master boot record (MBR)
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How do I install 12.10 on a Pavilion-G6 laptop with UEFI
I have a brand new HP Pavilion-G6 which boots to pre-loaded Windows8 and I want to change the machine to boot up into Ubuntu 12.10 whist retaining Windows 8. I am having difficulty booting into ...
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Unable to boot: Missing Operating system
i had installed Ubuntu 11.10 along with the another Ubuntu 11.10 which already installed in my netbook. Later I formatted the partition I newly installed. Next time when I boot it went to Grub Rescue ...
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GRUB boot into Windows 7 breaks GRUB and makes system unbootable
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 (daily-live iso from 21.04.12) alongside Windows 7 on an HP EliteBook laptop.
The installation went fine, except that it installed grub onto my usb disk (/dev/sdb) ...
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How to fix MBR partition prior to Ubuntu Installation? A partition overlaps GPT backup sectors
My main problem is that i have just acquired an ASUS laptop with WINDOWS 7 and I want to install Ubuntu on it.
I want to have a dual boot to choose between both Operating systems, I read that it's ...
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How to recover Ubuntu installed with Wubi with corrupted GRUB
I have ubuntu installed inside Windows 7 using Wubi.
Yesterday, I tried installing Ubuntu using GRUB but it seem that GRUB was corrupted. To recover, I fixed the MBR using the Windows 7 CD.
Now ...
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How to manually fix a partition table ?
I recently had trouble with the MBR/partition table on my laptop. I managed to rebuild the partition table using testdisk, and install GRUB to get it booting properly again (I'm using a dual-boot with ...
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Uninstalling Ubuntu from dual boot / Change bootloader
I have a Win/Ubuntu 11.10 dual-boot setup, where I am running the OSes on separate partitions of my laptop HDD. I assume the best method of uninstalling is 'simply' a matter of deleting the Ubuntu ...
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What do I select for “GRUB install devices” after an update?
After running Update Manager, a debconf window (titled "Configuring grub-pc"), popped up, requiring me to select the appropriateGRUB install devices for my system. I've made no changes to grub or ...
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How to boot into Windows 7 when grub is installed in the Windows partition?
Original title: How can i solve (un)booting windows 7 on the same partition with grub?
I've been researching for 2/3 days about this problem and I have came up empty.
Basically, partition 1 is ...
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How to make a USB drive bootable after live image is copied into it using `dd` command?
I was unable to create live USB drive using dd command while unetbootin works. The former method used to work fine on the particular USB Drive. Is the USB drive filesystem corrupted? If yes, how do I ...
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Unable to install GRUB
Unfortunately (as you can see) I cannot install grub. I have tried /dev/sda as well.
Here is my partitioning schema:
Troubleshooting + problems:
Installed Windows 8 to logical partition ...
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where did my 766 kb in partition go?
I used fdisk -l and saw this.
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ...
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Gparted can't create partition table
Here's what the problem is.
About a day or so ago I used Gparted live cd to create 3 NTFS primary partitions on my external 500 gig Goflex and one extended with 2 logical partitiones.
I had planned ...
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How to fix my MBR? While installing random Ubuntu my MBR is not getting overwritten anymore
I boot with liveUSB. But how do i fix now my MBR, so that i can re-install Ubuntu? (after installing ubuntu i get mostly this blinking cursor and black screen)
root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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MBR Repair, any help is welcome
Alright if you look at my previous questions you can see just what went wrong and where.
Anyways here it is, after a day of working at my external 500 gig goflex that I could not even create a new ...
