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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SSD won't boot anymore
Yesterday I put the computer to sleep.
Something went wrong because it didn't go fully to sleep.
So I restarted the pc and now it won't boot windows 7 anymore.
It said : "Please insert valid boot ...
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How do I decide which partition to replace with Linux on Windows 7?
I want to dual boot Ubuntu. My Windows 7 PC came with a maximum of 4 partitions by default, so I must replace one of them with Ubuntu.
I examined the partitions with disk management. How do I decide ...
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Pointing folder to different disk
Say I have a D-drive and a folder SomeData. For performance reasons I would like the data in SomeData to be on a different harddisk (SSD), while keeping the paths intact.
So the file ...
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I want to install Ubuntu on my Windows 7 PC, but which of 4 partitions do I override?
My PC came with the maximum of 4 partitions by default. How do I find out which partition contains Windows 7? I don't want to erase Windows; I want to dual boot Ubuntu on my PC.
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Do I need to partition my external harddrive to use for both PC and Mac backups?
I have a Buffalo HD-CEU2 1TB external hard drive. I want to use it to back up my Mac and a Windows machine. If possible I would like to use the Time Machine software on my Mac to do this and just use ...
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How do I partition and mount a 3TB Hard Disk using the terminal?
I have a 3TB Hard disk which I wish to mount as a single partition under Ubuntu 11.10 server
Because it is over 2TB I know there are some issues with this. I'm unsure of what I need to do to make ...
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Getting rid of a GPT signature without touching MBR [closed]
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
I have a disk that seems to contain both an MBR and a GPT. When trying to access the ...
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parted says: Error: Can't have overlapping partitions
I printed my partition table by parted:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 0.03MB 64429MB 64429MB primary ntfs boot
64429MB ...
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How to extend a Linux ext3 partition?
I have the following partitions on my HDD:
I want to extend my Linux partition /dev/sda6 with the unallocated space of ~1GB above it.
But when I right click on this partition the option to ...
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Is it better to partition hard drives for a RAID?
I have four 1TB hard drives and want to set them up in a RAID (5). Some calculations:
4x1000G = 3000G usable space
8x500G = 3500G usable space
16x250G = 3750G usable space
Does this mean it will ...
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Planning VHD-based laptop install
I am about to take delivery of a new laptop with a 750GB HDD. I will be using Win7 as the base OS (as a "real" installation, direct to the tin). The base install will probably have Visual Studio ...
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Windows cannot install to GPT?
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 x64 onto a 500GB SATA (Seagate Barracuda ES.2) drive.
I have downloaded Windows 8 Developer preview x64 onto a USB stick and I can't install it on a NTFS partition I ...
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Appending the partitions structure of a system
Let's say I received a computer with Windows XP installed, and it has 3 partitions.
I want to upgrade the PC to a Windows 7 installation, and also change the partitions structure to only 1 big ...
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Is it bad to completely fill a partition on an SSD with multiple partitions?
I know the conventional wisdom is to make sure you never completely fill your SSD (always leave 10-20% free, write-leveling or something like that) but what about if you've partitioned your SSD into
...
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How to un-partition a drive on windows 7
I bought this laptop used from a friend. The laptop has 500gb of storage; however, the drive is partioned. The C: drive has an allocated space of 50gb whereas the partition has 396gb allocated to it. ...
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Install a Bootloader to Boot Another Partition
I currently have an external hard drive that is partitioned to 3 parts:
dev/sdb1 - Files
dev/sdb2 - Kubuntu 11.10
dev/sdb3 - linux-swap
I'm using GRUB on my built-in HDD in order to boot ...
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Deleted Windows Partition with Boot Files
I'm running a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I accidentally deleted the partition that contains the boot files for Windows.
Here is my output from fdisk -l in Ubuntu:
/dev/sda1 * ...
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unable to install fedora16 KDE
I have already installed Win7 on my machine. There are 3 partitions that have been done. Now i want to install another OS which is fedora 16 on my laptop but not on the virtual machine. i.e I want to ...
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Which drive's MBR does the Windows 7 installer overwrite?
Is it the first drive listed? Or is it the drive the C:\ partition belongs to?
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How to change partition size in fedora ? ( the format of drives are LVM2 )
I'm trying to install a windows on my laptop but I'm having some problems , I've got 500 Gb of storage which is under LVM2 format ( the format which is the Linux Fedora's format ) .
so here's the ...
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partition not available after resize using gparted. how to recover it?
I ran into a problem with my HDD.
I tried to make some space for my linux partition using gparted and I resized one of my NTFS partitions. Unfortunately, the operation didn't succeed and my ...
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How to fix partition table ordering?
I was going to install a completely fresh Linux distribution (Mageia) and I saw it as an opportunity to reorganize my partitions. I wanted all my non-Linux (Windows, restore, etc) partitions at the ...
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How to rescue Compact Flash card that has been corrupted by a bad formatting
I used my CompactFlash card as a boot drive to install Snow Leopard for my laptop a while ago. To do that I had to repartition it to HFS+ with a GUID partition table.
When partitioning it back to ...
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Partition External Harddrive already using Time Machine?
I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac ...
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Recover damaged partition after gparted resize was interrupted on read-only test
I wanted to expand a ext4 (or ext3) partition to the end of the disk with gparted and during the process noticed that it is also moving it by 1 MB toward the beginning of the disk. Since gparted was ...
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Why would Activity Monitor and iotop give completely different output re: Disk Activity?
I am trying to "rebuild" via DiskWarrior an external RAID0 startup drive… and it is "semi-stuck" on step 6.. but I have read that I should let it finish.. The strange thing is.. is that Activity ...
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Boot partition on SD/MMC with GRUB
I have a server box that runs Gentoo off an SSD with GPT partitioning. My BIOS is rather old, and for some reason it doesn't seem to be able to boot off the MBR of the GPT disk, so I am booting it ...
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Why don't I need to format and partition a CD or DVD before writing files to it?
Every time that I need to use a Flash USB drive, SD card or a HDD I must format it and create a partition before using it, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc. So this makes me raise some doubts:
Why ...
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How do I move Windows 7 boot partition to new internal hard drive from existing dual boot setup?
I'm currently dual-booting Windows XP and Windows 7 (both 32-bit) on separate partitions from the same internal hard drive. I'd like to move the Windows 7 partition onto a new drive, but keep the ...
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Gparted will not resize Windows XP system partition
My C: system boot partition needs to be bigger. Tried Acronis, EASUS, and PM within Windows but the partition could not be enlarged with either a merge with another partition or resizing with ...
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Create a multiboot USB drive with NTFS or ext2
I am trying to create a multiboot flash drive, but I don't want to use fat 16 due to the huge performance cliff between fat 16 and other file systems like ext 2 or NTFS. I need to have multiple linux ...
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which software is better for creating and changing DYNAMIC disks(partitions)?
i have a laptop that it's 1 TeraByte hard disk is dynamic(not basic).
i want to change that hard drive with a third party program for creating new patitions.
so i tried Acronis Disk Director Advanced ...
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How to correctly partition usb flash drive and which filesystem to choose considering wear leveling?
Two problems. First one: how to partition the flash drive?
I shouldn't need to do this, but I'm no longer sure if my partition is properly aligned since I was forced to delete and create a new ...
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Will restoring Windows 7 from a different machine's image destroy my partitions?
My coworkers and I were all assigned the same laptop models at the beginning of our project.
On mine, Windows 7 hit a state where I could not boot anything except Recovery Console.
I used a Linux ...
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Delete and Create Partition in Mac Lion
I have Mac Mini 3 volumes.
Mac Lion
mac Data
Mac entertain
I want to delete the "Mac Data" and create a new partition in following order
Mac Lion
Mac entertain
NEW PARTITION
How to do it?
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Lost recovery partition
I have a new asus windows 7 laptop. Using the "AI Recovery" tool, I deleted the 8 gig windows recovery partition.
Now the Disk Management utility is showing my disk to be 111.79 GB rather than the ...
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Repartitioning dual booting Macbook
I have a Macbook Pro configured to dual boot OSX or Ubuntu. Originally, I split the drive evenly between the two, but as I've been using Ubuntu far more heavily, and I'm running out of space on its ...
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Can't shrink partition due to mystery file
My system came with win xp. I installed Win7 in a separate partition, volume E. That was a while ago. I don't need xp anymore and now I want to shrink the C partition so that I can grow E. I ...
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How can I copy a “*.img” image to a hard disc partition so that it will be bootable?
There is an option for doing it from a Mac using Disk Utility; but at the moment I don't have a Mac. So how do I do it using Windows or linux?
And how do I copy a *.iso image to a hard disc ...
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OSX and Windows 7 partition issues on external hard drive
After using Windows disk utility to format empty space (create a Windows partition) on an HFS-formated external hard drive, the original partition that should have remained unchanged is no longer ...
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How can determine how my partition is full even when it appears it is not?
I have run "df -kh" on my FreeBSD box and I see that /var is near 100% full. It was over but I have trimmed what I can but there is less then 500MB total on the partition according to running "du -ksh ...
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Is it possible to determine when a NTFS partition was created?
We have a client where it would be very useful to determine WHEN a drive was a initialized or an NTFS partition created. Is there a timestamp value somewhere? If anyone could shed any advice it ...
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When installing Linux, what does remove all Linux partitions mean?
The Linux installation screen offers me the option to remove all Linux partitions and to create a default layout however what does this mean exactly? Does it mean that if I have Fedora installed, it ...
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Should I replace my system drive or work files drive with an SSD? [closed]
First of all, I've read lots of questions on this site (and over the web) about this question, but I'm still not sure about my specific situation.
I currently have a laptop with two 320 GB hard ...
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How do I split the system partition (C:) in Windows7?
On my new laptop total HD space is 750GB and available total space is 676GB (after OS install) and 632 GB is Free on C:.
When I use Shrink drive, it only creates/assign 337 GB to new partition and ...
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Possible to “move Windows XP” to data partition using following plan and symbolic links?
Background: I have Windows XP and Windows 7 on the same machine, on different partitions. Thus, I can perform operations on either OS while said OS is not running.
Terminology: "XP:", "7:" and ...
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How to understand if a folder is in the right partition
I've just installed an ubuntu server (11.10) with two partitions, one is a ssd hard drive and the second one is a raid 1 drive. During installation process I chose to put the home directory inside the ...
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Creating a hibernation partition on Windows 7
I have a laptop which comes with a 20GB SSD hibernation partition, but I want to install Linux and use half of that SSD drive as a swap partition. In the case that it breaks, during installation, how ...
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How to manually edit mbr to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two hfs+ partitions.
I know start and end sectors of both of them. These partitions are 100% healthy. I can see them in Raise Data Recovery, but testdisk does not see them.
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Advanced format partition alignment
I cloned a non Advanced Format drive (W7 64bit) to a new hard drive (Seagate) that was AF, the software I used supposedly does not support 4k very well (Todo Backup Free 3.5).
1.) Is there a Windows ...
