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Switching from Windows 7 to Kubuntu - NTFS disk conversion [duplicate]
I'm going to be making a switch from Windows to Linux, but all my HDD's are NTFS-formatted. I understand I would have to format the boot disk and lose all data, but what about the other HDD's that don'...
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How can I install Windows and keep my current files?
How can I install Windows and keep my current files?
I want to install Windows without deleting my current filesystem/home. Currently I have 4 partitions, should I delete 3 and keep the filesystem/...
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How to change long file names (created in linux) in windows?
I have copied some data from my Linux machine to my external hard disk. When I want to read some files on my Windows machine, I can't open it. I get the below error
The specified path does not exist
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How to change label of an ext3 partition under Windows 7 or Tomato Linux?
I have several hard drives hooked up to a router running Tomato and shared over the network. I have mapped the drives to everyone's computer as M:, T:, etc. which also shows the label as if it were a ...
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Case (in)sensitivity issues on a NAS connected to from both Linux and Windows machines
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I have a NAS (Synology DS1813+ based on DSM 4.3). It runs a version of linux, so the file system is (supposedly) case sensitive. I access the NAS with 2 computers. One of them runs Windows 7 ...
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How to access linux disk from windows 7? [duplicate]
I have a computer with Linux installed. And I want to be able to read and write data to its disk from Windows 7. Is there any software or does Windows 7 have any functionality for it built-in?
I've ...
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Reformatting USB to support large files in Windows, Linux and Mac
I'm trying to copy a 5.3 GB file from hard disk to a USB 3.0 SanDisk 16 GB USB key.
I've tried this both from OS X as well as from Linux. In both cases the file is
partially copied and then the ...
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How to format pendrive from fat32 to ext3 in windows7?
I am trying to make a live USB of OPHCRACK, and I tried to boot from a fat32 pendrive. But after making a live USB, it wouldn't boot. After searching awhile, I came to understand that ophcrack will ...
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Filesystem for use on Linux/Windows dualboot
I have setup the following disk configuration
Windows 7 boot partition ; NTFS ; Windows 7 and its drivers is stored here ; - ; C:
Linux boot partition ; ext3 ; Boot files required by linux ; /...
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Is there any way to get an ext4 drive to register in the first place in Windows 7?
I have looked all over the place for a decent solution to this dilemma, including exhaustive Google searches, and I have not found anything useful at all. I don't want a separate, independent program ...
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Best file system to share between Linux, Mac, and Windows [duplicate]
I would like to put all my movies on an external harddrive so that I can watch them on any of my various computers (Mac, Linux, PC: all latest OSs, all 64-bit), and I would also like to be able to ...
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Win7 makes my fat32 fs corrupt when i create some files in linux, in dual boot environment
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I setup a dual boot environment with linux 3.9.2 and win7.
I used a fat32 partition to share some files between them.
After booting into linux, create/delete some files and then switch back to ...
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Probably my external HD had changed filesystem when I used it on Linux
I have an external HD mostly used in my Win7. But I transfered some files to it using Ubuntu 12, and now it isn't being reconized in my Windows. I am being prompted to format the HD.
What can I do?
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Dual booting Windows 7 and Linux: Sharing home directory
What I would like to do is move away from using VMs for running linux inside a Windows 7 host to a dual-boot setup. I know there are ways of mounting ext based partitions from windows and NTFS ...
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Windows 7 installation removing fedora17
Currently I have Fedora 17 installed on my system. For some Windows specific tasks I need to use Windows, so I want to install Windows 7 on my system.
All of the partitions on my harddrive are ...
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