So basically I bought a new tower for my computer from eBay and it already had Ubuntu installed on it. I'm not a huge fan so I went out and bought Windows 8.1. When I tried to install it, it said "Where would you like to install Windows?" I had 2 partitions to choose from and when I tried both of them, it said they needed to be in the format of NTFS. When I try to format my hard drive from ext4 to NTFS it comes up with this message:  Error unmounting filesystem  Error unmounting /dev/sda1: Command-line `umount  "/dev/sda1"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: umount: /: device is busy.         (In some cases useful info about processes that use          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))  (udisks-error-quark, 14   How do I stop this and successfully format my hard drive? Please help.
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I'm trying to install Windows 7 with a 4GB flash drive, but my error that comes up is that my hard drive I'm trying to install on is in ext4. I need to format it to read NTFS. I can't seem to find any topics on how to format an active hard drive. I found a topic that explains how to move Ubuntu to a new drive, but it's a bit confusing to me.
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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 have a 1TB external hard drive that I recently formatted to NTFS. It was mounting on my Ubuntu 11.10 fine until just now. I didn't make any changes to affect my OS or my exhdd.  The error that I get is:  Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.   I did read  and . But neither helped.  I tried installing ntfsfix but no such package exists anymore. I have never used this HDD on a windows machine. If I need to use an other machine to do stuff to fix this, I have access to a mac.  Any advice?   This is my sudo fdisk -l output: What in the world is GPT? I didn't do that. It used to be NTFS.  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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: 0x000586fb     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2148   961320312   480659082+  83  Linux /dev/sda2       961320313   976773167     7726427+   5  Extended /dev/sda5       961320314   976773167     7726427   83  Linux  WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.   Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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: 0xcfd88605     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1               1  1953525167   976762583+  ee  GPT
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I have a dumb problem that I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction on. I'm trying to install ubuntu 16.04.1 on a windows10 machine. I've followed all the steps correctly (I think) all the way up to the point where I am supposed to go through the install program on the thumb drive. The first problem is that it does not show the option screen that has the partition the hard drive options (see here: ). The next page (here:) only shows that my "device for boot loader installation" is the thumb drive itself.  I'm confused. I've made sure that there is in windows a free partition with no drive assigned and every other step up till the point where I reach this dead end I've followed correctly seemingly. Can anyone tell me what's going wrong?
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I have dual booted Ubuntu with Windows 7. I wanted to uninstall Ubuntu. So as per an answer for one of the related questions on this site I did the following:   Deleted the Ubuntu Partition through Windows. As per the answer now I was supposed to boot Windows from USB &amp; then do "repair startup".   But Windows could not find any problem hence nothing was done. So when my laptop booted normally (i.e. from HDD) it was showing some error like GRUB:/ unknown file system. I dont remember the exact words but it was something like this. Thus I couldn't boot windows neither Ubuntu. So again I had to install Ubuntu.  But now my question is how do I remove Ubuntu so that my laptop returns to the previous state of installing Ubuntu?  UPDATE: Seems that it wasnt on this site. My mistake :P .Here is the link
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I had Windows 8 installed on my system, which I screwed up, and now I run Ubuntu 12.04. While installing, Ubuntu used all the 461 GB of HDD space (one partition).   Now I want to make a new partition of maybe 100 GB or so, in order to install Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu (with a dual-boot). But I can't even get a partition done. I can't change the partition in GParted either - the option is disabled.
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i started installing ubuntu and took out windows 10 completely during the installation.. but after the installation, when i checked my disk partitions  927gb on linux filesystem 3 gb on linux swap 512 mb on efi  but my hard disk size is 1tb (1024gb so now rest 94 gb is missing  can anyone help me out. i tried if the windows 10 is still existing on the disk, but i didnt get any method  and while booting the system i get a message on the top left corner  /dev/sda2: clean,223062/60760064 files, 5079494/243030464 blocks ... so does this mean.
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my dual boot PC with Windows 8.1. On Ubuntu I have seen a 524 MB drive popped up.  As I take a look at it, its not swap or anything. Its contents are as follows:   Can I delete the partition and extend the 104 GB partition? Or I should leave it as it is?
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I wonder if someone can help me? I am fairly new to trying to actually understand and use computers myself rather than just buying whatever Windows/Mac wants me to! You will get a giggle from my flawed attempts anyway :-)  I would like to start using Ubuntu on my PC, just got a new harddrive and did have a borrowed windows 7 disk as was planning to temporarily install it so i could get ubuntu. However I didn't have high enough spec hardware for win 7 (I think it is due to only 1gb ram, i do have 64 bit technology and a 1tb harddrive). I am quite happy to install 32 bit ubuntu and hear it is easier the use than 64 anyway.  So I have one other rubbish mini laptop (windows xp) which i am trying to use to get ubuntu onto a usb (laptop has no cd drive) so i can install it on the pc. First tried just downloading ubuntu 13.04 desktop onto a usb and trying to boot the pc from it which gave the message 'no operating system'. Then I tried this to create a bootable usb which sounded promising:  . However then it starting asking for my saucy desktop iso in order to install it onto the usb stick, can't really manage to find out what a saucy desktopp iso is, maybe a mirror image of an operating system, no idea why i would need that.  So in short, I'm lost. All I can think of is getting windows xp somewhere so i can get my pc to work and install ubuntu from the internet on that, or going to a friends house in the hope that creating a bootable cd is easier than creating a usb.  Sorry for my general ineptness and hope someone can help!
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Recently purchased a new Windows 8 PC.  It came with one hard drive.  I want to a second hard drive to it.  This second hard drive is my data hard drive from my previous computer.  However, I have run into issues when the system accesses it.  The drive is found in the BIOS. But is not seen by Explorer or Disk Management.  I have added the drive to the next available SATA slot:  SATA 2.  The machine is a UEFI/ACHI based machine.  In my reading I have found people documenting the following:  1) adding multiple partitioned hard drives (like mine is) to UEFI based machines is not  possible 2) I have seen it suggested that you can only add blank hard drives to UEFI based machines.  However, in doing so, I did not have success.  I tried to add it as a hard drive with unallocated space and then as a hard drive with a single simple partition.  Both attempts failed.  My ultimate question:  What is the proper procedure for adding a second hard drive to a UEFI/ACHI machine?  I do not want to reinstall the OS and start from scratch as I have seen suggested elsewhere.  There has to be a way to accomplish this without all that hassle.  Thanks in advance for your help.
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I have 41 GB of space on my E:/ drive. Is it sufficient to install Ubuntu? My Windows XP is installed in C:/ drive. Is it OK for dual boot? Should I install Ubuntu (I am installing using Live CD). I don't want to lose my Windows option.
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I have a laptop (4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Intel core i3 2.4 GHz) with 2 Partitions: one For data and one for windows 8 x64.  Actually, I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 instead of Windows 8 but keeping Data partition.   So, my question is: There is no matter to use ubuntu with NTFS Windows Partition. Or i should use ext4 partition for good result? Otherwise what you think about multiple partitions for ubuntu installation?  / /home /etc  ...   Any suggestion will be very appreciated
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Actually, I have done something terribly wrong. I did not want Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC anymore. I was sick of dual-booting every time the PC starts, and I wanted to return to Windows as well. (My version is Windows XP MCE SP2). The mistake I did is that I simply used EASUS Partition Manager to delete the Ubuntu partitions. But what went wrong here is that, even when I did it, the GRUB keeps trying to load. It says that GRUB could not be found and finally ends up running GRUB Rescue.  I cannot "Repair" my PC using the Recovery Discs (containing Windows XP MCE), it only gives me an option to press "F", which will format the HDD to re-install the OS.  Although, the best part is that I can still log in to Windows. Because, when I boot from the CD's, it does not give me a "Repair" option, but only "Format" and "Quit". By using "Quit", it takes me straight to Windows.  But I do not want to keep doing this same thing every time I start my PC. Neither do I want to Format my Hard Disk. I have tried a few applications, like EasyBCD which do nothing. So I want a good solution for it.  Is their any way to install MBR through Windows or maybe Ubuntu terminal? Even if i can't access Ubuntu again? And what after installing Ubuntu again. Any safe method to uninstall it?
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Having some issues installing Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64bit next to Windows 10.  This is what I did:  1) Created a bootable usb with ubuntu on it using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.3  2) Changed the boot mode  3) Boot from USB - It showed the option to test drive or install - I chose install  4) Choose Language  5) Setup Wireless - I didn't choose anything here  6) Then it showed me the preparing to install  7) After that a message popped up saying:      Unmount partitions that are in use The installer has detected that the following discs have mounted partitions /dev/scd Do you want the   installer to try and unmount these partitions before continuing? If   you leave them mounted, you will not be able to create, delete, resize   partitions on these discs, but you may be able to install on an   existing partition there.   So obviously I said yes.  8) Installation type - I chose something else - This looked nothing like the screen shots I saw on the installation guide.    9) Then it only gave me the option to choose my bootable usb for the installation. With a bunch of options to choose, so I got scared and quit.     Can any one please help?  Keep in my mind I do not know a lot, so please dumb it down. Why can't I choose to run it along side Windows 10? Why doesn't the installation pick up my hard drives?  If you need any other info, please ask. But I think I put everything in here.
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I have a ubuntu in Root directory with separated Home directory. This is all my hard partition. I inserted xp cd to install it but I can't find any hard drive suggestion ! I decided to boot it by Gparted and change the Root directory to NTFS, I formatted it and run xp cd again. I can't find any hard drive too. I don't want to change all partitions because I don't want to lose my data on them. What should I do ?
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I have dual booted ubuntu 13.10 and windows 8.1 in my laptop. Earlier my window partition(C drive)  and other NTFS partition was accessible from ubuntu.  Now its giving me this error and not mounting:  Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/waqar/120ABDC90ABDAA5D: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda3" "/media/waqar/120ABDC90ABDAA5D"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': 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.   C drive(window partition) is giving this error:  Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/waqar/BAD4D962D4D92185: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda2" "/media/waqar/BAD4D962D4D92185"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': 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.   I have restarted my system, booted in windows and then again shut down the system properly but its continuously giving me the same error.   Any help?
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I'd like to install both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows XP on a Dell laptop, and I was thinking about using a dual boot structure, and using the bulk of my hard drive as empty hard drive space to share files between the two operating systems (so choice of file system type is very important in this set-up).     The kind of partitioning structure I would like to use is  Partition 1 - Ubuntu 12.04 (root) (20GB)  Partition 2 - Ubuntu /home        (20GB)  Partition 3 : Free Space          (560GB)  Partition 4 : Windows XP          (35GB)  Partition 5 : SWAP                (3GB)  (Total Hardrive Capacity is ~640GB)    My question is; what is the best way to go about setting up this kind this system?   Should I install Windows XP first and setup the partitions, and then install Ubuntu which I believe will install the GRUB bootloader for OS booting choice   or   Do I install Ubuntu first, setting up the available partitions and then perform a WIndows install?  Please let me know if there is anything in this setup that I have left out and should know about, including things related to setting particular partitions as logical or primary, and whether the boot partition and the filesystem partition should actually be two separate partitions.