For questions regarding the installation of two or more operating systems on a single computer.
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Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 dual boot, GRUB menu not showing
I have Windows 7 Home premium 64bit installed on my laptop, Now I have installed Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 from bootable flash but Ubuntu GRUB menu not showing.
When I start my PC, after normal boot, ...
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Dual Boot - Grub2 not detecting Ubuntu Server (10.4, 64 bit) after installing Ubuntu Desktop (12.04)
Requirement
I have a computer which runs Ubuntu 10.4.3 (64 bit server) installed over LVM and /boot filesystem and I wanted it to dual boot to Ubuntu 12.04 (desktop, 32 bit).
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13.04 & Wubi (dual boot) with Win 8 Upgrade (non-uefi or secure boot)? [duplicate]
I upgraded an HP computer from Vista to Win 8. Can I install 13.04 with WUBI? I have seen some messages that seems to suggest WUBI will no longer be supported for 13.04 and beyond.
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“error: no such partition, grub rescue>” How do I fix this? [duplicate]
I had a dual boot with windows 7 and ubuntu 12, and I deleted the ubuntu partitions, along with GRUB 2. Now i get this error and can't boot to windows.
I have a bootable usb with ubuntu.
Will simply ...
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How do I uninstall Ubuntu from a dual-boot with Windows 8? [duplicate]
I'm definitely coming back to Ubuntu in the fall for one of my classes but for now I would like to uninstall it. The only problem is, I've heard that people who uninstall it improperly are unable to ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit installed but hangs during boot on dual-boot Win7 Pro 64-bit system
My Win7 Pro 64-bit system (8GB, 1TB, 3.2ghz Intel Xeon w3565) was working fine. I wanted to add Ubuntu 13.04. I booted from USB, selected try me, everything booted fine and I got my Unity desktop. I ...
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Two home folder. Ubuntu 12.10
Hi to all,
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.10. It's very nice and I like it very much. I have a few doubts about folders, as I was previously using Windows. In Windows, I have 3 local disks C,D,E. Now ...
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How can I install ubuntu 12.10 with a UEFI boot (win8, without DVD driver)? [duplicate]
Dual boot. I tried with a bootable USB, but my computer still went straight to Windows 8. Then I followed the instruction on its website, tried with a windows-installer ...
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Lost Tons of data during Ubuntu 13.04 installation. Please help urgently! [duplicate]
I have a drive of 250 gb which i had partitioned into two. 180 gb had a lot of music. It was my lifetime's collection of music. the other 50 gb had windows installed in it and also had Ubuntu 12.10 on ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not detecting windows 7 os during installation
I just bought a Lenovo y500 and freshly installed Windows 7-32 bit, which is working fine. Now I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 with dual boot. But it's not detecting Windows 7 and shows the whole ...
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Partition size for dual boot with Win 8 (UEFI) and Ubuntu (latest desktop version)
If I create a partition on my hard drive for Ubuntu so it can run alongside Win 8 is it possible to alter the size of that partition later?
Does the installation DVD for 13.04 come with a partition ...
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Drivers corrupted after update for first time?
I had dual booted Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 on my Laptop.
After installing I observed that the fan was on all the time, resulting in huge electricity usage.
There was an alert that I had ~200 ...
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Can't open the other drives of Windows from Linux after Ubuntu 13.04
I had a dual booting system between Win 8 and Ubuntu. Earlier I couldn't mount (open) the drive with Windows 8 from Linux. But I also have another D drive where I store other stuff, which could be ...
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I Can't Install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside windows 7
I download ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso and write on a DVD then check it with a MD5 checker and it's OK.
I decide to Install Ubuntu on my PC that have Windows 7 sp1 64-bit simultaneously.
I follow ...
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Installing Linux Mint on Windows-Ubuntu Dual Boot [closed]
Currently, I have a Ubuntu-Windows Dual boot. However, I would like to try out a new OS so I burned a Linux Mint usb stick. I would like to install Linux Mint and remove Ubuntu (I backed up my files) ...
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how to instal ubuntu 13.04 alongside windows 8 [duplicate]
when i was trying to install this what u name OS alongside my Great windows 8 this ubuntu asking for restart and it restart to my windows 8 and i have nothing installed i restart again and boot from ...
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13.04 - Making Windows Boot Loader the default instead of Grub 2
So basically before Ubuntu 13.04 I was running 12.10. I had Windows Boot Loader the default. If I chose to boot to Ubuntu, it would go into grub, but grub was set to 0 seconds so it would basically ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 does not boot after I upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't boot up after I upgrade from 12.10. I have tried to edit the grub (nomodeset), but it still doesn't work.
I have a HP Pavilion dv6-2153eo PC and a ATI Radeon graphics card.
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ubuntu 13.04 AMD64 installation does not detect windows 7
I am trying to dual boot windows 7 64 professional with ubuntu 13.04 amd64 desktop.
but the installation cannot detect other operating systems(windows).
My laptop is an Asus g75vw. It was ...
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I can't boot into Windows Xp after I installed 12.04
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 from a CD and did the install with Windows XP. I was using Ubuntu and then I wanted to boot into XP. It went to the loading screen then it froze and for just a split second I ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 13.04 & Win 8 dual boot on a samsung series 3 (NP350E5C)?
So I'm trying to install Ubuntu and I've been following the steps in this thread but with limited success.
My first error was after installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, from my USB Live Image, ...
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can ubuntu nexus be installed on asus MeMo
I have an Asus MeMo, Im really hoping that if ubuntu can be installed on it by using the nexus 7 installer, both tablets look and are almost identical with the 1.2mp cam of the nexus, the 1mp cam of ...
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Can I share workspace in eclipse in dualbooting system?
I am dualbooting Windows 8 and Ubuntu (each os has it's own partition, third partition is shared). Can I use a same workspace for Windows and Ubuntu version of eclipse? I am not doing any serious ...
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Grub rescue after removing Ubuntu?
I dual booted ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Windows 8, but I wanted to get rid of ubuntu. So I got EasyBCD (on windows 8) and removed Ubuntu following a tutorial on youtube, then I got rid of the Ubuntu ...
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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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Restart from Ubuntu in dual-boot freezes to countdown for Windows 7. How can I get the options back?
I have 2 internal HDD's, one with Windows 7 (default boot) and the other with 12.04.2 (64-bit).
Turning on, or restarting from Windows, allows for dual boot choice, but restarting from Ubuntu,the ...
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PC wont boot either Ubuntu or Windows 7
I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. After I installed Ubuntu ran the first time. After I restarted I couldn't get it to boot.
I went on Windows and looked for a fix. I tried it in the terminal, ...
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Ubuntu and Mint errno 5
There is no way I could install ubuntu right now.
I have a laptop - samsung r580
I had:
installed windows 7 on ntfs partition
installed ubuntu 12.10 (12.04 upgraded to 12.10) - i dont remember if i ...
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 with live USB on dual boot system
I have dual boot Win7/Ubuntu 12.10. I have a 13.04 live USB. How can I upgrade the 12.10 install from the live USB?
I read previous questions here that answer this question - they all say that the ...
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Ubuntu upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 failed (interrupted) - cannot access Ubuntu
Ubuntu upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 -> failed (interrupted) and now I want to get my data back. Is there any way, without uninstalling the Wubi?
How it happened:
13.04 decides to download around 1 GB ...
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Sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot in a preexisting Windows 7 PC. Both OS's are on an SSD and the Windows files are on a separate internal HDD ("Storage" in W7 : sda + sda1 in Ubuntu - I ...
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How to remove Ubuntu installed alongside another version of Ubuntu?
I successfully installed desktop 13.04 beside 12.04. Now that I have confirmed that 13.04 works and have retrieved old data files, how do I remove 12.04 to regain file space?
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Problems upgrading dual-boot Win7/12.10 to 13.04
I have a home setup running dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu 12.10. The way I have it set up is using the Windows boot manager to allow choosing OS at boot (Win7 is the first option so the kids can get to it ...
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Can't boot into Ubuntu 13.04? GRUB4DOS instead of GRUB2 menu?
I am trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 along side each other. I installed 13.04 to a separate partition on the same hard drive as my Win7 install without any difficulties but after I ...
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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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Bootloader Partition Question [closed]
I have a quick question. I'm trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer, but I figured my question would be good here since I think the Ubuntu and Mint installers are the same ...
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How should I set up my partitions?
I have a dual boot set up with XP (I know it's ancient but I have a favored game that won't work on anything newer) and Ubuntu 12.10. Both OSs are on a 70gb HDD and I have a 300gb HDD as well.
I have ...
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13.04 Will not boot on custom PC
I put in the DVD I just burnt of 13.04 in my disc drive and when I go to the boot menu, I click on UEFI and it says "Secure Boot not enabled." Then it loads up to a black screen with the text ...
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LiveCD installer just shows empty disk
When booting the LiveCD throws some general errors about the filesystem, drm, unhandled intr etc.
When I try ubuntu I get the the ntfs partitons with windows 8 mounted and can do stuff there.
There ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 installed but always start only Windows 7
I'm tring to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC desktop but when i restart my PC, it always starts Windows 7, without asking me which OS would i like to run. I've got 3 HDD on my PC:
1: 200 GB with ...
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Can't choose what operating system I want to use
I have a laptop that came with Windows 8 preinstalled. When I turned it on for the first time, I had only C partition and a recovery partition.
I shrank the C partition in order to get some ...
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How to install Ubuntu as a dualboot with Windows 8 on Acer B113
I have an Acer B113 with Windows 8 installed. The problem is that when I try to boot the USB with Ubuntu or Xubuntu, the computer only restarts (flipping the Acer screen and black display). When I ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 after installing Windows 8
I have made a BOOTABLE USB installation of Ubuntu 13.04 using pendrive linux.
I also have Windows 8 on separate partition. After I finished installing Ubuntu 13.04 from the USB, it went straight to ...
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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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How do I dual boot OS X and Ubuntu using an external DVD or USB?
I've installed rEFInd and it works. I've allocated free space on my internal harddrive. I've burned an Ubuntu 13.04 DVD and I'm using an external DVD drive. rEFInd recognizes the DVD but when I ...
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Install Ubuntu while running Windows 8
I am trying to install ubuntu onto my secondary HDD (F). I have windows 8 installed on my primary ssd (C). I have an iso file of the 64 bit ubuntu installation on a usb. My question is can I install ...
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Grub and easy bcd
I have installed Windows 7 over Ubuntu 12.04 (on a different partition) and since I have installed Windows 7 as the last step, GRUB did not start and Windows 7 booted automatically.
In order 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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Moving an entire partition to a virtual environment [duplicate]
Here's the deal. I have a 240GB SSD split in half with Ubuntu 12.04 on one 120GB partition and Windows 7 on the other. (I also have a 1TB HDD, with Windows XP on a 40GB partition) I'd heard about ...
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How do I get the touchpad working on a Toshiba P850?
The synaptics touchpad is not working after a fresh install of ubuntu 12.04.2 on a Toshiba P850. It works fine under windows 8 (it's a dual boot machine).
It appears to be recognised OK in ...
