I deleted Windows from my Notebook and am only rockin Ubuntu on this machine. On the (previously) shared Data Partition, there are dozens of GBs occupied by the Volume Shadow Copy Service backups (which I used with Windows) but now how do I get rid of these?In Windows you could either turn off VSS/Restore under System Protection or alternatively use the Disk Cleanup Utility. How do I do this with Ubuntu?
View 6 RepliesHere at work we've made very good use of Server 2003's Shadow Copy service, which lets me restore users' files quickly and easily using the Previous Versions software--yet takes minimal resources and storage space on the server. I've also heard that the service may be available to users in Windows 7. Is there an equivalent of this in Ubuntu? Something I could set up that would snapshot files on my hard drive every so often, and let me recover deleted files or earlier versions of files?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently replaced my windows fileserver with one running Ubuntu. One thing I've noticed (which is a annoying) is that when I copy files between two samba shares from my windows machine, it copies the file through my PC to the new destination. On windows shares it just did some sort of local copy (ie it took about 2 seconds) rather than 3-4 minutes. Is this the normal behaviour, is there any way around it on Linux
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an account in university on Linux machine with 10TB of free space accessible via SFTP. I would like to backup my Windows 7 x64 laptop to university. Currently I am using rsync+cygwin, but backup is pretty slow (without shadow copy) and I hate console window appearing every day on my screen when I login.
So I am looking for something like Windows Backup but with support for SFTP. Combination of tools will work too.
Right now I'm duel booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04. I installed Ubuntu with wubi. I want Ubuntu to be my only operating system, so how would I delete Windows XP?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI know Wubi does not delete Windows or format the drive, but I have a desktop with a wireless Logitech mouse. Would Ubuntu let me use the mouse, or would it not have the driver? Also, I would like to know how to uninstall Ubuntu.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed a program in /usr/share on Ubuntu 10.04, but the program was actually bigger than there was room on that partition. It gave me some trouble, because when I tried to delete the folder, it said it couldn't move it to the Trash. When I restarted, it won't let me log in Ubuntu again...
Is it possible to delete this folder (/usr/share/IDE_SE) from Windows? or some other workaround to delete this folder in Ubuntu?
I have decided that Windows 7 is something that belongs MAYBE in a virtual machine and that I have no use for it. Therefore, I want to recover the 130 gigs it takes on my hard drive and add that to my Ubuntu partition.
Here is the output of fdisk -lu:
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I installed GParted Editor on Ubuntu. I'm looking at it. There's 4 partition selections, all apparently deletable. The problem is... I don't know which partitions are Windows. Therefore, I don't know which to delete.
None says Windows. There's the word label at the top. I do see DellUtilty and DellRestore under label on two partitions... and pretty sure my computer is a dell. Are the latter two windows and therefore can be deleted? The two remaining partitions, are Linux?
I am a newbee. Install Ubuntu 9.10 on window 7. Will 9.10 copy all the files or do I have to transfer. After all files are on 9.10 can I delete windows?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu 10.04 x64 installed and i've mounted both NTFS partitions. The first contains my Windows partition (with Windows 7 on it) and the second contains my backup partition. They are two seperate hardisks.Now, i'm trying to delete files on my Windows partition, but the ability to 'Cut' is greyed out and there's no 'delete' option at all.This only occurs on my Windows partition, but my Backup partition can execute and option; whether delete, cut etc.I assume this is either a settings in Ubuntu or something about Windows that prevents alternate O/S's from messing around with it.So how can I go about enabling the feature to delete from my Windows partition? The idea is to erase all Windows related stuff so I can reinstall Windows.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have removed Ubuntu and I just have Windows 7 installed.
When I turn on the laptop, Grub tries to load but it fails. I have used Windows 7 install DVD and clicked into repair windows start so I should get Windows default bootloader back, but when I restart, Grub is still there...
How do I remove grub and get the laptop to boot into Windows automatically?
This is my HDD, btw: [URL]
Note: I'm booting right now using iBoot, how do I repair this problem? I may run chkdsk, Windows asks me to run it every time I boot into it since 1 or 2 weeks... maybe it won't repair the boot loader until I ran chkdsk, I dunno
How do I completely delete the Windows partion using GParted in Ubuntu? I heard that the boot option for Windows still shows even after deleting the partition using GParted
View 2 Replies View RelatedI think I have the opposite problem of many I need to blow Windows 7 away completely.No dual boot...just 10.10 only.
I started with the live CD...so I don't know if this is a "wubi" thing or not. I'm trying to install onto an Intel X25 80GB SSD which formerly contained Windows 7. "Use entire disk" option chosen. The install went like a dream, a sheer joy to watch. Until I went to restart and there was Windows Boot Manager telling me there was a problem with my Windows installation. Correct, it's gone!
I started the live CD again, fired up gparted and deleted everything on on /dev/sda - the lot. Reinstalled 10.10 - rebooted - Windows Boot Manager still there. OK, yet another try. Back into live CD and this time fdisk, followed by shred, followed by verify that there's no partition table in gparted. Empty volume, no partition table.
Reinstalled 10.10 again & restarted. Yes, you guessed it. Windows Boot Manager is STILL there!
What on earth must I do to rid myself of this hated Windows Boot Manager? I feel like a complet twit, because I've installed Ubuntu over XP (etc) many times (on rotating rust, not an SSD admittedly but...a "disk" is a disk...is a disk)
I'm using 9.10. I want to delete my Windows partition.On System--> Administration there is something called "Disk Utility".Here is a screenshot:Is it as simple as clicking the "delete" button? I thought I would have to do something with the Terminal, though I would prefer not to.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to get rid of my Windows partition and delete every last vestige or residual information from the laptop.I installed Ubuntu 11.04 and used BleachBit's Free Disk Space to overwrite the files once there.Is there any data left like recovery data points?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI just received a service pack update for Windows 7, and now when I boot Windows 7, it continuously restarts telling me its for the update. Is it possible that I have two boot loaders in the MBR? And if i do how can i delete the bootloader for windows 7?
View 4 Replies View RelatedLet's say you want to copy some files from one drive (ext3 over USB) to another (ext4 in local box). You have a few terabytes over a couple million files.You could just use Nautilus, which is what I did. It seemed to have completed normally (after a few days).I wanted to verify that everything copied accurately, but I'm not sure the best way to do this. If I used md5sum, the verification would take all week, so that won't do. I used "du -bs *" and compared the sizes of the folders at the root of the drives. Most of the folder sizes were off somewhat - less than 1MB in any case. For each folder whose size was different, the difference was a multiple of 4096 bytes. This makes me suspect that the information du is giving me isn't precisely the information I assume it's giving me.
Baobab gave me different sizes from what du gave me, and it also gave significantly different sizes between my source and destination drives.I wanted to do a "diff -r source destination", but I don't even have a guess as to how long that would take so I gave up after a couple hours. It wouldn't tell me everything I want to know, anyway (if files are missing vs if files did not copy correctly).
So the help I need is:
1.) Is there a quick way to reassure me that everything copied correctly?
2.) Is there a better way to do such marathon copies? (faster and more reliable?)
I would boot up windows and do it but window will no longer open my system crashed and was only able to recover linux. i open up system info and 31 gig of memory are used up on windows. i try to delete them but the option doest pop up and the delete key will not work. how can i remove all the windows files without deleting any of my linux stuff? if its possible.
View 15 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu server 9.04 and am try to get it all set up but Ive run into a snag with Samba. I cant delete, add, or change files from my windows machine like I could before. Here is my minimalist Samba config that I used on my old ubuntu server:
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[global]
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
security = SHARE
map to guest = Bad User
obey pam restrictions = Yes
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Im sure its just one small thing Im forgetting..Its been a while since I played around with my server!
I didn't know how to Make a cd image out of the Ubuntu iso so I made a seperate partition in my drive.Now I'm wondering how to delete the windows partition without formatting the whole hard drive.how to create a bootable cd image
View 2 Replies View RelatedFirst how can I clean install Ubuntu 10.10? I am currently using Windows 7 and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10.
Secondly, I have Apple iPod Touch 4th generation 32GB model. So how can I install iTunes on Ubuntu??
installing Ubuntu. I want to completely delete my windows data and want to clean install Ubuntu 10.10
I just got a new PC with 2TB of HDD space and it's running Ubuntu 10.04.1 32bit. I have created a user for networking, called share and have created a folder within the home folder called public. I then shared the folder and gave 777 access to it as I want this to be public - but for my local network and my later for ssh access. I have installed samba, and under the sharing options I allowed for guest logins and people to write and delete from folder. SO how would I be able to "see" this from my windows machine? It's running XP pro and it has a domain other than workgroup - but that shouldn't affect it should it?
Also, the laptop with XP is on the wireless with and internal IP of 10.0.0.135 and my PC is on the LAN connection with and internal IP of 10.0.0.1 I'm sort of familiar with networks, but I have NO clue as to how to do this.
I have dual boot ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP and Accidently, Some files in XP system drive files got deleted and now canot boot into Win XP,These are the files left and nothing happend to folder....
AUTOEXEC.BAT
boot.ini
CONFIG.SYS
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have two copies of firefox, one with addons and one without?
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhenever I start my netbook up lately, it shows that I have three copies of Ubuntu (at least there are three text copies.) Only the third one works, because whenever I load the first two, it does not get any farther than a command prompt-like text screen that says something like "Kernel Panic." I know that that is about the equivalent to Windows' "blue screen of death," and I would like to know how to get rid of the first two.
I do not know if this is exactly related, but it all started when I tried to do an update, and apparently Compiz is an unauthorized program (which is silly, since I got it from the Software Center. Now, in the third Ubuntu option, the Compiz is non-existant (I used to have multiple desktop areas where I could do work, and have gotten quite used to having many windows open at once, but now, even the icon that I used to use to switch between them isn't there.
My ubuntu started out right, it copies files 3/4 of the way through and reads ready when you areThe foward button does not let me click it
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm running Win 7 and installed pcLinux as a dual boot. I uninstalled linux to change disks but the partition still shows in the windows disk manager taking up space I need for windows programs. I have installed linux on another disk but cannot delete the partition on the windows disk.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have just shifted from Windows to openSuse 11.4 it superb really love it.. Mounted all my drives onto openSuse. I am not planning on going back to windows soon, but may dual-boot with Windows 7 after 8 months.So, in the drives there are some folders in each partition
1) $RECYCLE.BIN2) RECYCLER3) System Volume Information4) The File pagefile.sysPlease tell me deletion of which will cause what problems in
time using OpenSUSE.When I mounted an ntfs drive, I did it 2 times, and create 2 different folders in root/windows (C and E).Is there anyway to remove 1 of them?
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