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Hard drive access denied
after installing Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS Noble Numbat, on my PC (16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor, GeForce GTX 1080, 31.3 Gio RAM) I get an error message, when I click on one of my internal ...
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Ubuntu Failing to Install and Lost All My Drive Data
I tried installing Ubuntu 15 times, but every attempt failed. On the next startup, I just tried Ubuntu instead of installing and downloaded a program with iso type.
And accidentally selected mount in ...
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Ubuntu 24.10 - Why Ubuntu keeps failing to mount my external drive?
I formatted my external drive A with NTST on Windows 11. At first, it ran okay on Ubuntu and Windows, so I put some data in it from my Ubuntu environment. Then, after I used my external drive B, I can'...
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Issue while installing Ubuntu 22.04 in external SSD
Currently using Windows 10, also wanted to use Ubuntu 22.04.1 but without dual booting, so thought to install Ubuntu on external SSD (SA100 SATA 2.5").
But after several process I can't detect my ...
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I'm attempting to mount a drive located at /dev/sdX to a specific directory using the following command: sudo mount /dev/sdX /mnt/mydrive
What I’ve Tried:
Checked the drive’s file system using sudo fdisk -l.
Verified the directory exists with ls /mnt/mydrive.
Tried mounting with different options, such as specifying the file system type ...
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How do I completely wipe my hard disk from Live OS?
I have managed to go wrong with installing ubuntu and I need to start again.
I assume the reason I couldn't install ubuntu 24.04 before when i tried was because I had attempted (and failed) to ...
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Ubuntu boot issue - reset wipe hard drive
I purchased a new LENOVO laptop (intel ultra 7 / 32gb ram / 1TB hard drive, came with windows 11). First time in my life I DIRECTLY installed ubuntu desktop 24 fresh as soon as i opened it. As part of ...
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Dual boot SSD not detected Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
I am trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. Currently, I use Ubuntu in USB stick and I can see my sdd that installed Windows. Recently I bought new sdd (Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 1 TB SSD). I can ...
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Could you help me make my Hard Disk my default saving path instead of the current NVME SSD?
SSD: 256 GB Hard Disk: 1.0 TB
These are what partitions on my computer look like:
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 579M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 97.1G 0 part
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The laptop is not performing too well, but the HDD is finished?
I tried, but it seems that my laptop can't run this version of Ubuntu very well, a downgrade would be needed.
Or, there would be another problem. This is the HDD, one saved from junk, and it also ...
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Trying to dual boot Ubuntu with pre-installed Win11
I am trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop with pre-installed Win11.
In the manual selection, it is showing the complete physical drive which is 2XNVMe SSD drives (2TB). The Laptop has 11th generation ...
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Overfilled my m.2 nvme drive
Hi there I was doing data recovery with photorec and unfortunately I filled the SSD to its maximum now my operating system won't boot
I've tried recovery mode with the making space option but it wasn'...
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How does ubuntu respond to hardware changes? [duplicate]
Back story:
I was messing around with ubuntu and an HP laptop, and then remembered about an 2009 macbook with a broken screen I had in my garage. I plugged in the same hardrive as in the HP laptop and,...
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Facing Problem opening ubuntu on ssd but harddisk problem
I have both an SSD and a hard disk in my laptop. But today, after I installed Ubuntu 24.04 on the SSD instead of Windows, Ubuntu doesn't open when the hard disk is connected; instead, a Pop!_OS popup ...
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Install Ubuntu on secondary hard drive
Background:
I use Windows 11 on an unsupported device and want to make the dual boot (Windows and Linux) for coding and playing. So I want to install Ubuntu ON MY SECOND DRIVE.
My hardware:
AMD Ryzen ...
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Low disk space warning on "Filesystem root"
I have a Ubuntu machine in VMWare.
Initially, it had 40Gb storage but recently I start getting low disk space warnings so I decided to increase it to 60 with GParted.
The problem is, I still get the ...
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Attempt to copy entire disk with dd command failed
I have Xubuntu 22.04 installed on my PC, that has two hard disk drives: one HDD 1,5 TB and one SSD 128 GB. I have partiotioned these two disks so that my /home folder is in a partition in HDD and the ...
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Ubuntu Dual Boot Installation : Not Detecting Hard Drive or Partitions
I have a PC with an SSD having windows and an Hard Drive for data. The Hard Drive had three partitions, F, G and one partition with ubuntu on it.
Okay so I was using ubuntu Jammy Jelly Fish (22.04) ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 installation error
My Laptop has two hard disks, SSD and HDD, the SSD with 256GB has Windows installation, and the HDD with 1TB is divided into two partitions D and F, each of which has nearly half.
I noticed that the ...
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Cannot boot after Ubuntu 24.04 recovery mode
Please help me saving my data on my hard drive. And please excuse me as I'm not an expert in Ubuntu but can follow instructions.
I have a lenovo ideapad 330 with 1 tera hdd that have dual boot of ...
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What is the best tool to make an identical, possibly bit by bit copy of a Linux system SSD with all the partitions and boot menu etc.?
Kubuntu 22.04. I in the process of learning that not having a backup is a super bad idea.
The SSD I use to run the Linux system is this.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 ...
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Why is my BIOS not detecting the hard drive where is Ubuntu installed?
I have an acer travel mate laptop with windows and I wanted to also have Ubuntu, so I downloaded the 22.04.3 image and used rufus to make a booteable USB. Then I proceed with the instalation in one of ...
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Migrate an Ubuntu installation to a new Dual Boot?
I want to upgrade the hard drive of my laptop a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, it has a 500Gb with a Ubuntu installation that I use to work but I needed more memory, so I bought a 1Tb 2.5 SSD since the ...
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Ubuntu not booting after hard drive failure
I have a 4yo Lenovo IdeaFlex5 running Ubuntu 23.10, with umis rpjtj512mee1owx storage (some say it's SSD, but in ubuntu it was always /dev/nvme... so NVMe). It worked perfectly fine until it froze out ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition
I have a raw disk file as bellow
$fdisk -l Monterey.img
Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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Ubuntu 22.04 wont boot after disk clone
I am attempting to migrate my OS boot disk from a 512GB to a 1TB drive. I booted off a live USB and used dd to clone the orignal drive to the new drive. Then I shut it down and unplugged the old ...
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Unknown error while mounting an external USB device
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on my laptop. I was copying some folders from an external USB device into my Windows virtual machine. The process stuck unexpectedly, the mouse was blocked as well ...
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How can I install old HDD with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption from old PC hardware(Intel) to new PC hardware(AMD)
I had an old PC (Intel) with a HDD encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption. Unfortunately, the hardware failed. Thankfully, the HDD seems intact. So I bought a new AMD-based PC (new CPU, new ...
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Disk cloning and bootability
I recently purchased a new laptop that comes pre-installed with Windows. However, my intention is to erase the Windows installation entirely and replace it with Ubuntu, as I've always done with my ...
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Why is there a 20-30 second pause early in the boot cycle after cloning my hard drive?
I've seen a few other posts on this topic. Only one or two were very close to my situation, but there were no clear solutions. I would like to describe my situation specifically because I have some ...
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Boot Device Not Found... HP probook 4530s
I installed the last version of Ubuntu on my hard drive by suppressing all data previously on the hard drive... Everything went fine, but when I turn on my PC, there is a BOOT DEVICE NOT found, Hard ...
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Recover Data from unmounted nvme
To give a context:
Since ~10 months I used to start my Ubuntu by going inside grub and write as follow:
set root=(hd0,gpt3)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.19.1-051901-generic root=/dev/nvme0n1p3
initrd /boot/...
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Error Upgrading HDD to SSD
I am having difficuties installing Ubuntu OS in a new SSD upgraded in an old Dell E6530.
the error would always occur when it says "executing curtin install partinioning step" and start ...
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Failure writing sector 0x13407f8 to hd0 - how to check disks if they are not yet accessible?
I cannot boot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Lenovo Thinkpad after a reboot given with the REISUB sequence.
Error message on initial black screen is "error: Failure writing sector 0x13407f8 to hd0": ...
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Booting from an SSD clone of a hard disk on Ubuntu?
I want to replace my hard drive on a Ubuntu NUC system. Its the only drive and its connected by a USB sata adapter.
I did this once already by just cloning to another hard drive, and the replacement ...
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Unable to allocate memory for my Ubuntu installation
I want to dual boot Ubuntu so in that I have to assign disk space of around 50GB in the unallocated section as shown below.
I have a PC with 1TB storage out of which the C: drive has 721GB space ...
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20.04 boot & app load time?
I've progressed from 16.04 to 20.04 & I'm happy except boot & app load times have increased with each upgrade. My SW is fully up to date. I have questions:
Would a fresh install of 20.04 ...
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My hard disk with Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop installed does not boot when I restart my PC
I'm in a bit of a mess here, I recently formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop on it. After the installation I restarted my PC but it never boots up the installed Ubuntu 23.04 and ...
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My 1TB Internal Hard Disk lost 500GB partition ubuntu after deleted during windows installation
First, I've using Ubuntu. And then I try install Windows 10. When Windows required specific drive accidentally I format Ubuntu drive, and I also deleted it.
What makes me more fool is, I also assumed ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start when hard drive is plugged in
About a week ago i was tinkerin around and created a bootable linux drive on an USB. I was able to switch to the usb and back to windows without any problems. But after some time neither linux nor ...
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Discovering disks order
I Installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 server.
The server has 2 volumes (disks):
lshw -c disk
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: RAID 940-8i 4GB
vendor:...
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Just 212 GB Can be found out of 1 TB in my Ubuntu server 22.04.2
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.2. I was using Windows 10 previously. During installation, I chose to Erase all options to delete all my Windows files.
Image here
I have a 1 TB hard disk but after ...
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How to bypass "RUN fsck MANUALLY" boot error [duplicate]
By bypass I mean automatically just do it even if it causes file problems. The long and short here is that I have about 60 headless servers running Camera systems with 4-8 drives in them spread out ...
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Trying to restore Drive that I accidentally used DD on
I was attempting to use the DD command to create a bootable Ubuntu server USB. By accident, I ran the command to my boot drive. It ran for a few minutes, then I noticed and pressed control+z to halt ...
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Install from USB failed to write HDD
I am trying to install Ubuntu LTS version on an old HP Probook. I downloaded the ISO file from the Ubuntu.com website. Then used Rufus to create a bootable USB and ran the install. All seemed to be ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS installer crashing with secondary drive plugged in via USB
I have a laptop with a completely unreadable LCD panel but completely functioning internals. I had previously tried to install Ubuntu server directly onto the device using an HDMI display but UEFI did ...
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Moving Ubuntu Hard drive to another computer - Black Screen on boot
I have been having a very difficult time trying to install Ubuntu 23.04 on a Super Micro Opteron system with 4 processors each with 16 cores 64 cores total, and 256GB of Ram. The USB goes to a black ...
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Installing ubuntu on two drives: ssd and hdd
I have a desktop (8 GiB RAM) and installed Ubuntu in the standard way (erase disk and install Ubuntu - nothing else ;-)). But it kept booting in windows... finally - as a newbie - I understand the ...
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How to Uninstall Ubuntu from my Secondary Disk to Install it in my Primary Disk?
The context: recently, I started collaborating on a open-source project whose main application runs in Linux. I have a Notebook with a small SSD (128Gb) and a HD (1Tb) and I have always used Windows. ...
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systemct1 status plymouth-start.service
Alright so I am having a laptop issue & my one is in the shop getting on 7 weeks now, so a couple weeks back I bought a cheap one from a pawnbrokers & that crashed after the first update that ...
