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Removing lubuntu “live CD” installed to a partition
I was having difficulties getting wubi to recognize some of my partitioned drives, so in my tinkering I used the Universal USB Installer to install the liveCD right to a partition on my drive. Then I ...
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make another partition bootable
So I have my / on an SSD that decided to have a bad sector.
I don't know if there a way to copy the data on another partition on an HD that I already have but don't use yet and make it bootable?
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Missing operating system single boot Ubuntu on Mac
I wanted to replace Mac OS X with Ubuntu completely so I put the Ubuntu .img on a USB drive and ran it and chose the
replace osx
option in Ubuntu's install menu. I realize this was a stupid way ...
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choose wrong option during install and lost partitions
i tried ubuntu 13.04 beta in my pc with live dvd.
when i wanted to install ubuntu i choose to delete my windows wrongly!.
i see the page that we must to select time location and here i realized my ...
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Deleting A non working version of Ubuntu from Kubuntu
I had Ubuntu 12.10 to replace Easy-Peasy, however some packages broke and the screen would come up blank after booting/BIOS, I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 12.10 which works and switched to the KDE ...
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Need to expand /boot partition but not sure if I can
So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking ...
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Accidentally deleted all partitions, how can I restore the operating systems?
Hi guys I installed ubuntu 12.04 (x32) on my system and then side by side I had my windows7 ultimate(x64) running aswell (dual boot).
Last week for some reason I started getting a blue screen crash ...
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I can't log in into my PC, shows grub rescue instead
I have Windows 7, Windows8, and Ubuntu installed. Now, when I turn on my PC, it doesn't start and it shows "Grub rescue".
All that I could find is my Linux partition where I can find the boot files ...
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Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 [duplicate]
I already installed Ubuntu on my Laptop -it is an Hp1000 Notebook PC with windows 8 on it so i installed ubuntu alongside windows 8- I went through all the installation process and it displayed a ...
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Why are FAT partitions not automounted?
I see this happen in Ubuntu 12.04. When I plug an SD card which contains boot and rootfs partitions, only the rootfs gets automounted but not the boot. The only difference between these two is that ...
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The windows installation tool ( WINE )
If I use the tool on the hard drive where windows is installed will it damage the windows OS or will it create a new partition ?
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window 8 installation with already using dual boot window 7 and ubuntu
i am already using windows7 and ubuntu as a dual boot with EasyBCD software. now i have a another seperate drive for windows 8 installation. ( i try to directly installation in different drive but ...
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How do I make space in /boot/?
I have /boot/ on a separate partition from /, and /boot/ is 98% full. How do I make more space on it?
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Why can't I Resize/Move in GParted?
I have a 12.04 LTS system running on my PC with a 320 GB hard drive.
Unfortunately, I need to use Windows 7 in my lab. I tried doing this using a virtual machine (VirtualBox and VMware) but it was ...
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installing ubuntu in a predefined partition
my 500 gb hdd has 5 partition. 4 among of them are of NTFS file system and partially occupied with data. another partition where i want to install ubuntu is of 52 gb. now i want to know in which file ...
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Kernel Panic While installing Ubuntu 12.04 from burnt CD
I'm having problems installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit on my laptop.
I once had it installed on my laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, but LightDM got weird so I was forced to erase the ...
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How can I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 if I didn't create logical partitions?
So this problem may sound familiar to a dozen other questions like these but I still haven't found an answer to mine in particular. When I installed Ubuntu I thought that when choosing to install it ...
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How can I recover my lost partitions? [closed]
info: Dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu, Grub
Computer/Ubuntu frozen while watching YouTube video -> restarted it using the button
GRUB didn't load successfully, it went to command line, tried ls & ...
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Wubi created a usb partition on my disk
Wubi has managed to make the operating systems, including Ubuntu installation, recognize the partition as an USB drive. How can I mend them back together? This issue is causing the boot system to boot ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 Installation problems (boot-up/partition)
After Windows cleanup, defrag and creating a partition of unallocated free space from c: drive; started out with 3 partitions:
Windows Storage 200MB
Windows OS 162GB
Windows Recovery 13GB
with about ...
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root partition is flagged as bootable, but it isn't booting
I have two physical drives. I put a root partition on one of those drives during installation. I even told it to use that root partition for booting. When I look at my partition with gparted, it even ...
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How to boot Ubuntu from SSD drive which cannot be selected as boot device?
I have freshly installed Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bits) on an Asus S405CM-WX117H laptop (similar to this one) which features a 24GB SSD drive and a regular 500GB hard drive.
I placed the / (ext4) root file ...
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Accidentally deleted Ubuntu partition. Now Grub Rescue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Wiped Ubuntu files, bootloader still there, how can I remove it and restore Windows?
I am in desperate need of assistance. I originally had two partitions on my hard ...
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System in low graphics, deleted linux, grub rescue, can't access windows
So I'm pretty new to Ubuntu but I managed to install it with no big problems on both my desktop and netbook. When I installed it on my brother's netbook everything went horribly wrong and now I fear ...
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How to move ubuntu 12.04 on another drive
How I can move my ubuntu on another drive?
I know about clonezilla but problem is that destination drive is smaller the source one. Gparted can't copy-paste partition if destination not the end last ...
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How to recover the Windows 7 partition in Ubuntu 12.04
I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in my machine, and after trying to mount and unmount a SD card, my Windows 7 "has hidden him self",
When i power on the computer,i can enter the Grub and choose
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How much space I should use for Ubuntu? Which partitions?
I have a few questions regarding installation. I have a 500g HD on my laptop. I dont intend on dual-booting on this thing. I intend you use it for development. I decided to get back into programming ...
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Recover deleted non-system partition
Until today I had Windows XP in C: partition in dual-boot with Linux Mint. However today I tried to install Lubuntu, and while the installation was successful, I have access to all 3 OS on the GRUB ...
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use and effects of “/media” partion [closed]
hello everyone i want to install ubuntu but the "/media" partition wich is used to comunicate with windows comes everytime on my mind cause i read it can reduce your memory flexibility i would like to ...
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Multi-boot linux with GRUB using different hard drives [closed]
I'm currently running 12.04 on a single HDD. I have three current partitions: A swap, ext4 (main) and an ntfs storage partition.
I'd like to use a second HDD (internal) to dual/tri boot. I've read ...
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Is there a way to install Windows 8 as a dual-boot starting with Ubuntu?
Is a way to dual-boot With Ubuntu and windows 8 with going from Ubuntu? I'm kind of stumped, I tried to do it earlier and it overwrote the grub so, I had to go in a live disc and fix the grub from ...
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Hard Disk Partitioning during 12.04 Install
Attempting to install 12.04 LTS on the following system:
Mainboard: MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330 v3.0) VIA KT133A
Chipset Processor: AMD Athlon 1300 Mhz
HDD: WD EIDE 160Gb LBA Single partition
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How to choose between 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu using a bootloader?
Alright, so on an external hard drive, I plan to make multiple Ubuntu installations. As some computers do not mesh well with trying to use a different hierarchy as far as I can understand, how can I ...
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Create an extended partition with two logical partitions of 20 Gb each one [closed]
Create an extended partition with two logical partitions of 20 Gb each one.
Then the extended partition size should be 40 Gb
I have doubts. Tell me about it
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Ubuntu Does Not Boot
I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 12.04.1, but in the middle of the upgrade, something got borked, and now Ubuntu won't boot. When I try to run recovery mode, it says "Loading inital ramdisk" I'm ...
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What Partition of HDD should Ubuntu be installed?
Does installation of Ubuntu from WUBI require another partition for loading? If it loads on C: then is it and OS Environment only? Kindly explain.
Should it be a Primary Partition only? As I ...
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10.04 server won't boot off latest kernel
I'm maintaining a 10.04 server that is still booting off of the 2.6.32-28 kernel even though a bunch of later kernels are available. My best guess is that the immediately following version was purged ...
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How to repair partition table?
I have a dual boot computer with Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it. Recently, i was working in Windows7 and my flash had crashed, the computer rebooted to
Error: Partition not found. Grub Rescue>
I ...
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Moving /boot to a separate partition
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a partition with BTRFS as its file system, but it appears that grub2 seems to have some issues with that file system. For some reason it takes it very long time to boot ...
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Partitioning a hard drive before install
I have a new ASUS laptop that I got from the university. The guys at the computing centre recieved it before me, erased the hard disk, and installed all their crappy software (Novel, outlook, and the ...
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Can I recreate a destroyed /boot without reinstalling?
I was experimenting with an idea and /boot was put on the first 256MB of a 1GB flash drive.
Windows destroyed the whole scheme when trying to add an NTFS partition after it in the unallocated space.
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Windows 7 won't boot after Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot installation failed
I basically used a LIVEusb I had made of Ubuntu 12.04 to try and dual boot both OS'. but it crashed at the partitioning stage and now Windows 7 won't boot. g Parted shows the same partitions that ...
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Problem in multi booting Ubuntu 12.04 with existing Windows XP, 7 and 8 in 500GB HDD with 5 Partitions
Here's my case. I have 500GB HDD with 5 Partitions with XP, Windows7 and Windows8 RP in the first three.
As per one of the instruction I've seen in this forum, I did shrink my 4th Partition to ...
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secure is Installation of ubuntu or should be dual with windows?
I have used ubuntu for almost 6 months full time at home while using windows for almost 6 years,so I previously used ubuntu on separate hard drive while I have one attached hard drive with partitions ...
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Is there a tool to make partition bootable?
I tried Windows 8 Consumer Preview a couple months ago and it wiped out my partition table... or the boot information.
So now the machine cannot boot to anything at all. Is there Ubuntu tools or ...
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VFS: Cannot open root device [UUID] or unknown-block(0,0) / Kernel panic not syncinc VFS
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 x86-64 in Virtual Box. While shutting down the last time the system ran normally, it seemed to have hung up, so I just killed the system. When I wanted to boot it again, ...
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Partition not showing in dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (grub2) menu
I am trying to install grub boot loader on a partition /dev/sda3 (ext3 formatted), but it is not showing as an option when I run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc.
My details are:
I have a dual boot system ...
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Expert help needed due to an insidious trap when triple booting OS/W7/Ubuntu… which I fell into
This was going to be my first Ubuntu install, aiming to triple boot from a Mac Book Air OS, W7 and Ubuntu. I used USB sticks for both the W7 and Ubuntu. After successfully partitioning using OS (it is ...
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Question regarding partitions
Hey guys, I want to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 7 OS. I'm
trying to add an extended partition for the ext4 partition and the
linux-swap partition, but I already have four primary ...
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How to create a windows to Ubuntu partition file
I recently downloaded Ubuntu and running it as a dual-boot along side my Windows vista OS. I like Ubuntu very much and it is just what I'm looking for in an operating system, but, I can't seem to ...
