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External drive not being recognized

I am currently running elementary OS (a Linux OS based on Ubuntu so everything in Ubuntu works in it) - dual booting it with Windows 8. I have a 3TB external hard drive (USB 3.0) that does not seem ...
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How to associate device to sata port disk [duplicate]

I have 2 hard disks connected to 2 sata ports. The disks are associated to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. These hard disks are in software raid so it happens that the system can go for some time with only ...
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GParted messed up my partitions

Update: running testdisk I can actually see all of my files in /dev/sda1! I wanted to install Windows alongside my Debian installation in order to play some games. In order to do that, I had to boot ...
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What happens when a hard drive fills up?

What happens when a hard drive gets full with Linux running? Does it lock the system? Or something else, or nothing happens? I am using Ubuntu Linux.
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Issue with bad sectors on a laptop hard drive

I had Windows installed on my laptop and suddenly one morning Windows couldn't start. Then I tried after formatting and for once it became possible. I also installed Ubuntu as logical drive (deleted ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.01 Hard Drive Drop In [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Moving linux install to a new computer I have two similar machines running Ubuntu Server 12.04.01. They are not the same machine, but similar. Can I take the hard drive ...
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Install Linux on two hard drives

I am new to Linux. I have a machine with two hard drives, the first one has 80GB and the second has 120GB. I am about to format this machine and install Linux. I want to install all the main ...
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HDD allocation fstab

In my PC running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have installed three SATA hard drives. Two of them are installed near a cooler. I want to physically switch two drives (one that is not near the fan should be moved ...
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disk spins-down too fast

I use Ubuntu 12beta on Lenovo Z575. I noticed that the disk spins down very quickly, few seconds after the last operation. And when I am working, e.g. in the vim and write quite often, it spins-up and ...
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Partitioning Ubuntu and Windows 7 once and for all

I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu (installed with wubi). So far there have been no problems, but now it says the disk is out of space all the time (I think that is because /dev/loop0 is used 100% ...
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How extend linux partition with?(after success to extend : fail to boot computer)

I have Ubuntu and I want to enlarge the disk space of /dev/sda1 from 10GB to 90GB. gparted Ubuntu 9.04 live cd show: Partition File System Size /dev/sda1 ext4 10GB /dev/sda2 ...
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Mount Freecom Classic SL Network Drive (NDAS) in Ubuntu 11.10

Both the Network Drive and the Ubuntu machine are connected by Ethernet to a Linksys WRT54GL router (192.168.1.1). To access the Network Drive in Windows, I installed the NDAS software and mounted ...
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Formatting secondary hard drive that has windows on it

I recently installed an setup an Ubuntu Server machine. It has two drives in it and the other drive has windows installed on it. (I didn't want to overwrite the windows installation until I had my ...
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Safest HardDrive Format for Archiving/Media Storage Data?

What is the safest hard drive format (NTFS, HFS+, XFS, ZFS, ...) for archiving or/and storing media (data)? I'd prefer to have the data not corrupt and be relatively safe (From corruption, ...) and ...
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Black Screen When Booting From .VDI Image

I have cloned a VirtualBox machine, which runs Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit as Guest OS. I now wish to transfer it to a new host machine running Windows Vista 32-bit. I’ve transferred the .vdi file and ...
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Accessing .VDI Image from Ubuntu VirtualBox [closed]

I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed in VirtualBox 4.0.10 on a Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit host. I have a hard disk that I have added to the SATA Controller on the VirtualBox (a .VDI image). My ...
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Unable to mount a second hard drive in Ubuntu Server

I am adding a second drive to my Ubuntu Server. It was previously in a FreeNas system, but I got rid of the XFS partition and created an ext4 partition (in an older Ubuntu system). I then backed up ...
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Ubuntu 10.10 installed from windows 7: how to expand drive?

I'm new to Linux. I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 from Windows 7. It's not in Virtual PC, it is independent. It uses a virtual drive in c:, I have chosen it to be 10 Gb. Now I want to increase the size ...
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cdrdao is installed, but Brasero doesn't think so [closed]

When I try to copy CD to image, Brasero tells me that cdrdao isn't installed. However I reinstalled cdrdao and Brasero, but the error is still there. [system] Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)
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How to recover a missing file

I am running ubuntu and last week the system didn't let me alter files as if I had no write permissions. Then on reboot the system did a check of the system which took some time. Then everything went ...