When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're cooking with partitions.
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How to boot from an external hard drive
I got an old compaq computer (5 years old) which came with windows vista. I made its recovery disks. Few days ago I took its Hard drive out to use it as a portable hard drive but now I want to install ...
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Unable to resize CENTOS 6.4 root partition in Virtual Box
I'm trying to resize a virtual disk (CENTOS 6.4 root partition) running under Virtual Box..
I followed the guide here, and all seemed ok (gparted allowed me to extend the disk - after right-click ...
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Windows 7 doesn't loads after Solaris attempted install
I got two hard disks, one of 40gb and another one with 1tb.
The 40gb has windows 7 installed on it, taking all the space of this hdd, and in the 1tb disk i got few logic and extended partitions; in ...
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Solaris Automated install Hard-Drive Windows 7
I got two hard disks, one of 40 GB and another one with 1 TB.
The 40 GB has windows 7 installed on it, taking all the space of this hdd.
The 1 TB disk I got few logical and extended partitions; in ...
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Fix Overlapping Partitions
Today I went to resize one of my drivers partitions as I am currently switching from Ubuntu to ArchLinux as my main OS.
However when I go into Gparted I get the error "Cant have overlapping ...
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Linux won't boot
I just installed my new SSD, and I put Windows 8 on it. Previously I had a hard drive with both Windows and Linux partitions. After finishing the installation of Windows 8 on the SSD I formatted the ...
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Windows 8 partitions - Create and Delete
I'm less than a beginner in this. I want to make a partition so I can dual boot my Windows 8 (pre-installed with my laptop) with a Linux distro.
I don't know how to make a partition, but what worries ...
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Crunchbang Linux on Mac Mini 6,1
I have a Mac Mini (6,1) and I want to dual boot OSX with crunchbang (chose this distro because Wi-fi works out of the box).
First, I installed rEFIt and put crunchbang on a flashdrive.
Next, I ...
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How to I create a smaller OS partition size when reinstalling OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
I want to install Windows 8 with Bootcamp on my Macbook Air but my OS partition is the full drive size. My understanding is that you cannot resize the OS partition with Disk Utility (and it appears ...
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LVM woes - is it possible to recover data from LVM?
I think I've cocked up a smidge, so asking for some advice.
I have 4 drives in my machine:
sda - OS
sdb-d - sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 - swap
sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 - LVM
Total logical volume size ...
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Ran out of primary partitions, want to install another system
I have a Fedora 18 system installed on my hard disk, but upon installation I created 4 partitions for boot, swap, root and home, and now I want to install Windows on some unallocated space (I need it, ...
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Correctly partition microSDHC card
I temporarily used my microSDHC card for flashing a BeagleBone Black embedded device. This process involved overwriting the entire card with a binary image that contained two partitions.
Now I would ...
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Resizing a FAT32 partition on a bootable USB using GParted fails
I have a 16GB FAT32 formatted USB. I've installed many bootable ISOs on it using Your Universal MultiBoot Installer.
I'm trying to resize the partition YUMI is installed on to minimum size (all the ...
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How can I increase disk space allocated to my VirtualBox VM?
The basics:
I'm running windows and have a VritualBox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 on top of that. I need to increase the disk space allocated from 8 GB to 12 GB. I'm trying to follow along with these ...
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Crazy drive letter issue when installing windows 7 from usb [closed]
I have 4 primary partitions on my hard disk with MBR partition table. I don't use "System Reserved" aka "separate boot" partition. So the first partition is labelled "System boot active primary" .
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How to add the restore option to the windows xp boot menu?
My Asus EEEPC 1002HA has 3 partitions - C, E (where Linux used to be installed) and D (system restore files are located there out of the box). After Linux uninstallation i restored windows xp boot ...
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Disk Partitioning
I am trying to partition my disk so that I can install Linux on my laptop, and I have 4 partitions (all primary):
First 2 are C and D, but the other 2 are unknown to me.
one called *: which is 8.51 ...
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“Recovering” disk from a Windows Home Server
I had a Windows Home Server machine which died on me. Now I wanted to "salvage" at least the disks in it.
But it seems those are somehow oddly formatted - each of the three disks has two partitions, ...
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Partitioning best-practices for SSD+regular HDD with multi-boot
I have a (couple of) regular HDDs on my machine , and I'm about to buy an SSD, probably 128GB, for it.
I would like the machine to be a Dual-Boot Linux (3.x kernel) + Windows 7. My question has two ...
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I'm getting a popping noise and read errors from the hard drive during a partitioning work with GParted
I'm trying to move a partition from a GParted live disk, but two things started happening:
The disk is making a popping/cracking noise, almost like a Geiger counter.
GParted says Read error on ...
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OSX: install (dual-boot) Windows 7 without USB stick or DVD drive
I'm attempting to install (dual-boot) Windows 7 on a second partition on my macbook. I have the Win7 installer ISO and even a VM running Win8 where I've installed the "Win7 USB/DVD download tool" -- ...
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Merge two unadjacent partitions
I have three partitions on my drive, arranged something like the following:
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| 1 | 2 | 3|
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I wish to merge partitions 1 and 3.
Is there a way to do this, or do I have to ...
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Partitioning for Windows 8 installation error
This is my partition table. Here Windows 7 is the C:/ of windows 7 and others and softwares is E:/ and F:/ respectively. 18 GB ext4 is ubuntu 10.04 primary partition. The free 42 GB was my D:/ ...
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OSX ghosting - need to reformat HDD
I have an OSX partition that does not take up the whole drive. Somehow, I managed to damage the unallocated space in a way that disk utility does not let me use it even though it is labeled "free ...
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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Formatting and Partitioning 1TB external hard drive [duplicate]
I just bought a 1TB external hard drive from Western Digital - My Passport.
I am planning to use it for couple of things;
Store my music
Store my videos
Store my pictures
Store my designs
Work as a ...
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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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Allocating non-contiguous free space to an existing partition
I can't figure out how to add all the "/dev/sda3" space to my /dev/sda1/ .. I tried everything, but /dev/sda1/ can't go over 5.26GB.
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External HDD partitioning - Mac OS X
I'm a Mac OS 10.8 user and I have a 1TB USB HDD partitioned before from my Mac in 3 parts. Now, I want to add another back-up partition but I'm not able to do it : I can't do anything on the HDD, not ...
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Swapping.. OS Partitions?
Occasionally I get tasked with literally swapping the installation locations of Windows/Ubuntu. We build PCs for developers and by default they come with a 120GB SSD and a 2TB 5400 split into two ...
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Will the recovery/OEM partitions work after copying data to a larger hard drive using 'dd' and moving those partitions to the end of the new drive?
I'm thinking about getting a larger, faster hybrid hard drive. I expect to use dd to copy the data to the new drive block-for-block so that I can guarantee that no data are lost, but the partitioning ...
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Mounting OSX hard-drive on linux
I believe the motherboard on my macbook died, so I'm trying to recover the information on the disk. I pulled the hard drive from the macbook and plugged it into one of my SATA ports on my Ubuntu ...
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Partition invisible on Windows, not on Linux
I have Windows 7 64b installed and recently also installed Ubuntu 12.04
Problem: 2 of 4 Partitions on the same harddrive are not visible in Windows.
Here is some info:
$ df -T
Filesystem Type ...
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ArchLinux's Partition Suggestions
I'm trying to install ArchLinux and I've run into something extremely weird.
Its guide suggests that you should create 2 partitions:
~15gb root partition
Home partition [filling the rest of the ...
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Internal hard disk not detected in bios
I planned to put dual OS for that purpose I used gparted application, In that application unfortunately I deleted system reserved partition 100 MB NTFS drive.
After I deleted my hard disk it wasn't ...
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Advice with Acronis 2010 multiple partition clone
I need user info for Acronis home 2010...My questions are I have used the clone feature to create copies of my drives should if and when the masters die...but as time moves on I would like to update ...
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Consequences of zeroing out a partition with dd
I have a partition called sdb1 formatted as ext4. The partition is currently mounted.
If I do the following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1
What are the consequences (beyond all data on the being ...
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Can not create logical partition on an external HDD
I have a strange problem. I have an external HDD which I use it for a linux version I use.
I deleted all the partitions on it in order to create some new partitions.
I deleted all previous ...
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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase
Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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How to partition the hard drive manually during the Windows 8 installation?
I'd like to request some help with partitionating the hard drive manually during the Windows 8 installation. Look, I already have a operating system installed (Ubuntu) and I don't want to delete it ...
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Accessing dumped hard drive using Virtualbox
I have dumped a Windows XP partition from another computer's hard drive using dd over the network. Now I have the .img file, but I need further instructions if I can boot into that hard drive using ...
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Repartitioning Lenovo laptop HDD
I've recently purchased a Lenovo B570 laptop and decided that I'd like to repartition it.
So I created a Windows disk image using the built in feature and booted the device using an Ubuntu live USB ...
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How to restore a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition
My iMac was one of those suffering from a faulty Seagate HDD, and it failed a few weeks ago. In anticipation of getting it repaired at the Apple Store, I was able to clone the OS X partition easily ...
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Basic DOS terminal browser partition manager?
Last time I met some problems with my hard drive. I found the Repair your computer mode, you know, when you press F8 and you have admin rights, you can enter terminal with SYSTEM rights. So I can copy ...
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I have an ext3 iso disk image. Can I use it and write it to a ext4 partition?
Is it possible to do so ?
I am migrating to EXT4 because of the SSD drive that has TRIM funtion. I have to have ext4 partion.
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conversion of simple volume to primary volume
My Samsung laptop has 5 partition in it . And all are simple volume partition so that there is no primary partition in my disk hence i cannot install Ubuntu in my laptop .I have tried many software ...
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re-mount two old disk from raid0 setup to recover data
I had setup two 500gb disk in RAID0 on my server, but recently suffered a hard disk failure (saw a S.M.A.R.T error on the HDD at boot). My host has put 2 new disk in RAID-0 again (re-installed the OS) ...
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MacBook Pro HDD partitionning lasts longer then expected
I had 2 partition in my Mac : Macintosh HD and Back-up. I wanted to erase the Back-up partition to increase Macintosh HD's capacity. I had no problems to erase the Back-up partition but resizing the ...
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convert primary partitions to logicals without losing data
I have 4 partitions on my Hard disc:
System reserved - 100 MB - (Windows 7 create it)
C: - 145 GB- (My Windows 7 sp1 installed in it
D: -210 GB- (I use It for my softwares)
E: -210 GB- (I use it ...
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Recovering after uninstalling Windows 8?
I bought a laptop recently which had Windows 8 preinstalled. Unhappy with the new OS, I stuck the Win7 installation disk in. The installation disk wouldn't allow me to install Windows on any of the ...
