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When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're working with partitions.

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Debian root partition greater than 2TB

I have two internal hard drives: a 4TB drive and a 750GB drive. After selecting RAID0 and installing Debian (wheezy) to a single partition, I ran fdisk -l which reported that the size of my root ...
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Which are the default partition flags for Packard Bell Easynote laptops?

How should the partition flags be set for the default partitions of Packard Bell laptops? PQSERVICE SYSTEM RESERVED WINDOWS (Seven) In my case, the model is an EasyNote LJ65. Which partition should ...
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How to find out if a device is currently is use?

In an effort to create a Linux installation script, I'd like to check if /dev/sda is currently in use by the Kernel, and exit if so. I guess this means finding out what partitions are associated to ...
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Corrupt partition table - TestDisk can't find all partitions

I was resizing a partition when my PC froze and I had no alternative to shutting down manually. Unfortunately that caused my partition table to became corrupt. My partition table was like this: ...
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Put linux on the fifth partition

So I have this quite "insane" partition scheme on my MacBook: Kevins-MacBook-Air:~ Ingwie$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: ...
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Can't choose between Fedora 18 or Windows 7 at startup

I've installed Windows 7 on my system, and made three partitions: one of 180 GB, one of 210 GB and one of 75 GB. I've made a bootable DVD with Fedora 18 from an ISO file and installed Fedora on the ...
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Is the default Windows 8 UEFI/GPT Partition Scheme necessary?

I'm installing Windows 8 on a UEFI computer with a GPT drive array (RAID 0), and whenever I try to create a new partition the installer creates additional partions according to the default Windows 8 ...
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Clone Hard Disk except got One Partition

I would like to replace a hard disk in my desktop with a smaller SSD. This hard disk has the following partition setup: Linux ext4 partition (and related swap partitions) Windows 7 NTFS partition ...
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Dual boot modular partitioning

I want to install linux mint 14 alongside my already installed windows 7; there is an install alongside windows 7 option but I don't know how that will partition my drive and I don't think it will ...
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gparted unallocated entire hard drive

Here is my whole situation: I have a dual booted Windows/Ubuntu computer. In order to move from space from the Ubuntu partition onto the Windows partition, I booted into a live Ubuntu 10.10 CD and ...
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Unable to create disk partition from free space on Windows 7 Home Basic

I had partitioned my computer with two partitions, C: and D:, with D: used as recovery. All was fine until 5 months later, when my laptop (Samsung RV511 running Windows 7 Home Basic) crashed (I assume,...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can

I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT. The formatting ...
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Native linux bootable thumb drive with first partition as fat32

I've been trying to do this for quite a while and I feel like I have exhausted my options on it. I want to make a flash drive partitioned similarly to this: Number Start (sector) End (sector) ...
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How to make new partitions on a laptop that runs Rapid Drive with a 1TB HD and 32GB SSD?

I have a lenovo y480 with a 32GB solid state drive and a 1000GB normal HD. However, I am unable to make new partitions on the HD as the Rapid Drive tool has merged the hard drives. I only have a C ...
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Non destructively enlarging HFS+ system partition

How can I enlarge my HFS+ system partition? I've tried GParted and other methods (the dragging scrubber is not available, even booting with installation DVD to ensure that the system partition is not ...
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Create an image of a pure Ubuntu-Installation on Macbook Pro

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on my Macbook Pro (Late 2009) as the only operating system, so theres's no Mac OS X oder Bootcamp installed. It runs fine and now i'd like to create an image of the current ...
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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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Linux command line partition manager with LVM

I need to write a program to format SD card with, FAT boot, ext4 and swap partitions. I would like the ext4 to use LVM. Ideally there would be scope for mdadm. I need help finding a command line ...
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Lost data after trying to merge two partitions

I was using Paragon Partition Manager 10 to merge two partitions, the first of 30GB and the second of 50GB, but my cat unplugged the power cord from the computer and the merge process didnt finish. ...
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Moving Windows 7 across drives, then installing Ubuntu for dual-boot

After trying out Ubuntu for a few days via Wubi, I want to take the next step and set it up on its own drive. My system has two drives: a 320 GB drive which contains the OS, and a 1 TB drive which ...
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Bootloader on USB flash drive, data on USB HDD

It might sound absurd, but I'd like to configure a bootloader on a USB flash drive to load from a removable HDD. The reason why is that the data fits on the HDD (where it has its own partition) but it ...
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Ubuntu installer doesn't see windows partition

The problem: I have Windows installed, i wanted to install ubuntu too, but when i go to the installer, it doesn't see the existing partitions, it shows the whole 500GB of the hard drive as free space ...
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Windows within OSX VMWare Fusion not able to access mac partitions

when I run my bootcamp Windows 7 natively, I installed macdrive and it can see all of the HFS+ partitions as windows drive letters. Read/Write performance is great. When I run my bootcamp Windows 7 ...
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Windows 7 Partition

I am trying to create the new drive from the c drive, I already part the disk. but I have one problem when I want to create a new simple volume. After completion all steps I got this message : ...
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Untouchable disks via Disk Utility and GParted

I have what I think are hybrid GUID/MBR disks that I created by splitting already MBR/NTFS disks via GParted, leaving unallocated space, then creating HFS partitions within OS X from the unallocated ...
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Mac Disk Utility Undo volume scheme change

My sister made a mistake when trying to reformat a hard drive, and buggered up a hard drive with her work on it. She says it happened very quickly which leads me to believe she's actually just ...
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Hard Drive Partitioning?

I am not a basic user of computers, but frankly I have never done a partition of a hard drive. But I decided to shrink the only HD in the computer by 25GB for Ubuntu, however I realized that Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu cannot see portable hdd with 2 partitions

I don't know why but Ubuntu v9.10 isn't showing up one of it's partitions in my portable HDD. Only the 2nd partition is shown, and I can't find the 1st one. What might be a solution to this?
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Issue after resizing partition for Fedora under VMware Fusion

I am running FC9 under VMware Fusion 3.0. I wanted to resize my /dev/sda2 partition. In order to do that I did the following: Changed the size of the vmware file (under VMware settings) Rebooted the ...
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re-use of hdd which was wiped, but can not accessed for any further use

I have an HDD which was wiped (not by myself).Maybe a program named killdisk was used. I want to re-use the HDD, but it seems to be "really deleted". I don't want any old data from the hdd. ...
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How to change the start point of a partition with a bad sector

I hope I am asking on the right site, if not please guide me to the correct site. I have a 300GB hard drive. It has a bad sector where my C drive is. I have free space on its left but when I right-...
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How do I move a partition to the beginning of a drive in Windows?

I just did a clean install of Windows 10 on my laptop, and Windows places a 450MB recovery partition at the beginning of my boot drive. Is there a way to delete the recovery partition, and ...
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Merging free & unallocated space using 3rd party softwares

Questions like this have been asked before but the solutions don't really pertain to my case/aren't very clear to me. Screenshot of my current partitions: I want to have a dual-boot system with ...
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Windows does not recognize HDD after reformatting one partition

I have 2 hard disk drives on my computer : On the first one, I have only Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed (dual boot) The second HDD has 5 Partitions where I saved documents. Initially, all the ...
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How to make one partition of a multiple partition USB flash drive bootable?

I have a USB flash drive and I created two partitions on it and I wanted to make one partition of it bootable. I tried using Rufus and burned an iso file on it but it made the whole USB flash drive ...
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Difficulty resizing a partition

I have a 320GB Hard Drive If I click on the drive in Easeus and "View Properties" I think it shows me the partition information Easeus View Properties Used 13.3GB 97% Unused 376MB 3% Total ...
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Partition layout for SSD + 3 HDDs

Yesterday I got my new workstation featuring: 120 GB - OCZ Vertex3 MAX IOPS 300 GB - Western Digital Velociraptor (10k RPM, about 4ms avg. seek) 2x2TB Samsung Ecogreen F4 The system will be running ...
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Will 4096 bytes alignment benefit on SSD with 512 bytes sector size?

My SSD physical sector size is 512 bytes. Will 4096 byte alignment benefit in IO operations? Currently the 1st partition (Recovery) has starting offset at 32 256 bytes according to msinfo32. The ...
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Partition does not have a volume

When I run DiskPart, I have a Disk 0 and a Disk 1. On Disk 0 there are 3 partitions. Partition 3 has a size of 238 GB. When I run List Volume there is not a matching volume with a size of 238 GB. ...
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How to re-partition old XP boot drive (with OEM partition) after installing Win7 on new SSD?

Old situation: Machine had 2 232 GB HDDs: - HD 0 contains a 70 MB OEM partition and a 232 GB Windows XP boot partition - HD 1 has one partition (data disk) I bought a new SSD, added it to my machine, ...
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How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?

I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
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Aborting repartitioning

Around 5 days ago I decided to change the partitions on my external HDD. The partitions were full, but there was some space not used by them, so I wanted to move the partitions to the left and expand ...
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Cloning SSD to USB but Windows fails to boot

After I cloned my SSD (size:120GB) to an USB (128GB) with EaseUS Partition Master and tried to boot my Motile M142 laptop from the USB, it gave me the same error message of "0xc000000e" I ...
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Strange folders name with GNU Grub Shell

Accidentally, I delete EFI partition or some partition that I don't really know (just bcz I didnt read docs carefully and delete a random one :<). However, when I reboot my laptop, it shows GNU ...
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Consequences of a screwed up recovery environment?

So I recently upgraded a machine to Windows 11 and for some reason, the partitions got messed up. I managed to follow a tutorial and used diskpart to convert a normal partition into a recovery ...
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Rescue of a live system after deleting LVM signature when recreating partition of new size

I have done something stupid, I'll admit right away. Thankfully, it was done on a test system. I have a DNS server running in a virtual machine on an ESXi 6.7 host. The DNS server required some more ...
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How to move files from the end of the drive to the beginning to allow for a partition?

I am trying to create a partition of 100GB on a 900GB SSD. However, when I go to create the partition Widows Disk Manager says that there is only 1 GB of available space even though File Explorer says ...
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How can I re-install Windows 10 on a GPT drive?

My motherboard is GA-970-UD3 with Phenom II x4 955 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 I have just fitted a 4Tb Seagate Barracuda as my 1Tb Barracuda had failed after around 6 years. 12 gig memory (3 x 4gig all ...
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debian installer doesnt allow for specific LUKS combination of multiple drives

so i have these 3 drives in my PC: /dev/sda 240GB SSD Sandisk SSDSDA240G /dev/sdb 1TB HDD WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 /dev/sdc 2TB SSD TS2TSSD230S i want to install Debian Bookworm (12) on /dev/sda. my plan ...
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Explain _ Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab

with neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:' OS: Kubuntu 22.04.3 LTS x86_64 To re-purpose a drive ... this drive was made raw by: deleting all files deleting all partitions by using badblocks command ...
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