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GRUB not launching
When I start up my machine it does not go into the boot loader instead I get a black screen which displays this:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
For Atheros ...
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ASUS: K55V series Laptop dual boot problem
I have LAPTOP ASUS K55V (Windows 7 Home 64bit)
(I'd like to dual boot with Ubuntu)
I read all the tutorials about install Ubuntu, here's what I did:
Installed old version
(problem: There some some ...
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2 partitions marked as active
The Story:
I recently installed ubuntu 13.04 in a dualboot system with win7. Although Ubunte worked fine Afterwards, the 100 MB systemreserved partition for Windows got lost in the Process. instead of ...
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unable to install GRUB, dual boot with xp
I tried to understand other posts but i couldn't get what to do.
I got 2 hard-disks, 1st HDD -2 partions --with windowsxp installed. I used ubuntu's partion manager to install ubuntu in the 2nd ...
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Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 terminates every time
I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop alongside Windows 7 as a dual boot PC. After selecting the option Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, a black screen comes up showing the message ...
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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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Grub2 ERROR: no such partition on boot 13.0.4
---Update---
So I discovered something odd. If I select SDA4 in reffit, I get an error no partition found error described below. If I use PLOP boot manager in the DVD drive and select SDA4 then I ...
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Dual booting Win7+Ubuntu12.04+Win8_UEFI Bootloader (EasyBCD)
As you will see from the images below I (used to) have a dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but the drivers got corrupted for Win 7 and stopped it from booting, so I have moved all of my windows ...
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I need to dual boot Windows xp and ubuntu 12.04.2
I need to dual boot Windows xp and ubuntu 12.04.2 but when i start the installation process all that is given is a command line with a blinking cursor and no ability to type commands or anything. Also ...
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Cannot start windows
I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 LTS and I had made a partition in Windows, and I booted from a live CD and tried to install on that partition. The installation didn't work, so I checked the file, and ...
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Installing ubuntu on a Dynamic Disk with one primary partition
I have dynamic disk with one primary partition and others are simple partition. The primary partition is Healthy(recovery partition)(11 GB) which is basic(not dynamic). Other partitions(C: , D: , ...
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Installing ubuntu 12.04.02 in uefi mode [duplicate]
I've got a new laptop with pre-installed windows 8 and since the beginning of the week I've been trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 without success.
Today, after turning off UEFI (using "Compatibility ...
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I Want to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside With pre-installed windows8 having Five Default Partions
I Want to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside With preinstalled windows 8 having Five Default Partitions.But I don't know whether i can have one more partition,because max partitions allowed may be five ...
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Steps to install Ubuntu on Acer Extensa 5630 with Windows Vista?
I have an Acer Extensa running Windows Vista.
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit to my Acer Aspire V5. I have the file on the computer and I can click it, and it shows the install files for the ...
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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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Installed 64-bit ubuntu on 32-bit windows vista [duplicate]
I am not very knowledgeable about computing, so pardon me if I am asking a stupid question.
I installed ubuntu on my 32-bit windows vista via http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer
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ubuntu 13.04 installation alongside win 7
I have Win 7 already installed and I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside it.
I read over the net how to do so. Now while installing when I select something else in the install Ubuntu menu, there ...
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I really messed up my installation / wrong size for encrypted root partition
I have already installed Ubuntu 12.04 but I made a huge mistake while installing. While installing, the setup asked me to allocate drive space. I have a ~650GB hard drive that shows up as :C and :D in ...
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how do i get ubuntu option after installtion on windows 7 [duplicate]
I have installed ubuntu along side windows 7. After restart i got a blank screen. There after i restarted it manually now i do not understand how to select ubuntu os. my laptop directly turns on ...
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Trouble with dual booting on a samsung laptop
I am currently using a samsung np355v5 laptop (amd a6 processor with hd7520G integrated graphics) and I am trying to dual boot ubuntu 12.04 with windows 7. I ideally don't want to use wubi because I ...
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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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12.04 not booting,screen keeps on flashing
Ubuntu 12.04 works fine when live, but after installing as dual boot with Windows 7, it doesn't boot.
When I select Ubuntu from the boot menu, the screen keeps on flashing. I waited for 5 minutes and ...
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First time installing Ubuntu, now I seem to have broken Windows 8
So this is my first time installing a second OS on a PC. My tower is running Windows 8 64-bit, and I installed Ubuntu 13.04 from USB following the official instructions. My tower has 3 hard drives, ...
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How can I dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 8? [duplicate]
I've been trying to dual-boot Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 on my Thinkpad T530, with no consistent success. I was able to burn the .iso image for 12.04 onto a DVD and then boot the DVD at startup, and ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot after manual bootloader install (Windows 7 dual-boot)
This is the link I got after bootloader rapair:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5743624/
Boot-loader comes up, but after selecting Ubuntu I see a black screen. My SSD has 4 partitions:
dev/sda1 - ntfs 120 ...
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Install ubuntu 12.10 with wubi and keep old ubuntu 11.10 wubi installation
I'd like you to help me, if you may!
I need to install ubuntu 12.10 on my notebook, which has Windows 7 as default OS, and I prefer to install it through wubi just to get the least problems in terms ...
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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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Dual boot window 8 and ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
I have downloaded ubuntu 12.04 and i want dual boot with pre installed Windows 8. But when I insert DVD in dvd drive and try to install Ubuntu 12.04 by click option install after than screen becomes ...
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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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Ubuntu/Winboot/Wubildr.mbr missing [duplicate]
I have pre-installed Windows 8 in my Lenovo laptop.
I have ordered an DVD of Ubuntu 13.04 from Ebay.
I have installed it along with Windows 8.
But in boot menu when ever I choose Ubuntu it gives an ...
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Windows 7 side by side with Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu already installed. I wanted to get windows 7 as well, I followed the instructions I was given, to partition my hard drive and to format it to a NTFS for Windows but now When I try to ...
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12.04 Wubi does not detect a wired ethernet connection [duplicate]
I tried to install 12.04 first through a disk. That yielded no internet connection being found. So, I tried installing 13.04 via disk and it did find an internet connection. However, after a few hours ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 boots into black-screen (dual-boot win7) [duplicate]
I have this Notebook: Samsung NP305E5A-A01
This are my Specs: AMD A-Series A4-3305M - 1,9 GHz / 4GB Ram / AMD Radeon HD 6480G / 750 GB - 5400 rpm
Since I bought it, I used the pre-installed Win7 x64 ...
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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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assistance recovering/reinstalling/installing ubuntu and win7
I should know better, I've done it correctly so many times..... new computer with Win7 installed, I defrag, shrink, re-boot from Ubuntu live USB, go to gparted and look at partitions before installing ...
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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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Windows 8 + Ubuntu 13.04 dual boot issue
So i finally cleaned up my drives and installed ubuntu 13.04 which went quite well.
I did install it on a different hard drive all together with ext4 and a swap worth of 20gb (still not 100% sure on ...
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Can I dual boot?
I have a small laptop currently running XP(home/sp3) as my primary OS and I wanted to try Ibuntu,
I downloaded and installed using the windows installer wubi.exe. it did the partiton for me and I ...
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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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Are we not supposed to have unallocated hard disk space during Ubuntu installation?
I've a HP Pavilion g6 2320tx laptop with pre installed Windows 8.
While installing Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit from a USB created with pendrive linux, I didn't get the option to do partition like the one ...
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I am newbie to linux, and couldnt install ubuntu
I have a 128 GB SSD which has windows installed on it, and a 1TB disk..
I installed ubuntu to disk and select ssd for grub loading.
But after restart or each time, there is no grub loading or ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Installation Crash
I am currently trying to install Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS on my HP Pavilion a6230n with BIOS v5.13. Currently, I am dual booting with Vista on the second primary partition and windows 8 on the third ...
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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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Ubuntu 12.04/Win7 dual boot - Ubuntu boots fine, Win7 boots to a blue screen of death
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 to dual boot alongside Windows 7 on my Lenovo Ideapad U410 for a while now.
THE SHORT VERSION:
At first I couldn't boot anything. This was my non-working ...
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I tryed to install ubuntu on a usb drive now neither windows 7 or unbuntu loads [closed]
I tried to install ubuntu on a usb drive it got stuck on a copyright message. now I've tried to go back to windows 7 but when I boot my computer with the usb drive unplugged it says no bootable dives ...
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Installed 13.04 alongside Windows 7, now I cant boot into Windows
I believe what I did was I installed Ubuntu to the same partition as windows 7, I thought that was what I was suppose to do but now I cant boot into windows. When I try it tells me "boot manager ...
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Remote File System GRUB load UBUNTU then gparted resize primary partions
OK guys - I can think of only a couple ways to do this - none I can do easily... I want some advice here...
I have a desktop Gateway Intel i5 processor 1TB HDD 8 GB RAM machine at my office. It has ...
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How do I install Ubuntu alongside UEFI enabled Windows 8 on a Dell XPS 8500?
I recently (about a month ago) bought a Dell XPS 8500 Desktop with UEFI enabled Windows 8 Pro pre-installed. I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit dualboot with Windows on this computer. I don't ...
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Grub menu not showing options to install Ubuntu from USB drive
I have a problem installing Ubuntu from USB drive with Grub menu showing, but no useful selections available.
I have M51SN Asus Laptop with 3 GB RAM & Core 2 Duo T8300 with 250 GB HDD. I have one ...
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Ubuntu installation for specific usage
I want to install a latest or optimum version of Ubuntu as a dual boot with my Windows 7, 64-bit. I want to install Ubuntu to run OpenFOAM which is an open source CFD software. My computer Specs are ...
