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Installed Ubuntu 15.04 alongside Win8 with something else option in a new partition of HDD. But Ubuntu starts directly without letting me choose an OS [duplicate]

I am a Windows 8.1 user. I want to use dual boot with Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 15.04 with the Something Else option. Installed correctly in swap and ext4. When I start the PC Ubuntu boots. But I ...
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Unable to dual boot ubuntu 16.04 with windows 10 [duplicate]

I selected the option of running Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10. But the problem I am facing right now is that I am unable to use Windows. When I start my PC there is no option of using Windows 10.
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Can not boot Windows on Legacy BIOS after installing Ubuntu on UEFI

Long story short, I installed ubuntu while I was watching netflix and feeling very lazy, and may have lost all my windows 7 files. Quick summary: -Windows 7 was installed on Legacy bios and I ...
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After boot-repair "Please install an operating system on your hard disk"

I just installed Ubuntu 13.10 alongside windows 7. Because I could only boot Windows 7 I started Ubuntu live again from the DVD and ran boot repair. Now the Computer is not able to boot anything. The ...
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Can't boot windows 7 after installing Linux

SOLVED Had to change the windows system partition type which was flagged as "Swap" for some reason to NTFS system type. I did this by logging into linux and changing it in the partition manager. I ...
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Windows 7 won't boot after side-by-side installation of Ubuntu 14.04.1

I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 from a DVD I burned. Ubuntu runs perfectly, but when I select Windows 7 from GRUB, the screen goes blank (with some coloured lines at the very top of the screen). From here, ...
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Replace dual-boot system with ubuntu

currently my file system is dual boot between windows 7 and ubuntu 16.04. First I wanted to allocate space between the two operating systems, but now i decided it is best to just erase windows in ...
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Need help booting windows after installing ubuntu dual boot

I recently installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 7. The first time I booted up, I was given the option to boot to Ubuntu or Windows. If I selected Ubuntu, I would go to a GRUB menu for Ubuntu. ...
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Dual boot- Windows 8.1+Ubuntu 14.04.3->Not getting dual boot option

I had Windows 8.1 and wanted dual boot with Ubuntu 14.04.3.I followed the steps from this site and installed Ubuntu.I restarted my laptop and and I'm not getting dualboot option,it gets straight to ...
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I could browse files in nautilus on other hdd partitions before, but can't anymore. Help!

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a few days back on my laptop alongside Windows 7. There was some problem during the installation and this corrupted the Windows 7 boot loader. Now I can't start Windows, but ...
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When I installed Ubuntu my windows 8.1 does not load? [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop with win 8.1,but now when I start the power only Ubuntu is come in DOS and the win 8.1 does not load. how I fix it?
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Installing Ubuntu Lost Windows

As I was installing bunt on a system which already had Windows 7, I lost my windows 7 booting option. Now I cannot boot. this is the RL I got after running boot-repair. http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/...
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Can't boot into Windows 10 after installing [duplicate]

I just installed Ubuntu on my PC. I used the "Install alongside Windows 10" option. Whenever I boot my PC up the only option I get is Ubuntu. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I wasn't able to ...
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Can't use dual boot

So, I had Win7 installed on 128GB SSD and I planned to install Ubuntu 16.10 on my 1TB HDD. I made free space using EasyUS Partition Master and proceeded to install ubuntu from USB. Everything had gone(...
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