I accidentally started to write to my Seagate 2TB HDD. I now find it doesn't mount though it does show up on gparted, Partition - Unallocated,  File System - Unallocated, Size - 1.82TB  BTW I have downloaded and made  bootable disks of Knoppix 7, Systemrescue 6.0.3,and GParted Live but am not having much, in fact any, success so far. How can I mount the drive and hopefully recover the data?
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I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions  (C:) Vista  (D:) Entertainment  (E:) Work  (F:) Sources   and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and all the partitions were shown and working and so I decided to install Ubuntu to replace Vista on the (C:) drive. After I did that I can no longer find my folders and files on the (D:), (E:), (F:) partitions and the only file system that is shown is one 198 GB although my HDD is 320 GB.  I can't access the lost data on the remaining 120 GB which I hope is still there and not totally lost  I am now working from the live CD but I am unable to install testdisk. Can I recover the Vista partitions by the product recovery CD to get my laptop back to the factory settings? Can I recover the NTFS partitions using a recovery program for Windows or will that make the problem worse?   I need these data badly as I don't have a backup for them.
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I had Ubuntu (150 gb) and zorin os (150 gb). In a hard drive of 320 gb, then using the Disks utilty of Zorin OS 9 which I'm running, tried to delete the Ubuntu one, because I will stay only with Zorin.  Then I noticed that is not so simple. And now that "free space 152 gb" shows as unallocated. My attempts for doing something about that from Zorin failed, I guess because can't do much with the HDD as I'm using an OS running on it right? So even gparted couldn't help.  How do I make a gparted USB bootable? Is that the way to go to boot and resize partition to use that unallocated space?  Can someone point me in the right direction, in a step by step guide?   I'm 100% stuck. Made the USB bootable with unetbootin, downloaded the gparted iso, but when I reboot and enter the BIOS, when pick the usb I get "The system found unauthorized changes on firmware, operating system or uefi drivers", and that's all, no joy,  no gparted resizing my partions or merging the unallocated space...  Tried booting with linux mint from bootable usb, and running gparted, but in that case I can't to anything with unallocated space either. I can only resize    The dev/sda1 can be shrinked only... I'd like to have a 294 gb hd instead... the unallocated simply doesn't show any options or commands (all grayed out)  If I enter any number on dev/sda1 in "free space preceding" (or following), that is substracted from "new size"....  After doing a `mount´ in terminal I see this:  /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=fernando) /dev/sdb1 on /media/fernando/MULTIBOOT type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)   I guess what I need is to delete the sda2 partition, how do I do that?
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I'm encountering a problem with my HDD's partitions and can't resize it. I've described my problem and my system here: .  Now, from a more general perspective, I was thinking on whether it is possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD and use GParted in a live session to possibly go around that problem. Is that possible? I made a separate question as I'm interested in the possibility independently from my current problem.  You see, I only have one partition and that's mounted. When I use GParted through Ubuntu I don't get any error reports (unlike the case reported in the question linked above).  Thanks beforehand.
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I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size.   Would I be able to restore this image on a larger hard drive? I plan buying a 1TB hard drive.  If yes, how? I prefer no data loss.  I am using Windows 7
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I cloned a non Advanced Format drive (W7 64bit) to a new hard drive (Seagate) that was AF, the software I used supposedly does not support 4k very well (Todo Backup Free 3.5).   Is there a Windows utility to check alignment? I know of the Western Digital tool but not sure if it works on Seagate brand drives. If the partitions are not aligned, Am I better to clean install W7 64bit or do the partition alignment procedure? If so, Why?   It seems to be running fine so far. From what I have read Seagate drives use  technology to help with misaligned partitions on the fly, might explain why it runs well for me, but would still like to have the partitions aligned properly.  EDIT: Here is the diskpart output for my disk partitions  DISKPART&gt; list partition    Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset   -------------  ----------------  -------  -------   Partition 1    Primary            188 MB    31 KB    Partition 2    Primary            698 GB   188 MB
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I have a shiny new 5TB WD Black and was hoping to use it as the OS System disc and for a fair number of audio production programs, Workstations, samplers, synthesizers and such. Moving from a 2TB. The new drive loses nearly 3 TB as "unallocated space" if run direct from the Win7 program disc. I reset the drive, initialized it in GPT, got back all 5 TB but can't put the OS there. Do any newer versions allow this or do I go backwards to a 4 year old 2 TB that's in the habit of crashing to bluescreen at least daily and use the new one for all programs but windows? (I'm backing the old drive up using Acronis in total as I type, (tired of rebooting ). Win 10 upgrades are free right now...will this change allow me to increase the storage on my system while using a new drive for the system? Old format has 2TB OS + programs, 3TB full of samples, 2 x 3TB as RAID backup system, too many usb drives to list when I need to empty stuff out......Thank in advance!
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I just used boot and nuke to wipe my hard drive and reinstall my OS systems. When selecting the hard drive I noticed that there were only 931gb free in my hard drive.  Is this normal? It sees like a strange number as I though terabyte drives held 1024gb.  Is some of the hard drive hidden? Are there any programs that can check?  Thanks in advanced for any help with this!  df -h returns the following:  Filesystem           Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev tmpfs                786M   18M  768M   3% /run /dev/sda5            437G  5.7G  409G   2% / tmpfs                3.9G   31M  3.9G   1% /dev/shm tmpfs                5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock tmpfs                3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs                786M   20K  786M   1% /run/user/124 /home/*/.Private     437G  5.7G  409G   2% /home/* tmpfs                786M  2.0M  784M   1% /run/user/1000   lsblk returns the following:  NAME           MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT sda              8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk   ├─sda1           8:1    0   500M  0 part   ├─sda2           8:2    0 478.8G  0 part   ├─sda3           8:3    0   496M  0 part   ├─sda4           8:4    0     1K  0 part   ├─sda5           8:5    0 443.9G  0 part  / └─sda6           8:6    0   7.9G  0 part   └─cryptswap1   253:0    0   7.9G  0 crypt [SWAP] sr0             11:0    1  1024M  0 rom      EDIT: I am literally installing the dual boot system as we speak. Windows first, here is a breakdown of what Windows 10 sees:   So total size is 931.51GB. That is a very strange number.
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I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?  This is what my HDD looks like in the Windows partition manager:    As you can see, the space used is 0.6 + 0.3 + 409.19 + 37.25 + 2.79 + 15.53 = 465.66GB. On the left, Windows does indeed report the size of the drive as being 465 GB, but I know for a fact that this is a 500GB HDD, unless Newegg, Ebay and Amazon all made mistakes. Can someone please help me get back the 35GB I'm entitled to?   Note: I do know that the HDD has 7 partitions, even if only 6 are shown. The one that you can't see is Microsoft Reserved, and is very small, so that's not what is missing.
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I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data.   I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an hour. My hard disk heats up so I have continuous ventilation to keep it cool.   Is this lengthy time taken by GParted normal? If not, then how do I safely disconnect it? I don't mind losing the data, but the hard disk is really important. Any suggestions? Also, will running the hard disk for such long hours be harmful?
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I've searched through several questions but didn't quite find anyone treating mine.  So, I have a 1TB external hard drive I use for backup purposes with only 1 NTFS partition. Today using DiskPart I formated that partition by mistake (who would have thought the disc count started in 0 and not in 1). The complete command I used was:  format recommended override quick label=Windows   So I performed a quick format, and from which I've read after a quick format it's possible to recover the data stored there. Anyway, as soon as I realized it wasn't the partition I wanted to format the one I specified I removed the access to my external drive to minimize possible damages.  Now, the MFT is the metadata part where the file name, creation date, access permissions and contents are registered; and it's mirrored too (so there's a copy of it somewhere in the disk). What I don't know is if a quick format erases that MFT mirror too, I hope not.  I'm running a program to recover files on it but I'll have to save the files to another location (once it's finished scanning, ~12 hours from now) and I don't quite have over 900GB of free storage where to put the data.  I would like to know if there's a program or procedure by which I could restore the old MFT in-place and have all the data that used to be in there accessible once again.  Any help or light you could shed on how to proceed or what programs to use is really appreciated.
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Just wait a minute before flagging this as off-topic. I can't believe this is not Ubuntu-related since everything happened just after my Ubuntu installation.  With this said I'll go on explaining what is happening:  I downloaded and installed the latest version of Ubuntu. I wanted a BIOS mode since I prefer this way and completed the installation process. Then I installed GNOME and rebooted. I lost access to my bios after all of this.  This is not the first time that has happened. It happened in the past and I solved switching boot partition in boot-repair using my secondary HDD but now I can't do that any more because I do not have a Windows partition on that drive.  This is my drive:  Disk /dev/sdb: 119,2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xcaa3841c  Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type /dev/sdb1  *     2048 250068991 250066944 119,2G 83 Linux   When I tried boot-repair, at the end of the process it said I had to make a 500mb partition at the beginning of the partition list so that grub could work properly but hey, here's another problem:  GParted stopped working. This is the error if I try to launch it:  Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/mnt-Archive.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/mnt-Linux\x20Games.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null. /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/mnt-Archive.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/mnt-Linux\x20Games.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.   I want to mention that:   yes I'm sure I'm using the right button to enter the bios no there is no bios splash screen no, nothing happens if I spam the DEL key to enter the bios yes the key works fine yes I tried to unplug every drive yes I tried to reset CMOS yes I installed the OS in BIOS mode, I checked via terminal.   This is the output from boot-repair     This is the message alert saying that I need to make a partition to properly boot:      The boot files of [The OS now in use - Ubuntu 17.04] are far from the start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them. You may want to retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the disk). This can be performed via tools such as gParted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of [Boot Repair]. ()
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I've been wondering this for a while, why is there free space at the end of a drive that was formatted to NTFS in windows?  You can only see the unallocated space in Linux. So why is it there? Does it serve a purpose?
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I have a 3TB Seagate Backup Plus Desktop USB 3.0 drive, which works fine when in its enclosure, but when I get it off its enclosure and directly plug it as an internal SATA drive, it's just not properly recognized (it works again when used in the enclosure). My systems’s motherboard is an , which has two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and four SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports.  When used as an internal SATA drive Windows 7 asks if I want to format the drive, as if it didn’t have a proper filesystem, and if I use the DISKMGMT.MSC tool (typing that in the start menu) I get completely wrong information about the drive.  It says the drive has 3 partitions (349,31GB of RAW data and two unassigned partitions of 1698,68GB and 746,52GB). This information is plain wrong, since the drive, when used in the USB enclosure, works as a single NTFS partition (2794,52GB). How come it’s shown as 3 partitions without filesystem when connected through SATA?!  Is Seagate using some proprietary way of storing the data when using the drive in its provided USB 3.0 enclosure? I didn’t use any kind of encryption. I just plugged the drive with USB 3.0 and started using it straight away, since it apparently came pre-formatted with an NTFS filesystem.
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I have a very small amount of storage on my computer and would like to conserve it, so I would like to know if there is a way to mount my Google Drive in Thunar or Nautilus on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS.   Yes, I know, it's weird that I'm saying that I have a small amount of storage when I have 2 file managers installed, but I literally have 5GB out of 16GB left.
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I have just formatted an ext4 partition to fat32 using gparted.  In which directions should I tread in my attempt to recover?
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I installed 11.10 ~two weeks ago and run into some strange troubles recently.  Installation was on brand new laptop with clear 160GB SSD. I opted for encrypting home directory. Apart from that I accepted defaults during the installation. There is no other OS on my laptop.  I had circa 40GB in use when (for the third time) I got to see this very unpleasant window:    Twice situation was pretty bad and whole system slowed down considerably. After reboot I could not login to graphical interface (with an error message informing about insufficient space) and had to remove some files from command line first.  Third time I still managed to quickly delete some files and it helped.  My laptop is mainly work environment: so no torrents, games, just two movies. Only media filling space are ~20GB of pictures, and bunch of pdfs. Working mostly on PostgreSQL &amp; PostGIS, GeoServer and QGIS recently.  Although I had lots of opportunities to test and practice my backups I would be extremely grateful if somebody could point me to any potential solutions to this problem.  My laptop has been bought just before I installed Ubuntu, and it came without OS. Could that be hardware issue?  Or is the encrypted home causing me headaches?  Thanks for help!    Update 1: As suggested by , here is current output of fdisk -l:  WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.   Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1               1   312581807   156290903+  ee  GPT     Update 2: As suggested by , output of df:  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2            149802648  31411456 110781576  23% / udev                   1959764         4   1959760   1% /dev tmpfs                   788276       992    787284   1% /run none                      5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock none                   1970684      2716   1967968   1% /run/shm /dev/sda1                19363       129     19234   1% /boot/efi /home/rdk/.Private   149802648  31411456 110781576  23% /home/rdk   And sudo parted -l:  Model: ATA INTEL SSDSA2BW16 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt  Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags  1      17.4kB  20.0MB  20.0MB  fat16              boot  2      20.0MB  156GB   156GB   ext4  3      156GB   160GB   4177MB     Update 3:  Yet another window with low memory message :/  Working recently mostly on VirtualBox and using Remmina.  Following this information I deleted virtually everything from my home directory. Rebooted. There was ~20GB in use after that [~10GB for VirtualBox disk image which I wanted to keep if possible]. Following  comment I was trying to recover more space and running Bleachbit application when I got another error of low space on HD. Then the system froze. How on earth can my Ubuntu fill up HD with over 100GB within minutes?
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After moving to SSD I deleted the System Partition (100MB) from my previous drive, causing mass destruction.  I tried to delete the System Partition which windows 7 creates (on my previous disc as I moved to SSD) and when I tried to extend the main partition size to include the new Unallocated Space it asked me if I wanted to convert the disc to Dynamic.  I simply pressed yes and the partition simply disappeared into unallocated space. All of my family pictures / videos lost.  After reading an article on Microsoft they said to recreate the partition with the same exact size, so I tried to do that but it didn't work. I did not format the drive at all when I created partitions.  How can I possibly recover the partitions?  Thanks!