Questions tagged [dual-boot]
For questions regarding the installation of two or more operating systems on a single computer.
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Can I Install Ubuntu as Dual Boot Without Partitioning the Hard Drive on Which I will Install it? [closed]
I'm trying to install Ubuntu to dual boot with Windows 10. I want to install it on my hard drive, which is not the SSD that my Windows 10 is installed on.
However, when I go to make a partition for ...
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Touchpad not working at all and restart screen stuck
I am using Acer nitro 5 windows10 pre installed. I downloaded Ubuntu studio18.04. As I started the installation process, my touchpad stopped responding, although the keyboard seemed to work fine. ...
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only have 6gb of storage of 500gb after installing with unetbootin
So basically I was trying to switch from windows 10 to Ubuntu, set up unetbootin, got into the trial version of Ubuntu. Then I started the install process. When I got to the part where you partition ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on second HDD without grub?
I have a 500gb SSD that has windows, and another 1TB HDD that I want Ubuntu on. How can I make it so that Ubuntu is installed on the HDD without GRUB (As my keyboard needs to be set into BIOS mode ...
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Is that ok dual boot with two different firmware(Winodws vs linux, between UEFI and Legacy)?
I have installed windows 10 on UEFI and Ubuntu 19.04 in legacy mode. When pc booting I change between UEFI and Legacy. When the UEFI mode pc boot with windows and legacy mode it will boot ubuntu. Is ...
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How to install Ubuntu 18.04 without GRUB?
I have two SSDs in my PC, one with an existing Windows 10 installation and another I just added that I plan to install Ubuntu on.
The ask:
How to install Ubuntu without GRUB. I want to keep Windows ...
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Shim UEFI MOK management countdown key press ignored
I have a system with Windows 10 with UEFI, and secure boot enabled. I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 in a dual boot configuration. I installed a driver in Ubuntu which required setting up of an MOK and a ...
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Error 15 after manually installing Ubuntu 12.04 dualboot windows 7
(this post contains as the same as my preceding post on Grub rescue problem after installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS since I've post it on the wrong place)
Thanks God I found this page. I'm a newby from ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot anymore: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 10-main
I've been using Ubuntu for about one month on the concerned computer.
It always worked fine, but when I wanted to boot my computer today, I got following message: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 10-...
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Ubuntu and windows dual boot problem [duplicate]
I recently installed ubuntu on my windows pc and everything worked fine and i was using ubuntu since i installed it and everytime i restart my computer it would bring me an option to choose from ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot after booting into windows, acpi errors / exceptions
Not a repost, I've checked carefully similar questions and none of them describe what I'm actually experiencing.
The problem: every time I boot into windows I'm no more able to boot into Ubuntu ...
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HP envy x360 install issue
So my laptop is an HP envy x360 from 2014 with an intel Haswell processor. I flashed ubuntu on an usb drive and when I get into the grub installation screen and hit “try ubuntu without installing” I ...
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Does install another version of Ubuntu can solve the problem that "No wifi adapter found"? [duplicate]
my Ubuntu version is 18.04
levonvo 330-15IKB (Type 81DE) Laptop (ideapad) - Type 81DE
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I just formatted a USB with Xubuntu, can't boot from it in BIOs, and when I plug it in it doesn't show up at all
It did show up in the bios screen previously when I formatted it with rufus, but it didn't go to the installation screen, it went to a GRUB command line, and when I tried some commands I found on here ...
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What are the proper steps to be taken before a dual boot?
I want to transition into the world of Ubuntu, I dual booted Ubuntu once before and although I could run Ubuntu, The option to select either Windows or Ubuntu never appears when I restart the PC, it ...
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Grey Screen after Windows 10 boot from grub
I have a triple boot setup on my laptop. Two Linux distros and windows. I started with ubuntu and then added windows afterwards. I then mounted my drive and repaired grub. I setup ubuntu perfectly. ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 doesn`t boot in dual-boot system
Ok, so... I'm not new to use linux but new to install it (before it I used live persistence mode). I have the notebook that have ssd disk partitioned on 2 partitions. One for disk C:\ and another one ...
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Computer shuts down during Ubuntu LTS 18.04 or 19.04 installation. (Dots loading screen)
I booted from a USB flash drive with each version and they seem to have the same issue.
There is a screen flicker for one second and that's the moment when a command line appears. I couldn't manage to ...
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Ubuntu Server dual boot prevents booting to windows
I wanted to install an ubuntu server as a dual boot option along side my windows system. During install I created a partition to install the server and I am certain this worked just fine. The problem ...
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How to set Windows bootloader as default bootloader?
I have a Win 7/11.10 dual boot system with Grub 2 as the default bootloader. However, I want to make Windows bootloader the default bootloader (grub 'dos' like interface scrares the hell out of my ...
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Grub Menu not showing
I have a dual boot laptop(Fujitsu Lifebook T725) with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.04. Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz. When I start it, it directly boots up Ubuntu and skips the Grub ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 installer unable to detect PCIe NVMe SSD
I have a HP Omen dg0019tx laptop with Win 10, NVIDIA RTX2080, 2 numbers of 1 TB PCIe NVMe SSD configured as RAID 0 Volume. I tried to dual boot it with Ubuntu 18.04, however, Ubuntu is unable to ...
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Only 4 out of 6gb RAM available after installing ubuntu on new ssd (dual boot with windows 10 in separate SSDs)
I just got a new SSD and installed Ubuntu there. I already had windows 10 installed on a different SSD.
I mostly followed the information in Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate SSD.
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Boot option missing in Windows Boot Manager after installing live Ubuntu on hard disk with UNetbootin
I am a complete newbie to Ubuntu so I am not sure what the correct terminology for this is. Anyway, here's what I did:
Downloaded ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso and unetbootin-windows-661.exe ...
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Installed Ubuntu using the dual boot, but can't boot Windows. How to recover Windows?
My files seem fine, but I have no idea what happened to Windows OS. Here is my pastebin information on the boot. I tried reinstalling grub, and going through diskpart, didn't seem to work. How do I ...
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Booting From a Live USB does not provide "Try Ubuntu Option"
I have an HP EliteBook that is about 4 years old. It was running windows 10 up until about 8 months ago when I switched over to Ubuntu. Fast Forward to today, I have reinstalled Windows as the only OS ...
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How to Initialize 4TB in Windows
I built a PC for a client but I forgot to partition/format the 4TB storage drive in Windows before installing Ubuntu. It's set up like this:
SSD: Windows OS + Ubuntu OS & Swap File
4TB HDD: ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 installer can't see Win10 SSD drive on ThinkPad E480
I have ThinkPad E480 with Windows 10.
It has three default partitions:
SSD:
120GB with Windows 10
355GB
HDD:
931BG
My goal is to install Ubuntu on 355GB partition, but installer (and gparted) can'...
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How can I reset my sudo password with a separate monitor?
My laptop screen has been damaged, so I have a separate monitor connected, but when I'm in recovery mode the separate monitor doesn't get the signal from the laptop so I can't see what the screen says ...
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Resize partitions after migrating to larger SSD (extended partition) [duplicate]
I successfully migrated from my old 120gb SSD to a 256gb SSD by using dd from a gparted Live USB.
I am using Ubuntu and Windows 10 with dual-boot (grub).
Everything boots fine :-)
Now I want to ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 randomly boots to GRUB command line
I am running a dual boot with Windows 10 on one M.2 SSD and Ubuntu 19.04 on another M.2 SSD (both Intel SSDs, different sizes).
I have set my boot order to boot the Ubuntu SSD as highest priority ...
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Delete option is grayed out in disk management (Windows 10) for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS partition
I am dual booting Ubuntu and I want to delete Ubuntu from my computer. In windows 10 disk management the option to delete the partition is grayed out. Does anyone have a solution to this?
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Ubuntu booting instead of other distro
I made a triple boot setup with W10, eOS and for the last Ubuntu 19.04, well, the thing is that I made all the installs in BIOS mode, then I create all the partitions for each one, but instead make ...
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How to automatically boot into Windows instead of Ubuntu n times?
I need to do some necessary updates to my Windows system, but it is quite tedious to manually set the OS to Windows after each reboot at the grub menu.
Is there a way to set Windows to boot n times ...
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Windows 10 device not found in a dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 on separate disk
I have Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04 installed on their own disk.
Windows 10 is installed on sda with it's own EFI partition on /dev/sda1
Ubuntu 18.04 is installed on sdb with it's own EFI partition ...
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amd ryzen mobile 2nd gen suitable with ubuntu?
sorry for my poor english.
I bought a laptop machine with amd ryzen 7 3700u(hp envy x360 13 2019 model) and tried to install ubuntu 19.04.
but installation always failed. after grub, the screen went ...
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How to Install Ubuntu on separate hard drive in a dual boot?
I have already installed Windows 7 on C: drive. Now I want to install Ubuntu on E: drive which is a free partition. How do I proceed?
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USB ubuntu without writing to internal EFI partition
Similar to this question, but a bit different I think?
How to remove Ubuntu from EFI partition
I've installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a 32GB usb stick, with its own EFI partition and swap partition on the ...
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Recovering HDD partition table
I found lots of similar topics talking about how to recover deleted partitions I tried several solutions, but nothing worked. In my case, I was installing Archlinux and I used fdisk to format part of ...
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Expand /home partiton (dual booted) [duplicate]
I know similar questions have been asked before, but I found none of the answers to be very explanatory or upvoted enough for an effective solution.
Keeping it short, quite evidently I am running ...
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Dual boot with separate hard drives. HD1 has Ubuntu 14.04 HD2 has Windows7
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 on my PC, both 64-bit. The way I use it is to turn off the PC and connect the Ubuntu HD if I want to use Ubuntu. If I want to use Windows, I disconnect the ...
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Upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 now I can't boot Windows 7 or 10 [duplicate]
I created a boot able flash drive using this procedure:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
I then used this to upgrade Ubuntu to the current version.
After the ...
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Fail to boot, suspect filesystem problem
I have a Asus UX305F which has been dual booting Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows successfully using GRUB. Today I started my computer, and it hung on the Ubuntu loading screen for 15 minutes so I hard ...
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How to Dual Boot Windows 10 & Ubuntu 15.04 Both On Separate Drives?
Last night I attempted to install Ubuntu to my secondary hard drive and dual boot Windows 10. It completely borked everything. Grub screwed me over. I think my grub is still messed up and I need to ...
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How do i install Windows 7 on separate hdd and ubuntu on a separate drive?
I just acquired a new ssd such that don't have to use inventor through some virtual machine with windows on my ubuntu, but the problem is, how do i easily install windows on my second hard drive, ...
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How to install ubuntu on a system with a ssd and a hdd?
I am currently using a laptop with has a 256gb ssd with windows installed in it.
I also have a secondary 1tb hdd on the laptop for storing large files.I want to install ubuntu and i am confused ...
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Deleted Windows E:\ drive ; now how do I give that partition to Ubuntu?
I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 alongside Windows 7.
I've deleted one of my Windows drive (E:) through the app Disks in Ubuntu, but when I do 'create a new partition' with type chosen as ext4, a prompt ...
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Dual boot and the files /boot/grub/grub.cfg -- which one is used?
Say, I have 2 linux systems. They both of them have /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but the one that's used on boot is from one of them. There's no /boot partition. How is it determined which /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
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Can Ubuntu 16.04 / Windows 7 be set up as dual boot on separate HDDs?
I have an existing system with Windows 7 64 bit installed on one HDD. System is BIOS ROM. There is a second HDD, no OS just files. Both are formatted with Windows partitions.
I want to add Ubuntu ...
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My computer is stuck in Ubuntu Start up screen and doesn't start
I got Ubuntu 19.04 (old laptop) and my computer doesn't start. I'm not dual booting it with windows or any other Linux etc. I'm only having the Ubuntu 19 04 on it, I however got problem when starting ...
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