Ubuntu :: Reformatting An External Harddrive?
May 6, 2010I have a Seagate Expansion external drive.
It won't load as it is NTFS. Am I okay to reformat it using GParted? I'm unable to get the drive up in a window, but GParted can see it.
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Ubuntu :: Reformatting An Apple Partitioned External Hd?
Jul 19, 2010I used to be a Mac user until my Ibook died. I now have a Toshiba Netbook running Ubuntu 10.04, but want to make use of my Maxtor external 250 GB drive, although it's formatted for Mac.Could someone advise as to a way around getting my old data off, before re-formatting for Linux use? Is it possible to partition part of the drive for Ubuntu - move everything into that and then delete the old apple partition?
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Mar 21, 2010I installed Ubuntu on a portable harddrive so that I can use it independently of my computer (when I visit my parents or my g/f). I performed the installation using a bootable Ubuntu thumbdrive, everything went fine but when I unplugged the thumbdrive and rebooted I got a kernel panic. I was able to boot into Ubuntu on my external drive once (I think it might have been due to reordering boot order in BIOS). My guess is that the kernel panic occurs due to the drive letter changing (sdb -> sdc) depending on which external devices are plugged in, but I'm not sure how to make sure that's the case. And if it is, how would I prevent this from happening?
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Feb 12, 2010XP and Ubuntu are on different drives and they were booting ok prior the the reformatting. With the Ubuntu drive selected as the 1st hd boot device in Bios: I can boot into Ubuntu ok if I select it in the Grub2 menu If I select XP in the Grub menu I get:
"error:no such device c8e4918ce4917cfe"
If I select the XP drive as the 1st hd boot device in Bios I can boot straight into XP.So that is ok. This thread: [URL] has given me a clue that: "The UUID listed in grub.cfg is wrong In some cases the UUID in the above search line in grub.cfg is wrong. This can for example happen if the UUID has changed due to formatting or partitioning. Bugs The "search" function is plagued by various bugs (see [1], [2]), causing the search to fail."
However the fix in that thread gives me this result: "At the grub menu at boot up (you might have to hold the "shift" key or press "Esc" to get to the Grub menu) select the OS you are trying to boot. But do not press "enter", press "e" instead to edit the menuentry. Delete the line
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 86d32ee3-aec6-490b-8dab-e5cfff9c7af9
and then press "Ctrl+X". This should boot your OS. If you were not able to boot into you OS, you are infected by a different problem and should not continue this howto." My Boot info script results are:
Code:
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks on the same drive in
[code]....
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Ubuntu :: Erasing Second Harddrive ?
Feb 5, 2011I have two harddrives installed on my HTPC. I am using the smaller (120gb) to run the OS (kubuntu 10) the larger (1 tb) I want to use to store all of my media.
However....
The second hard drive has THREE linux Distros on it (from me testing and playing and making decisions) and I CANT figure out how to get them off.....
The hard drives are SATA and plugged in in the correct order.
I have tried fdisking and reformating which seemed to work, but when I boot it still asks me which OS i want to boot to.
Right now I am trying to zero out the hard drive by using ths
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
I typed that in as root about 15 minutes ago and hit enter. it hasn't said anything since. no command prompt or anythng. I am hoping it is working, we will see.
Ubuntu :: Use The Rest Of Harddrive Without Reinstalling?
Jan 7, 2010I thought I installed properly, but once again I've made a mistake. I'm trying to make use of the 114 gb I didn't assign as file system space, but I can't seem to access it or write to it. I've officially run out of space in my file system and I've got a lot to do still. Any thoughts on how to make the unused partition accessable?
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