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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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