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Installing Ubuntu over Windows - not detecting SSD
I had Windows 11 on my laptop until it decided to have BSOD every 5 minutes. I tried to check if the OS was a problem and then I booted into a live USB and everything went smoothly.
However, when I ...
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Cannot View One of my USB Partitions in Ubuntu
My Windows 10 OS broke down. I decided to split a USB* into two partitions and install Ubuntu on the smallest possible partition. I was going to use the other, larger partition to take the files I ...
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Fix and format USB stick "No media found"
My USB was corrupted when I tried to format it on windows to put a bootable Ubuntu on it.
I tried to format it on Windows it failed. I tried on Ubuntu with disk utility but it failed, so I tried with ...
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Ubuntu live USB not shown as bootable device in bios
I'd like to make a bootable Ubuntu USB with a writable partition
for storing backups and data. I want the USB to be bootable for
mobility, i.e. I'd be able to boot it on another arbitrary machine,
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Is there anything else that I can try to recover my USB-Stick?
I have some corrupted USB-Sticks I want to recover. I am not experienced with this and wanted to wipe them to complete zero. So I mounted them in linux. The problem is it is in a "read-only" format. I ...
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How do I repartition a bootable USB?
So today I gave my sister a bootable San Disk USB with Ubuntu on it. However the storage space on it, after being used, went down. When I first created the USB drive, I accidentally only partitioned ...
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Merge USB partitions into single partition on Windows 8.1
I was trying to install Ubuntu in dual mode on my PC, but it failed and it divided my USB drive into three partitions whilst making USB a bootable device.
Now I want to merge these USB partitions ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 to Windows 10
I have only Ubuntu on my PC and, after 2 years, I have to return to Windows. I have three question.
How do I create a bootable USB with Windows? To create the USB with Ubuntu I've always used the ...
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Unusually USB filesystem behavior
To start off I'm using linux and I found something quite interesting on one of my USBs. Long ago, I made a new partition table in the USB, both FAT32, 8gb a piece (16gb in Total) - Installed a linux ...
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How do I clone a USB stick including partitions?
I have several USB flash drives, and one of them has an installation of Ubuntu with several partitions. I want to make the other USB drives exactly the same as that one (to share with family and ...
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Cannot mount, partition, format brand new USB
I've recently bought a new TDK 4 GB USB stick, but when I try to mount it (I'm runnning Ubuntu 12.04, but neither in Windows 7/8.1 it works) in various ways Gparted, Disk Utility, simply pluggin it ...
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Ubuntu install hangs after creating partitions
I've been trying to install Ubuntu for quite some time now with no success. I was trying for a while with an older version, but now I'm trying with 14.04. I've tried to boot from a CD, but that ...
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USB-Stick Detected as 2 Devices
When I plug in my USB Stick, Ubuntu detects 2 devices. One device containing a few Mebibytes and another one containing the rest of the storage.
This is rather annoying, because when I plugin in my ...
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How to expand unused space on usb key
My NAS runs Ubuntu Server 12.04, it runs this from an 8gb USB disk which is getting quite full so I have transferred that to a 32gb key using
dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb bs=512
Now, this is great, it ...
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Recover data from USB which doesnt appear to have a partition
Possible duplicate but all other example seems to have output for sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdx. Upon inserting the USB the following appears in dmesg· Ubuntu doesn't acknowledge the device in terms of ...
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