Questions tagged [hard-drive]
Questions about hard drives, configuring and formatting them. Hard drives typically provide stateful memory storage for computers, and are the primary location for the operating system and user files.
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LUKS on a device with bad blocks - doable via GUI?
I have a portable (3,5'') external drive (Seagate, 2TB, USB3) which I would love to use with my Ubuntu 25.10 laptop. But, it has a few bad blocks:
user@user-ubuntu:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -c -c -v /dev/sdc1
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Switching to Ubuntu soon, will my RAID array work?
Very fresh Linux Noob and I have a question before switching to Ubuntu. I have a system that currently runs Windows 11 with an M.2 as the boot drive and 3 HDD's set up in RAID 5. I would like the M.2 ...
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Drive failure after open a folder from ide
i was using windows 10 before then changed to ubuntu. after i open a folder from ide. im seeing
Unable to access location
Error mounting/dev/sdb4 at/media/acc/Others1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad ...
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How to get Lacie 4BIG Quadra 4TB external hard drive to mount on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
I have a 4TB Lacie 4BIG Quadra hard drive that I use on Windows 11 and it works perfectly fine, but the issue is that for some reason, when I go on Ubuntu (I dual boot it with Windows on a separate ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I have freshly installed Ubuntu system where I mounted an external drive with NTFS filesystem, which worked just fine three days ago after I installed Ubuntu, but now when I plug it in and try to ...
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Full upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 on an HP Pavilion Desktop resulted in Disk Full errors and an immediate shutdown
I own a Pavilion HP desktop with Windows 10. I removed Windows 10 with Ubuntu 20.04 from a CD disk. worked well, so I used terminal commands to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04. I tested this and worked with ...
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Suggestions on replacing an old encrypted /home drive with a new drive?
I have a setup where I have root on a ssd and /home on an encrypted (ecryptfs) hdd.
After numerous years I'm thinking of upgrading my storage and replacing the old drive entirely (will probably use as ...
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Forcing HDD sector reallocation
I have a HDD (in a ZFS RaidZ2 setup, so double redundancy) with one sector that keeps on failing on me.
Some weeks ago, ZFS scrub reported an issue. smartctl --test=short /dev/sdd revealed that a ...
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ATA failed command READ FPDMA QUEUED fix
How can I solve this without losing my data?
[ 1328.937971] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 1328.939330] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:38:7f:ee/00:00:02/00:00/40 tag 14 ncq dma 4096 in
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Did I install Ubuntu on two separate drives?
I thought I wiped the previous install, but it is possible that the second install went to storage drive instead of my OS drive.
I'm clawing my way to making a Jellyfin server on Ubuntu, so I suspect ...
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How do I use Linux dd to backup a Windows whole drive
I know this line won't work.
sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4M status=progress | gzip > F:\backups\windows_backup.img.gz
How do I change F:\backups\windows_backup.img.gz to a Linux drive/path that ...
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Using dd to overwrite the OS from within the OS
I wanted to run Mikrotik in the cloud but my cloud provider doesn't support it. I found a workaround online using Ubuntu which worked perfectly. My question is how does this workaround work? These ...
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Setup second internal drive for data only
I am a very new Ubuntu user. I have a PC on which I installed Ubuntu 25.04.
Now I have second HDD installed and which Ubuntu recognises as "Data", but which I can't do anything else with. I ...
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Changing mobos with ZFS on bpool, rpool, and a storage
I installed Ubuntu originally on 19.04 with ZFS for all my drives - rpool and bpool are on a Gen 3 NVMe 500 GB and a storage pool of 3 spinning drives. I'm on 24.04.3 LTS now with HWE (so kernel 6.14)...
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How to recover a lost partition due to SSD being partially dead
My SSD drive started acting up suddenly. Initially Ubuntu didn't boot and asked me to run the fsck command to do some clean up. I did that and it was fine but a day later the kernel was gone and ...
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