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as seen on Super User
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If you have a hard disk image (including partition table, multiple partitions,...), is it possible to let Linux treat it as a regular hard disk?
By "regular hard disk" I mean I would like to have the image show up as, for instance, /dev/hdx and its partitions as /dev/hdx1,...
(I know I can mount…
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Can I connect a laptop SATA hard disk to Desktop PC? Do I have to use some adapters or I can just plug in SATA power connector and SATA data cable like my Desktop hard disk is connected?
I noticed that both laptop and desktop SATA disks use same connectors, but I'm afraid that I might fry my laptop…
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Can I connect a laptop SATA hard disk to Desktop PC? Do I have to use some adapters or I can just plug in SATA power connector and SATA data cable like my Desktop hard disk is connected?
I noticed that both laptop and desktop SATA disks use same connectors, but I'm afraid that I might fry my laptop…
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Hello everyone.
Whenever I start my computer Ubuntu pops up the following error:
A hard disk may be failing
one or more hard disk report health problems
A friend of mine ran some test and it was found that my hard disk has 74 bad sectors.
Is this merely a software issue that will be solved after…
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I have two hard disks – one a 1TB and the other a 250 GB. I installed the OSes in the following order:
Windows 7 on the first hard disk (1 TB)
After that Kubuntu 12.04 on a partition (/dev/sdb7) on the second hard disk (250 GB)
The second drive also contains an NTFS partition.
Now, kubuntu's…
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