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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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windows XP doesn't go up after unubtu installation,
I must first admit that I'm pretty new to this whole "Linux" environment, so give me some slacks. :)
I'm using win XP, with Acronis true image.
After I installed the Ubuntu 12.04 version, the Linux is ...
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13.04 side by side install broke Windows XP
I have an old laptop (HP Compaq nc6220) running Windows XP. I burnt a install disc and went through the setup to do side by side installation with choice of OS on startup.
Ubuntu boots up fine, but ...
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Installing Ubuntu help
I have a PC with 2 HDDs, and want to install Ubuntu 13.04 . Unfortunately, my active partition is not on my Windows XP partition. I assume my drive list when boot from LiveUSB similar like this:
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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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Installing Ubuntu on another Hard Drive Disk (F:)
I want to install Ubuntu side by side on my Windows XP.But instead of placing it on HDD C: drive, i want to place it on a slave HDD (which would be drive F:).I already tested on a virtual machine in ...
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Lubuntu and xp dual boot [duplicate]
I dual booted my laptop with lubuntu and xp. But lubuntu isnt what I wanted. How can I get rid of just the lubuntu part of the disc.
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Why does my computer only boot into Windows XP?
I installed Ubuntu from a usb, but when I rebooted my computer after the installer finished, my computer booted into Windows XP. I didn't see any menu for selecting the operating system during boot.
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How can I install Windows XP alongside Ubuntu on an External HDD? [closed]
I have Ubuntu running on an external USB harddrive disk.
My Acer Aspire 5100-5023 notebook has known issues with it's hardware. There is a fixed disk error on boot that is attributed to a faulty ati ...
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Will deleting stuff from the Ubuntu partition (directly) increase free space on a Windows XP partition?
My system has dual boot: windows xp and ubuntu. Accessing files and directories of windows xp from ubuntu is easy as well known. I deleted some files and directories in windows xp, let say in ...
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Windows don't appear in boot menu any more?
I have a netbook with windows xp and ubuntu 9.04 installed. I know ubuntu 9.04 are not supported any more, but i achieved to make some updates today. Since that Windows don't appear as a choice in ...
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update-grub doesn't detects my XP instalation [closed]
I installed Windows XP, and I was missing GRUB. Booted to Ubuntu with a GRUB recovery disc.(I doesn't know it's name) Then, I ran sudo update-grub and this is the output:
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Why do I get no option to boot either Ubuntu or Windows after UBUNTU 12.1 installation for a dual boot (PC automatically loads windows xp sp3)?
I've just Installed Ubuntu 12.10. When asked to remove dvd to restart there was no boot option menu and PC started to load windows.
Checkdisk ran and displayed multiple messages, eg. Deleting orphan ...
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How to add my Ubuntu 12.10 to my windows xp boot.ini file?
I have a primary 80GB HDD which is partitioned into 3 drives (Core, Data & Extended) with Windows Xp installed in the C drive (Core - With NTFS file system). I have a secondary 500GB HDD which is ...
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Want to uninstall Ubuntu but can not boot into Ubuntu, only windows
I installed Ubuntu onto an old work laptop a while ago and of course I love it, however I will have to hand this laptop back into work at sometime as it has become pretty old now, so I want to ...
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Freeze During a Restart on ASPIRE 4751Z [closed]
I notice this happen every time with my ACER ASPIRE 4751Z.
Whenever I reboot from Ubuntu, the boot up freezes during "BIOS load". That means, the boot up menu isn't shown yet. I also have Windows XP ...
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error: no such partition grub rescue
I had a Windows XP on my 64GB IDE SSD. I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 using Wubi, bit it did not worked: I could choose Ubuntu from the boot menu, but it did worked. Then I installed Ubuntu 12.10 ...
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Is the Disk Image Installation Efficient Enough?
I was just wondering, is it efficient to have the entire Ubuntu file system on a Windows file.
Currently I am using the option to directly boot from Ubuntu, as opposed to running it as an application ...
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Dual Boot System: Ubuntu side runs Fine - XP side thermal shutdown (30-50 min) [closed]
Ubuntu is not the problem, but but I am hoping that the the collective knowledge might point me in the right direction for my XP side problem.
Ubuntu 12.04 runs no problem for days with CPU reading ...
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How to dual-boot Windows XP & Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unable to boot Windows 7 after Grub overwrote the Windows bootsector
When I install Ubuntu 12.04 along side Windows XP, I encountered a choice for "Device for boot ...
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How can I fix my dual-boot machine that now fails to load Windows?
My start-up process:
Start computer
loads bios
loads grub- now i can essentially make two choices
load Ubuntu or load windows xp
I choose to load Ubuntu and everything is fine
I choose to load ...
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How do I delete Windows after an Ubuntu install?
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to my Dell Dimension 4600 with Windows XP installed. I now have a neat dual-boot system, but I want to get rid of the XP OS and keep Ubuntu as my only OS. How do I do ...
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Cannot dual Windows XP and Ubuntu
I am new to Ubuntu and at the moment I am trying to get Ubuntu 12.10 to one of my machines. The machine is a Pentium 4 @ 3.06, 2Gb RAM, 200GB Hard Drive and a NVidia GeForce 8800 GT.
A few days ago, ...
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How to get al the disk space for ubuntu 12.04
Recently I changed for Linux Ubuntu 12.04, I left Windows and I want now to get all my hard disk space, cause when I formatted my PC installing Ubuntu 12.04, I only gave Ubuntu 23.0 GB and now I'm ...
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How to install Side by Side Boot on Windows XP
I have looked at other questions but none seem to help my problem.
I am trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu off a USB Stick Side by Side with Windows XP. I have it booted up but when I get ...
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Can't boot Windows Xp after intalling Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
Here's the situation. I installed Ubuntu using the along side option. Everything went ok. When ...
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Can't boot Windows XP after installing Ubuntu 12.04
So I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows XP, and I played with it for a like an hour. When I wanted to go back to Windows, I chose the Windows option in the GRUB screen. It just gives a black ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 32 bit Live CD unable to detect windos XP OS and Drives
I m trying to install Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 32 bit (Dual Boot) , but its not detecting Xp OS and the drives.
Instead it shows complete hard disk in one section
1)No previous detected
2)Drives not ...
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12.04 Dual boot installation with Window XP 64 bit
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on a system with XP 64 bit already installed on it. I have 2 HDD /sdb and /sda, with further partitions as /sdb1, /sda1, /sda2 and /sda3. Windows is installed on ...
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Installing ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongwith windows xp in two different HDDs
I have two HDDs.
First HDD has four partitions with Windows XP in the first partition
Second has two partitions and 15GB unallocated space.
I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the second HDD ...
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How to safely remove Ubuntu 12.04 from a dual-boot installation with Windows XP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?
I have an Acer Netbook with Windows XP on it.
I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 (actually upgraded from 10.?? to 11.04 to 11.10 ...
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Installing 12.04 to dual boot: partitions not labeled [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Installing Ubuntu with Windows, which is left and right when allocating space?
I am installing 12.04 from a CD on a computer with an existing Windows XP installation, ...
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Xubuntu fails to boot on dual boot win xp [closed]
Installed Xbuntu 12.04 on Motion Computing tablet with Win XP as dual-boot. Used GPart to shrink XP partition and created empty 15 GB partition for Xubuntu. Installed from bootable USB stick. All ...
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Windows Boot Manager didn't come up as indicated in the instructions
I'm not technical. I installed Ubuntu using the Wubi installer. When I pressed 'finish' to restart, the Windows Boot Manager did NOT come up. My computer just rebooted in Windows. How do I get to ...
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Clock time is off by 4 hours
Dual boot system Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu 12.04.
I have the bios set for the correct time and Ubuntu set for US Eastern time. Ubuntu will boot up and the time will be off by -4 hours. If I correct ...
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Difficulty installing Ubuntu 12.04 side by side with Windows XP [closed]
I am attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 side by side with Windows XP SP3 on an old Dell Dimension 2400 and the LiveCD does not give me the option to install them side by side. It only gives me the ...
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How do I install Ubuntu and Windows on separate hard drives?
I just re-built my desktop. I have a brand new 2TB drive and I'm also re-using a 250GB drive with Windows XP installed. The problem is that the XP drive has a virus that was causing the computer ...
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I have reinstalled 12.04 and there is no dual boot option
Tonight, I have reinstalled Ubuntu 12.4on Win XP pro machine for a 3rd time. (Uninstalled in between.) Oddly enough, this machine had a dual boot between xp pro & ubuntu for several months ...
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How to fix Ubuntu 12.04 boot, using Windows XP?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 from USB. Now there is no option to choose Linux or Windows, because the boot-loader is missing.
Can I repair this using Windows XP, without using Ubuntu or
a virtual ...
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Unable to boot after installing 12.04 along with Windows XP [closed]
I ran Darik's Boot and Nuke, reinstalled windows XP pro, did all windows updates, installed Ubuntu 12.04 did all updates, when I tried to boot, I got a message that says can not display, ran ...
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Dual booting Windows and Ubuntu
My laptop has 500gb hard disk in which for 250gb I installed Windows xp on C drive(primary partition). I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 in the remaing hard drive with dual boot option. When I am going ...
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Safely dual-boot XP and Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop?
My netbook Acer AOD255 has three primary partitions in it by default - PQSERVICE/recovery (NTFS), Android x86 1.6 (FAT32), and the main WinXP Home SP3 (pre-installed, dual-booted with Android from ...
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How to format the Ubuntu partitions from Windows XP?
How to format the Ubuntu partitions from Windows XP?
My Ubuntu is broken and can't log in. My dual booting Windows XP is working fine. I want to delete Ubuntu partitions from Windows XP and ...
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Install XP over Ubuntu. (Flash Drive) [closed]
My girlfriend needs to install Windows XP over Ubuntu on her PC, because she need to run some software that Wine and a visual machine can't handle as well as the 'real' thing.
Problem is, it seems ...
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How to add Ubuntu to the Windows XP boot.ini file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 on a partition separate partition from Windows and was wanting to know ...
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Dual boot XP and ubuntu, (XP installed first)
I tried to install ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386. While booting from live cd I checked GParted and details confused me. As I recently formatted my PC after moving all data to other internal HD, you can ...
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USB won't boot correctly (NOT LIVE BOOT) [closed]
I have a MacBook 6,1 with both, OS X and Windows XP partitions. I try to boot from my USB drive which has Ubuntu installed and working (tried on friends computer) and it booted fine.
I try to boot ...
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Problem with Ubuntu installation alongside WindowsXP
I tried to install Ubuntu on my WindowsXP machine as a second OS.
I do not get the option "Install Ubuntu alongside them" when I go through the guided installation process from the Live-CD.
Any idea ...
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How to uninstall Windows?
I installed Ubuntu in the dual-boot configuration so that I can still boot up in Windows. But I just want to get Windows off of the machine.
Anyone know how to do this without having to go through ...
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How can I uninstall and reinstall ubuntu from a dual boot system?
I have attempted to remove Ubuntu from a dual boot system (Windows XP, SP3) by deleting partitions, using both the Ubuntu install CD and GParted. Neither worked for me; instead, all I did was manage ...
