashdrive
On a 128 GB flashdrive, in order to boot Linux from the drive I created two ext4 partitions (/ and /home, Linux installed on the root partition) and a swap partition as well as a NTFS partition that I ...
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Hide partition from Windows 10 to prevent hybrid shutdown issues in Linux
I have a dual boot machine (Windows 10 and Arch Linux), with an NTFS partition that is only used by the Arch.
Unfortunately, after shutting Windows 10 down normally, Arch won't mount that partition ...
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Linux-to-Windows: Hard drive not recognized
Backstory: When I started my new job, I inherited a computer running Ubuntu 14.04 on a Dell T7600 and who-knows-what-else. I don't have a background or interest in computer science and Linux just isn'...
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