Format drive without terminal
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I want to format my HDD to NTFS to install windows, but dev/sda1 is failing to unmount because "device is busy". However, when I try to open terminal and force an unmount it flashes open and immediately closes, same thing with UXterm and Xterm. The tty screens do the same thing, after login something flashes and it returns to the enter username screen. Is there anyway to format the HDD with recovery mode in Grub, which seems to be the only place I can actually run commands?
partitioning mount gnome-terminal format
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I want to format my HDD to NTFS to install windows, but dev/sda1 is failing to unmount because "device is busy". However, when I try to open terminal and force an unmount it flashes open and immediately closes, same thing with UXterm and Xterm. The tty screens do the same thing, after login something flashes and it returns to the enter username screen. Is there anyway to format the HDD with recovery mode in Grub, which seems to be the only place I can actually run commands?
partitioning mount gnome-terminal format
asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
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up vote
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I want to format my HDD to NTFS to install windows, but dev/sda1 is failing to unmount because "device is busy". However, when I try to open terminal and force an unmount it flashes open and immediately closes, same thing with UXterm and Xterm. The tty screens do the same thing, after login something flashes and it returns to the enter username screen. Is there anyway to format the HDD with recovery mode in Grub, which seems to be the only place I can actually run commands?
partitioning mount gnome-terminal format
asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
1
I want to format my HDD to NTFS to install windows, but dev/sda1 is failing to unmount because "device is busy". However, when I try to open terminal and force an unmount it flashes open and immediately closes, same thing with UXterm and Xterm. The tty screens do the same thing, after login something flashes and it returns to the enter username screen. Is there anyway to format the HDD with recovery mode in Grub, which seems to be the only place I can actually run commands?
partitioning mount gnome-terminal format
asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
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asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
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asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
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asked May 27 at 23:40
ElDar M. Razumeyko
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sda is where the system is, you can not dismount. Give Boot with a liveCD and use Gparted to format
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sda is where the system is, you can not dismount. Give Boot with a liveCD and use Gparted to format
answered May 27 at 23:47
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sda is where the system is, you can not dismount. Give Boot with a liveCD and use Gparted to format
answered May 27 at 23:47
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sda is where the system is, you can not dismount. Give Boot with a liveCD and use Gparted to format
answered May 27 at 23:47
Carlos Henrique
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sda is where the system is, you can not dismount. Give Boot with a liveCD and use Gparted to format
answered May 27 at 23:47
Carlos Henrique
392
answered May 27 at 23:47
Carlos Henrique
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answered May 27 at 23:47
Carlos Henrique
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answered May 27 at 23:47
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