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NTFS formatted HDDs doesn't show in Ubuntu server
I formatted two HDDs in win11 with NTFS and then I moved those to a server with Ubuntu server.
Now the os doesn't find those new HDDs. What did I do wrong. I am a beginner with the linux environment. ...
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Want to format UDF Usb Readonly drive to NTFS
new here. I have a usb of 32gb which I got form a course I enrolled. Now I want to format the usb and use it for my personal use but I cannot format it. Can anyone help or should I just throw it?
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How I can repair an USB Drive mft and mftmirr?
I have an USB Drive that I messed up. I've extracted it improperly, and now it doesn't mount. It has a NTFS file system and I used testdisk on it, but when I try to repair MFT with the Mirror or ...
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External Drive DIsk is unrecognised
after reading askubuntu as a guest for some time I decided to be an active part of the community posting here my first question.
I bought an HDD of 2TB some months ago. It worked ok, but when I was ...
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In Ubuntu 20.04, can I format an unallocated partition of an NTFS hard drive as ext4 without corrupting my drive?
I have a 2 TB hard drive currently where the majority of space is an NTFS partition. I have around 168 GB of unallocated free space. Is it possible for me to use gparted and to just add on an ext4 ...
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Formatting dual boot drives
I'm considering a new dual boot system with Win10 and a Linux distro, probably Ubuntu because I'm a Linux noob. I plan to have one SSD for Win10 (system and apps), one SSD for Ubuntu (system and apps)...
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Format hard drive with ntfs in order to switch back to Windows [closed]
I want to switch back to Windows, so I booted from a Windows installation DVD, but I can't format my hard drive with the setup. How to format my hard drive as ntfs so I can switch back to Windows?
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My NTFS partitions are being showed as LDM Data Partitions
I've just installed Ubuntu and completely replaced my Windows 10 because I don't want to use it anymore. Installation went very well and everything is working fine but one issue is that I've installed ...
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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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How to format a filesystem hdd(not partition) from ext4 to ntfs
I have ubuntu 18.04 in my laptop. As it was my 1st laptop I bought it without OS in order to install only ubuntu. But now I want to put windows 10 on it. And I have this specific problem. 1st of all I ...
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How to format Hard drive NTFS and convert it to FAT32?
As the question, I have some NTFS HD in my ubuntu server, some has few partitions, I would like to fully format them, create only 1 partition and convert it to FAT32.
Thanks
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Should I use dd before testdisk? [duplicate]
Should I use dd or similar before I use testdisk? I reformatted an ntfs partition and would like to recover some of the data. I am using live ubuntu. Also is testdisk good for this type of job? Thank ...
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How to properly format a pendrive with Ubuntu and have permissions to read/write from any computer [duplicate]
I want to know what is the "user friendly" solution for formatting a pendrive and do not loosing every pendrive you format with any Ubuntu (v12 onwards). Now, I have Ubuntu 16 and I just loose my ...
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Uninstall Ubuntu from free dos [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a free dos laptop. I have kept the free dos partition on the system. Now I want to uninstall ubuntu and install windows 7. Windows installer disk is unable to install ...
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Reformat data only drive from NTFS to whatever Linux likes? [closed]
Have been using NTFS data drive on Ubuntu 16.04 for 6 months or so. Works fine. Should I reformat for Linux? I'm not using Windows anymore.
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Change ext4 to NTFS for installing Windows 7 [duplicate]
I have a new installation of Ubuntu Mate and I would like to go back to Windows. I'm aware I need to convert it to NTFS and I have tried to make Disks work but it would not allow me to change/shrink ...
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How to specify block size when formatting?
I need to format a 4 GB Pendrive with blocks size of 4 KB in NTFS format type.
I understand that I can do mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb1 to give NTFS format.
But is there any way (parameter or something like ...
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Best way to wipe HDD with multiple partitions and format into NTFS
My laptop had a hardware issue while under warranty so I received a new laptop and am sending my old laptop and hard drive back. I want to wipe all data off of all partitions of my HDD, and send it ...
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Ubuntu Format volume for windows
While trying to wipe a drive with DBan I accidentally started the process on my laptop drive. The process ran for about 2 seconds before I stopped it but not before it caused some damage. I now have ...
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Cannot recognize/format usb flash
I had a Flash stick with Ubuntu to run as live USB. I didn't need it anymore so I used the Disks utility and I formatted it. Disks sees it now as unallocated space. I want to format it to NTFS but I ...
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Partition and preserve data
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and have an external HD of 4 tera formated in FAT. There is a lot of data in this HD, much more than the note and take. I would like to create NTFS partitions in the external HD ...
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Tried formatting USB to NTFS and now I can no longer mount it or format it
I recently formatted my USB drive to NTFS using the command terminal however since then I am unable to mount the USB to my pc and when I try to reformat the USB it says that the permissions are set to ...
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How can i install ubuntu on my ntfs hdd without formatting? [duplicate]
My hdd is just one partition in ntfs (500gb) and 430 gb is used by my photos/movies/music etc which I never will want to lose. Actually I installed Ubuntu on a usb flash drive (using it right now) but ...
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Recovering a file after having formatted from NTFS to EXT4
I used to have windows 7 but I've recently formatted my hard drive to install kubuntu and I've just realized that I forgot to backup a hidden .dat file which defines my bitcoin wallet. Is it possible ...
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how do i format my hard drive to ntfs from ext4 [duplicate]
I have a usb with my windows ISO loaded and ready. Problem is there is no ntfs partition on my hard drive for windows to load onto. I don't want to complicate things by running 2 operating systems. I’...
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Ubuntu 13.04 format my NTFS partition
I install Ubuntu 13.04, choosing the option "Replace Win7".
When my computer reboots, i see that my other data pratition is missing.
my Win7 partition was 100gb, and the other 220gb was the data.
I ...
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How to make an NTFS partition on HDD (12.10)
I currently own a netbook running Ubuntu 12.10 and i want to install windows XP on it. I have the installation file on my pendrive as my netbook doesnt have disk drive. but when I opened the setup.exe,...
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How to reformat a drive with NTFS?
I currently have a corrupted NTFS external drive that I want to re-format in a format that can be read by Linux and Windows - suggestions?
I want to reformat my 1TB NTFS drive to a format that can be ...
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