Partitioning is the process of creating multiple logical drives from a singular physical existent hard drive. Using the same piece of hardware, the partitioned drives are nothing more than virtual representations of the same thing but isolated and can be managed without affecting each other. E.g., ...
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What's the difference between a Partition Map Scheme and a Partition Format?
What, technically is the difference between these 2 types of "encoding" a storage device? Why, historically is a partition map different from a partition format? Why not abstract them both into the ...
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make a computer recognized as a usb flash drive?
Is there anyway to make a folder or a partition on a computer (Linux/windows) to act like a flash drive to other computers or devices when connected with a usb cable.
For example, I have a windows 7 ...
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rEFIt can't sync GPT and MBR after resizing boot camp partition
I've been trying to follow the instructions here to increase the size of my boot camp partition:
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"disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition” during installation?
I went through a dozen posts and came to know result
the machine i have has 1 SATA HDD with 4 Partitions...
and i keep getting the error
disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition
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Partitioning HDD on Windows 64 bit
I got here Dell laptop running Windows 7 professional 64 bit. I just installed it. I am using Windows's Disk Management tool to partition the disk. There is C partition, then System Reserved partition ...
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Does Windows 7 require the Disk 0 Partition 1 : System Reserved Partition [closed]
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Can the Windows 7 system reserved partition be deleted without problems?
While installing Windows 7, I see that there's a "Disk 0 Partition 1 : System Reserved" ...
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How small can/should I make my partitions?
My machine is currently split into 3 user partitions (plus however many Windows and Linux have decided to slyly create) Which are C: Windows 7, D: Data, and E(?): Ubuntu. I'm considering wiping my ...
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Recover Windows 7 partition overwritten with Linux installation
I installed Linux Mint over my Windows drive, that was supposed install on my external hard disk.
In Windows 7, that drive is invisible and is showing as Linux when I enter fdisk -l.
How can I ...
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Trying to install Linux mint - it shows only one of two hard disks
I want to install linux mint along with windows on my computer. I have two hard drives - 1TB (which mint finds as sda) and 640GB (which mint finds as sdb).
1TB hard disk has a 790GB partition and I ...
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How can I boot my own OS from a flash drive?
I have written an os and put it into an iso format on my mac.
I want to put it on my flash drive, plug the flash drive into a netbook (that had windows 7 starter pre-installed when I bought it) and ...
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Dummy Linux user for installing programs
I have a separate home partition, so I want to install some software from source in a different hierarchy – not in my user account, preferably in /home.
To rephrase, let's say I have my home ...
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Virtualbox: Raw linux partition not booting
I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to boot the ubuntu partition from windows using Virtualbox. I have successfully created the .vmdk, and created the virtual ...
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What does the Boot Camp Assistant do to my drive that I can't just do with Disk Utility?
What I understand is that Windows 7 will not install on GPT (GUID Partition Table) drives. Of course, all new Macs have their drives partitioned that way, and when you run the boot camp assistant, it ...
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Why making a new new partition cause the hard drive to turn into dynamic drive?
So, I was trying to make a new partition using the Windows 7 built in Disk Manager on a HP desktop computer with Windows 7 pre-installed and stuffs. When finishing the new partition wizard, there is ...
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restore “vanished” paritions after installing Windows
My partition table used to look like this:
[/boot (ext2)] [logical: [linux(ext4) /][linux(ext4) /home][linux swap] ] [windows 7]
Windows wasn't booting right, so I figured I'd just reinstall it, no ...
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How to recover bitlocker encrypted partition that is now 'unallocated'/'free space'?
My hard drive had 5 partitions(including 1(some 4-5GB) bit locker encrypted one). When I used disk mgmt I could view 2 partitions(24.4GB and 8.94GB) in green colour labeled Empty space.
So, I wanted ...
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Change GPT parition number
I have a 2TB GPT drive that for some reason is mounted as /dev/sdc2. I would prefer all my data drives to be mounted as /dev/sd*1.
If I use sudo parted /dev/sdc print I get:
Model: ATA WDC ...
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Move boot partition from TrueCrypt to new drive?
I have a laptop with a 500 GB HDD. The C partition takes up almost all the drive. Have 2-3 other small partitions for manufacturer recovery software or system stuff; these came with the laptop.
The C ...
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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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Initial partition layout on the brand new laptop Dell Inspiron n1510
I have a brand new laptop and want to instal Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04. When I started to install Windows, I have discovered 2 partitions on my HDD as you can see on the picture below:
/dev/sda1 ...
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Installing Windows from a partition
Ok so I have left my USB pen in work and I want to install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto my netbook.
Can I setup a partition on my netbook, put the Windows installer files onto that and boot ...
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How should I partition my disk for dual boot between Windows 7 and Ubuntu?
Here are the facts and my use cases.
Hard Drive has a 1TB (terabytes) capacity.
On Windows, I will use the computer for:
Developing Software. I will need to have installed Mercurial, Visual ...
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Removing a spare HDD from Windows XP causes User Profile to reset
I have 5 internal HDD's installed;
HDD 1 IDE partitioned into C (OS) [Pri], I [Logic]
HDD 2 IDE partitioned into F (Programs) Pri, G (Games) [Logic]
HDD 3 SATA partition H (Empty) [Pri]
HDD 4 SATA ...
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Shrink hibernate partition on Windows 7
After a thorough discussion with Google we couldn't consent on this one.
How can I shrink the Hibernate partition which was set up by Windows 7 OEM?
My laptop has a harddisk drive and an additional ...
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Extending the C partition?
I'm trying to extend in the C partition in Windows 7. I have a D partition to the "right" of C that has extraneous space, so I shrunk it down so that there is unallocated space to the right of D. ...
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Cloning the partition of a drive onto another drive
I'm trying to make a clone (using GParted) of the contents of my Oracle VirtualBox VDI containing a version of Ubuntu that I run on a Virtual Machine onto a real disk which is connected to the VM as a ...
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Permissions for user for whole disk ( and/or Partitions) in win7
I have a linux mint partition and a win7 partition on my disk.
I am running (oracle) VM on win7, and My goal is to boot to the linux partition with the VM.
This was not so difficult to do by creating ...
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how to make a bootable partition on an external hard drive? or solve my dynamic disk woes
I have a 250 gig external hard drive and I need to make a small partition on it and run Ubuntu live from it to recover files from a corrupt hard drive that Windows can no longer read. I want to make ...
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How should I setup my partitions on linux? [closed]
I'm going to install fedora on my machine. I have 16 GB's of RAM, 120 GB SSD & a 1 TB Drive. How should I set up my partitions to get the best use of what am running?
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Increase partition size with GParted
I am using GParted to increase the size of a partition (C:).
I have reduced the size of the D: partition and have plenty of unallocated space right after the C: partition, but it simply won't let me ...
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HP Recovery partition not accessable after repartitioning
I have HP Laptop that came with preinstalled Win 7. It actually had 4 primary partitions:
200 MB System partition that is not visible in Windows
C: partition
HP_Recovery partition of about 15 GB
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Multiple mounts under a mount on a linux server
I have a server that I mount some storage (LUNs) under. The first mount is
LUN0(20Gb) as /database
then under that I mount
LUN1(10Gb) as /database/logs
so in essence I can't mount /database/logs ...
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Unknown undeleteable, unformattable partition
I had two partitions on my hard drive labeled as unknown in gParted that showed up out of nowhere. I use 3 OS's on my computer, Windows which I just recently deleted, Backtrack5, and Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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Why copying files in one partition is much faster than copying files to another partition?
there is someone who ask me about it, and i dont know the answer..
if you know the answer , please comment. Thanks :)
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Aligning partitions on a new SSD (dualboot)
I've been reading up on SSDs under both Windows and Linux. While Windows seems to do most of the aligning automatically and frankly all this information found online baffles me, I thought about ...
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OSX Lion recovery
I really screwed the pooch last night and in preparation to sell my Macbook Air, I used GParted to blow out my partitions (I was running a Boot Camp Windows 7). Well, I must have been tired because I ...
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Should I partition my 120GB laptop HDD using Windows 7, and if so, how much space should I give it?
I only have 1 GB of RAM and the processor clocks at ~1.6 GHz. I can't afford to upgrade anything right now; I received this HP free because it was my birthday and my friend was getting a new laptop, ...
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Multiple Windows 7 installations on single laptop (dual boot)
Good day,
I have a new laptop onto which I want to install 2 separately licensed copies of Windows 7. One is for work (active directory group policies are enforced), and the other is for personal ...
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Partitioning HD
I have a 160GB hard drive, and it is partitioned as follows:
35.6 GB for C:
113 GB for D:
Respectively, in that order in HD.
I would like to take some space from D: to C: in order to leave them both ...
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Why do partition managers need their own drivers?
Why do so many partition management tools, like EASEUS Partition Master, Acronis Disk Director, etc. require their own drivers in order to run?
In other words, what do they need to do that cannot be ...
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Partition has disappeared
I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 from 11.?? anyway I can't log in to Ubuntu and I posted a question on askUbuntu and they said just to re-install. Anyway I was just looking at my partitions ...
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Need to move linux Debian from bigger harddrive to a smaller one
I installed Debian Squeeze on a 1.5 TB harddrive. But later found out that there is a smaller, 250 GB drive around here.
So, I need to move the installation (maybe around 40-50 GB in total) from ...
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Change the format of hard drive in Windows [closed]
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Why does Windows not recognize files inside Linux partitions?
I had three drives in my Windows in NTFS format. I going to install Ubuntu 12.4 inside Windows.
In one of ...
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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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mkfs a disk device takes longer than a full disk partition
I'm trying to format a device instead of formatting a partition, I know that normally you first make partitions and then format these with ext3, ext4 or other filesystem.
This question is only for ...
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Turn Free Space Into Unallocated Space
I want to expand the size of my Windows 7 Partition. My disk is currently split into two parts, one for the OS and then one for data. I shrunk the data partition, but it turned it into free space, ...
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How do you masquerade a hard drive partition as a removable disk?
I am trying to install Chromium OS on my Windows computer as a secondary OS. I have already used Chrome OS on a live USB before by using Win32DiskImager which writes an image to a removable device.
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grub rescue ignore partition
i need to ignore a partition I made to store files in that I can access with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Now I get a error from grub saying there is an unknown filesystem. How can I get grub to ignore ...
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Seprarate /home vs speratate /home + storage partition
I am basically trying a clean install on my laptop to dual boot mint and arch. I want to have some shared storage space for them but separate roots and also get to keep my dot config files from my ...
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wait for kernel after creating partition with sftdisk on linux
I am creating a partition with sfdisk under linux. After partition creation I want to create a filesystem.
This fails with mkfs.ext3 not finding the partition:
echo ",,L" | sfdisk $DEVICE
mkfs.ext3 ...
