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I'll try and answer all your questions one by one. I'm assuming you have a Win8 Setup DVD/USB handy, which you created using the Upgrade Assistant.
First of all, the easiest solution by far would be to attach only the 2TB Win7 drive, boot from the Win8 Setup media, shrink the Win7 partition (if it's using all 2TB) and install Win8. No mess, no fuss, and ...
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Typically, when the machine comes pre-installed with 8 on it you'll need to shrink the Windows partition before doing anything else so you have some free space to create the needed partitions.
The boot loader should be installed on the drive and not the MBR, because this will overwrite the Windows bootloader and mess things up. When choosing which partition ...
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There shouldn't be any advantages to creating multiple physical partitions on the same disk and merging them together as one logical volume. It's just added complexity.
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is the bios recognizing the USB hard drive? Did you install the OS to the ext HD? Or just move the files. The OS has to be directly installed to that hard drive. This one may help as well
Booting from a USB drive that was originally a boot drive
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When i started reading your question, i was thinking about an overwritten MRB.
However, if the partition table changed from MBR to GPT, all partitions on the harddrive have been killed.
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Try my FixParts program. It should fix the problem automatically. I recommend launching it on the disk and using FixParts' p option to view your partition table. Note that FixParts doesn't show extended partitions at all, so don't worry when you don't see your /dev/sda4. If you see all the other partitions, though, and if none of them is listed as omitted in ...
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Have you mounted already all your HDD Partitions? You should try to reinstall grub like this:
sudo fdisk -l #To view all your partitions
then mount your linux partition:
sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt #pay attention to the number of your linux partition.
and finally:
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
Then reboot and check if it ...
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Actually you're fine. Based on the fdisk data you posted, sda4 is an extended partition that contains just one logical partition (sda5). You should be able to shrink sda5 and create an arbitrary number of new logical partitions next to it.
I recommend booting into a GParted Live session and using gparted to shrink sda5 and create your new partitions in the ...
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I've had no trouble resizing my main OS partition with Disk Utility. If you open Disk Utility, and select the physical drive (probably the top-most item on the left), Disk Utility will give you a "Partition" option, after "First Aid" and "Erase", before 'RAID' and 'Restore'.
For additional instructions, please refer to Disk Utility's Help. On the first ...
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Yes, it's possible. My FixParts program will do the job, with some caveats. Most notably, you need at least one unallocated sector immediately preceding each to-be-logical partition. If such a gap doesn't exist, you can shrink the preceding partition by a small amount using GParted before using FixParts. Some Windows tools can also do the job, but I don't ...
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Personal experience tells me, "No".
I suggest backing up all data you do not want to lose and start over -- this time installing that other OS on a single primary partition the size desired first.
Then create a 15-20GB primary for / , a swap, and an extended partition of the rest of the drive you want to use for any other mount points desired.
Sorry!
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You can try to edit the partitions in a free OS like ubuntu using a tool named GParted Partition Editor (it should already be included with ubuntu. Use the first link below to find out how to start it). This may eliminate your issue. You can then change your partitions by booting up a LiveUSB of ubuntu into your mac.
This link may help you (its for ...
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The four (primary) partition limitation is a result of a common convention used by both BIOS's and operating systems called the MBR for specifying a disk's partitions. The MBR convention, which was written in 1983, provides for only four primary partitions. The MBR is a data structure that resides in the first sector of each hard disk, and contains the disk ...
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I found a way to get rid of this.
The solution is to create USB bootable media formatted with FAT32 filesystem
I was using "Windows7-USB/DVD-tool" to create bootable usb. This tool formats the flash drive with NTFS filesystem and sets it to active primary partition. And during windows7 installation it first seems to give drive letters to "active ntfs" ...
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I currently own a 128 GB SSD and have both Windows and Linux running. I've split them 50:50 and and put the operating systems and swap drives on the SSD. After a few months I realized that I had more stuff in my home directory than I could store, so I moved that onto another, bigger, non-SSD drive.
Recommended partition setup:
100 MB UEFI boot drive
~20 ...
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If any HDD ever starts making a noise of any kind you should stop using it immediately. No further hardware tests are needed and should not be performed because any type of testing can and will cause further damage to the drive.
The HDD will have to be replaced regardless, the only thing you should be concerned with now is recovering your data. I would ...
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I'm always suprised by people advising to use software X before trying a data copy.
DON'T use Palimpsets or whatever to 'analyze' your disk, but stop using the disk (computer) as much as possible.
Don't shutdown or restart, don't analyze the disk, don't try to repair, don't even read with anything else than the program that will copy your data off the ...
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Is this the OS which came from factory? I mean when you bought the laptop this is the OS which came with it? If yea, those partitions are probrably recovery partitions. I would format everything, reinstall windows and install ubuntu on the other partition.
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It sounds like a bad sign. Stop doing any partitioning work, and try to use the disk as few as possible.
As others have pointed out, it's better to perform a backup of your data first, and then trying to discover what happened to the hard drive.
After you have managed to secure your data, if you want to diagnose what happened to the disk, you could use a ...
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You have done a very deep analysis of disk formats, both MBR and GPT,
and it seems that you have hit a problem that was unthought-of in these standards,
that of a format that is independent of the logical sector size.
The problem is that the USB disk has internal sector size of 4K but pretends to different sector sizes (both logical and physical) according ...
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If I remember correctly, you may be able to do it if the disks are dynamic from Disk Management. However, you can just use Gnome Partition Editor. It will allow you to move partitions around on the disk, regardless of type.
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Yes, you can't have a partition with an "hole". That's because partitions were useful mainly to have a faster access to files.
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First, your screen shot has been reduced in size to the point of illegibility, and therefore near uselessness. The one thing I can take away from it is that most of your partitions are logical partitions. If you try to create a new primary partition, this will require resizing the extended partition that holds the logical partitions, and possibly moving one ...
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I used EaSuS partition manager and created partition then it works
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You've got what must be an EFI-mode installation of Windows on your hard disk, but something seems to have wiped the Windows boot loader from the EFI System Partition (ESP). OTOH, you do have a fallback boot loader on the ESP, and what looks like a backup of that boot loader created by Ubuntu's Boot Repair tool. If I'm reading the clues right, something ...
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First, back up all your important data! Partitioning operations in general are inherently risky, and an error message that seems strange could be a sign of a serious problem lurking somewhere that will jump out and bite you.
With that done, I recommend the following:
Boot a Linux live CD, such as Parted Magic or System Rescue CD.
In the Linux live CD, ...
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You will have to free up enough disk space in order for the requested partitions to hold what they do.
Make sure that you are giving enough room for OSX.
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In Disk Utility, you can repair the partition table itself by selecting the drive itself (i.e. NOT an indented partition) and doing a first aid repair on that.
If that doesn't work, consider growing or shrinking your working JHFS+ partition slightly (this is a non-destructive procedure) to force the partition table to get rewritten.
Update: One last ...
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With Disk Utility, you can only resize partitions (without erasing them) if the partitioning scheme is GPT. Yours is MBR. Also, you can't verify this disk with Disk Utility.
You have some options (always do a full backup before doing anything!):
Erase the whole disk and re-partition it as GPT. In order to do this, you should select the right option (1, 2, ...
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Usually it helps to clear the first sector of that device. So on Linux, try this as non-root:
insert the usb drive, check dmesg to see what device it gets asigned (assuming /dev/sdc here)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1
fdisk /dev/sdc (add a partition in here)
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 (or any other filesystem you want)
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If you are planning to use this disc as the actual Linux OS disc, then it will need to have an some sort of ext partition for that. However, Windows Dow not get on very well with ext, so I would suggest formatting a separate partition as NTFS for the general file storage and sharing between systems. When you plug this into your PC it will appear as a ...
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What linux system will you install?
Regardless of that, Linux will create it's own partitions. When you install it, it will request space, in the form of unallocated space or a partition it can remove. You select space, or a partition (of sufficient size), and it will create at least two partitions in this space.
To have space for your files, use Disk ...
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The utility provided by VirtualBox obviously didn't work.
I overcame th problem by first creating a new virtual machine, and made a clean Windows XP installation. Then I mounted the newly created drive, erased the contents and copied the content from my .img file. This was the quickest solution I could think of.
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If you have /dev/sda2 or a swap partition immediately after /dev/sda1, then you'll need to shrink and move them to the right so the free space is shown between /dev/sda1 and the other partitions.
Just note that this can take, for a 1TB HDD, over 10 hours to complete if there is a lot of data.
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I am not 100% sure I remember exactly, but try first to move the swap partition so that the unallocated space is shown next to sda1, then it should be possible to enlarge that partition.
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Unfortunately, gparted does not support online resizing of partitions. Thus, if you don't have advanced knowledge of Linux, you should boot from a Linux CD (e.g. the Ubuntu install CD/USB) and run gparted from there.
The easiest way then is to move the swap partition out of the way:
right-click on /dev/sda5, Select swapoff (if applicable)
delete /dev/sda5 ...
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Here is the solution, thanks to @Eddy_Em!
My sda6 partition was a Windows file system and still had all files on it.
I must have accidently marked it as 'swap' during the installation of Ubuntu.
The good thing is: The partition was not changed, it just had a false flag.
Changing the filesystem type back to NTFS (using linux) does the trick:
$ sudo ...
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fdisk is for hard drives that are still using the old legacy Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table format.
GParted is for hard drives that are using the modern GUID Partition Table (GPT).
Hard drives that use GPT often have a "Protective MBR" (PMBR); a fake MBR to try to keep old school MBR-centric formatting/partitioning software from thinking the hard ...
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I pulled up GParted and took a look and it appears that the stuff on /dev/sda1 is actually a fat32 partition and the partition I was looking for was under /dev/sda2. The moral of the story is that it seems that GParted is smarter than fdisk ...
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Clonezilla relies on Partclone to save and restore filesystems. Although it's useful, even if you use the -icds option, that alone isn't enough. When restoring the original filesystem on the smaller disk, Partclone will encounter a seek error trying to write beyond the disk boundary. So this is a limitation of not only Clonezilla, but the underlying tools it ...
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I generally use the following:
/ 30 ~ 40 GB
/boot 256 MB
swap 4 GB (might need more if you want to use hibernation)
/home 20 GB
/mnt/data the rest
In /home I will usually have only dotfiles; all my data is stored in /mnt/data - this is mostly personal choice; also, if you dual-boot Windows/Linux you can have this partition as NTFS for accessing from ...
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'Incorrect' is perhaps a strong term, but my experience over the last few years has been that making a lot of partitions tends to be a mistake -- specifically, later on, I'll want /home or /var or what-have-you to contain more bytes than the partition size permits, which results in a big pain in the neck no matter how it's solved. I've lost track of how many ...
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I generally use the following:
/
/home
/boot
swap
On a 1TB drive, I'd look at something like the following:
swap 18GB
/home 500GB
/boot 1GB
/ remainder
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You can't really use cp or "sudo cp" because it doesn't work well with links etc.
Try "sudo rsync -a /Volume/source /Volume/dest" if you just want to make a backup. You can even run the same command again to make files up to date. BTW it's fast.
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None. But be careful when specifying block device name, you can accidently wipe another partition.
Kernel should not allow that. If it does, you will likely have a kernel panic: kernel filesystem code does not expect someone else (userspace dd) to make changes to the block device simultaneously.
After dd, there's no filesystem in the partition and you must ...
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You may oly 4 Primary partition. Or use software - boot loader Bootstar, it make 15 primary partition use emulation hdd partition type marker.
It you need Extended partition. If you need an Extended partition, and it will replace the one Primary partition, then the Primary partition is 3 and 1 Extended partition. Extended partition, in turn, may contain a ...
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Use any Windows 7 or 8 startup disk. When you're asked what hard drive to install to, press Shift+F10 and a Command Prompt window will appear.
Enter the following commands:
DISKPART
LISTDISK
SELECT DISK #
(Where # is the number you saw in the previous step.)
CLEAN
CONVERT MBR
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE 50.000
(The size is in MB, so enter the ...
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Windows ties the boot style of the computer to the partition table type:
On BIOS-based computers, the disk must use a Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table.
On EFI/UEFI-based computers, the disk must use a GUID Partition Table (GPT).
The error message you received indicates that you're violating this rule: You've booted the installer in BIOS mode, but ...
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I'd do it the easy way. Copy all the files to a external drive. Install Windows. Then install a boot manager. The install Ubuntu. All problems are solved.
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Also -- As a side not from the above comments: If you haven't already, you must change your BISO setting to enable LEGACY MODE. Otherwise the windows 7 installation will hang and never install.
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