For questions regarding the installation of two or more operating systems on a single computer.
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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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xubuntu 12.10 install to sdb, no grub
After asking here I deleted my entire ubuntu install and reinstalled xubuntu as per instructions here. I've partitioned 20gb root, 478gb home, 2gb swap, on sdb (a non-booting windowsXP is on sda). I ...
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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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Dual boot Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
So I hava a TOSHIBA laptop (64 bit) with Windows 7 Home Premium. First I downloaded wubi.exe and I installed it to my laptop. The only problem with this when I start Ubuntu I always get an error: ...
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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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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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Windows 8 & Ubuntu 12.04 Dual Boot Menu Does Not Load
I've read abt the ton of complications/problems ppl are facing with UEFI when installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, but I haven't been able to find a solution to the one I encountered.
I have a ...
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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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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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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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Setting up Dual-boot with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 screwed up GRUB
I recently purchased an Acer Aspire M5-581T that came with Windows 8 preloaded.
After several attempts at trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit, I finally managed to boot from a LiveUSB and install ...
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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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Hide GRUB2 menu UNLESS you hold down Shift key: how to make this happen?
I have a Ubuntu - Windows 7 dual-boot set-up, and I would like to have it that my laptop would boot up Windows 7 unless I press down the Shift key right after boot and bring up the Grub2 menu from ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - dual boot problem - unable to mount windows 8 partition
i installed ubuntu 13.04 alongside windows 8 and almost everything works fine (dual boot for both windows 8 & ubuntu 13.04 is working great).
but when i try to access my windows 8 partition via ...
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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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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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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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Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem
I have a multiboot system set up. The system has three drives. Multiboot is configured with Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu - all on the first drive. I had a lot of unpartitioned space left on the ...
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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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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 to delete grub entirely from grub rescue. Boot windows only
I had installed ubuntu (twice actually) onto the same drive. I wanted to 'try again' since one of them didn't install correctly and the other installed differently, but it worked. I was getting ...
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How can I download Windows 7 DVD installers from Ubuntu?
I have rights for a free license of Windows 7, given by my University, and I need it now. According to Microsoft's instructions, to download the Windows DVD image I must:
download a Secure Download ...
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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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How to migrate Ubuntu/Windows 7 dualboot from HDD to HDD+SSD without reinstall?
I have a working dual-boot setup (Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7) on my laptop.
I got a 320GB HDD with partitions for /, /home, swap, winsys and a big windata partition. There's more than 250GB space occupied ...
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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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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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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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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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E: unable to locate package firmware-b43-installer when i
I am using Acer aspire-5002wlmi laptop and set up a dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04. Wifi is well working in XP but when I start Ubuntu I will get the below error.
[ 95.514855] b43-phy0 ...
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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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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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Ubiquity is not recognizing existing partition while trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7
So I'm using Ubuntu live CD to install Ubuntu next to Windows 7 but it doesn't recognize partitions.
Here is sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, ...
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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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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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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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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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Disabled Secure Boot and Enabled UEFI for dual-boot on Acer?
I have an Acer Aspire M laptop, which comes preinstalled with Windows 8, so it has this new UEFI stuff.
To get the Ubuntu LiveDVD running, I had to disable the UEFI completely and switch to legacy ...
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Why cannot Ubuntu 12.04 detect windows 7 (dual boot)
I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside with windows 7. I only have one hard drive (1TB), and I first installed window 7 on one partition. Now there are about 500GB unlocated space on the disk, ...
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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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Why can't Mint boot my cloned Ubuntu partition? (UUID issue)
I've been running Ubuntu 10.04 and just installed Linux Mint 13. I may go with Linux Mint full-time, but for now I wanted to install it to the first partition, but keep Ubuntu bootable.
Device ...
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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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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 ...
