Questions tagged [partitioning]
When you create two or more logical volumes (drives) from one physical hard disk (or other storage device), you're working with partitions.
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Why do my Raspberry Pi 5 SD cards have unwritable partition tables?
I have 2 SD cards. Both flashed with Raspberry Pi OS. However, I started to have issues wiping the partition table on both the SD card after failed to flash a brand new Raspberry Pi to the SD.
One of ...
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Moving LDM system volume to another disk
After successfully partitioning my shiny new SSD, I'd now like to move the Windows system partition over.
Current setup is a SATA SSD as a "dynamic" disk with C:\ as a simple volume, and an ...
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Either me or Windows messed up my Sata SSD Bitlocked Partition and showing as "Unallocated Space". I have metadata intact
I have around four disks attached to my Desktop pc. Long story short. I wanted to format my Windows and get an updated, fresh installation. I am sure I only deleted my concerned System OS Partition ...
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Windows LDM on partitioned disk
I'm trying to move an existing dual boot installation (Windows 10 and Linux) to a new NVMe SSD.
Because it's a consumer device, namespaces aren't supported, so I'm trying to build a partition table ...
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How to move a Linux image from a single disk, to a secondary/other partition of another disk that has Windows as primary OS
Background : I have a tablet with a small SSD with Win11 installed. I tested for joke Arch -not live but installed on a SD card- (because i have only one USB port). Now i bought a larger SSD where I ...
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Windows 10 to Windows 11 in-place upgrade fails with error 0xC1900101 - 0x20017
My Windows 10 desktop is not approved by Microsoft for the upgrade, so I prepared a USB stick with Rufus.
The upgrade fails with the message:
We couldn't install Windows 11
We've set your PC back to ...
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Disk manager fails to format partition after creation
Using disk manager assistant to create and format a new partition (using defaults) results in a partition with drive letter but a "RAW" filesystem.
It only occurs for USB drives which have ...
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Which partitions can I safely consolidate?
I bought a new ASUS PC last year. It came with Windows 11 installed. However, I now want to install a Linux distro on it and completely wipe Windows 11. When I looked at the partitions on the disk, I ...
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How to increase the maximum hard disk size of the hard disk of a Hyper-V virtual machine?
I'm working with a virtual machine, who had a maximum size of 240Gb.
I have increased that value up to 480Gb, but this seems not to be taken into account, as you can see:
However, when I start up the ...
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Saving partition + RAID config to text file (Synology)
I am trying to migrate a Synology Diskstation partitioned harddisk to a larger one (4 TB -> 12 TB). My first attempt to just plug the disks into another Linux computer and dd from the old hard disk ...
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Optimization of pre-installation of Windows 10 x64 Home Edition (Part 1)
OPTIMIZATION OF PRE-INSTALLATION PARTITIONS OF WINDOWS 10 x64 HOME EDITION (Part 1)
1st of all let me apologize for not RTFM (I assume none exists for what I am about to ask) or going through your FAQ ...
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Why is Windows 11 unable to recognize NTFS parition on write-protected devices?
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Windows is not able to recognize a NTFS partition, if the partition was created on a linux operating system and write protected (but only if it is write protected). I want to understand, why ...
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How to move an EFI partition from a disk to another on Windows Server 2019?
The reason is that Windows Server 2019 was installed on the second disk, then realizing this mistake, Windows Server was deleted from the second disk, and then it was reinstalled on the first disk, ...
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SSD partition deletion, only appear on Grub, not appear on Installation Ubuntu or Win through USB boot
Let me ask you.
I installed Ubuntu on my computer and deleted Windows. Now I go back to Windows and when I go to the partition selection section, I see nothing, while my SSD still has 512GB.
If I boot ...
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I accidentally set my Windows 10 hard drive to GPT using gdisk and never boot correctly
I have a Linux installation on my Toshiba 16gb usb, and tried to convert my hard drive to GPT on linux using gparted because i wanted to reinstall Windows due to issues. (0x000021a error)
Now I tried ...
