When it comes time to replace your computer's hard drive, the prospect of reinstalling all your operating system and programs is exhausting. However, by copying your Ubuntu partition over to your new ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

The title says it all. I want to do things the hard way. Here's the deal. I have a Toshiba M200. AFAIK, it doesn't seem to boot from USB* (I couldn't boot the Win7 installer, for example). It does ...

So, now it looks like I will have to reinstall my desktop soon. Right now, my Ubuntu desktop works and doesn't have problems, but it's a dual-boot Windows (for my iPhone and games)/Ubuntu (for ...

Shrink the partition in Windows then reclaim the space in Ubuntu is easiest I could think of to avoid inconveniences like bitlocker and linux not playing nice with NTFS (from experience).

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

If you're triple (or dual) booting Windows and Ubuntu, the Ars Geek web site's got the lowdown on how to mount a read/write Windows NTFS drive. This approach uses an alternate method to the one Adam ...