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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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How to clone old small SSD into new larger replacement SSD in a laptop
I have a Thinkpad with a 500GB SSD, and it's split into a dual-boot of a 100GB Windows 10 partition and a 400GB Ubuntu partition. (Note: I'm comfortable nuking the 100GB Windows partition because ...
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How can I restore the encrypted partition table of my LUKS encrypted ubuntu partition?
I accidentially deleted the partition table of one SSD. I am trying to restore everything with TestDisk and when I run analyze it shows me the following after some percent of the process:
MS Data ...
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Why I'm Getting (/dev/unrecognised disk label) (udisks-error quark, 0)?
I'm using WD240G(240GB)(T0707A0) 240 GB SSD on my PC,
Firstly I was trying to install windows 10 on my SSD,
But it says unable to format Disk in Windows 10 setup,
Then I've tried to install ubuntu on ...
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Can I lose Windows Partition if switching from RST to AHCI?
If I have a single SSD connected in RST mode (No RAID configured), is there a chance that I lose data in my main partition if I switch to AHCI?
I'm wanting to reinstall Windows 10 on my machine after ...
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SSD Partitioning for windows 10, ubuntu and data
My intention is to split my new SSD in three partitions:
Windows 10 Pro
Ubuntu 20.10
Data shared between two OS
When I install W10 it automatically creates three primary partitions, Ubuntu another ...
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How much storage space will be sufficient for installing Windows 10 in case Windows is my second OS? First is Ubuntu 20.04 [duplicate]
I want to install another OS Windows10 on my machine. I already have Ubuntu 20.04 on my machine and Windows10 will be the second one. So, I don't have any idea that how much partition space should I ...
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Setup and partitioning of Ubuntu/Windows 10 dual boot on my new desktop
I am setting up my new desktop as primarily linux (for now I am starting with Ubuntu) and keep a Windows 10 system for config of hardware.
After reading about the different linux distros, there are ...
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Best M.2 SSD format settings for shared Linux/Windows drive
I have a 1TB M.2 SSD in my PC that I want to format to use as my Linux drive for a dual-boot Linux setup. When I go to format the disk, I can allocate in units of 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 and so on ...
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Can’t make partition on 500 GB SSD on Windows 10
I want to make a new partition of 100 GB for installing Ubuntu on a 500 GB SSD, and I have about 150 GB free space in my C: partition (running Windows 10 OS), so I'm trying to shrink it.
But Windows ...
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Installing ubuntu in a backup harddisk in unallocated space
I have one 120 GB SSD, formatted in NTFS and storing 80GB of my data backup. There's 40 GB of unused space on that drive, and I don't intend to dual boot Windows and Linux. I want to install current ...
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How can I format a Bitlocked SSD in Ubuntu, so I can install Windows 10 on it?
After dual-booting with Ubuntu 18.04, my Windows 10 main drive got locked by Bitlocker. There is just no way to get the recovery key.
I downloaded GParted, and it shows my Bitlocked drive there. I ...
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problems to shrink my ssd for an ubuntu partition
I want to install ubuntu as second OS beside win10 on my ssd.
First i tried to shrink my ssd in win10 with diskmgmt.msc.
i have 75GB free space on the hdd, but just can shrink it by 9gb, obviously not ...
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Ruined Windows partition by formatting different partition
I just wanted this easy, humble setup:
SSD with dual boot (Ubuntu 18 + Windows 10)
HDD with one data NTFS partition for double access from ubuntu and windows
I had my HDD with a triple boot in ...
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Is windows partition manager reading ubuntu partition correctly?
It's been a very long time since I dual boot, I'm a linux user, asked to partition a laptop at work, to install ubuntu and keep windows 10. I did that, gave 50gb of ssd to ubuntu, that's where I ...
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