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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Restoring boot manager for secondary harddrive with windows 7 installed
A while back I took the hard drive out of my laptop and put it on my computer. I never got round to removing the windows install but removed the partition.
I now need access to windows 7 so I thought ...
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windows 7 creating extended logical partition in disk manager causes computer not to boot (black screen)
I searched around and could not find a post or solution for the same situation I am having, so I am going to describe what happened/happens below:
I have Windows 7 Home Premium installed on my Medion ...
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Why does my 3TB external drive show as "unallocated" when installed internally? [duplicate]
I have a Seagate 3TB drive with a USB 2.0 interface on it. I took it out of the case and installed into my PC (SATA). Physically, it’s like any other hard disk drive.
But all that Windows wants to ...
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How to return hard disk to its original state?
How do I turn my hard disk drive to its state when I first brought it. It has 250 gb unallocated space. But now, because of constant partitioning and experimenting. It has gained lots of unallocated ...
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Install Ubuntu on USB within VirtualBox
In order to test the stability of Btrfs-RAID1 I wanted to install Ubuntu on two USB sticks from within Virtualbox.
What I would like to achieve:
Having a btrfs-based RAID1-System that boots on ...
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How to resize a partition with gparted?
How do I perform a simple expansion of my main partition /dev/sda1 while keeping my swap partition /dev/sda2/dev/sda5 the same size? And why is the swap a separate device within the second partition?
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Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems , Windows can only be installed to GPT disks [duplicate]
I want to format c drive and reinstall windows 8.
previously I've installed windows 8 and ubuntu together in same C drive in separate partitions.previously I've configured ubuntu grub to select which ...
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How to recover "dynamic disk " converted wrongly to "basic disk"
I have a laptop hard disk , which I use with SATA to USB 3.0 connector to use as external hard disk . Using windows disk management I converted the dynamic disk of laptop to basic disk. Now I have ...
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Is my OS installed onto my SSD?
I ordered a new laptop that came with a 500 GB HDD, so I added a 128 GB SSD. I kind of assumed they would install the OS onto the SSD since in my experience that has been the norm. I'm pretty sure ...
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Bootcamp Partition Issues
Okay, so I have OS X 10.11 and Windows 8.1 partitioned on my computer, I installed windows using efi. I decided to add an additional partition to my computer, but windows decided that it didn't like ...
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Reallocate space using parted (no gui )
I'm running a Ubuntu server 14.04.3 LTS.
The partitioning has been created automatically and now I have a problem with root directory space. There is a raid /dev/md3 with almost 2 TB free and a /dev/...
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Identifying if /tmp is on a separate partition
I'm still learning and have seen one of the best practice for security is to partition /tmp separately from the file system. How do I check whether /tmp is in other partition?
If I were to do cd /, ...
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Ubuntu disk space increase in an LVM group is not being reflected in the OS
I added some disks to my RAID configuration, taking it from 6TB to about 14TB. Increased the size of my Ubuntu server’s virtual machine disk to 12TB, and then used GParted to expand the partition from ...
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Windows made 3 primary partitions and blocked me from making more
I have two OS on my PC - linux and Windows 10 (upgraded from 8.1). MS created 3 primary partitions and the last one was used for linux. I have left some free space to have zone formatted in FAT32 or ...
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I can not edit drive properies even when I use root
I use the gksu nemo (because my file explorer is nemo) command, yet when I go to the drive I use, I right-click, then go to properties I still cannot change the Permissions.
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DOS unformat memory issues
When I try to format an MSDOS 6.22 FAT16 partition (for restoration reasons, even with 3 AV installed, I get LOTS of virii), it goes about its business until UNFORMAT data is created. It says:
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How to calculate the required size of a partition backup from the block count of the containing ext3 filesystem
I need to generate a disk image containing the MBR, and one primary partition. The partition contains an ext3 Filesystem, which was resized to the minimum with resize2fs -M /dev/sdc1. I got the output ...
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Choosing which system to run
I have two HDDs in raid-0, and one ssd. I installed windows on ssd partition (NTFS) first, and then I installed linux on the second ssd partition (ext4). Both through booting and with formatting ...
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Move System Reserved Partition Windows 10
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I recently chose to migrate from the 1Tb spinning disk to a 128Gb m.2 + 1Tb HDD, with OS & programs installed on the m.2 and data on the HDD.
I didn't have time to do this as a dedicated ...
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Restore Windows From Data Backup?
So I managed to break my partition table, but I was able to recover my entire C: drive and copy every file and folder to an external drive. My question now becomes, is there anyway to, when I ...
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Restore deleted Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) partition
I've deleted an external HDD via OS X disk utility and created a new Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) partition but didn't write any data to it.
The password differs from the deleted Partion (...
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Recover Windows after removing drive with 100mb system partition
I have a two hard-drive setup, let's say X and Y, X older than the other. My Windows installation was on X. After noticing the X hard drive started failing I decided to backup everything on Y and ...
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Windows 10 Tech Preview error: "Windows cannot be installed on MBR disks". My hard drive is GPT. Why am I getting this error?
I'm trying to install the Windows 10 Technical Preview from a USB drive.
The hard drive I'm trying to install on has multiple partitions and is formatted with a GPT partition table. When I start up ...
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Changed partition table while installing Linux distro alongside Windows 7. Cannot boot into Windows or access files
I installed Elementary OS last night and in the process have potentially messed up my hard drive. Right now all I care about is being able to copy over important files that are still on the Windows ...
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Option to set a drive letter missing
So.. I need to edit the BCD for a partition on my local hard disk using a program called EasyBCD. This program needs the partition to be mounted (have a drive letter) so it can access \Boot\BCD, but ...
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How to use `dd` in order to restore the windows 7 backed up raw files into a new hard drive?
This is the typical case where the windows 7 installation had created a SYSTEM partition of about 1.1GB in size and another partition for the rest of the available space in a hard disk drive.
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Windows 7 recognize working Partition (FAT) as raw after resize using GParted
I have 7 partitions in my single hardisk. One is NTFS where Windows 7 is installed, two are FAT partitions (bigger than all) for storing data files/movies/photos and rest all are ext4 which I use it ...
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Failed Dual Boot left the main windows partition without boot or active tags, can't boot windows
I tried a failed dual boot configuration on a laptop and now I can't boot into windows. I get a message that no bootable device was found. If I go into the BIOS, it does detect the hard drive.
As ...
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Windows cannot be installed on the disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style [duplicate]
Is there any solution to above error without deleting my important document in other drive. I googled it and found the only solution to clean the hard like below
Boot from the Windows DVD
Click ...
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1st sector on a disk vs 1st sector on a partition
I am on Intelx86 platform. I have make my entire disk a Solaris partition.
Below are the slice information in that Solaris partition
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
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32GB SD card shows up as two volumes. One with 256MB of space. How can I utilize the full capacity of the 32GB SD card?
When I enter my 32GB SD Card to my Windows 7 PC it shows 256MB. Running disk management shows the following (disk H:). How do I make one volume of 32GB?
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Should I care about manufacturer-specific GPT partition type for boot partition?
Laptop Lenovo g710 (UEFI) with preinstalled Windows. Going to format disk (GPT) to install linux.
EFI System partition GUID (common) - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
Lenovo boot partition GUID ...
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what does a Windows 10 upgrade from an ISO do with any recovery partitions?
I have an MSI GT70 2PC Dominator gaming notebook which I bought about a year ago with Windows 8.1 and PowerDVD 10 installed. When I accidentally uninstalled PowerDVD because I thought it was a trial ...
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Can no longer see my partitions on my hard drive [duplicate]
It all began when i got a bluescreen from nowhere, i ignored it and started my computer again and tried to access my hard drive, but explorer stopped responding and the drive is no longer visible. I ...
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Change Partiton Order
How can I change the partition order! I dual booted Windows 10 and 7 and I want to extend the partition size. The Windows 10 partition is at the end. How can I switch the order?
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Cannot Merge Two partitions on a single Hard Disk
I deleted and formatted Dell's Recovery partition, and was hoping to add that 14GB of space to the C drive. No matter that I try, I just cannot get it to merge with drive C: I've tried using EaseUs ...
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Boot camp no longer shows OSX as a boot option
I have a Macbook Pro 2014 with bootcamp partition to Windows 10. I decided to create a partition for data. I created and re-sized the partition in Disk Utility (OSX) but formatted it partition in ...
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Linux partitioned for 8GB SSD + HDD?
I have a computer with 8GB of SSD storage, plus 1TB of regular hard-drive. I want to put the core of my Linux system in the SSD drive.
I'll be mounting /home in the second drive, but what other ...
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How to restore a copy of an MBR back to the original HDD with Windows 7?
This topic is related to my questions 1 and 2, however as I've entered yet another phase of this complex issue, I must ask another standalone question:
How can we copy back an MBR to an HDD with ...
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Why do I have two Healthy (Recovery Partitions)
I am just starting to install Linux Mint on my new Acer E 15. It came with Windows 8.1. When I started to make the partition, I saw that there are three recovery drives:
one Health (EFI System ...
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Windows detects GPT disk as MBR in EFI boot
This disk is OCZ VERTEX 128GB SSD. It is formatted as GPT from OSX. The disk layout is,
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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Can you build SSHD from SSD and HDD?
I have 1 SSD and 1 HDD. The SSD has 60GB of space and HDD has 1TB of space.
Is it possible to build an SSHD from it? I have herd is possible but if I search up this question it usually brings up ...
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Converting BIOS mode Arch Linux to UEFI
I have an arch install on my PC,
But dual booting windows 10 needs UEFI.
How would I convert BIOS into UEFI ? Without losing data.
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Windows 8.1 in legacy mode(MBR partitions) how to install windows 10 in UEFI mode(gpt partitions)?
I have a laptop with windows 8.1 installed. My laptop supports UEFI but when i installed win 8.1 i converted GPT partitions to MBR and then installed win 8.1 as legacy(my bad, a long story).
But now ...
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Gparted can not load filesystem when PXE booting
It looks like gparted does not support my Ethernet card... is there any way to make it so it does? I have tried this on my netbook and through virtual box on another machine, and it keeps giving me ...
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How to calculate Over-Provisioning on an SSD - Which Method do you use?
QUESTION SUMMARY: Is overprovisioning based on a percentage of the original user accessible physical space availble (METHOD #1) OR is it based on unallocated space divided by allocated space (...
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Cannot format 8GB USB Drive Partition
So, I have a 8GB USB thumbrive I am trying to format so I can use all 8 (or 7.27 to be exact) GB in a single partition. The drive already has a 943 MB partition, which I figured I could extend to ...
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Partition a partition before Linux Arch installation with GNU Parted
I am booting Linux Arch-ISO and RTFM but could not find my special state in the beginner’s guide and other sides of the Arch-wiki.
I have a hard drive sdb and want to divide the partition sdb2 (which ...
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create replica of ext4 filesystem and re-use it
Is there a way that I can use my Linux ext4 file system, as such and then use it on some other computer.
I have a dual-boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 and my partition table looks like this:
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Shrinking fat32 partition takes 24+ hrs in Paragon hard disk manager
I'm trying to shrink a fat32 primary partition from 500GB to 450GB in order to get 50GB unallocated space before the partition. The external disk has approx. 380GB data in it and connected via usb 2.0....
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