I have Ubuntu 15.04 and windows 8.1 dual booted in my dell laptop, whenever I boot my Ubuntu OS i have to manually click on the drive [say D drive on windows] to mount and open it. So all i have to do is keep those drive mounted permanently and I cannot even unmount or eject them like in windows.
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I have two partitions that I want to mount on startup: /dev/sda3   /mnt/devel  ext4    defaults    0   2 /dev/sda2   /mnt/excess ntfs    defaults    0   2  The ext4 partition mounts fine (owned by me, writable only by me), but the NTFS mounts owned by root with R\W permission for all. How to fix this? drwxr-xr-x  7 amanda amanda 4096 2012-03-14 19:07 devel drwxrwxrwx  1 root   root   4096 2012-03-14 22:38 excess
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I have enabled fast boot in my copy of Windows 8 but I would like to be able to specifically instruct Windows not to perform a "fast shutdown" whenever I want (without disabling fast boot altogether).  I need to be able to do this because I dual-boot Ubuntu and therefore can't mount an NTFS partition as read/write if Windows has performed a "fast shutdown". (Well okay, I can force the partition to be mounted read/write, but then I could run into data loss/corruption problems.)
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I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 installed and I'm planning on installing Ubuntu 11.10 for a dual-boot.  Here's my rather basic problem :  I have a 750go hard drive, pretty much partitioned like this :   Recovery : 25go C: (Windows 7) : 295go D: (Data) : 380go   That is the factory configuration, the hard drive is still fairly empty (I removed all the bloatware and didn't install anything yet).  This is what I'd like to obtain :   Keep my recovery partition A partition for Windows 7 A partition for Ubuntu A "big" common partition for Windows and Ubuntu data, all the files I'm going to create.   How can I do that? Do I have to resize/create the partitions in Windows 7 before installing Ubuntu? Do I have to do it while installing Ubuntu using Gparted?  I'm quite confused and I'd like to make it right so I guess I need your help.  Thanks a lot everyone.
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Windows asks me to reformat every time I plug it into my computer, so I fired up Ubuntu via VirtualBox (selecting the external hard drive in the USB settings for VirtualBox beforehand) to see if I can access it there.  Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I have over 1TB of data on this drive and do not want to lose it. When I plug it into an electrical outlet, the light turns on, and when I plug it into my laptop, I can feel it clicking.
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I'm not even sure if i worded my question right but, I'm familiarizing myself with Ubuntu and want to install it on a new desktop I just finished putting together so I'm trying it on my laptop via live usb first.    I had trouble mounting my NTFS windows partitioned disks, solved that problem but I also see a disk that has the exact amount of memory I alloted for persistence. I try to access it but it shows the same ACL error I got when my NTFS disks weren't mounting.    I've already downloaded some stuff and made some things with LibreOffice and want to know if those things have been save automatically or if I have to mount the usb disk for it to be persistent.
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I installed Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 but when I want to access Windows drives I see this error massage:  Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/xalid/3A56A42656A3E0BD: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda1" "/media/xalid/3A56A42656A3E0BD"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.   As a workaround I tried this:  mkdir /media/sd4 mount -t ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/sd4   This allows me to access the partition, but I am unable to change anything on the drive since it was mounted as read only.   How can I access to my Windows drives whenever I login to Ubuntu?
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How do I mount a partition with UFS filesystem (FreeNAS) in Ubuntu 11.10?  I'm a total Ubuntu newbie and just switched from FreeNAS.  There should be ll the info I need I guess, but if anyone would help me get going i'll by glad =)
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In theory, what I want to do is very simple, but I've done some google research and read some posts on this site and I'm still confused.   I want to keep win7 on my primary C:\ drive, and install Ubuntu (12.10) on a secondary drive (that I have yet to buy or install. I just want to be certain that I'm successful when I do this). If at all possible I'd also like it if when I start the computer I have the option to boot either Win7 or Ubuntu, like an account log in type thing where I just pick which drive I'm running with that day. And just to reiterate, I do not want to partition my C:\ drive or alter, change, or affect my Win7 system in any way.  The reason I'm still fairly uncertain about all of this, is that a lot of the guides I've read have been for earlier versions of Ubuntu. Also the vast majority of guides are about partitioning one drive to fit both OS'. I want two separate OS running from two separate drives that I can pick at boot. The guides I did find mentioned that there is some issue with the grub being installed on C:\ but the rest of the OS being installed on the other drive. Is this still the case? How do I avoid that?  Also, if it helps, I've been running 12.04lts on my laptop for a few months now in and out of class and I love it.  Finally, if you could please point me to a guide or write your answer in the form of a guide for a two year old that'd be awesome. I'm still an Ubuntu novice and I don't want to mess up my win7.
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I have a Windows 8 system and was about to install Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot mode, when I heard about Windows 10 releasing. Now that the Windows 10 has rolled out, I would like to know whether doing the same steps as for Windows 8 would install it. I would wait until somebody else has tried it out and posted it on the internet, but I'm somewhat out of time to wait. Will it be risky trying it out so soon, or does anyone know about what would work?
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How do I format drive and unistall Ubuntu 11.10?  I wanted a dual boot and was given an option to overwrite Windows XP partition and said yes.  Format options don't work.  I tried a few dos prompts and probably not using correct fdisk.  Format options state drive is busy closed all windows.  Tried to boot windows XP and disk says its corrupt.
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I have a USB drive (SanDisk SDCZ40-016G) that mounts in a way I've never seen before. When inserted, two items appear in Places -> Computer:    "SanDisk Ultra Backup: 16GB" contains my data, and "CD Drive: U3 System" contains a Windows executable. The part with the Windows executable doesn't look useful to me so I'd like to remove it. I used GParted to delete the only partition listed on the device and then I created and formatted a new partition:    Strangely, the "CD Drive" containing the Windows executable was perfectly intact after this operation.  What's going on?
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I have installed Ubuntu on my D: partition using Wubi. Is there any way in which I can remove my Windows from C: drive and move my existing Ubuntu installation to C: drive and make it a regular install.
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I am using Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE. I am wondering how can I auto-mount a partition (internal) on boot automatically. Currently I do something like   mount /dev/sda3 /media/works   But I want it to be permanent. Also I have GParted, but the Partition > UnMount is greyed out (yes, unmount, even though I haven't mounted it)
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Presently in the install (USB stick) for 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1.  Want to have dual-boot capabilities between Windows 7 and Ubuntu.  Have partitioned hard drive with Windows System (sda1), Windows OS (sda2), Ubuntu (sda3 - with ext4 file system and a "/" mount point), swap (sda4) and need to know what file system to select for the remaining free space (storage) partition with a /home mount point?  I presume it to be either FAT32 or ext4, yet I need to be sure that it enables cross-sharing of documents/directories with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu operating systems.  Also, is FAT32 an NTFS type of system?  Thanks in advance.
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When I installed Ubuntu 10.04, I installed it on a single 16GB partition which includes /, /boot, /home etc.  I have another partition on the system (ext3). It is easily accessible from the GNOME desktop Places menu: I just click that Filesystem HDD icon on the Places menu and it is automatically mount as '/media/1326f40a-45df-4ec'.  How do I make that partition re-mount as /home instead? (permanently, that is)
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I have an external HDD with 4 partitions.  My question is the following: is there a way of telling the OS to mount just two of them (One FAT and one HFS+) when I connect the HDD? It is rather annoying to have 4 "disks" connected on the finder, and it makes ejecting the drive a test to my patience.   I would appreciate your suggestions. If it's impossible I guess I'll just have to fiddle around and get everything in 2 partitions... :/
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I'm using Fedora 20 along with Windows 8. However, I'm unable to access the contents of the drive in which Windows 8 is installed. It shows:  Error mounting /dev/sda2/ The NTFS partition is in unsafe state Windows is hibernated, refused to mount   even though I had shutdown the Windows properly.