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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hey there! Ok, here is basically a quick rundown of my situation: Lets say I have two physical hard drives: drive 1 and drive 2. Drive one has two partitions, each with an OS on it. Lets say I make an image of sda2 (which has windows 7 on it) and save it for later. Not a full disk image, just a partition image. Ok, so now I have a partition image of sda2 from hard drive #1. So now I get a brand new hard drive- hard drive #2. I install some stuff on it, have a good couple of partitions. 3 to be exact. I decide to move windows 7 over to that. Well, sda1 is occupied and so is sda2, so I decide (HowTos)

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Submitted by jiqi2 on 09/12/2010

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When I installed Ubuntu 12.10, I installed it onto a 500 GB hard drive using the default partitioning.

Looking at the hard drive in Disks

I see the main partition (/dev/sda1 = 496 GB) and the swap partition (/dev/sda5 = 4.3 GB). I also see another partition (/dev/sda2 = 4.3 GB), which is not mounted.

So, this is my first time installing Ubuntu on my hard drive, and I'm running into some problems.

Until a couple of hours ago, I had 4 partitions in my hard drive:

XP, Vista and 7 installations, plus a data partition.

I backep up the XP and Vista partitions which weren't of any use lately, and booted a Live-USB with Ubuntu 12.04.

On the "Install 12.04 LTS" partition manager thingy I deleted

Thanks for reading this.

If I have made a copy of my linux box - am I able to simply re-install the entire image on just a blank ex4 partitioned drive? Simple as that?

So, this is my first time installing Ubuntu on my hard drive, and I'm running into some problems.

Until a couple of hours ago, I had 4 partitions in my hard drive: XP, Vista and 7 installations, plus a data partition.

I am a complete newbie to partitioning and I would like some guidance here. Can anyone explain what exactly I should be doing here?

I am installing Kubuntu 12.04 on a currently Windows 7 laptop. My current Partitions say this:

/dev/sda /dev/sda1 ntfs 104 MB 35 MB /dev/sda2 ntfs 319965 MB 87164 MB

Basically, what I want is some guidance on what exactly to do here.

So my laptop's hard drive failed two days ago and I bought a new one. Since I no longer have to worry about keeping the partitions that Asus put on it and the copy of the Windows 7 OS in its backup partition I decided to learn how to partition a hard drive and install Ubuntu side-by-side with Windows 7. So I made three partitions on a 500GB hard drive.

I'm not sure how to explain this in the subject better, so the "question" may not be right. But here goes. I have three hard drives. Drive A is a 320GB drive, Drive B is a 80 GB Drive, and Drive C is a 1TB Drive.

CD/DVD drive is an IDE slave device, and my hard drive is the IDE master device. The hard drive is located at /dev/sda1, but dev/sda2 can't be mounted. (I can't use -t auto and I don't know what the file system in use is.

I've tried using said disc drive with filled and empty discs, but I can't mount /dev/sda2/. at all.

If anyone could help, that would be appreciated.

I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto an external hard drive connected by USB to my laptop:

sdd partition

Windoze still resides on the box's internal hard drive:

sda2 partition

I also partitioned the internal hard drive so that I have a repository where my documents etc can be accessed by either linux or windoze: