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Is windows still running in the background?

Running 13.04 on a dual boot, Is windows 7 still live and hackable from the outside world? I put 13.04 on a separate 'drive'
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How do I make Ubuntu the default partition? [duplicate]

Recently I asked this question and it was marked as a duplicate and not correctly answered. I was even referred to this link which does not address what I am questioning about... How to uninstall ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu without losing Grub dual-boot settings?

I would like to over-write the partition with my Ubuntu, without losing all my dual-boot configurations. My dual boot is (I think) configured using grub. Can I install a new version of Ubuntu without ...
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GNU GRUB doesnt show up (13.04 / Dual-Boot)

If i try to install 13.04 (Dual-Boot with Windows 7) it boots into a black screen which you can see here: http://youtu.be/W1gf_JOnigc Then i followed this Tutorial: My computer boots to a black ...
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Install Grub2 on the Ubuntu partition?

I got Windows 8 installed on my primary SSD. I've got a second SSD (connected through a rack) and would like to install Ubuntu on it but without messing around with Windows 8's MBR; I'd much prefer ...
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i want to remove windows 8 and windows 7 from my triple boot with ubuntu 12.04

Right now in my bootloader i have 3 OS namely ubuntu 12.04 , windows 7 and windows 8 . i have a virus in my pc and so windows 7 and 8 dont work. i want only ubuntu 12.04 on my pc right now and then ...
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Trying to install Windows XP alongside Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04; Disk Read Error?

Anyone, I currently have three partitions: A windows 7 partition, an ubuntu partition, and an empty partition meant for Windows XP. Every time I insert the install disk and boot, it copies files ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 in my Lenovo laptop G580

I had purchased a new lenovo laptop with win 8 installed in it ..I was trying to install Ubuntu 13.04, tried many number of times. The ISO gets installed and then while rebooting, it says error with ...
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Install 13.04 to a specific partition

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a machine that already runs Windows 7. Before installing, I shrank the Windows partition and added a new ext2 partition called /dev/sda4 using GParted. When I ...
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No sound after W Vista install. (Had ubuntu 12.04 as first OS)

I had Windows Vista as my one and only OS. I then installed Ubuntu 12.04 as the only one removing W Vista from my Laptop. After a month I installed W Vista again. With Ubuntu 12.04 still on. Dual OS. ...
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How do I duel boot windows 8 and backtrack? [closed]

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this but since I couldn't find a good "askbacktrack" site, i decided to ask it here since backtrack is based of ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu just fine and ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8, Does not allow to access Windows 8

I have an 80GB hard disk and three partition in it. I was using Windows 7 and Windows 8 on it through dual boot. Windows 8 was on the C drive. Windows 7 on the D drive and E drive was empty. I had ...
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Create a windows repair disk in Ubuntu?

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 13.04 dual-booting with Windows 8. It was working for a while, and today I accidentally broke the Windows boot system. Now the system is not booting Windows, but ...
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Windows won't boot after using chown on windows partition

I was following this: Mount NTFS partition at startup, with non-root user as owner to be able to use permissions with my NTFS partitions without having to change owner to "root". I did what the ...
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Why ASUS Q500A fails to dual boot?

I have followed several links including Ubuntu's guide to UEFI Installation and several guides on AskUbuntu but I have a unique problem: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI Installing Ubuntu on ...
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Default OS change [closed]

I installed Ubuntu a While back and I want Windows boot loader to show up instead of grub and how do you make windows the default OS?
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dual boot problem?

I am new in ubuntu**stro. Recently I install **ubuntu 12.04. I want to use ubuntu alongside windows xp, but my problem is when I install ubuntu 12.04 windows xp never appear in boot screen, which is ...
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install windows after ubuntu 13.04

I have create a partition for Windows. Then I was trying to install Windows from CD/DVD. Here is the problem : I can't install windows from my CD drive. I tried some solutions such as : I ...
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Set windows to boot on default, boot GRUB only if key is pressed [duplicate]

I want to be able to just boot the computer into windows without having to use the GRUB menu, because I'm on a shared computer. I want it so that the GRUB menu only appears if shift or some other key ...
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What essentials do I need to start using Ubuntu instead of windows? [closed]

I would like to dual boot ubuntu with windows 8 after I fix my windows 8 (Ubuntu is just way too pretty!). I found this tutorial about dual-booting the two without problems ...
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Ubuntu installation in BIOS mode

I want to know what kind of installation is the best for me. I bought my computer with windows 7 preinstalled in it and I upgraded it to windows 8. It is in BIOS mode and I saw that i need to install ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 don't boot with Windows 7

So I just installed the Gnome, I used the Gparted to make the partitions because the basic mode to install side by side with windows was not working. Ok, I made the partitions and installed, no ...
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How to install Windows 8 on top of two Ubuntu OS

I am currently having both 13.04 64-bit and 12.04 64-bit installed using GRUB2. 13.04 is the main one and I allocated 100GB volume for 12.04. I am trying to add a Windows 8 64-bit OS on top of the ...
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wanted to install the windows xp

I have installed the unbutu latest version on my laptop. then i am trying to install the windows xp as dual boot . could any body please suggest me how to do it . i have tried the following procedure ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu and Windows7 [duplicate]

I know, this is a stupid question but I need your help. I have ubuntu 12.04 on my Computer but I need windows to play Metin2 (yes I need because I am gamemaster). Wine doesn't work because of ...
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When installing Ubuntu from USB, it recognizes previous Windows 8 but I don't get the option to run alongside

When installing Ubuntu from USB, Ubuntu installer recognizes previous Windows 8 OS but I don't get the option to install alongside Windows 8. I only get the option to replace Windows 8 or "Something ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on machine with Windows XP. How to have a real UNIX-Ubuntu, not just Ubuntu-GUI over Windows? [duplicate]

The goal: I want to learn UNIX, UNIX-like platforms. Especially command line and bash. I have Windows XP installed on my machine. I have chosen Ubuntu for my goal. I have one hard drive on my ...
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Wubi is downloading file but I have full ISO [duplicate]

I have "ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso" and my PC has Windows 8 installed. In my previous windows i.e "Windows 7" I used Wubi to install ubuntu 12.04.2 and installed and work correctly. Now I try to ...
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Customizing Boot Menu

I have a dual boot system: Windows 8/ Ubuntu 13.04. I have multiple questions to ask regarding the boot menu: There are two instances of Windows 8, how do I make it to 1? The default OS is Ubuntu, ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu 13.04 and then dual booted it with Windows. Now, when I boot into my system, the selection menu does not come up. Instead, it directly boots into Windows. Is there any way to have ...
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Windows/Ubuntu dual boot error

I am new to Ubuntu, so I don't know much about it. I had installed Windows 8 on Legacy boot mode a while back as I had heard of problems with UEFI. Now, when I try installing Ubuntu 13.04, it doesn't ...
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Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 on dell Inspiron 15R 3521 in UEFI mode

I have a Dell Inspiron 15R 3521 Laptop come with windows 8 in built. I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 in UEFI mode to dual boot. I have read to much on this and looks like every machine or laptop ...
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Install windows on the same drive as ubuntu

I have a drive with ubuntu 12.04 currently on it. Can I and if I can then how, install Windows 7 on that same drive without removing the ubuntu installation? (being able to use both) Please notice ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 crashes at boot and can't access windows 7 boot

Yesterday I installed ubuntu 13.04 on my pc. Previously there was two windows 7 installations. One on a HDD and another an SSD. I brought the pc from a friend and it came with one 2TB HDD. I removed ...
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Help me find a tutorial to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 13.04

What I've got is a compatible PC with both systems ,Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 ,I've Windows 7 already installed ,now I want to install Ubuntu, and be able to choose which one I want to boot when I ...
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Is it possible to install Win8 next to an encrypted Ubuntu?

I run Ubuntu on an SDD (encrypted with systemtools since installation). So I want to install Windows 8 on a second partion on the same drive, but it is possible to do so, without chrashing anything, ...
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Hide ubuntu partition in win7 [closed]

I was searching forum but I didn't find solution to my problem. I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 and Win7 on one HDD in UEFI mode. I'm able to boot in both OS'es separately from grub (added some entries). ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu resulted in both Windows and Ubuntu being unbootable

After spending a few days on getting Windows 7 to shrink down the main partition so I could install Ubuntu on a new one, I finally was able to install Ubuntu from a flash drive. The actual ...
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cant boot Windows 7 after boot-repair

I originally have windows 7 64 bits, then I tried to dual-boot with Ubuntu 13.04. but after installation my computer was only able to boot Windows (Ubuntu was not there as option). So I boot from ...
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Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot hard drive issues

I have recently bought a new laptop, and as I use Ubuntu on my desktop, but want to play games on my laptop, i installed both windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the laptop. It all went pretty well, I can ...
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Dual boot windows 8 and ubuntu more official way

I Know that there are more questions about dual booting windows and ubuntu. However mine is a little different. I did my research but I did not find any solution at my problem at this group. I have ...
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I have Windows 7 on a 1TB HDD and I have installed UBUNTU on 240GB OCZ SSD

Boot Info Script I run boot-repair as I cannot boot up Ubuntu. It suggested using Gparted? I want to be able to boot up my computer and choose either Windows or Linux everytime. I used EasyBCD to ...
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Windows 8 does not appear in my grub list

I have been unable to get my windows 8 partition to appear in my grub list. I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit. My machine is a toshiba satellite s855-s5378 and is a secure boot system. I have secure ...
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How to remove Windows from Grub menu? [duplicate]

My setup is GnomeShell Remix 12.04 and Windows 7 dual boot. Now everything works fine, however, I rarely ever boot Windows and I would like to remove the Windows entry from my Grub menu completely and ...
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Windows 7, Xubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04 triple-double boot :)

I currently have Windows 7 and Xubuntu 12.10 and that is working fine. Now I want to make some free space out of Windows partition and install Ubuntu 13.04 on it. So my question is: Would that be a ...
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Can installing Lubuntu desktop interfere with my Win7 audio output?

After I went on Ubuntu today, and installed Lubuntu desktop environment, I just re-booted into Windows 7 and found out that my audio mini-Jack output isn't working anymore. Can that be linked to the ...
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How to start Ubuntu with Windows XP?

I have installed the latest version on my old PC running Windows XP with the Windows installer. When I select the OS from the list it starts but then comes up with a page like a command prompt with ...
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How do I hide an entry from grub?

I dual boot with windows xp and ubuntu 12.04 lts. I rarely use windows. I want to remove the windows entry from grub menu. I don't want to remove windows, i just want to remove the entry. The purpose ...
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SFS Windows partition after Ubuntu Install

I installed Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 7 64-bit on another laptop of mine and encountered a problem. Here is what happened: I shrunk the Windows partition to create space for Ubuntu I ran ...
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Dual boot problem Windows 8 & Ubuntu 12.04

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed. But when selecting Windows 8 to boot I get following error: error: unknown command 'drivemap' error: invalid EFI filepath I ...

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