Ubuntu Installation :: Can't Format HDD ?
May 9, 2010How i can fix it to install netook remix. After 2-3 days i had a problem with 10.04 pc version, and now i wanna reinstall it.
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Ubuntu Multimedia :: Converting Any Video Format To 3gp Format?
Jul 21, 2011converting videos to 3gp format.
i have installed transmaggedon software but it fails to convert because quicktime muxer plugin is not installed.
This plugin is not available in the repositories.
How can i get this video converter to work or what else can i do to be able to convert videos to 3gp format?
General :: Simple Script To Convert Datetime Format To UTC Format?
Oct 9, 2009just wondering is there a simple script to convert datetime to UTC format. I have been searching different forums but most answers are for converting UTC to datetime. For example what is a simple command/script to convert todays datetime to UTC format i.e. '2009-10-09 11:47:59'.
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Apr 7, 2010my school we want to print a magazine but we have problem with the format of the files. We need to create a sheet in A3 format from two sheets in A4 format. I was reading about the pdftk library but it doesn't do what i need.
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Format A USB Hard Drive To Vfat Format But Can't?
Sep 15, 2010I need some assistance in trying to format a USB hard drive to vfat format but can't seem to do so. I am currently using RHEL 5.3. I have tried the following commands and they all come back as "command not found"
mke2fs vfat /dev/sc1
fdisk vfat /dev/sdc1
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
What am I doing incorrectly?? Can someone please point me in the right direction??
Ubuntu Installation :: Get Away With An Upgrade Not A Format?
Apr 25, 2010I recently started getting an error message telling me that "A problem occurred when checking for the updates". I've tried to troubleshoot the problem but with no success, and the only other help I've gotten was "Change your repositories to something else" which was more frustrating than no response at all.
Attempting to install updates from this warning does nothing, attempting to open the update manager also does nothing, and trying to open synaptic gives me this error message:
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E: The package devede needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report. Since I can not get this resolved, I have decided this is a perfect opportunity to upgrade to 9.10 or maybe even 10.04?! I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me if an upgrade should resolve these issues or if I need to backup my data and format the drive and start from scratch?
Ubuntu Installation :: 11.04 - Getting The 11.04 And Then Format The Windows?
Jun 9, 2011I decided to install Ubuntu and then format the Windows part of the hard drive.
Specs:
OS: Windows XP Professional
BIOS: Award Modular Bios v6.0
Processor: INtel Pentium 4, 1.70 ghz
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Any other specs needed will be edited into the OP. I go for Ubuntu 11.04, 64 bit. I try to install it and it goes to Busy Box, telling me that it can't find a medium containing a live file system. A little bit of googling tells me to try the 32 bit version instead.
So Another download and burn later I give installing the 32 bit version a shot. It goes straight to the purple loading screen with the Ubuntu logo in the middle and five color changing dots... And stays there. I left it for ten minutes and walked away, no progress. So I decided maybe I'd just go the Long Term Support Route and burned a disk of ten. Computer doesn't see the disk as a viable option - boots straight to Windows.
General :: Change One Time Format To Other Format?
Jun 21, 2010the time format i have used is %m:%d:%Y:%H:%M:%S eg- 06:21:10:13:29:18 and i want to convert it to 2010-06-21 13:29:18..
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Format The Partition Which Contains Win7?
Mar 5, 2010So, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 in a different disk partition than where Windows 7 is currently installed. So, can I just go ahead and format the partition which contains Win7? Won't that compromise Ubuntu's integrity?
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Apr 9, 2010I have just got a new external harddisk. I used it strait in window I copy some files on it. without formating it. Now when I use ubuntu it said that it is total only 10Giga, but the external harddisk is 1000 Giga. How come ? is htis because it has to be formated before ubuntu se the total size ?
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May 11, 2010I have a Dell mini 9 with a 16GB SSD. At one time I had Hackintoshed it to run OS X. Went back to original OS(Ubuntu 8.04 LTS). Had some issues installing 8.04, apparently MBR was lost, or corrupted, so had to re-install grub and was able to complete the install. The issue is under partition ed. it shows dev/sda1 flagged as boot, with a yellow triangle, file system unknown, size 23.5 MB. When you double click the partition it shows status as unmounted, reason 1. file system damaged, 2. file system unknown to gparted, 3. no file system available (unformated). So I decided to try to formate the partition with ext2, or ext3 it fails with no detailed info. as to why it has failed. There is also no swap partition showing up? why this partition seems to be untouchable? When you right click the partition the options are delete, format, and manage flags. I am afraid to delete partition as this is flagged with boot, and cannot format.
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May 13, 2010I want to format an USB disk with ext3. If I do this with gparted, it will be formatted, but I cannot write to it. Reading is no problen, at least it shows the lost+found folder. I guess its a problem with access rights. It would be sufficient if user "papa" would have access on one ubuntu karmic machine. But I cannot solve this graphically. The purpose of the operation is to be able to copy my /home directory onto the USB disk as a backup, before I upgrade to the current version of Ubuntu. FAT32 is no option as some files are too long.
View 9 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Unable To Format To Ext4
Aug 6, 2010i recently bought a new pair of rams, after i installed them (removed the old ones) ubuntu started lagging and all my applications started normaly, after half a minute they didn't respond for 2 minutes and then back to normal again. So i decided to delete the ubuntu partition and re-install ubuntu. I begin the installation normaly but it stucks at 5% where the partitioning takes place.
I also tried gparted to create an ext3 and ext4 partitions but i had the same problem on both tries. I believe it is a ram problem, should i go and replace them, or there is a possible solution without replacing them? (Also run the memtest 86+ for 4 hours and there were no errors).
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Ubuntu Installation :: Format Both Disks Before Reinstall?
Nov 19, 2010Reformatting two drives before re-installation. I'm new to Linux generally. Can someone give me instructions on formatting the hard drives? I have installed ubuntu on a machine that had been running Windows for a while. Since Windows worked the boot drive for years, I decided to switch the positions of the two drives; putting the old data drive into the boot position.
Apparently, ubunta was too smart for me. I guess it discovered the Windows installation, and decided that's where it should be installed too. Now, what I would like to do - and I would really like to do it this way - is reformat both the disks, wiping out everything that's on both of them; before running another installation.
BTW: the old data drive is still NTFS, and I don't want installations own both disks - reformatting and starting fresh seems nice and clean, if not entirely necessary.
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product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
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Ubuntu :: Windows Asking To Format After Fs Driver Installation?
Dec 12, 2010I just installed the driver from fs-driver.org to allow my Windows XP partition to read/write my linux mint partition. It seemingly worked as advertised, I labeled the linux partition as L and pressed finished. When I went into Windows Explorer and clicked on the L drive, though, a dialog box came up asking if I wanted to format the drive.
View 7 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: When Should I Format Storage Space
Dec 18, 2010I'm about to do a clean wipe of my laptop, to try out Ubuntu. I've read quite a bit about dual-booting WIn7 and Ubuntu, but not alot about the process of installing. I'd like to install Win7 and Ubuntu on 2 small drives, and leave the rest for a Storage partition. But when should I partition that Storage Drive? Should I do it while I'm installing Win7? Or should I partition the amount of space to Storage after I've installed Ubuntu?
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Jan 12, 2011A co-worker was asking me if there was a way to recuperate his child's baptism photos from his HD after it had been reformatted following a crash. I heard that this was possible and even downloaded a few trial programs, but have yet to try them.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Can't Boot After Format And Install 10.10?
Feb 20, 2011Recently I removed Windows XP pro using Kill Disk and a 000 overwrite on the drive. After that I used GParted format the drive and create a new ext 3 partition then I installed Ubuntu 10.10 from a live CD.
This system has only 10.10 installed. There are no other OS's present. Installing of 10.10 went well and all the the files are now on the drive. However, now the system will not reboot from the drive. When attempting to boot I get a an error message which advise that the medium is not bootable. I am then forced to use the live CD to boot from the CD.
I'm not sure if formatting a drive creates a new mbr or not. If not then I would have to create one and I don't know how to do that. I've read a number of forum posts on how to use GRUB to repair the mbr - however I haven't found any that specifically deal with replacing a missing mbr.
I suspect that when I used Kill Disk it trashed the MBR. I could really use some help figuring out the nature of the problem and how to fix it. I'm fairly new to Ubuntu so please be as exact as possible if you reply.
Ubuntu Installation :: Forcibly Format Usb Pen Drive?
May 20, 2011I have a 4 GB usb pen drive, but I am unable to format it. Even if I delete some files and eject it , I am getting back the same files again? Guide me any cmds or any software to forcibly format my pen drive?
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Jan 21, 2010dont get me wrong i am happy with my Ubuntu until i want to use the usb maker thing.. i got netbook remix and now i want to install it.. i use one of my usb drives.. BUT.. ubuntu usbmaker dont let me formate it.. i have used gparted, yes with ntfstools and tried formate it in every possible way with and without flags and **** and usbmaker dont seem to accept it however.. the usbmaker cant do ****.. it tells me it cant use the stick** and then gives me everything from 1 - 2 partitions.. i have backtracked this problem as far as i can it i dont get it..unetbootin makes it work great! but why shold i have to go so far as unetbootin to get things done? is usbmaker the most unuseless pice of software or what.. ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: GParted Under Xubuntu 9.10 Won't Format Any Usb Drive
Feb 18, 2010i am running xubuntu 9.10 and can't format any usb drive (tried few of them). The same issue i had with fluxbox mint 8 (based on ubuntu 9.10) I thought that my usb drives are dead, but after formatting it in windows xp, i could run from them any linux distro. I installed then mint xfce 6 (ithink based on 8.10) and crunchbang based on 9.04, and had no such issues. But now i am back on Xubuntu 9.10 and want to make all live usb within it. At the end of formating process i have message something like: cannot mount usb drive: The enclosing drive for the volume is locked. Of course, no drive is locked. After that i can start making installation usb disk, but after some percentage it reports some error, and of course, it does not work.
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Ubuntu Installation :: Format The Hard Drive And Re-Install?
Jun 23, 2010An upgrade %100 pwnd my system: I performed an upgrade to Lucid from Karmic and I lost my keyboard input and sound etc etc etc. I then made a Karmic boot-run/install CD, & a USB startup stick. I then backed up my important information on flashdrives etc. At this point in time I have 2 partitions one with my old user account & info on it, and the other as a new (re)installed Karmic partition. My question is: What is the procedure for:
a) formatting the drive,
b) not keeping the 2 partitions, and
c) re-installing Ubuntu (karmic) back onto it?
I have GParted ( but I can't see how to use it to format ), and I have no clue how to format the Drive from either within the GUI or at the command-line. How do I format & re-install Ubuntu? What is the sequence or steps? I can probably do the re-install intuitively but I'm concerned there may be Ubuntu tricks I don't know about! Also- does this 2 partition thing cause any complications to formatting?? So honestly my question is simply how to format the drive from within the system.
Ubuntu Installation :: Keep Windows Files On Full Format?
Aug 18, 2010When installing ubuntu on a dual boot system, I noticed that it had the import option for basically the documents and settings folder from windows, which is brilliant I think, but my question is, if during the installation of ubuntu, I tell it to use the whole drive, will that option still be available? It's basically asking if I can do that before formatting the box.
View 6 Replies View RelatedUbuntu Installation :: Xubuntu Cannot Format Hard Drive?
Aug 29, 2010I have a PC with really low specs ( it's a back up computer) that's running puppy linux but I don't really like it. It's hard to navigate/get things you could easily do on Windows Xp done, it's menus are crowded and well it can't even shut off properly which is a shame. I've had it on for only a week.
Anyways, I've downnloaded the Xubuntu . Iso and burnt it at 1x speed. I pop it in and it does take a long time to go through the install. ( I'm not sure if it's because of the disc read speed or because of the memory and what not) I chose the option to delete everything and install Xubuntu. It works and then I get a couple of error message and then the last one says something like " Can not format sda1" or something like that.
Ubuntu Installation :: Format Windows Affect Bootloader
Nov 11, 2010I have grub installed which boots both my ubuntu and windows which are in seperate partition. I'm about to format my windows, will it affect anything? Like though my ubuntu will not be formated nor the bootloder but shouldn't the windows bootloader overwrite somethign and make it default? Thus making ubuntu impossible to boot?
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Jan 8, 2011The last time I attempted to install an alpha release, my entire hard drive was wiped out (it was backed up) because of my ignorance to the installation warnings. Would it be possible upgrade Maverick Meerkat to Natty without editing any partitions?
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Feb 18, 2011I am excited to install linux on my macbook air and have been trying to boot with a kingston 4gb usb drive but when I try to boot with it (holding down the option key on reboot) only the Hard drive shows up for me to boot up on.. not the usb drive.. how do I format the usb drive to be bootable in this case?
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May 13, 2011I have a second hand/used HDD which I want to use for an installation of 11.04 from CD. I have used this CD on identical hardware successfully before.When trying to install, Ubuntu sees that I do not have enough space on the HDD and tells me that only 657MiB is present and that 100% is in use. (see attached screenshots) I used DBAN thinking that this would completely wipe the drive but it has not solved things. DBAN recognised the drive as 152GiB.
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May 20, 2011This is my situation, I had installed Ubuntu in my whole drive in 640Gig. Now, I want to partition it, without affecting my Ubuntu operating system. I just want 320Gig for my Ubuntu and 320 for my Windows.
I know how partition using Windows but from Linux, that I don't know.
Ubuntu Installation :: Maintain Logical Volume After Format?
Sep 1, 2011I'm currently on Ubuntu Server 11.04 x86_64 and have configured a logical volume that contains 2x 2TB HDD's and mounted that volume in /data. The OS is installed to the first HDD (a 500GB one). So the system has 3 HDD's in total (1x 500GB OS disk and 2x 2TB data disks).I want to do a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop on the system without losing the data in the 4TB logical volume currently mounted in /data. Is this possible and if so, how?
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