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When partitioning a hard disk drive, does the partition/formatting change the hard disk--physically or just the firmwares "rules" for writing?
Does reformatting an HDD or partitioning an HDD result in the hard disk actually writing on itself? Or does it just change the configuration in a file or in the firmware?
Is it platform dependent? I'...
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Fat 32 partition recognized by Linux not by OS X why?
I used Gparted to create 3 partitions on an unencrypted external 2 GB hard drive:
A FAT32 system (0x0c).
A Ext4 system with Linux installed on (I did this after creating the partitions).
A HFS system ...
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After 'removing' Ubuntu from MacBook it cannot boot to OSX but loads Grub 2
So, I installed a dual-boot solution for Mac to use Ubuntu for C programming. I used rEFInd to dual boot between OSX and Ubuntu. Now I'm done with my C programming course, I wanted to delete this ...
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Fixing my Partitions to use all unallocated space
I've installed Ubuntu on my Mac (as dual boot). In the process I made a mistake and now I have an unallocated partition. I want to resize my Mac partition to use the unallocated space. Sometimes the ...
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Can't recover space on MacOS disk
A year or so ago I partitioned my stock 2011 MacBook Air with a 30Gb (I think) partition for Ubuntu.
For a while I dual booted, all was good until eventually I purchased a dedicated Ubuntu machine and ...
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How to recover accidently deleted partition(s)? -- diskpart > "clean" command issue
I've lost 750gb.
Like all those people having the same issue in here, i'd add myself into them by using "clean" command in diskpart during windows installation.
I'm using late 2011 i7 2.2ghz ...
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Converting a MBR partition table to a GPT on a HFS+ hard drive
I have a HFS+ 2TB drive that I used to use with my Mac. I wanted to read its contents from Linux (Ubuntu server 14.04) too, so I plugged the drive and played around with gdisk, fdisk, parted and so on....
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Ubuntu boot not available at startup
I have partitioned my internal hard drive and installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion on one partition and Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on the other. The installation was done via alt/option key at startup ... ...
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Is over provisioning on SSD just another partition or unreserved space and can it be alongside a dual boot partition OS setup?
I have a few machines I'd want to dual boot different OSs with but also maximise the lifetime of the SSD fitted to them.
I am aware that over-provisioning can help maximise the life of the SSD as it ...
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Make a "Super User External Hard Drive" that can install 3 OSes? [closed]
I'm a webmaster in a student media and I've been asked to take care of the computer park. It's not my specialty, but I do like that and willing to do it, so I went on and say yes. Happy me ! Now I'm ...
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Can I reassign the unused portion of a partition? (OS X/Ubuntu)
So I just partitioned the hard drive in my MacBook Pro 5,5 and successfully installed Ubuntu (12.04) alongside OS X. During the partition process I guess Disk Utility decided to allocate the majority ...
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Install Ubuntu from Ubuntu install CD partition from OSX
Is it possible to install Ubuntu by booting from a partition with the Ubuntu install CD image copied to it?
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How to install Ubuntu on a Mac running OS X Lion?
Anyone tried to install Ubuntu dual-booting on Mac OS X Lion 10.7? I know it is doable with Leopard and Snow Leopard.
I heard that the Ubuntu installer will write the first 446 bytes from the ...
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Is blessing the Ubuntu partition reversible on a Macbook Pro? How?
So far, I've been dual booting Mac OS X with Ubuntu.
Blessing the Ubuntu Partition will speed up the boot process. Apparently, all I have to do is this:
sudo bless –device /dev/disk0s3 –setboot –...
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Partition read/writeable USB drive between Mac OSX and Ubuntu
I am attempting to transfer a 6.1 GB file between a Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and a Mac OSX 10.6. As the file size is over 4GB I can't use Fat32 and I cant seem to format the USB drive to NTFS in either OS. ...
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