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Suggestions for sharing and using data between Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot
Note: TL;DR, scroll to bottom for summary. I recently set up my computer for a dual boot between Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. My current drive setup is as follows.
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Why create many partitions?
I have noticed that when installing Ubuntu some people create multiple partitions for directories. Like one for root, one for home, one for boot. What is the advantage to doing this over installing ...
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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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Is there a filesystem that is "friendly" to both windows and Linux? [duplicate]
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Suggestions for sharing and using data between Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot
I'm planning to install Ubuntu 10.04 with Windows 7. (I'm new to Linux, have to use at work so I'...
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Can Ubuntu Linux be installed on FAT32 or NTFS?
Before I start, don't lecture me on the fact that FAT32 is old and hasn't been updated for nearly 20 years. Right now I have sorted that. I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux onto a 64GB flash drive ...
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Windows 10: Can I safely remove WINRE or RECOVERY partitions?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:
Thus, I ...
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Are these partitions properly aligned?
I was recommended to use Ubuntu instead of XP to partition my new SSD. However, I didn't find diskpar, so I used GParted. The partition table type is msdos, fdisk reports the following:
Device Boot ...
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Recover files from deleted partition
Somehow one of my partitions disappeared (I didn't even have the disk manager open, so I'm really not sure how that happened). The volume was simply deleted. It was an NTFS partition, created under XP ...
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How to extend partition size in linux(ubuntu 9.04)?
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 in vmware for my programming purpose. I previously had 12GB of virtual harddisk, my partition scheme was as follows,
8GB Primary Partition for (/)
2GB logical extended ...
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How can I restore GRUB without a live CD?
I realize that this is a duplicate of a question asked before, but in that question the asker managed to find his live CD and no real answer appeared, thus I am re-asking it.
I managed to screw up my ...
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Disadvantages of not having a swap partition
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. Due to space constraint of the SSD, I did not set a swap partition for the OS, and I have 1.5GB of RAM.
There's a warning during installation, but I ...
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Turning unallocated space into an NTFS partition
I want to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. Here's my GParted configuration:
I want to set all the unallocated space to use the NTFS system so I can store my media files.
dev/sda1 is MBR
dev/sda2 is ...
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I tried installing Ubuntu 10.04 and I got this message - any ideas on what to do?
No root file system defined. Please correct this from the partition menu.
This message shows up when I first boot into Ubuntu after the installation.
I installed it by mounting the ISO with Daemon ...
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Partitions overlapping linux
I have problem with my partitions which are overlapping each other (fdisk -l)
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 8155136 220203007 ...
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How should I partition my disk for dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu?
Here are the facts and my use cases.
Hard Drive has a 1TB (terabytes) capacity.
On Windows, I will use the computer for:
Developing Software. I will need to have installed Mercurial, Visual Studio ...
