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https://gparted.org/livecd.php
EDIT: you just create a USB bootable of GParted (or CD if you still have that) and then use it to delete the existing partition at that point you could safely boot into your existing OS and format or use GParted to format the drive as well.
Because Clonezilla and Gparted both have a small biotsble Live GNU/Linux Distribution to manage partitions, clone, etc.
Clonezilla: https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
Gparted: https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Edit: also, FreeNAS is FreeBSD based but the title says "Linux / Unix OS" and GNU/Linux is not Unix; BSD is, so FreeBSD is BSD based, so basically is Unix although is not legally Unix.
Yes there is.
I would recommend using a live USB/CD of GParted to do the job.
There you can resize your partitions (you cannot resize the root partition while you're using the operating system on it).
Make sure to back up your files before doing this!
Wear-leveling built into the drive makes multiple pass overwrites not work the way you would expect them to on SSDs. Most drive manufacturers have specialized software that will securely wipe the drive (and generally within minutes instead of the much longer overwrite process).
If you need to do this regularly on a variety of drives, GParted is a good tool that has been able to handle dozens of HDDs and SSDs for me over the years.
Alternatively if you don’t need to reuse the drive, physically destroy it with a shredder. I’ve used commercial services to do it, takes seconds and costs a few bucks a drive.
I'm very confused as to what you actually want.
The reason you need to flash gapps via recovery is that after Android boots, /system is read-only/unmodifiable.
You don't need to do that on a normal Linux desktop, and there's no advantage to doing so, it's just a pain in the ass.
That said, if you do want to modify your system while it's not running, for whatever reason, the other answers are correct. You can set up a minimal linux installation on a tiny partition, and dual-boot into it. Distributions good for this are Tiny Core, Damn Small Linux, and there is even a specialized one based around the gparted partition editor (https://gparted.org/livecd.php).
That's all an Android recovery is, by the way -- a minimal subset of Android for modifying the real one.
/u/vote_up is incorrect, actually this is the exact opposite of what needs to be done to resize. If OP wan'ts to resize his C: to make space for a second OS, then by virtue of being a running operating system, it is impossible to resize without doing it from outside of the OS. Infact, Windows will not allow you to resize the system drive at all. You can not even expand it by default due to having the reserve partition placed at the end of the OS partition.
Resizing filesystems/partitions, I've always booted into linux and used a proper tool like GParted. GParted has never once let me down, if /u/vote_up has had a negative experience doing as such, i'm afraid this might just be down to user error.
OP: What you want to do is to shrink your OS partition using a live image of ubuntu, or a bootable GParted image installed onto a flash drive via a tool such as Rufus. First thing is to shrink your OS/'C' volume, and this process will likely take a little time. You are then free to boot into the ubuntu installation, create a new partition from the free space, select it for the rootFS, and overwrite your windows boot partition with grub which should automatically add windows as a boot entry. After the installation completes, you will now be able to dualboot both operating systems.
Make sure that you backup your 'C' disk before doing any of the above
If you feel anxious doing the above, then you probably don't have a backup, or a usable backup, and you should not proceed. Instead, consider finding an alternate hard disk/ssd which you do not mind using for linux, and then you can avoid all the partition stuff.
edit I'm wrong. Apparently I am conflating shrink with extend. Disregard my comment chain.
gparted has a live image
IIRC gparted does all the stuff below in the background - feels easier (and safer) than moving partitions and resizing the fs manually
after re-reading your post, I'm not sure what you did…
what you should have done: - delete sda2 - recreate sda2 with 16G - mkswap sda2 - move sda3 16G back - move sda4 16G back - expand sda4 by 16G - resize sda4 filesystem
> I can't re-install normally because that ends up migrating some files from the old installation which is no good.
You don't need Linux for that. Boot to the Windows installer and go through the steps. When you see a screen that looks like this, select your Windows partition and click on Format. This will erase everything. Then you can install.
If you want to manage partitions on Linux without installing it, you should use GParted live CD/USB drive, not Manjaro which is a full OS.
You can use gparted to resize your partitions without losing data but it isn't quick depending on where your free space is and how much data it has to move around to resize things.
This should get the job done.
It's linux based however it's also entirely just a bootable partition manager. Download the gparted iso and use rufus to create a bootable usb. If you have a pc with a 64 bit cpu download the amd64 gparted iso file
delete all partitions, create a single new partition and format it with ext4 Linux filesystem then delete it again.
Problem solved.
Maybe the programs that are necessary for creating such file systems aren't installed on your system? See https://gparted.org/features.php for information on which programs you need for which file system.
My short guide.
Before all ensure you have backed up data you don't want to loose.
- Download rufus to make bootable USB
- Download gParted.iso and make bootable USB using rufus.
- Download elementary iso
- Boot gparted and shrink windows data partition, but leave no less than 20Gb free space for Windows or it won't be able to update. On created empty space make new partition and format it to ext4. This is were your Linux partition will go. I recommend no less than 20Gb.
- Finally using rufus make bootable elementary OS USB
- Boot up and follow instructions, install eOS on previously made ext4 partition.
As u/faerbit said I would just use Gparted Live if you want GUI.
It has a text editor, a small webbrowser, a file manager, and obviously Gparted, and the iso is only like 400mb.
nein, man muss die Partitionstabelle und die Dateisystemgrößen anpassen, eigentlich beides recht trivial
Bei gparted ist das afaik alles dabei, gibt's auch als Live-USB https://gparted.org/livecd.php
weiss aber nicht wie das aussieht wenn bitlocker oä. aktiv ist
Since you are a beginner, I would recommend using gparted, from a live usb or CD.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
The last time I did this, I used the Linux Mint ISO and created a live usb from it, and ran gparted from there.
Partitioning seems daunting at first, and during my first attempt I was told by a friend who I though was somewhat knowledgeable about computers that my computer would never work again if I did that or even if I messed with any settings in BIOS at all. Boy was he wrong! Like I told him later those things are just necessary to work with computers at anything past the simple point-and-click level. Partitioning is really fairly simple and should be understood by anyone who wants to install Linux. Here is the Arch wiki page explaining what you should know:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning
Like many things in the computer world, we are basically faced with complexity, not real difficulty: There are just a lot of pieces to understand. The pieces are all relatively simple, but they must be assembled correctly in your mind to get anything out of them. Do some reading and then come back with specific questions if you need to. Luckily Linux has a wonderful graphical partitioning tool that makes it much easier to visualize the process as you are partitioning: Gparted Live. You should download it and become familiar with using it, you will be glad you did. Once you do it a few times you will wonder what all the fuss was about; it really isn't difficult at all.
https://gparted.org/download.php
Basically there are two different partitioning schemes, BIOS & UEFI. BIOS uses an MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table and UEFI uses a GPT partition table. Partitioning is much more flexible and simple on UEFI that BIOS. There are definite advantages to having separate / and /home partitions when it comes to reinstalling or fixing a broken system. If you are not working on very old computers you can probably basically ignore BIOS as everything made in at all recent years will be UEFI (with the exception of Apple who uses something similar, EFI not UEFI, and is their own unique proprietary headache).
Good luck!
Don't blame Mint, something else is wrong.
Let's start with the USB problem: you can't shrink a partition that is in use, and when you write an ISO to a USB stick it claims all the stick, even if that leaves a lot of space empty. It turns it into one big partition. The error you get points to a diconnecting/reconnecting USB device. The 80b6 identifies the manufacturer and brings up nothing in any database of USB vendor IDs I could find, which is strange.
If I were you I'd grab a regular 8GB USB stick, write the .iso to that with Rufus and try again.
As to the partitioning error: what device are you trying to install to? You can't install to the one you are booting from, and the error seems to indicate that that is what you are trying to do. You boot from a USB stick and then install to the wiped internal hdd.
If you can start the installer, you have probably seen the desktop as well. Boot to the desktop and open a program called gparted, it is the partition manager. There, you can see which drives have which partitions. The guide on how to use it is here See which drives it recognises and what partitions are on those, you can post screenshots to this thread (aka imgur links) so we can see exactly what is going on, and take it from there.
The settings in your UEFI should be: Fast Boot and Safe Boot off, first boot device points to an EFI partition on your main hdd after installation, but to the USB during the installation. If your PC has USB3 ports, try to boot with the USB stick in a USB2 port, that often helps mitigate errors as well.
Feel free to ask for any help, and if necessary just post pictures of every single step you take, imgur is great for that.
- You can just
cp -aorrsyncthe home dir to the new HDD, just do it while the user isn't logged in. - Just switching the home partition's UUID to the new drive in fstab should be enough, provided they are the same filesystem.
- You can control where the home dirs of each user's are in /etc/passwd, or during the user creation with
useradd -d /path/to/home - Get SysResCD, Gparted live or or anything else that has GNU parted/gparted, and you can easily resize most Linux partitions with that. Bear in mind that XFS can only be extended, not shrunk.
gparted from a live USB, is what I typically use for tasks like this.
there is a gparted-live-usb distribution out that does the job nicely.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
gparted is included in many live distribution images.
and make backups before you try to resize things. it really sucks if you have a power failure during a resize operation.
Most likely it's because there are sectors in use all the way up to the end of the drive.
You can try defragmenting it, or you can use a partition resizing tool that can automatically move fragments like GParted.
- BACKUP YOUR DATA AND SETTINGS (ie your home folder)
- Delete the Win7 entry from Grub. Confirm Linux still boots.
- Boot a GParted live CD or USB drive, delete the Windows partition(s), and expand your Linux partition to fill the space. https://gparted.org/livecd.php
My vote also goes for gParted. I've use it many times and never had any problems with it.
But, you might want to defrag your drive before doing the resize, op.
Here is the link to its website: https://gparted.org/
You have a bad boot drive, and it will scroll forever.
I suggest using Gparted to see what you've go, it's the best for this. https://gparted.org/download.php Burn it to a CD, go into your Bios (hit the Del key) have it boot from the CD.
After it loads, run Gparted - it's an easy program to learn.
many live usbs include gparted. There is a 'gparted' live usb which is a minimal live setup just to run gparted. https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
But most distribution live usbs come with gparted.
boot the live usb, run gparted. Modify the partitions, reboot back into the installed system.
make proper backups before you modify partitions
a power failure or crash during a resize operation can lead to data loss.
Yes, just copy/paste. Make sure the SD card is formatted to FAT32 first. gparted is a good partition manager, free, works on all operating systems (win/Mac/Linux), and doesn’t have limits like the one included in Windows. A 64-256Gb SD should be good enough, and use WiiFlow (USB Loader GX isn’t compatible with Wii WBFS/games on SD cards).
Low effort post, try searching this Reddit, it’s been answered a few times.
I have a 256Gb SD. The Wii supports SDXC up to 2Tb. Just use a good partition utility like gparted. And stay away from USB Sticks/Flash drives
You partition with Live Linux version. Can't partition the current drive your currently using.
I always used Gparted Live. But you can simply use your Linux Mint Live if you still have it. And use Gparted that way. or any other partition tool you choose to use.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Maybe you can now. But I always used a Linux Live version to created, delete, move, etc. when I partition my drive(s).
Have you tried using "Method B" from the GNU/Linux section of the official documentation?
https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
If you dded the iso file to a partition (e.g. /dev/sdd1), this won't work as they have to be written to the device directly (e.g. /dev/sdd).
If you decide to take that route, you could try "Method D" from the guide above.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried it, nor have I been using Linux for a long time (~2 years).
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With default GNOME Disks or GParted, I think you could login from a Live Ubuntu session (boot from USB) and use the resize/move function to move each partition to the start, essentially moving the unallocated space to the end.
It seems to be possible according to Ubuntu's Community Help Wiki and GParted's Manual, but there are warnings on both pages saying that you might damage or corrupt your data, specially a partition that has your OS.
I would suggest xubuntu as its a little bit nicer to use than lubuntu. Not a lot of difference in system load between the two.
Before putting an OS on it I would strongly recommend smart-testing the hard drive with gsmartcontrolto make sure thats not what was causing the problem with windows. One of the most common problems with computers after a number of years is the hdd, and if thats bad you will just run into more problems with the new os.
if you cant install and run it in windows, download from here
https://gparted.org/livecd.php put on a CD or USB, and boot to that.
Not too difficult:
Download Gparted ISO file.
Use Rufus to mount the ISO on to an empty flashdrive.
Reboot your computer with the flashdrive still plugged in and make sure to select it in Boot Manager
Gparted menu should start and may give you some options. Select Live CD
The OS should boot and your ready to dive into your harddrives. Check out these guides here if you need more help.
No, I ran gparted the first time without reading the manual. Later I read the manual just to learn all that gparted does.
You can run your Pop! live and run gparted that way. Me I always had this one which is just gparted running live. When I need to partition anything.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Just know which is Linux patititon and which is your D drive/partition. Since they are label differently by Linux. Which I know you won't see it label as D drive but something like this. sda2 or sdb or something similar.
From what you described I don't see how the drive could have been formatted or anything. If I were to make a guess I'd say you might have switched the sata ports the drive is plugged into and that's confused windows.
I would create a live GParted flash drive (a small bootable gui tool to manage disks) and boot into that to get a better idea of what's going on in terms of what drives are plugged in, how they're formatted and if they contain anything. I've always had more luck with linux-based tools rather than stuff within windows itself for this kind of thing. I suspect you might find your full 1tb partition hiding somewhere.
Otherwise if gparted indicates the drive has been formatted, disconnect the drive to prevent any further changes (anything written to it from then on may well overwrite the residual data) and take it to a professional, as some of the other commenters have mentioned.
Boot from this and look for partitions. https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Are the disks being flagged as non-local/remote. There was a old bug where hitachi drives would flag as a HDS storage array in the PSP.
Throw https://gparted.org/ on a USB stick, boot from it and resize your partitions with it. It is able to deal with the exact problem you're having by relocating data to other blocks, and then shrinking the Windows filesystem and partition.
Here are the steps I would take to diagnose your issue:
- Download and run Crystal Disk Info to check your HDD SMART health. Post a screenshot of the results for each disk
- Scan your computer for malware with the following guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/33evdi/suggested_reading_official_malware_removal_guide/
- If malware is found, remove it following the guide
- If everything checks out above, back up important documents, then use the windows install USB to format your C:/ drive. Be sure you know your windows serial number, or that you have logged into your microsoft account on the computer.
- If that does not work, download and install https://gparted.org/ onto a USB and format your C:/ drive (the format does not matter as windows will format the disk upon install)
- If that still doesn't work, it's time to warranty.
Try GParted: https://gparted.org/download.php Then use Rufus to put the ISO on to a USB pen drive, and boot into that from your BIOS.
It's 100% free (unlike what the other guy suggested) and is incredibly useful. Should do the trick. Or if you still have your Ubuntu install media, you load Gparted from that.
you do understand C: drive is just a letter assignment , could also be assigned to the xp live boot environment you used or a ram disk it made .. etc etc
C: means absolutely nothing
use https://gparted.org/ next time if you must partition and format outside windows installer
GParted Live. https://gparted.org/livecd.php
This is a bootable disk manager, so it shouldn't complain at all about the disk being in use. However, messing with your C drive may render the OS unbootable. Just a warning.
As long as all the existing data can fit onto the 120GB SSD, you can use GParted to resize the existing HDD's partition to 120GB or less and then copy that partition to the SSD.
That is an OEM partition and I think this update just made it visible in explorer. You can unmount it with the "remove letter" command in diskpart, but please if you don't know what you are doing read a guide first.
The 25GB of space you lost are the old windows installation, so you are able to revert the update if you run into problems. If there are no problems you can do a disk cleanup.
Edit: If the partition bothers you or you need the 450MB of space, you can remove it with GParted. I don't recommend this though.
First, turn off your laptop. Boot on some live disc (like GParted Live) and check the status of your partitions. Do you remember which partitions you formatted?
> i will try to recover files with getdataback but I suspect only the deleted files would not be infected...
From the disk? if it's truly ransomware and done correctly your not getting anything back, the whole disk including the whole filesystem will be encrypted. before you format though use a linux distribution usb and use one of the antivirus tools to see if it can be deleted. there are a lot of fake lazy ransomware viruses that go off on the ransomware popularity and just put up a splash screen with no encryption. I've deleted one or two of these on a friends computer. it looks real from the name,but it could be a fake. https://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
if you have nothing important on there I would just nuke the drive. To be extra careful I would use a linux formatting tool to do the wipe. There could be the possibility of the windows installer reading the MBR and triggering the virus again. I haven't heard of this happening, but I imagine somebody will do it one day. https://gparted.org/
Assuming you've already maxed out your hdd between Linux and Windows, you'll have to repartition the drive a bit -- first shrinking the Windows one down a bit to free up some space, then resizing the Linux one to take advantage of the new space. You can do this with gparted. Basically, you burn it to a disc or whatever and boot it like a live CD.
Obviously, you'll want to make sure you have enough 'free space' on your Windows partition before you do this, otherwise you'll mess stuff up. You'll also want to make damn sure you've backed up everything that's important, on both your Linux and Windows partitions; I haven't personally ever had anything go wrong when doing this type of thing, but you don't want to be left without options if it does.
Alternately, if you just need more space for downloads, etc., you can mount the Windows partition from inside Linux and just save stuff to it. Maybe not the best way to do it but it'd work.
According to https://gparted.org/
>GParted can be used on x86 and x86-64 based computers running Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X by booting from media containing GParted Live.
Yes, runs on Linux only, but they provide bootable self contained media that you can run on anything.
If you boot off a USB with something like this installed: https://gparted.org/liveusb.php you can use gparted to grow the partition and filesystem. You'll want to back up all your data first though. Be familiar with your partition sizes so that you know which one you want to shrink!
You can run gparted on your current installation just to have a look before you create the USB and alter things.
Follow Wii.guide. For the exploit, there are several that don’t require an internet connection. I recommend using letterbomb. For the offline D2x cIOS installation, use NUS Downloader to download the latest IOS 56, 57, and 38 and place those 3 .wad files on the rood of the SD. No internet connection needed.
All Wiis can read SDHC up to 32Gb for exploits. Only some exploits (like smash stack) specifically need a standard 2Gb SD. Make sure the SD is formatted to FAT32. Any good partition utility/formatter will work. If it’s bigger than 32Gb, use gparted
Lastly, stay away from USB Flash drives. Overall, they’re very problematic on Wiis for some strange reason, will cause many issues and headaches
USB Loader GX doesn’t support loading Wii wbfs games from SD. I recommend using WiiFlow. Personally I like it better than USB Loader anyway. Also, if you need a partition utility for formatting to FAT32, I recommend gparted. It’s free, works on all systems, and doesn’t limit you like Windows’s utility does
Well, you can check the official website for how to create the usb.
The software is fairly easy to use. Just know that on linux, drives are labelled as sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, etc... instead of c:, d:, e:, etc...
Since it's a live utility outside of windows, be really careful not to touch your OS drive.
In GParted, you can basically select your drive with the top-right menu, do your things, and then click apply. Pretty straight forward.
I hate to say it, because I like Linus, Anthony and co, but that link must be compromised. Always download Pop!_OS directly from System76 https://pop.system76.com/ and verify it when it is finished.
Regarding the USB: Create a live USB of Gparted https://gparted.org/ . Boot into that and select the problematic USB to delete and reformat it.
This is not a Virtual Box issue. You basically did the equivalent of moving an existing file system to a new, larger drive. However, the file system was only setup to use the space available on the smaller, original drive. Accordingly, you must also expand the file system on said partitions to fill the newly created free space. You can use gparted (https://gparted.org/index.php), to do this.
You need to shrink the partition after ESP and move it to make free space for the ESP. There are a few things that complicate it on your screenshot:
- This partition has Windows installed on it so you can't move it while the OS runs from it.
- It seems your partitions are encrypted with BitLocker. Not sure if it affects anything, but I would probably disable the encryption before trying to do anything. Reenable it later if you need it.
You can use any Linux distro with live environment and run GParted. GParted live may be useful if you only need to move partitions. (Not sure if GParted works with BitLocker enabled, seems unlikely)
Some third-party partition managers for Windows can also create a live USB to edit OS partitions.
Backup your important data before doing anything, probably disable encryption just in case, and have a working OS installation drive ready in case something goes wrong and you have to nuke everything.
I assume that although you have 120GB of disk space used, the original partition is probably 1TB. There would be no reason for anything else to be the case unless someone planned this use case for the drive ahead of time. Therefore you will need to resize the existing partition before you begin. You can use a tool such as the GParted Live CD: https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Resizing an existing partition is outside scope of what the installer's partitioning tools can do.
Be mindful of the fact that editing partitions \ resizing them is a dangerous operation, although I've never personally had a problem, I wouldn't recommend doing it without a backup and risk losing your only copy of important data if something goes wrong.
Once you've freed up some disk space, I actually would recommend installing Windows first. On dual boot systems it's easier to install Linux second, because Linux will install GRUB and should detect your Windows install and create two boot options. Windows on the other hand will blow away your GRUB installation and will only add a boot loader for itself.
So run the Windows installer, partition however much space you feel you need for your Windows C:\ drive and leave the rest for Linux.
Run the Linux install next, and since you're new to partitioning, I would recommend just putting all the available disk space on 1 Linux partition (ext4 is probably best) and make it your /. If you have not very much RAM, maybe create a SWAP partition as well and allocate at least as much space to that as you have RAM. (Swap is to Linux as Page File is to Windows).
Pretty much all there is to it.
Deleting the partitions would generally be enough, but there are tools such as DBAN or GParted (for SSD) to make it really difficult to recover any data from a hard disk.
If you're THAT concerned than maybe replacing the hard disk would give you peace of mind.
Truth to be told, if the hackers are dead set on throwing you into prison, you wouldn't be still here on Reddit - the police would have came already.
Dell boards (and others) have a baked in windows key via BIOS. I have no idea how the windows settings were retained unless there's some kind of solid state storage partition (I am not a dell expert).
Access the drive using https://gparted.org/, see if you can wipe all of the partitions and create a new one.
I had the computer 7 years Dell did no such thing but the distro was THIS. I had my SSD partitioned and I tried to install this to the 2nd partition. The PC doesn’t even post now but if I hold D down it does do the screen diagnostics Edit: swapped SSD out with a fresh one, tried old components, nothing
Boot with some other OS. Then format partition table (example) to MS-DOS or whatnot. Cloudready installer will later anyway change it to GPT.
> Primary GPT header is invalid
Likely the SSD you are installing has some weird partition table.
(easy way would be to download a ISO like gparted https://gparted.org/
Try making a liveusb with this and see if it will mount in that environment and pull the data off. Another option would be to shuck the drive and see if its the onboard sata to usb pcb that shit the bed.
Hello there
That issue can actually be caused because you left the SSD without power for 6 months.
You can try to use gparted. Put it on another USB stick, boot into it, then open up gparted and reformat it: https://gparted.org/download.php
you boot a linux live usb, (any Distribution can work) and use the gparted tool to resize partitions.
make proper backups first!
the 'gparted live usb' https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
personally for that small a setup I would not keep a separate /home/partition
So I got some good news, I got it working. I used CloneZilla: Disk-to-Disk Clone to get things working. GParted Live worked fine until I finished the setup, and it showed me a glitched screen of random colors and not the GUI to select the disk utility. I tried to mess with settings by changing the screen resolution, using ATI graphics, and lowering the color depth. Maybe it was because I am using a Ryzen cpu, RX 400 series gpu, and a 1440p monitor. I saw some articles online talking about how to fix EFI_MEMMAP not being enabled, but that seemed too complicated to change system file settings. Nothing worked. This is the strangest thing I ever encountered because normally installing Windows is easy, but this time was a pain.
Steps I took:
1] install CloneZilla and followed the disk-to-disk clone tutorial
2] booted into W10 with the new ssd
3] saw it only listed it as 256gb (cloned from 256gb), so I went to disk management and extended the volume
4] now I have a 1TB SSD as my main drive.
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Thank you for all the tips. I don't think I could have done it without the Gparted Live idea leading me to CloneZilla.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I loved that stupid executable and it was powerful. Sadly it doesn’t play as nice on the new systems, so the web client is all that’s left.
So to be completely honest, I’m not sure how this works with a flash stick (I’m just assuming it’s USB). We usually have either multiple HDDs in ours or a RAID array. If it is possible to re-partition safely a live image of GParted will work well and it’s GUI based so it’s a bit easier!
Partitions must be contigous, you can't have a partition starting, then stopping, then resuming somewhere else. This is not a gparted issue, but a partitioning issue in general (Window's Disk Manager also won't do this for example).
However, Gparted can move partitions, with a few caveats.
If you want a more flexible way to grow/resize partitions, perhaps you should consider taking a look at LVM.
Why didn't you install Linux on the whole drive? Where it would wipe out everything and install Linux on the whole drive. Unless the D drive was your backup at the time and now your ready to use it for Linux. Just use a Live Gparted and expand your Linux space to absorb the D drive partition.
I like Gparted because you see the changes before you commit. Just make sure you have a backup, just in case of a mess up.
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dmoving-space-between-partitions
Boot from a live USB and use GParted. There's even a live USB just for GParted in case it isn't included in your favorite distro's live USB: https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Note that you can extend a partition only into adjacent empty space, you can't just add empty space from a different location on the drive. And the order matters as well: if the empty space comes after the partition, the extension is a quick and easy process. If the empty space comes before the partition, the entire partition needs to be moved, which may take a long time because all the data needs to be copied.
And always make sure you backup your data before you do anything with partitions. You don't want to lose your data because of one little stupid mistake.
Again, by default Virtual Box does not create or store data in any "new" partitions. The only time Virtual Box would use separate partitions would be if you setup your Guests to use Raw Disk access -- this is something you would have certainly remembered doing if you configured your Guests this way, as it would require some custom configuration. The partition you see in disk manager are likely recovery partitions, setup by your computer's manufacturer, and tied to backup features of your current Windows install (i.e. allows you to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows 10, or to roll back to prior version of the OS). Deleting them may result in your system not booting. Accordingly, I would not delete said partitions unless you know exactly what they are for, and what you are doing.
If you are confident that such partitions are not necessary anymore, then go ahead and download GPARTED (https://gparted.org/liveusb.php) and use it to create a bootable usb drive. Then use said usb drive to boot into the gparted utility, delete the partitions you don't want, and resize your existing C:\ to fill the rest of the space. If you manage do this successfully, you may need to repair the bootsector on the drive to get the system to boot. Of course, any resize operation may fail, and result in data loss.
> I didn't use dd. I used gparted but I don't know if its any better.
Unless the user tells Gparted to generate a new UUID for the copy, it's not any better. This is an option in Gparted that I suspect most users don't understand.
Gparted documentation: Changing a Partition UUID
> I'm also wondering if I can copy my old system files into my new one since I have access to them.
That generally doesn't work, you're better off reinstalling at the destination.
Format it. Partition part of it if you need or want to. I always use Gparted for this. Just make sure you do the right drive. Sometime I just disconnect the others drives and only have the drive I'm installing and do what I need to do with it. You can still use Gparted as a live tool. You can use any Linux Live with Gparted or I just use this one instead. https://gparted.org/livecd.php You don't have to go all these measures if you don't want to. As long you know your doing, everything will be fine.
You can boot with the gparted live USB and use that to resize your partitions on the SSD ( https://gparted.org/livecd.php ). Gparted will now handle LVM partitions, something that would have really helped me a few years ago.
Boot to this:
https://gparted.org/download.php
Terminal.
sudo gdisk /dev/sda(or whatever disk it is)
w
Save
Exit
Reboot
w writes it to gpt by default.
That's it.
Your bios should be in uefi mode thereafter.
Can you get to your boot settings on your bios to try and boot from there other partition? Also if you have a spare computer I'd install gparted (https://gparted.org/) on a flash drive and boot to that to verify you still have two partitions and you didn't overwrite you're entire hard drive.
Yes you can resize any partition as long as you do not overlap them into a neighbouring one.
I recently did something similar, it was just downsizing a windows partition before my root partition. Get a live cd with gparted from https://gparted.org/livecd.php or one of the live cd from Linux distributions will probably also do.
Make sure you have a backup of anything important before you start, but there should be no need to restore anything.
Start from the live cd and downsize the efi partition to something more reasonable, I do have 100mb with a lot still free. Leave the extra space unallocated and do a boot test to check everything still works.
Then boot from the live cd again and increase your root partition towards the left to swallow the unallocated space.
Do a boot test again, maybe you have to update grub but I do not think so.
Your sawp is a border between root and home, I would change that too so you easily can reassign between root and home.
So either shrink home first to make space for a new swap partition at the end, or change to a swapfile. Reconfigure your swap then add that free space to either root or home. Now your home might become /dev/sda3 so make sure you mount via a label or uuid and not the partition number ion your /etc/fstab as one of the first things.
I don't quite see what the problem is, if you can format the SD card with ODM and install Windows 98 why does it matter how the drive is formatted? Does it interfere with the boot process or something?
A tool I use from time to time is gparted, you could try using that to delete the partition table completely and reformat though I guess that isn't much help if using a third party tool is a problem.
I suspect your intuition is probably correct and the SD to IDE adapter is possibly introducing some weirdness; do you have a proper IDE drive around to eliminate that as a possibility?
Create a GParted Live image and put it on a USB key using these instructions, then start Windows using that USB key.
Do you see the drive then?
read the error again, and it says it cant read the superblock, which pretty much guarantees its a damaged filesystem. which gparted should be able to fix. at least temporarily, depending on how bad it is.
https://gparted.org/download.php this is for the bootable disk, you will need access to another pc to make the disk, or host the image over usb on a rooted android with drivedroid.
Use Gparted https://gparted.org/livecd.php Live (CD or USB-Thumb install) to remove the partitions, clean the disk. Remember, Cloudready is a fork of ChromeOS, and is not necessarily intended to be installed and removed, although it is not difficult to do so once you learn.
Windows partition management is beyond fucked. You should basically never use the system tools for anything beyond formatting a one-partition disk.
By far the easiest way to do this is to use Linux's GParted. Fortunately the makers of GParted maintain a bootable disk image for this explicit purpose, available here: https://gparted.org/
If you can get into BIOS then your chip is fine.
Check the socket for bent pins, check the bottom of the CPU for debris like thermal paste on the pads.
Might just be a total coincidence that your main SSD died at the same time as the delid.
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
Make a bootable copy of gparted, if the SSD is recognized it isn't totally dead, just corrupt.
GParted can not resize exFAT partitions, see https://gparted.org/features.php. And since GParted can't do it, my guess would be that there is no good free software tool that can do it.
Also, in your plan you would need to move around large parts of the drive (either when shrinking the exFAT partition if you shrink it "to the right", or when enlarging the ext4 partition if you shrunk the exFAT partition "to the left"). That will take a long time and will increase the probability of something going wrong, which can lead to data loss. So the best solution would be to make a backup of all data on the drive, delete the old filesystem, create a new one, and restore the backup.
Just to follow up on this, Gallium OS has an outdated version of gparted. I fought with it for a while but I couldn't update it to handle nvme drives. So I went ahead and created a Live USB with an up to date gparted (https://gparted.org/index.php) and resized STATE to the full volume size. From 4GB to 240GB. Much better. Thanks @marconycr for pointing me in the right direction.
Je n'ai pas de NUC mais je vais essayer quand même. Un possesseur de NUC pourra peut être confirmer/infirmer ce que je dis.
Installer Windows sur le SSD depuis une autre machine ne fonctionnera pas. Probablement à cause du Secure Boot/UEFI qui va verrouiller la partition de boot pour un PC précis je pense. Même si ça marche (si le SSD était détecté) Windows installe des drivers précis qui du coup correspondent à son autre machine, et sont incompatibles avec le NUC.
Intel avait sorti un utilitaire exprès pour installer des OS sur les NUC. Y'a un tuto qui explique ça en faisant sauter les étapes 5 à 22 mais le lien de DL est mort (bravo Intel), heureusement TLD a gardé l'utilitaire
Donc il faut qu'elle formate le SSD (le plus simple c'est de recréer une table de partition GPT avec GParted), puis qu'elle utilise l'utilitaire Intel pour créer sa clé USB (avec un ISO de Windows 7). Des gens ont reporté que ça marche avec Rufus aussi.
Note à toutes fins utiles que son NUC est un des rares certifiés pour Ubuntu 16.04.
Haces un LiveUSB de Gparted (https://gparted.org/), haces boot desde el USB, seleccionas la partición de Windows y con el mouse la estiras y la mueves hasta ocupar todo el espacio vacío* y listo. Le das a "aplicar csmbios" y esperas unos minutos.
*Si es que realmente está vacío. No me sorprendería que tuviera Canaima instalado en esa partición. Si es así, borra la partición de Canaima antes del tercer paso.
The last screenshot shows some part of Windows 7 is still on the HDD on partition E:. If you don't need anything from the E: partition then you can just delete everything (O: and E:) from the HDD and create a single partition for your data. I recommend leaving the "System" partition on the SSD alone for now. You can resize it to a more reasonable size and move the C: drive left with a tool like GParted if you really want to.
I dont know what windows partition tools are on the windows media, you would have to ask in windows for that.
I personally would make a Gparted Live USB - and Boot it to delete the linux partition. https://gparted.org/livecd.php
you basically click on the problem partition, and hit delete, then apply... of course this could be done a dozen other ways under any linux live usb you may have around.
gparted tutorial -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czAJwEbtFs
https://www.howtogeek.com/184659/beginner-geek-hard-disk-partitions-explained/
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/08/28/gparted-linux-beginners/
https://gparted.org/articles.php#tutorials
I just pulled these from Google so I have no clue how good they are, anyways it's a good idea to learn a bit about partitioning and bios/UEFI settings before trying to dual boot so you don't accidentally overwrite your main drive, hope this is somewhat helpful.
You can resize partitions with gparted. Although you can do this while running the system, I would advise doing it from a Live CD/USB instead - the Ubuntu live USB has gparted preinstalled.
You can delete the recovery partition, but then the dell system recovery feature won't work anymore. You can also move the partition to the end of the drive and then expand C: using GParted. Please note that although I've personally never had a problem with GParted (using it literally 100s of times), it is advisable to backup your data before you modify anything.
Also, never remove that 500 MB partition at the beginning of the drive, it's needed to boot Windows.
If you need to use something other than the Windows tools, Gparted may be worth a look. It's a program and also available as a standalone Linux distro purpose built for managing disks.
Take a look here:
Are you familiar with GParted? If not, you should go check it out. https://gparted.org/ I'd say that's your best bet to accomplish what you want to do. I've used GParted before to move a partition on a SSD and recover all the unallocated space. Be aware that this operation will probably take a long time (hours).
Gparted gibt auch als live Version: Link. Die müsstest du dann aber, wie Linux Mint auf einem usb stick installieren und dann über diesen booten.
Ich weiß nicht, ob gparted bei der live Version von Linux Mint schon dabei ist, musst du mal schauen. Ansonstet müsstest du es installieren. Dazu öffnest du das terminal (schwarzes Fenster, wie cmd in Windows) und gibst folgendes ein: >sudo apt-get install gparted
Starten kannst du gparted dann mit: >gparted
I never have much luck with vendor migration tools myself so... Boot to a linux live cd/usb. And use dd.
There are tons of places that will tell you how to make a bootable thumb drive. So this only covers dd and then resizing partitions with gparted.
Find out the device names of your ssds: ~$ lsscsi
This will list all attached sata, sas, scsi and most nvme drives in the system. We will assume for this example your new drive was found at /dev/sdx and your old drive was found at /dev/sdy. These arent real device files so remember to replace them accordingly
Do the disk clone: ~$ dd if=/dev/sdy of=/dev/sdx bs=1G conv=noerror,fsync status=progress
This will take a while, its a full disk clone...including empty space. You just made a bit for bit clone, including partition sides. If you boot back to windows right now your new 1tb drive will only report 500gb. To fix this we need to edit the partition table. The easiest way to do this is to use gparted. Its a gui tool so you will need to rtfm:
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-resize-partition
Once done you are good to go. No installations od any software or anything else. Even your saved browser cookie data will have been cloned.
Sorry if that seems terse for a fairly dence technical thing but long commute and smart phone. Be careful and double check your commands, its entirely possible to clone your new empty drive over your old drive destroying your data.
GParted, GNU Parted (on the live disk), or fdisk (on the live disk) can quickly erase the partition table. Previous disk contents are not erased, and the partition table can be reconstructed to recover the contents.
If you really want every bit of old contents overwritten for privacy reasons, consider DBAN, dd, shred, or other solutions.
Obviously back up any important data first.
Turn off fast boot, or hybrid boot in windows, I can't remember it's name. Standard shutdown behaviour for windows 10 isn't a full shutdown.
Download gparted stand alone iso. Download Rufus. Download your Linux mint
Burn gparted to USB with Rufus. Boot to gparted. From within gparted, you can resize partitions, and it should move the files along that are not being moved by Windows.
Boot back into Windows. Run chkdsk on c:. It might ask on boot up, it might not.
Burn Linux mint iso to USB with Rufus. Follow the install instructions you have been so far.
I would create a live CD/USB of ubuntu which allows you to run Linux without installing it then using Gparted to see if it is able to detect your hard drive.
Use the link below to setup a live usb: https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
My guess is you wrote a 32gb image to a 64gb card and you now have 32gb of unpartitioned space. If I am correct, you could partition that unused space using a utility called gparted. It is a utility that installs on a USB drive and then you boot into that drive. It should be able to resize your recalbox partition. Be careful though - GParted can also screw things up if you dont use it correctly.
If you're open to wiping it, load up GParted on a USB and use it to delete the partitions on the hard drive. Then you can reinstall Windows from scratch and it shouldn't give you much trouble.
ISO for GParted Live: https://gparted.org/liveusb.php
You can use any of the methods they list, I personally use Rufus but it's up to you. Find a YouTube tutorial if you need help deleting the partitions.
Some troubleshooting steps: Make sure it’s an external USB HDD or SD, not a flash drive. Then use a good formatting tool like guiformat or GParted to format to FAT32 with MBR (and not GPT). Wii Backup Manager is optional, you can just manually copy a wbfs file to the proper location.
Some troubleshooting steps: Make sure it’s an external USB HDD or SD, not a flash drive. Then use a good formatting tool like guiformat or GParted to format to FAT32 with MBR (and not GPT). Wii Backup Manager is optional, you can just manually copy a wbfs file to the proper location.
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-resize-partition
You'll need to merge the 1000 MB Healthy EFI partition as well, since it's next to your OS partition and in the way of the unallocated space.