I have a WD mybook witha 5TB HDD in it, formatted as a single partition. I removed the drive from its MyBook enclosure and installed it into my desktop computer.  When I open disk management I see 6 partitions. Some unallocated, some are healthy. I cannot access these from file explorer. It has a volume assigned as (E:)  but won't work.   The HDD is a WD Blue.  What are the options to make this work as a regular internal hard drive?   Additionally when I plug it other HDD into the external enclosure it won't work either.
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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 just bought an HP laptop with Windows&nbsp;7 (64 bit). It has a 500&nbsp;GB HDD with three partitions: a small hidden system partition, a 12&nbsp;GiB HP recovery partition, and a 450&nbsp;GiB C: boot partition.  I would like to split this large C: partition into two partitions, leaving only 100&nbsp;GiB for the system, and giving the rest to a new data partition.  Although the Windows built-in Disk Management utility has an option to shrink the bootable partition, it only allows me to shrink it roughly by half, even though only 20&nbsp;GiB on the partition is used. As far as I understand, system unmovable files lie in the middle of the partition, preventing Disk Management utility to do what I want.    And since new HP laptops don't come with OS installation disks (they only allow you to create recovery disks yourself), I can't just repartition HDD and then reinstall OS.  So, is there a way to shrink the C: bootable partition and preserve Windows&nbsp;7 working?  P.S.: I have tried to use the third-party  utility, and after shrinking the partition, Windows&nbsp;7 stopped booting, with a . System recovery didn't work, and I had to do factory recover. Since this is a long process, I would like to avoid doing it again :) So, please, suggest only proven solutions.
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I am trying to delete my existing windows partition using disk management, when I am right clicked on the selected partition the 'Delete Volume' and 'Extend Volume' options are grayed out ( doesn't allow deletion and extension), and I can not also change or remove the drive letter of the disk which has above problem. And Another partition that I don't want to change anything it allows all the options. Why does this happen?
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I can't make my main Macintosh HD partition bigger. It's limited by the partition in the middle, which seems to be frozen, I can't move it down to make space for my main partition. Also I can't seem to delete it. The format of disk0s4 is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  Some background, I created a partition to experiment with bootcamp to use windows. Once done I deleted that new partition, it became a no-man's land that neither partition can claim.  As a seperate issue, boot camp assistant has been giving me this error:   Anyone has any ideas? Much appreciated!  The closest problem I've found is here, this is a FAT partition.
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I have got an external hard disk TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3, the permission is always READ ONLY.  fdisk -l (output) :  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: 0xf2198b37     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2046   362369023   181183489    5  Extended /dev/sda3       362371072   976771071   307200000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5            2048      976895      487424   83  Linux /dev/sda6          978944   362369023   180695040   83  Linux  Disk /dev/sdb: 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: 0xeba6fb57     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1           16065   312576704   156280320    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5           16128   312573708   156278790+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 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: 0x297c35de     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdc1              63  1953520064   976760001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   How can I change the owner and permission of this hard drive ?
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My hard drive is a mess and I want to reformat it and do a fresh install of 16.04. My problem is I only have access to the HDD via 16.04 on a USB stick and although I can navigate to the various folders, nothing I do allows me to copy to an external hard drive. The folders are not encrypted. I also have a small swap partition - I would like to preserve the data on that too if possible.  Here's a listing of the home directories on the drive:  ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ ls -l /media/*/*/home /media/ubuntu/0e228f65-dac7-435f-828b-1eb1a6c3f29a/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 46 1000 1000 4096 Dec 21  2015 simon  /media/ubuntu/db79a6d1-7c6c-4d8c-822b-ba6ccd1ddecd/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 27 1000 1000 4096 Apr 17  2014 simon  /media/ubuntu/ebe2a6ba-9cb5-4279-8352-5082b8dd4d5e/home: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 39 1000 1000 4096 Aug  3 14:21 simon
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I have a 500GB internal HDD where I store all my music and photos but it is annoying to manually mount it after a restart and I was wondering how to mount it automatically and make it available to Rhythimbox for playback.  Thanks!
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My  is not recognized by windows. When I connect it to the computer I do not see "Mass Storage Device" Under "Universal Serial Bus Controller". I already check the troubleshoot and test for everything (Cable is OK, I checked in another computer, etc)  It happen after I connect the Hard Drive to another computer which then I realized it's USB Port was corrupted and problematic.  Is there a way I can fix this Hard Drive? Or any utility which can access this hard disk? When I connect Hard Disk, it turned On (The Light become green) and it start vibrating.  P.S: I check my drive again SeaTools, but  cannot recognize it too.
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I'm very new to this and I've been at trying to fix this problem for about two hours to no avail.  I just finished getting my new computer put together and installed a new 2TB Seagate hard drive as a secondary drive (my boot drive has no problems at all). I have it formatted into two petitions, one in ext4 through GParted. I want to use this partition to store extra files and programs (specifically games and CAD stuff). I went to make a steam library folder in it and found that it's read only. It is at /dev/sda1  I first attempted to reformat it to no avail. I looked around for some help (most of what I found related to external storage) and tried a few things through the terminal to change the owner.  mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/   Returned "only root can do that."  I'm stuck past here, I've tried a couple other things I can't hunt down now, but every attempt gives an access problem to me. How can I change this and regain access? Are there more effective ways to map/install this drive for this purpose to avoid this problem in the future? Thank you!
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The internal SATA hard drives have a limit on a lot of motherboards of 2TB and if I want to get a 3TB HDD then I need to connect it using a PCI card (or get a new motherboard).  But I wanted to ask: If I connect a 3TB harddrive to a external USB enclosure, will it work? The  I want to buy says it supports up to 3TB HDD but I want to make sure.
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I usually have a lot of external drives connected to my MacBook, such as flash drives, hard drives, and SD cards. It so happens that I need to eject them quite often.  The usual way I eject these is by either showing the desktop using a shortcut and dragging the drives I want to eject to the trash, or navigating to the finder and ejecting the drives from there, or by using a script which ejects all my external drives at once. However, when I want to do something simple like ejecting a flash drive or SD card (which I do quite often) I'd prefer not to break my workflow and simply be able to, say, click on a menu bar icon and select which volume I want to eject.  I haven't yet seen a utility which can achieve this. Does anyone know of one?
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I have three partitions on my drive, arranged something like the following:   ___________ | 1 |  2 | 3| -------------   I wish to merge partitions 1 and 3.  Is there a way to do this, or do I have to manually "slide" partition 2 over to partition 3, and then merge the newly open space where partition 2 used to be?  Note: I do not have the space to copy partition 2 to partition 3 (2 is 200GB and 3 is 65GB).
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I plugged in my external harddrive (which was formatted on my Mac into HFS+ journaled) to my Ubuntu desktop 9.04 64bit.  I am not able to get the drive to mount with write capability, how do I do that?  Right now all I'm getting is read access, I tried  sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdf2 /media/"Portable HD"   but that still gave me only read access...  ideas??
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I have a 2 TB HFS+-formatted external hard drive that got dropped a couple of days ago while transferring files onto a Macbook Pro.  Now the drive's partitions won't mount.  Disk Utility can see the drive, but doesn't recognize that it has any partitions.  I've tried using  to recover files off of it, but it couldn't find anything.  In addition, our local computer repair shop said they couldn't find anything on there either.  I know that I could ship the drive off to someone like , but I was hoping for a cheaper option (since they start at about $500 for the attempt).  Is there something else I could try on my own?  Would  be able to help with something like this?
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I recently  about accidentally marking my external HDD's partition as Active and how I could undo my accidental mistake. I followed the instructions provided and they worked fine. This involved some command line magic and from what I understand, I did not have to really do this, but I just wanted to get things back to how they were originally. After making the fix things went back to normal in disk management. After I restarted my computer though i had an issue:  BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart  Rugh roh! I brought my laptop to work so I could search for a solution on my work computer and I found . To summarize the instructions, I had to reboot with my Windows 7 install disc and click the Repair button. Once there I could then repair the start-up options. One of the commenters on the site , as the first time the &quot;repair&quot; doesn't actually fix it. I found this to be true as well. I tried to repair it and it did some work, then rebooted. I then got the same error again. I booted from the CD again and repaired the start-up options then after this second time Windows started to boot up. Before the restart I got a nice info window telling me that it did make repairs to the boot info (this was promising). I've been using Windows 7 for a few days now with no problem, but I just recently noticed that I now can see the System Reserved partition in Computer:  I immediately went to disk management to see what was up. I noticed that my System Reserved partition is no longer marked as System and instead I believe the repair operation made my C: drive the system partition. I'm not fully aware of what the System partition really is but I briefly read that its a Windows 7 thing that gets created on install of Win7 that writes some BitLocker encryption stuff to a isolated partition as well as some boot files.   How can I undo this and make the System Partition marked as System instead of my OS C: partition? How can I make it so that I don't see this partition in Computer (I believe fixing #1 will fix this) What are the implications of what the current state is and the fact that I can now browse into this new partition?
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I tried to partition disk (HDD) into several parts for Windows and Linux by parted, but I find some problem as follows:   Why doesn't the free space between #3 and #5 start from 106815488s to 106817535s? Why doesn't free space show after /dev/sda5, /dev/sda7, /dev/sda9, and /dev/sda10?
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My computer came with only one hard disk drive: C. It has a capacity of 920 GB. And I have used 80 GB of it.   Now I want two drives in my computer: C and D. But I want 150 GB in the C drive and the rest (770 GB) in the D drive. And I don't want that any files that I currently have in my C drive get deleted. How can I do that?  (I can't back up at the moment, because I already installed a lot of software and customized the operating sytstem. That's a lot of work.)   Thank you.