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(U)EFI > Ubuntu vs Windows 8 - problems with booting Windows

I have a problem with a screwed dual-boot of ubuntu 13.04 and windows 8 on a new DELL XPS 12 (EFI/grub2) System not loading windows8 at all,... here is a story: I've got a new DELL XPS 12 System with ...
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Dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8: Windows doesn't boot

I have installed Ubuntu with dual boot to a preinstalled windows 8 on a Lenovo E-135. I disabled fast start in windows 8 before installation and shrank the partition to give place for Ubuntu. All went ...
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No such parition, grub rescue

I have a sony viao laptop with windows 7. I have no access to Windows CD/DVD now. I dual booted with Ubuntu 13.04 and everything was working fine. I then copied all my data from windows C drive to ...
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Getting “error: unknown filesystem grubrescue” after making dynamic partition [duplicate]

I have both ubuntu 13.04 and windows 7 on my laptop. While installing ubuntu by making partition it made E drive unallocated. But when i tried it to make simple volume i ended up in making all ...
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I'm running Chrubuntu on C7. I'm having a couple issues. Help? [closed]

First off, This is my second time installing a ubuntu partition on my c7 chromebook. I re installed it to see if I could bypass the issues this time. NOPE. One issue is an error message at startup, ...
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error: no such partition grub rescue> [duplicate]

Ever since I deleted the partitions after uninstalling Ubuntu 13.04 on my Windows 8 laptop, I have been getting the error message: error: no such partition grub rescue> I have tried many ways to get ...
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How can we restore If all kernel has removed by mistaken it has RAID10

how we can restore the server if we removed the all kernels, and I have the RAID 10. in this case I try to recover with live-cd but I am not able to mounting partition because I have RAID10 ...
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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?

Lets just say I have 3 hard drives: c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect) g: 3tb random stuff I want Ubuntu and ...
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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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Ubuntu doesn't boot after Windows 7 installation?

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit on my hard drive, then decided to install Windows 7 alongside on a 25 gb partition. I shrank my Ubuntu install by about 25 gb with a GParted Live USB. Ubuntu booted ...
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problems while installing ubuntu?

I want to install Ubuntu with window 7 as a dual boot PC. I am new to Ubuntu. After Booting from pendrive when I choose "intall ubuntu on Hard disk" , then installation window comes, I choose "do not ...
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Grub not showing windows partition

My mom has a windows partition and a ubuntu 12.04 partition on her laptop, and we wanted to set grub to automatically load windows for ease of use. To do this I used steps from this question: ...
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GRUB Can't Boot - Missing Device Files

I was installing a software library using apt-get and all of a sudden I see it tampering with my /boot directory. I canceled the installation but somehow it deleted all the sda device files from the ...
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How can I get around a grub error: no such partition?

I recently uninstalled ubuntu 12.10 and now when ever i try to boot my windows 7 i just get error: no such partition grub rescue> grub rescue>set gets me prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub root ...
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Installed 12.04 LTS onto external hard drive, will not boot

I went ahead and figured out how to install onto my external HDD using a CD to do it. The install went fine, and I made 3 partitions. One of 500mb, ext4, /boot. Another of about 200gb (wasn't sure how ...
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Grub corrupted and etc directory missing

I have a dual installation with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. I was in windows, I had to restart my machine and my grub was not loading. I used boot-repair to load my grub. However, my linux ...
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Attempted downgrade from GRUB2 to GRUB; can't boot into ubuntu anymore

So I just did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate and installed ubuntu 12.10 beside it. I kept the windows bootloader in the mbr at the advice if my tutorial (i used easyBCD to enable an option for ...
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Set Up Partition after Dual Boot Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Window 7

So here it's, I had downloaded Wubi.exe, and install and run it successfully. The Problem is, when I restart my Laptop, the system showed up a secure boot menu (to choose between Win7 or Ubuntu), ...
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How do I install Windows on a computer with Grub?

I previously installed Ubuntu and I wanted to install windows vista via the repair disc included with the laptop. Booted up the computer with the disc in, nothing. I already set the boot order, so ...
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Ubuntu + Windows 8 pro dual boot - Grub can't find command 'Drive Map'

I have the following setup: Samsung 840 Series SSD drive with three partitions: EFI Boot Partition (200 MB) Linux Swap Space (2 GB) Primary Ubuntu Drive (490 GB) Crucial M4 SSD with one ...
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Unable to install Ubuntu 12.10 on the integrated SSD of an Asus UX32A

As the title suggests, I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on the 24GB integrated SSD of an Asus UX32A. I took into consideration this answer - How to boot Ubuntu from SSD drive which cannot be ...
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Bootloader question with the default “Install ubuntu along Windows” option

After using virtual machines and wubi for the last few years I finally took the time to install ubuntu in a dual boot. I read a ton of tutorials, but they all recommended different things. So I ...
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Unable to Extend Ubuntu Partition Size

I'm trying to increase the size of my Ubuntu partition. My partitions, overall, are sort of a mess. I don't know what the System Reserved /sda1 partition is, but I figure that's something to do with ...
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How to migrate an encrypted LVM install to a new disk

I have a somewhat customised laptop install I want to move to a SSD directly, without having to reinstall Ubuntu, reinstall all the apps and make all the other changes again. The SSD is smaller, so I ...
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12.04.2 Failed to install grub-efi to /target/

I have a Lenovo u410 ultrabook. It's sata scheme consists of a 30gb SSD and a 1tb hdd in a raid0 with intel rapid start technology. I removed IRST and disabled the raid0. I want to install ubuntu on ...
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How to add a space from outside an extended partition to a logical partition contained in the extended partition?

First, my partitioning looks like so: I do not like how it looks, and am not sure how I came up with that extended partition sda3[**] which I do not need, but it did not bother me initially, ...
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Can I force grub2-update NOT to use uuid?

I am experiencing install hell trying to add an installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Scientific Linux 6.3 to an old machine (BIOS not EFI) with Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10. The installs seem to go OK ...
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Removing 12.04 from Win 7 on a Dell

I know there are a lot of posts on this, but I have some specific issues I don't see answered. I have a machine that has ~600Gb drive, with 5 partitions, that started as a Win7 Dell, and now is a ...
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dual boot woes and how to change the default order [closed]

I'm afraid I was assuming that Ubuntu (12.10) would be slightly easier to use and to tweak a little, however this is apparently not the case. I have a 750 GB hard disk in my Asus laptop. 600 GB for ...
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Messed up partitions after 11.04 upgrade

I wanted to upgrade my old 10.10 to 12.04 using alternate CD, and had to upgrade to 11.04 first. Unfortunately I ran into the following error after upgrading and rebooting to ubuntu : the disk ...
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Grub Error 15. Can't boot

I made a partition with Windows disk management (40GB) for the purpose of installing Ubuntu. It worked fine and I saw it next to the C drive so I turned of the computer and grabbed my USB with Ubuntu ...
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Accidentally deleted windows partition, how can I do a factory reset with only Ubuntu working to restore windows?

While installing Ubuntu, I made a tactical error of my laptop turning off during the Partitioning of my hard drive (manual). Okay, so in my Grub loader i have Ubuntu (12.04) (works just fine) , ...
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PC is not detecting any boot drive. How to fix this?

I used gparted to shrink the swap space and add it to the drive that had Ubuntu installed in it from Live boot. After doing so, I restarted the computer and then found a black screen saying just this: ...
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Ubuntu not appearing in GRUB menu after installing alonside Mint

I have been using Mint May 13 for several months, but I wanted to install Ubuntu 12.10 also. I ran the Ubuntu Live CD and "Installed Alongside". Everything appeared to install correctly, but when I ...
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Add Ubuntu live to another ubuntu+windows system

I've got Win7 in a ntfs-partition and lubuntu 12.10 in another one. **sudo fdisk -l** Disco /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 19457 cilindros, 312581808 ...
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Problems Booting Windows 8 with Grub 2 HELP ASAP

please help. I'm new to linux, decided to try out ubuntu. created a new partition, and replaced windows 8 boot manager with grub 2 by installing grub on the windows 8 partition now windows doesn't ...
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Move Grub Boot loader into another partition

I am dual booting mac OS X with Ubuntu 64-bit and using the alternative install, when I got to the Grub boot loader I acidently selected the wrong partition to install, I installed the GRUB on the MAC ...
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My install did not install the grub loader and I also can not get to windows 7 either

I did a new install on Ubuntu 12.04 and when it was finishing it did not install the grub loader and this installation was over a previous installation where the partition should have been formatted. ...
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3 OS's on same HDD

I've been all day around my laptop and just can't make it work, I have one HDD 750 GB in size, and I would like to have the following partition table: 60 GB - Windows 7 150 GB - Windows 8 150 GB - ...
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Deleting recovery partition on dual boot machine and resizing window 7 partition

I am using a dual boot Ubuntu/win7 machine. My win 7recovery partition is around 20GB, since I have created recovery disks I am assuming I no longer need it my windows partition is only small I was ...
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Ubuntu kernel can't read its own root partition, but LiveCDs can?

My / partition is unreadable from the hard drive install, but I just ran fsck on it and know it's clean. I can open it in Nautilus from the LiveCD but chrooting to it doesn't work! It [the chrooted ...
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Can't mount windows partition?

When I try to open the Windows Partition from Ubuntu I receive the error: Unable to mount 55 GB Filesystem Error mounting: mount exited without exit code 13: ntfs_mst_post_read_fixup_warn: magic: ...
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How to fix a GRUB Boot-loader that does not recognize a partition without a fresh install?

I was running two separate partitions of Linux (Ubuntu and Linux Mint) and Windows XP when I deleted my Ubuntu partition through Easus partition manager on XP due to simple stupidity. This erased my ...
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error: unknown filesystem grub rescue [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: error; unknown filesystem grub rescue> Help me please, When booting i got this message: error: unknown filesystem grub rescue I've read some similar threads but ...
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resizing partitions

I have the following configuration: sda1 1 GB maybe fat32 (windows recovery partition) sda2 40 GB ntfs(windows drive c) with boot flag sda3 around 100GB ntfs(storage partition) sda4 extended ...
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ubuntu partition cleared after a windows update

Some days ago I'm working on windows and decide update something of the system, then when I reboot I see that the grub disappeared and my Laptop doesn't start, and the screen say grub rescue, ok, I ...
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GRUB not recognising copied partition

I've been following the instructions on this page to copy my Linux partition from one partition to another on the same drive. (I'm doing this because I want to move it from /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda4 so ...
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Boot from ISO partition using Grub2 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Using a bootable live cd disk image mounted on the hard drive I have a few dozen disk images (ISO's) that I use as a technician, ie: MS DaRT, BackTrack, Acronis, etc. I ...
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Install GRUB to Ubuntu Partition

So my computer has the following partitions: /dev/sda -- (I know this isn't a real partition, but more so the boot loader) /dev/sda1 -- (Windows 7 Boot Loader) /dev/sda3 -- (Windows 7) ...
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Error: unknown file system ! Emergency

I don't know what to do, I was taking some space away from my linux partition and I rebooted and this happened I'm completely stuck is there anyway I can change it to boot with windows instead of grub ...

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