I have Ubuntu installed and I need to reinstall Window$ so that I can set up a dual boot.I cannot get my Hardrive to format, I think there is a way to format the drive in recovery but I do not remember the commands for command prompt.
View 4 RepliesI have recently reinstalled Ubuntu. As the last operating system developed a problem (Xubuntu) and I lost all my files I decided this time to partition the drive so that anything important could be backed up to the other partition.The problem I have now is I cannot work out how to see the other 40Gb of the drive in order to copy the files over. Ubuntu shows 120ish gig for its portion which is as I set it up.
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what software should I use?
I noticed its my hardive that has problems and wont boot any of my operating systems not letting me get to my desktop. Is there a way i can clean it or a disk to do it but without doing it at your desktop?
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filename_1dec_2010.tar
filename_2dec_2010.tar
filename_3dec_2010.tar
filename_4dec_2010.tar
and i have another secondary hardisk i guess i need to grep with "_2010" and move
I'm trying to mount a USB hardrive from the terminal.
Using the following I can mount the hdd:
Code:
sudo mount -o rw,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd However if I try and change to /mnt/usbhd :
Code:
-bash: cd: /mnt/usbhd: Permission denied
(if I change to root I can view the contents)
If I add umask=000 I can view the contents, but I can't do anything to them:
Code:
sudo mount -o rw,users,umask=000 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd
Code:
mkdir: cannot create directory `misc': Read-only file system
I have tried changed the privileges of /mnt/usbhd, and I have tried adding an entry into /etc/fstab (and restarted), and I have tried using "user" rather than "users" but I get exactly the same results.
I don't have autofs or usbmount installed, which I read somewhere causes issues.
Code:
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usbhd type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
I've run these commands on another machine and it works perfectly, so it isn't the drive...?!
I put ubuntu 10.10 on my computer it was great i then the driver finder told me that I could make my computer 3d so i downloaded the driver now my computer will not read my hardrive and will not boot.
if you know how to fix this
and i have tried to put ubuntu back on with a live cd but it says error
Prior to the update my internal hd worked flawless. Now its a read-only disk and i can't change it by gui.
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
[code]....
When I try to mount my 320 Gig HD I get this.
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
What am I missing?
Im Running Ubuntu 10.10
During my Ubuntu install I screwed up Leopard 10.5 and don't have original install disk. I have downloaded 10.5 via a torrent via Ubuntu on my external hardrive and it is too large, my G5 doesn't support dual layer to burn install DVD. I thought I found a Ubuntu link that would help me install this OSX.dmg from my external firewire drive but i can't find it again.Anyone recognize this that could provide a link?
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I am assuming this is some sort of security issue. If I login with the second user and go to /mnt/external harddrive I get a permission error."You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "External Drive"." If I login with the first user and try to set the permission it doesn't give me the ability?
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 two days ago and was using my 1tb passport external HDD with it to download and store files. However today whenever i try and copy/cut and past to the HDD i get this error message..
Error opening file '/media/My Passport/test.avi': Input/output error This is obviously very fustrating and i want to stay with Linux but i do need to fix this problem else im afraid im going to have to back to awful windows.
i installed ubuntu using wubi and so far i have been impressed. I quickly filled up the small size i allocated for the ubuntu installation in wubi and now find myself in quite a predicament. I was thinking of performing a clean install of ubuntu and removing the existing windows installation. Rather than dual booting, i was using virtual box to run a windows xp machine so that i could use common windows applications. However, i was having some problems running some applications in the virtual box.
it was possible to install ubuntu and windows on the same hardrive with the ability to boot into either/or, but also be able to run the same windows installation inside a virtualization program in ubuntu? The majority of the windows programs worked fine in the virtual box, but some of the applications didnt. Is there any software out there that can do this?
I have a laptop with Win XP and Ubuntu installed as dual boot. Well something happened with the Ubuntu install and I need to reinstall but can't figure out how to do it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to increase the size of the Hard drive to 200GB when installing Ubuntu on top of Windows. The Reason I ask it that I have a Laptop with a 500GB Hard drive, which has windows installed on it Obviously I cannot create a new Partition on this drive to do a separate install. 30GB is just to small for what I want to do on Ubuntu, I know I can access the hard drive using /host/* but that is hassle that I do not want.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to be careful in case my system crashes, and although highly unlikely my first question is if there is a way to first compress my Linux Partitions. After running the diskutil command in OSX's Terminal, I basically end up with this poartition scheme:
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Macintosh HD = 130GB
disk0s3 = 1MB
disk0s4 = 30GB
Linux Swap = 1.3 GB
I am sure there is a way in the Terminal to first compress disk0s3, disk0s4, and Linux Swap, and then output the compressed partitions into my external Harddrive. I have already read some of the suggestions that only /HOME, /etc/fstab/, list of installed packages, /opt, and /var/cache/apt/archives/-where all installed packages are stored, is what I should backup. But, please correct me if I'm wrong. Wouldn't it take quite a while to install all those packages again in case of a system failure. Or would it just be easier to untar all of them in their directories once Linux has been reinstalled. The closest command I have found so far in being able to achieve this is:
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sudo tar cvf - files | (cd target_directory ; tar xpf -) The above code is very suitable for what I am looking for because it enables you to copy files into another location by using the tar command where you would create In my case the new location would be my external harddrive. My external harddrive already has its own Linux partition which I am able to mount in Linux and that Linux sees as free space.
I'm having a problem, as Fedara is not recognising a 2nd hardrive that I've added to a USB port.To clarify, the first hardrive is in the PC with Fedora installed on it. The problem is with the 2nd one that I need to add to a USB port.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a Westel 1 TB external hard drive and when attempting to partition it, the partitioner never finishes refreshing the device. I've tried gparted live, opensuse, & ubuntu; and none of them finish refreshing the device.
Another issue is, I have 200 gig of music & movies that can't be wiped out because I got no room elsewhere to move them to. I would like to set a partition of 750 gig for the ext 3 and leave the rest for ntfs.
converting 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?
just 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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View 4 Replies View RelatedI 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??
the 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 RelatedI've pretty much installed Ubuntu Linux9.10, 10.04 and Debian 5 on external hard drives before, however, I just want to avoid certain pitfalls that may occur with openSUSE11.3. Has anyone successfully done this before? And, is it similar like Debian and Ubuntu installs in that you have to install the OS using an advanced option and specifying /dev/sdb, etc? Right now, I have Ubuntu installed on an external harddrive along with Debian as well and wanted to do the same for openSUSE11.3 and was wondering if all Unix derivatives share similar installation processes. I would just like to keep things as I have it currently where the system does not boot with Grub, and instead I have to go to the bios and specify which physical drive to boot from in order to change the boot order.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm still trying to find out if my coby mp3 player will actually play mtv video files as is advertised.
ffmpeg -formats does list mtv but the only command I really ever used was one to convert a vid to an mp3 so I tried Code: ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -acodec copy output.mtv it returns Code: Unable to find a suitable output format for 'output.mtv' I can't find any mtv files online for purchase or free for that matter, so I know this is all pretty obscure but shouldn't there be a way to convert them since ffmpeg lists mtv format?
I have a problem,I want to change the hour format from 24 hours to 12 hours, I cant find the way to do this,
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