On 22/12/2019 09:36, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
I have been given a dead Laptop and am trying to use the 1TB hard disk out of
it. It is W10 and I have reset W10 to get rid of all the previous owners stuff,
and then I used a windows utility to shrink the Windows space and create some
On 22/12/2019 18:31, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
sudo -i parted /dev/sda unit B print
Model: ATA ST500LM012 HN-M5 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500107862016B
It's not the 1 TB that you thought then?
$ units 500107862016B bytes
465 GiB + 780 MiB + 24 KiB
Yeah, my mistake,
Hi Peter,
> > sudo -i parted /dev/sda unit B print
>
> Model: ATA ST500LM012 HN-M5 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500107862016B
It's not the 1 TB that you thought then?
$ units 500107862016B bytes
465 GiB + 780 MiB + 24 KiB
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On Sunday, 22 December 2019 16:10:59 GMT PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
> >> After a look around with Dr. Google, my impression is that the partition
> >> flagged as data is a computer (Lenovo in this case) manufacturers
> >> partition for putting data when a recovery is being done. On that basis
On 22/12/2019 14:18, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
On 22/12/2019 13:35, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
When I try to install dual boot Kubuntu At the point where I want to
create the linux partitions I can't because W10 has 4 primary
partitions and that is all that are allowed. So the
On 22/12/2019 13:35, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
When I try to install dual boot Kubuntu At the point where I want to
create the linux partitions I can't because W10 has 4 primary
partitions and that is all that are allowed. So the extra space is
inaccessible.
If you boot from a live
Hi Peter,
> When I try to install dual boot Kubuntu At the point where I want to
> create the linux partitions I can't because W10 has 4 primary
> partitions and that is all that are allowed. So the extra space is
> inaccessible.
If you boot from a live Linux USB stick, what's the output of
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:22:01 +, Terry Coles wrote:
> Normally a typical
> Windows installation would only use two; the 'C:' Drive and, in
> later installations, the Recovery Partition. If it's a newish
> laptop there will also be a UEFI partition, but what the fourth one
> for?
I was
On Sunday, 22 December 2019 09:36:35 GMT PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
> I have been given a dead Laptop and am trying to use the 1TB hard disk out
> of it. It is W10 and I have reset W10 to get rid of all the previous owners
> stuff, and then I used a windows utility to shrink the Windows space
I have been given a dead Laptop and am trying to use the 1TB hard disk out of
it. It is W10 and I have reset W10 to get rid of all the previous owners stuff,
and then I used a windows utility to shrink the Windows space and create some
free disk.
When I try to install dual boot Kubuntu At
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