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Step-by-step instructions to move unallocated space from left to right using GParted? [closed]
Please refer to the setup in the image linked in the last line of my post.
I just reduced my Windows Downloads partition space on /dev/nvme0n1p4 to the unallocated 420.63GB space on its right, ...
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Can a bad block from one partition affect other partitions?
I have an external SSD 1 TB plugged in to Linux-Laptop. I have created a small new partition - 10 GB size on it, so now I have 2 partitions on that SSD.
Both partitions are formatted with ext4 file ...
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Linux no boot after cloning partitions
I had and old HP Compaq laptop I wanted to upgrade because the IDE HDD was dying inside. Previously I had set up a Windows XP / Lubuntu 14 dual boot on it. After cloning the drive with Rescuezilla to ...
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SSD cannot be recognised on Windows and LInux
I recently bought a new SSD to replace the one in my laptop. I took the old SSD out and stuck it in an external enclosure, planning to use it as an external drive. When I first plugged it in to ...
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Linux - Old MacBook Air - SSD not found
I have a MacBook Air that only supports macOS Catalina.
I tried 'upgrading' it by installing Linux Mint on it.
That worked fine for a while, untill it crashed, and now it won't boot again.
I tried a ...
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How to access data on an external ssd drive with MBR only?
My old laptop's display died, so I took its SSD and connected it to another laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 externally via USB using M2 SSD case. There should be two operating systems: Windows and Ubuntu on ...
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Move Linux system to new SSD alongside with Windows
I've got a new PC with a new SSD #2. They preinstalled the Windows on it and I'm cool with it.
However, I have a Linux system on my old SSD #1 and I want to keep that data. The problem is I've only ...
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NTFS Drive visible only from Linux
I have a 1TB Teamgroup GX2 SSD, I partitioned it into a ~150GB btrfs partition for linux and a 850GB partition for Windows. Then Windows stopped seeing the larger partition, although at the same time ...
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My SSD is acting like writing is locked. Not even bash dd command can achieve anything. How may I fix my drive?
I currently am using a 2.5" WD Blue 1Tb SSD for backups. I use Macrium Reflect on Windows to clone my C to it. Last time I attempted the clone, and because I don't do it often enough to remember ...
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Dual booting Linux distros using images sourced from USB drives
I have 2 USB flash drives each with a bootable Linux distro.
I believe that I can use Gparted to copy each of them onto separate partitions on a single (clean) SSD.
USB drive 1 with Linux 1 -> SSD ...
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Increasing available disk size in Ubuntu
I have a 250 GB SATA SSD. I was in a hurry while I was setting up the OS in this disk, so I selected Next in "Disk Partition" part without changing anything. I thought all of the disk will ...
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Formating SSD corrupted something
I was about to format my old NTFS SSD used as a shared storage for a Manjaro and Win10 dual boot system to ext4, but I ran into some problems and something broke.
Currently, I am running Manjaro KDE ...
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Is it safe to use `dd conv=sparse` to migrate my system to a new SSD?
Back when HDDs were dominant, it's common to use the dd command to migrate system disks. But that creates a problem with SSDs: unused space from the source disk will also be written once, with either ...
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Having trouble using HDD alongside SSD on arch linux
Cant use both my hard drives on my new setup
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I recently switched from a windows setup to arch linux as the title suggests, I have backed up most of my important things on an external ...
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Cant format, mount or list external hard drive
So I have a 1TB internal Samsung M.2 SSD and a 1TB external SSD and i wanted to install gentoo on it. I installed gentoo and wanted to format the external hard drive but now, on my Mint system, the ...
