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GParted and Disks utility make USB drive to disconnect and fail to recognize it
I just wanted to format my usb drive, and followed an advice to use default "Disks" utility . But it failed and now whenever I try to launch GParted or Disks with USB drive inserted, they ...
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Unknown Filesystem : cannot create new file system
So I have this internal HDD. One day I was installing something and after that I wasn't able to move or copy stuff from the drive. I have a SSD and a HDD inside my lap. The problem was with my HDD(1 ...
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Added a new 10TB HDD. Gparted formats only part of it
My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. I have added a new 10TB HDD to my system. I used GParted to format it, but it only formats 1.2TB, leaving the rest unusable. I want to keep the drive unpartitioned (having just ...
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Using dd is overwriting a part from a device and not the whole device?
I have a problem In my USB stick, it's 32GB but it's showing me inside Gparted that it's only 2.84 GB, so what I did is that I used the following command;
am@sam:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
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How to format computer hard drive to ntfs [duplicate]
So I have ubuntu right now and I'm trying to get windows by using a bootable usb but when I try to install windows it says that the hard drive has to be formated to NTFS so I have tried formatting it ...
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Internal HDD doesn't get recognized in "My Book" Enclosure on usb. How to format the drive?
I bought an external HDD: "My Book 8TB". I got the drive out of the enclosure and using that one internally now. I want to make use of the enclosure and put in it a WD Green 4TB. However, the drive ...
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How to have write access to a recently formatted drive by default?
Whenever I format a drive using gparted, the drive becomes owned by root user by default, and I cannot write to it. To solve this, I have to open file manager as root, and assign myself read/write ...
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low level format read-only micro sdcard
I have a 64GB micro sdcard which was removed from an android phone without unmounting (could not find unmount after upgrade to android 7.1,they tried to make it easy and intuitive - it is an eject ...
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can I increase root and other disk's size without formatting it
want to shrink home ie sda5 and expand root ie sda3
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 20469759 20467712 9.8G Linux swap
/dev/sda2 20469760 28469247 ...
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All my work disappeared from Ubuntu days after moving to a different drive [closed]
I asked a question about gparted ten days ago. Everything worked and my home partition increased <
For the past ten days it worked perfectly with no issues; even switching back and forth between ...
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Formatting external and giving 755 rights?
I have a Glyph Blackbox Plus 1Tb External hard drive here. I have set it up to be an external backup for some git repositories and to hold other various documentation/files. I'm having trouble ...
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Why Nautilus can not format Bootable USB?
I know I can format Bootable USB drives with gparted or software like that. I do it every time I need to.
But I want to know why nautilus can not format that? Is there any logic behind it?
I ...
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GParted does not work to format my USB FlashDrive, Etcher works but lacks of options
I want to format my USB FlashDrive that was used as an Ubuntu bootable .iso.
I plugged in my FlashDrive into my laptop, then opened GParted, however it says The driver descriptor says the physical ...
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how to restore the hard disk data after gparted deleted them when converting to GPT
I was trying to install windows 10 when I face a messege want me to convert the partition to GPT .
I used gparted : Device -》create partition table -》then I choose the GPT and in moment I get ALL the ...
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I wish to resize(grow) my Ubuntu Root partition using GParted [14.04 LTS / Win10 Grub Dual Boot ]
A long time ago I had allocated only 90 (89.24) GB to my root partition assuming it would be enough for my needs. Alas I now require some space heavy tools like Matlab and larger datasets to process ...
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gparted flash drive format
I want to use gparted to format the flash drive and then burn Ubuntu on it. I downloaded gparted, butI can't find the right way to do so. In found a tutorial for this, and they counseled me to format ...
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How can I format a USB/SD card that I'm not able to format with the dd command?
I have this 32Gb micro SD card that was on my android phone. It was working as an external HD.
Now I want to format the SD card to use with another phone, but it seems impossible to format.
I've ...
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how to remove write protected system on usb?
i have deleted a usb disk using Gparted , and i am trying to create new disk using the unlocated space .. and i found this message
Can't write to /dev/sdb, because it is opened read-only.
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How to fix usb stick so I can format it with gparted
I formated a usb stick on a windows system using Fat32, but windows automatically allocated 2084bytes and I didn't notice, so when I made the stick bootable and used it, but when I wanted to format it ...
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libparted bug found, ërror input/output error during read on /dev/sdb [duplicate]
After windows failed to format my external raw drive, I gave a shot to Gparted in linux. Gparted says "ërror input/output error during read on /dev/sdb" Clicking ignore I can see my drive labeled "...
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Gparted gives me the following error when I connect SD card - libparted error (read error / unrecognized disk label)
I am trying to format my SD card with Gparted and cannot get it done because I get the below message.
The only way I can get rid of this message is removing the SD card
/dev/sdc cannot be seen in ...
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formatting/partitioning: Ubuntu installer vs GParted vs gnome-disks utility
Ready to format/partition a 120GB SSD that has been securely erased by use of hdparm and install Ubuntu Studio 16.04 (currently running from a live USB).
Should this be done via the Ubuntu installer ...
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Resize partition using Gparted
I want to resize my primary partition using Gparted, but due to the lock I am not able to do so:
I would be grateful if someone tells me how to get rid of the lock so that I can resize this partition....
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How to format the locked usb flash drive using GParted?
I couldn't format/delete my USB flash drive using GParted and it is locked too.
When right click on it, the format and delete options are grayed out.
Please help me.
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How can I efficiently format my Ubuntu Live USB to a FAT32 partition?
Consider the following situation:
$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for user:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
------------%<-----------------------------
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, ...
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Format usb linux Western Digital external disks
How can I format an external USB drive?
I have a Western Digital external usb which adds automatically a virtual read-only CD partition which prevented me to run the standard ways to format a disk.
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Gparted doesn't create partition table
I wrongly used to command dd to create a bootable usb specifying the partition of the USB, and not the disk (with of=/dev/sdb1 instead of of=/dev/sdb and now I'm trying to recover the USB.
When I ...
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How to format the unallocated USB drive and make it as Fat32?
I'm not able to format my USB as stated here and while following these steps :
sudo su
fdisk -l
df
umount /dev/sdb1
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
my bootable USB was changed to Unallocated format and it's ...
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Switching to Ubuntu from Windows
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now. I still have windows installed and it's taking up the majority of my hard drive space. I want to fully switch to Ubuntu though. I've backed up everything I need ...
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How to shrink a Raspberry Pi SD card image?
I have a 64 GB SD card that has 15.6 GB of space used. I used GParted to shrink the partition, but I have no idea how to convert the two partitions /sda1 and /sda2 into an approximately 16&...
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USB Drive Format Error
I am trying to format my 19GB usb drive. I am currently using gedit.
sudo gparted
It works, but with a nasty error.
(gpartedbin:7382): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 7 was not found when attempting to ...
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Problem with formatting memory card
I have memory card which I remove during a format on phone and is now not working.
In windows it is showing in Device manager as other devices and not showing in disk management.
I ubuntu 12.04 I ...
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Cannot repair a corrupted usb flash drive [duplicate]
I have an 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive (no-name), on which I tried a few days ago to copy a film of about 6GB. The flash drive had NTFS file system so I thought there will be no problems. But at some point ...
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Cannot format micro sd card
I apparently did something wrong while trying to format my micro sd card 8 GB. I have used it for one and a half year in my old phone without any problems and now I wanted to format it to use in my ...
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Using GParted to rescue data and format hard drive to NTFS
I'm having problems booting to Windows XP due to bad sectors on the hard drive. I've tried fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console. That only made matters worse. Now I want to use GParted to ...
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Can't remove GPT table from hard drive
I have tried everything, but nothing works...
Background: Started out with Windows 7, formated and installed Ubuntu and later installed Arch linux with a GPT partition table.
Running following ...
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Error creating partition table on NTFS formatted hard drive
I'm having a problem with a friend's old external hard drive. The hard drive (1.5TB WD Caviar Green) isn't detected by any computer regardless of the OS installed.
So I disassembled the hard drive ...
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Copying root partition and /home to a new larger hard drive
I am getting a larger hard drive and would like to copy root directory to it. The partition for root is 20G. I would like to make it larger on the new drive. I also would like to copy /home to a ...
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Why doesn't Gparted show my USB stick?
I have a new 16 GB kingston flash pen that I cannot format
Gparted doesn't seem to see it
It has some windows exe and files on it
In do not have the format option as described here for Nautilus, ...
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Change MBR to GPT on external hard drive with data
Change MBR to GPT on external hard drive with data:
I found a way for the internal one here. However the External drive is a Data drive only, I dont't need to care about any bootloaders etc. So is ...
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How long does an ext4 format take?
The USB cable on my Iomega Prestige 1TB hard drive conked out a while back, and I've finally managed to get a new one. I removed the old NTFS file system because I use Windows maybe once a month, and ...
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I cancelled gparted operation ,what to do next?
I cancelled gparted operation by mistake.Now one of the partition became corrupted,what to next? Should I format it? Data is important to me
Edit1: I tried to recover partition using testdisk and ...
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Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted
I have a MicroSD card in a USB adapter (which plugs into a USB port on my machine, and acts like a USB flash drive). I was using Unetbootin to make this a bootable USB flash drive with Kubuntu. But I ...
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How can I see my files in 2nd partition of hdd?
I'm a new Ubuntu user. I installed Ubuntu on my computer yesterday.
I choose my 2nd partition of hdd's mount point as /home and format type ext4.
Now, I can't see my 2nd partition or can't change ...
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Unable to format miniSD card
I have a 2GB mini-SD card that I am trying to format. The drive is currently formatted for use with a PandaBoard.
It has 2 partitions - 1 x FAT32 - 1 x ext3
Usually, I unmount the partitions then ...
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How to remove an "Unallocated" partition
I had Windows partition on my hard drive, but I uninstalled Vista, so I no longer need it. I'm guessing I need to log in with a Live CD, but when running Drive Utility and GParted on the CD, it showed ...
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