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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I have a 1 TB hard disk but after ...
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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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how to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 on the second disk while the second disk already has windows installed on it [duplicate]
My device has 2 harddisks (ssd + windows and hdd) on the hdd I want to install ubuntu, I already tried to install it from usb (set it up with rufus, parameters: partition scheme - MBR, target system - ...
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Wrong disk size after failed partitioning
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and wanted to use a live USB stick to partition my hard drive. While partitioning something went wrong and my computer crashed. After restart it shows me that 70 percent of the ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu on two hard drives
I currently have a laptop running Windows with two drives, the Windows 11 drive and a clean drive. I would like to dual boot my laptop with these two drives, one for Windows and the other one for ...
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Clean Installation with manual partitioning
I have a PC with a Fusion Drive(128 GB SSD and 1TB HDD). On my PC, /home folder is also in SSD. So my SSD will fill up soon and HDD will stay blank 😞, thus I decided to re-install ubuntu with manual ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I'm getting this error after trying to mount a flashdrive/usb partition and not sure why. I've tried different USBs for the system but all to no avail, hoping someone on here could help me figure it ...
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Can I install ubuntu on my ssd and make the /home and /usr directory in the HDD that contains previous data?
I want to switch to Ubuntu. I have one SSD (120 GB) and one HDD (1TB). I want to keep all the data of HDD and install the Ubuntu in SSD (only os) but I want to make the directory /home and /usr ...
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Why is my / root directory labeled as file-type: "overlay"? loop-devs? (in the fdisk -l results::/dev/loop0 is squashFS--are they the "real" files?)
I hope the following is not over-kill on information! But I figured too much is better than not enough in this instance.
-----MY PERSONAL DISCLAIMER: I JUST STARTED LEARNING ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT ...
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Make a HDD partition bootable from Ubuntu live
How can I make HDD partition work like a iso bootable for a Windows iso?
What I have:
-Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (on USB as a "Try Ubuntu")
-Partition of NTFS (500GB) (hard disk)
-Windows ISO ...
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Hard disk volumes are not automatically mounting in ubuntu
I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop which was previously running on windows. I have installed Ubuntu in my SSD and I have HDD installed in the CD drive slot. Now when I start the laptop and try ...
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Cloned HDD doest boot from 1TB to 2TB, Ubuntu 20.04
my system wont boot after I installed the newly cloned HDD. Here's the full details.
I have a 1TB WD and 256Gb SSD. Corrupted windows is installed in SSD and Ubuntu 20.04 in HDD.
I tried to clone ...
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BitLocker-encrypted drive on Ubuntu
I want to use dislocker. I do not have the keys but I found the parameter -u at dislocker.
So mounting the hard drive looks like:
dislocker -r -V /dev/nvme0n1p3 -u123456789 -- /root/1
I recieve a ...
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SSD/HDD file format for use in both Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04
Curious if NTFS would be my best bet? I’ll have two m.2 drives, one with each OS on it, and then a bunch of drives connected to the mobo.
Would both OSes be able read/write to the drives with no ...
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Recover files from ubuntu hard drive that computer doesn't read
So I installed ubuntu on an external portable hard drive I was using, but now my computer won't detect it when I plug it in. The drive does turn on though. When I go to click on the change boot device ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 not detected upon cloning to 8 TB SSD
Hello everybody out there using Ubuntu,
Since I was running out of disk space, I cloned my Ubuntu 18.04 installation from a 4TB SSD (Samsung) to a 8TB SSD (also Samsung) using dd.
Afterwards, I ...
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Error during ubuntu installation
First time Linux user.
I'm trying to get Ubuntu fully installed on an external SSD connected with a USBC cable. I want it to be fully installed, so it can work on any computer. The linux flashed thing ...
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How to recover from failed GRUB installation?
I decided to install Ubuntu 20.04 onto an external hard drive, for use with my laptop. On the laptop's internal disk is some sensitive data that I stupidly neglected to back up.
So I formatted the ...
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Problems while resizing laptop hard drive
I am trying to reinstall windows 10 on my laptop and I decided to partition my HDD so I can have both Ubuntu and Windows 10 on dual boot I get the following error while booting from a USB with a ...
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Is it possible to use more than one hard disk in Linux?
hi i had a question
I'm still quite new to Linux and I have a question
I have two storage units on my computer, an ssd on which I put Windows and a mechanical hard disk.
Is there a way to carve out a ...
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How to fix my boot situation?
Okay so the situation is:
On my old computer, I used to have a 2TB HDD, that had a dual boot installation with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 20.2.
On my new computer, which is a Dell OptiPlex 1040, I took this ...
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Window 10 not showing Ubuntu installed partitions on harddisk - Also not showing boot to Ubuntu options
My laptop came with an SSD with Window 10 on it, and I extended that storage using a hard disk from a laptop which had Ubuntu installed. Some partitions of that hard disk are NTFS and those ...
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Install ubuntu on an external drive without affecting windows bootloader - not working
I wanted to install Ubuntu 20.04 into an external drive without affecting the Windows Bootloader. That means on a normal boot, Windows should load. But if I entered the BIOS boot menu, I can switch it ...
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Duel boot error: You need to load the kernel first
I've recently decided to add a HDD to my laptop and have Ubuntu boot of a partition of that drive. It is both for an alternative workspace but also a backup OS if my main nvme corrupts again. If your ...
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Can we put /boot and /root on separate drives?
In my laptop, I've 2 drives. 1 is NVMe Intel Optane SSD of 16Gb and another is 1TB HDD. Currently, /home is mounted to 1TB HDD and Linux File system is mounted on SSD. I want to mount only /boot to ...
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How long should fsck take to scan a drive?
I woke up one morning to find my Ubuntu 20 laptop unresponsive, so I rebooted, and arrived in a BusyBox "(initramfs)" prompt.
Typing "exit" told me that:
The root filesystem on /...
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How to install Ubuntu on a PC with two Hard Drives without losing data in one HDD?
I have a laptop with two drives.
256GB SSD
2TB HDD
All my data is in the 2TB HDD.
Windows 10 is installed in the SSD.
I don't want to keep windows in the SSD and want to install Ubuntu there without ...
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recently instld ubuntu on laptop having both ssd(240gb) and hdd(1tb)hdd has windows. But whenever I open ubuntu, the drive name changes automatically
The hdd on which windows is installed has 4 partitions in total and I can access in ubuntu as well. However when I log on in ubuntu the partition names appear changed in its file explorer.
Edit: I ...
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Is keeping /home in HDD and /root in SSD impact performance or keep both to SSD partition?
My current laptop is a dual boot and I've installed /root in SSD and /home in HDD. Now, I saw lots of app files in the Ubuntu stored in /home dir (i.e. in my HDD) and when I work my HDD spins a lot, ...
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Hi, i want to install ubuntu 20.04
I have 128GB SSD and 500GB HDD both are empty
Is it possible to make /root and swap directories on SSD and /Home folder on HDD so I wouold have a lot of space for games, documents, etc?
if it's ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a 10TB drive
I have a Supermicro Workstation (SYS-7038A-I) and a Supermicro (Seagate) 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM SATA3 6Gb/s 256M Internal Hard Drive (HDD-3T10T-1KECR). SYS-7038A-I accepts SATA 2.5" and 3.5"...
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