Questions tagged [partitioning]
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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MBR recovery - Corrupted MBR after it changed to dynamic & testdisk gives up . No backup sector found
I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:
cannot write MBR
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How to increase my Linux partition and remove unwanted partitions in dual boot system
I want to increase space on my Ubuntu partition, which I installed after allocating 50 GB free space from /dev/sda8 partition. I also have windows installed alongside. Now, I also don't know the use ...
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Same data takes more space on external hard disk
My internal 1TB SSD disk on the laptop has folders which are consuming 1.45GB of space. This SSD is NTFS formatted.
I recently bought Seagate 5TB and formatted it exFat so that it can work on both ...
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Windows 10 Will Not Boot After Partitioning
I had Linux installed on my ssd which was taking up too much space and wanted to get rid of it. After going into a partitioning application I deleted the Linux partitions and the Windows boot manager ...
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grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map
I was rebuilding linux kernel, and when I ran command
sudo make modules_install install
I got this message
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
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How to boot Windows from an internal Hard disk partition for installation?
I would like to boot Windows 10 from a partition in my internal hard disk? I currently have Linux Live USB (Linux Mint 18 Xfce) through which I will be able to download Windows 10 ISO, but I need to ...
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Linux Mint Dual Boot automatic install, what does it *EXACTLY* do?
I have 2 "free spaces" in my disk
(one because i erased "System Reserved"(windows still work ofc), it has about 150 mb)
40,000 MB free (which i saved for my linux mint installation).
In addition I ...
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Warning about remaining space on Windows RE Tools partition in Windows 10 - What to do?
I just installed Windows 10, and I noticed that Windows also created a 450MB partition called Windows RE tools (Recovery environment). Which is fine by me, but I also get constant warnings from ...
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On removing Linux from an HP laptop, is it posible?
I've got an HP Pavilion, it has factory settings (just formatted C with the recovery partition).
I'm eager to try Linux and learn Ruby on Rails.
Sadly I'm so afraid to mess with my Windows so I've ...
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Access Data on Lenovo Laptop HardDrive (Not Password Protected)
Background:
Lenovo Ideapad Y480 Laptop is not booting to either the hard drive (Samsung HD I believe) or to any Linux Live CD's. The laptop turns off shortly after it starts displaying OS loading ...
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Can't write into other partitions after installing Kubuntu 16.10
I have Windows 10 64-bit installed on my system. Then I installed Kubuntu 16.10 into another partition, and everything was successful. But the problem is it seems that I can't modify or add new data ...
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Debian Linux / strange default partition sizes
Installing Debian on a 512 GB SSD, I get the following default partitions:
/ 10 GB
/home 486 GB
/swap 14 GB
Considering I have 64 GB RAM, aren't these values quite strange?
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Using Win 7 bootsect tool
With bootsect.exe /nt** e: I assume, despite bootsect.exe help speaks of "master boot code", it is intended to apply the partition boostrap code to the partition identified by letter E:.
Given this, ...
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How do I repair Windows 10 UEFI/GPT disk which is left unbootable after deleting partitions?
I recently upgraded from Win8 to Win10. The Win8 machine was in a dual boot with Ubuntu on an 80GB SSD. After the update and a few other issues I created while messing around with GRUB, I'm now left ...
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Multi Boot with Restricted Access to Partitions
So what I want to do with my laptop is
Let's say I have a single hard drive on the laptop of 240 GB that's split into 2 sets (Set A & Set B) each containing 3 partitions of 40 GB.
Now I install ...
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Why does deleting a partition cause data to be lost?
I accidentally deleted a partition and given partitioning essentially is just how the space is divided, thought it wouldn't be too hard to repair the mistake. I was wrong. Why does deleting a ...
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Increase partition size when allocated space is to the LEFT of target partition?
I dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu MATE. My Ubuntu partition ran out of disk space so I decided to boot up a live CD to shrink the Windows partition to then allocate the space to my Ubuntu partition. ...
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Is it possible to boot Windows 8.1 without its own bootmanager?
I have been trying to come up with an easier way of installing Windows and Linux dual booting on my laptop, not necessarily in that order. What we generally have to do is install Windows first, and ...
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Resize HFS+ Partition
Is there any way that I can resize (grow, in this case) a HFS+ partition?
I tried gparted and acronis but of them none seem to be able to do it.
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Encrypting an Arch installation w/ suspending state
I'm trying to set up a fresh Arch install in a way similar to the Macbook I use for work. The Macbook is encrypted, and I want to recreate that encryption setup.
I need to:
- Fully encrypt the disk
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Windows 10 System State Backup wbadmin command errors out with "The specified backup storage location has the shadow copy storage on another volume."?
I'm running a system state backup on a Windows 10 system via bareos...
Before and after the backup, the system state backup is run on the client machine, but mine keeps failing before the backup ...
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Installed windows 10 and Linux, how to safely remove the Lenovo recovery partitions without messing up the boot?
Please look at the following screenshots.
Is /dev/sda1 useful at all (Windows says it is a Recovery Partition)? Can I remove it? It is only 1000MB and removing it seems no use, so the best I can do ...
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Merge Two Unallocated Partitions
I have a HDD with 3 partitions, an Unallocated 232GB, a 450 MB Recovery, and another unallocated 363.74GB. What I would like to do is merge the two unallocated spaces. The 232 GB and the 363.73GB ...
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Why do I have MBR and GPT as partition tables?
I started with Windows and installed Ubuntu as a dual boot. Thus I thought my partition table should be MBR, since this is what Windows uses.
When i run gdisk under Ubuntu, this is the output:
GPT ...
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pata hard disk I/O error in 2 sectors
after deleting all partitions and creating one fat32 partition, I got this error in the terminal and then I ran GSmartControl and got a report.
and also the chkdsk gave me an error An error occurred ...
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Fat 32 partition recognized by Linux not by OS X why?
I used Gparted to create 3 partitions on an unencrypted external 2 GB hard drive:
A FAT32 system (0x0c).
A Ext4 system with Linux installed on (I did this after creating the partitions).
A HFS system ...
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Windows 10 installs on wrong harddrive
Yesterday I've bought an expensive MSI notebook and so far I'm very disappointed of its price because there is a lot I have to setup.. So far I did everything with success until I realized everything ...
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Windows BSOD loop: "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" after repartitioning and installing Ubuntu Gnome
Windows 10 x64 v1607 won't boot after I reprtition my single 1TB HDD and installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.1 LTS amd64. it keeps doing a BSOD "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE".
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Boot from Ubuntu ...
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Can't boot windows from a clone of my working harddrive
My goal: Clone everything on C: to my SSD drive f:, then use the old "c:" for data.
Some threads say I need GPT (on one? both?) I think it's already set to F: bedcause the convert button is gray in ...
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How to extend the primary partition for Ubuntu Server running in VMWare Player
I ran out of space on a VM I use at home. It runs Ubuntu server and the existing space was 20G. I decided to increase it to 100G to ensure I have plenty of breathing room.
So I followed the ...
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How can I move disk space to drive :C with ssd card from :D with regular hard drive?
I am left with 2GB free space on drive C and over 800 GB free on drive D.
How can I change that and bring more space to C or combine C and D ?
What I have been trying so far:
1) Combining C and D ...
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Can't format the fat32 sd card, Bad FAT: unterminated chain
I'm trying to format this SD Card, and gParted says all operations successful but when the devices refresh the data is still there hence the disk is unformatted.
When I perform the "Check" operation ...
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Hard Drive dead after windows 10 failed install
Earlier today, I attempted to reset windows 10 on my hard drive, which worked perfectly prior to doing so. I let the reset wizard take over, and for 4 straight hours, it said it was getting files ...
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Increase directory size
I have installed a physical drive to my system where I'm going to save files for my application. I have mounted it at /storage/appfiles. Lets say in future the disk gets filled up to 100%, I will ...
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Recovery options in Windows 10? Run from DOS or CLI how?
How do I Recover from a drive through the CLI? Because I'm just not seeing this option in the Control Panel after reading the fine manual:
You can also Recover from a drive. This will reinstall ...
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Windows attempts to chkdsk a phantom Volume at every startup
The question(s) of this post are the following:
This Windows 8.1 installation is executing what appears to be a chkdsk on every boot, specifying the following message at boot: Scanning and Repairing \...
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How to check the Online Disk Type and find Virtual Disks
I had tried to restructured my partitions of hard drive in windows 10.But while i tried to check my online disks of hard drive , there is only one with the name of disk 0.
But i had more then one ...
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Unable to install Windows 7 on a secondary hard drive
Windows 7 installation works on the primary drive, but not on the secondary drive.
Error message is:
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition
The ...
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Partitioning/formatting overpartitioned 32GB and 64GB USB key as 8GB
Got 2 USB keys from Ebay partitioned as 32GB and 64GB resp. Neither one is unable to accept or hold that much when I attempt to fill them in with data. I suspect they're both overpartitioned. What do ...
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How to install GRUB in Ubuntu 15.04? [duplicate]
I am trying dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10. This installation was going Like Breeze until GRUB Installation.
Partition Specs:-
Boot was 100GB
Swap 16GB
Home ext4 100GB
All those partitions are ...
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Can I safely use the Windows 7 Disk Management tool to format my hardware RAID 1 setup?
I have spent the last 3 days banging my head against a wall trying to get a RAID 1 setup working on my Windows machine. I have finally gotten the hardware RAID drivers setup (loaded them during an OS ...
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Why can't I delete all partitions on a flash drive in Windows 7?
Recently I purchased an ADATA C802 8GB flash drive. Since the drive was new I decided to run some of the HD Tune Pro (v4.50) performance tests on it, mostly just for the heck of it.
To avoid ...
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What do hashmarks for a partition shown in diskmgmt.msc mean?
What does it mean that a partition has hash marks on it for Windows 10?
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Partition is not getting formatted.
Recently my Western Digital 250Gb Hard Drive failed so I get a new same WD 250 gb in replacement. Now I am trying to install windows 7 ultimate with SP1 so whenever I make a primary partition of 50 Gb ...
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Shared partition between OSX and Windows 10 (using Bootcamp) Disappeared?
Longtime windows user giving OSX a go. My idea was to install Windows via BootCamp and have a shared partition that holds my Dropbox folder (to avoid having dropbox take twice the room on my SSD), ...
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Repartitioning to install Linux on an NTFS disk
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I have 2 physical disks, both NTFS. One has Windows installed and the second is just for data. I want to:
Resize the secondary NTFS disk leaving half of it unallocated.
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Increase windows partition size (1 linux, 1 windows)
I have a linux ext2 partition and a windows 7 partition.
Unfortunately the windows 7 partition is at the end.
I was thinking about possibly trying to use a linux tool to resize the partitions and ...
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Recovery Partition volume gone missing?
Today, after I restarted my computer, I realise that I have a missing drive in My Computer screen. Although I don't access it all the time, I remember very clearly that there is a Recovery (D:) drive ...
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trying to format old drive, got "ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir"
I had what used to be an old NTFS hard drive. Something went wrong years ago with the drive, and it wouldn't boot into windows. I had an invalid windows key, all kinds of pirated software, and ...
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where can I get a copy of Boot Configuration Data?
Within the context of UEFI booting on Windows, Wikipedia redirects "Windows Boot Manager" to the Windows Vista Startup Process:
Boot Configuration Data are stored in a data file that has the same
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