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INstalling Ubuntu 13.04 beside windows
this would seem to be easy but is not. When you choose this option during install you get two partions and the ability to make one smaller. lets say one is 600gb and the other is 250gbs....
which is ...
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Partition Scheme - Dell XPS 14
I have a XPS 14 (specs below) and I want to install Ubuntu 13.04 but as you can see, the notebook have mSATA + HDD, and it would be great if anyone could help me in the best way to manage the ...
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What does it mean when the installer doesn't see the Windows 8 System on a new system? [duplicate]
I have a brand new W8 system. I shrunk the W8 partition by 128 GB. I inserted the 64 bit 13.04 disk and it booted up. I created a 6 GB swap partition and a 122 GB ext4 partition mounted at /. I ...
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Wrong drive formatted, during ubuntu reinstall [duplicate]
I had a dual-boot system with ubuntu and Win 8. Using the default reinstall option. But ubuntu installer has formatted my entire hdd and my Win 8 is also gone along with the storage disk. What I want ...
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No primary partitions left: how to install Ubuntu now that wubi is no longer supported? [duplicate]
On my pc with Windows7 preinstalled, there is no primary partition left to install Ubuntu in.
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 ...
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Need help installing Ubuntu 12.04.2 desktop AMD-64 dual boot with Windows 7
I'm running Windows 7 (I'm not sure what service pack), and I want to do a dual boot with Ubuntu. I've done some research and homework, but I don't know how to allocate the space on the hard drive ...
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Cannot find “Run Ubuntu alongside with windows” option when installing
I have Windows 7, and I'm trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu. However, when I try to install Ubuntu with a USB, it doesn't give me the option to dual boot. I can only "Replace Windows 7 with ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 can't see Windows 7
I already read other questions like this but nothing seems to work.
I just had my ASUS UX31A recovered from factory with Windows 7. Everything is fine there, so I tried to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ...
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Would like to install Ubuntu on secondary hard drive within my computer
Okay, so here's the story. I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04. I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable ...
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Is WUBI installation a full installation, or is it a live CD with persistent file or partition?
Is WUBI installation a full installation, or is it a live CD with persistent file or partition ?
I want to know when I run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, will the new downloaded files ...
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Can I use a 3TB hdd as a boot drive?
I need a new HDD and plan on getting a 3TB one to fit all my stuff, ubuntu 12.04 install included.
So far I only have a 5yr old Asus p5qse but sooner rather than later I should have a new system with ...
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secure boot not enabled
i have Q400A Asus laptop, which was running windows 8 when i bought,i installed win7 as the main OS for the system and win8 and Ubuntu 12.04 running on side.
I wanna try 13.04 so i download the ...
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How to automatically uninstall older kernels so that “The volume 'boot' has only … MB disk space” does not appear?
I work with Ubuntu 13.04 ("64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image"). On updates/upgrades, I quite often get messages of the type The volume "boot" has only 11 MB disk space. I then uninstall older kernel ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a GPT HDD
I have changed my system to boot from UEFI instead of BIOS and have installed Windows 7 on my internal SSD which has GPT partition type.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my external HDD. My ...
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where should I install windows?
here is a picture of "GParted".
Where should I install windows (which partition?)?
It's SDA1? I'm not sure because there are 20gb in use and I don't know why. It's possible that's the older ...
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Unknown USB Flash Drive
Suddenly my Kingston DataTraveler 8GB is shown as unknown! The weird thing is that I can only "see" it through Disk Utility.
GParted or sudo fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -lu cannot see it.
I tried to ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 on a 60GB Kingston SSD ( partititions and TRIm )
Whats the difference between having / and /home on a same partition / and having them saparate partitions which is better ?
/ -> 24GB
/home -> 34GB
swap -> 2GB
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/ -> 58GB
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When installing Ubuntu from USB, it recognizes previous Windows 8 but I don't get the option to run alongside
When installing Ubuntu from USB, Ubuntu installer recognizes previous Windows 8 OS but I don't get the option to install alongside Windows 8. I only get the option to replace Windows 8 or "Something ...
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Partitioning issues with easeUS how do i proceed
Ok I installed EaseUS to set up a partition for Ubuntu. My laptop automatically has 4 primary drives:
*:SYSTEM
C:
D: Recovery
*: HP_TOOLS
I have an HP laptop. I read online that HP_TOOLS is a back ...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows 7, recovery partition
I'm currently attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Acer Aspire 4830T-6678 laptop.
The laptop came pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium, and it contains a recovery partition that I don't ...
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Error: No root file system when installing dualboot
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside a Windows7 system. I have shrunk my 280 GB Windows partition to 174GB. Now I have an unusable partition of 127423MB to install Ubuntu. But it seems it ...
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Missing Operating System after removing Windows though partition (gparted)
My laptop is divided into three drives: C, D and E. Windows was installed in C and Ubuntu was in D. I format C and E by deleting and to NTFS using gparted. But when I restart, it tells me a "missing ...
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dual boot automatically partition
I'm trying to install Ubuntu from liveusb 13.04 64bit in dual-boot with windows 8.
I have UEFI active.
I already disabled FastStartup of Windows 8.
No problem with Secureboot (then still active).
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How can I dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7 Home Premium? [duplicate]
I have a nice impression to Ubuntu before and I want to dual boot it with my Windows OS. (I'm a total newbie in this field :D )
I have downloaded the latest Universal USB Installer and the Ubuntu ...
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Setting Up RAID During 13.04 Install
I am attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop on a RAID, but I can't figure out how to do it. I have read that it can be done during the install, but no one cares to explain how it is done. I saw ...
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Full disk encryption & boot partition from a CD
I would like to try enabling Full Disk Encryption under Ubuntu 13.04.
I would also like to put my boot partition on a burnt CD-R, rather than unencrypted on the HDD. A CD-R has a number of advantages ...
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I need to increase swap space [duplicate]
I used the Windows installer to install Ubuntu. It did not ask me the size of swap. I am currently using Ubuntu and have only about 200 MB and my system crashes when I open too many applications.
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1 or 2 partitions for 2 op-systems (Windows 7 + Ubuntu)? [duplicate]
What is recommended: installing Ubuntu in the same partition as Windows 7 - or in a separated one?
Ubuntu says:
Begin the installation
Depending on your previous selections, you can now verify that ...
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Ubuntu Live CD installation problem
I have LENOVO Ideapad z570 model. when ever i try to install ubuntu(any version 12.04,12.10 or 13.04) it say "no operating system detected" but i have Windows 7 installed on it. And under the option ...
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How should I partition my new SSD? (Journaling on another HDD?)
I know this might seem a strange question and I know I should buy a good UPS but I already had had two of them and none of them did a good job. I'm living in a house where many power outages occur ...
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How to install Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 with mirror RAID?
I've now spent hours trying and failing to figure out how to install Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 on my new desktop while setting up RAID as part of the installation.
I tried following the following two ...
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cannot mount my external hard drive anymore
I do not what happened, but i can not anymore automount my hard drive. It contains a vital data for me and have no whish losing it. Any help is very much appreciated
i was trying to copy somes files ...
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installing ubuntu 13.04 divided my HDD
I just tried installing ubuntu 13.04 and I'm sure I followed the Right steps until he loading screen after the restart required ...when it boot up it asked between win 7 disk1 or win 7 disk2. And ...
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Misaligned partition
I've just installed ubuntu 12.04. I didn't put my data yet, I want before to make sure that the installation is fine. And I get Disk Utility warning about misaligned partition.
I have / on sda1 and ...
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Installing Ubuntu on an MDR disk - problems!
I have an MDR disk with Windows 8 installed and system reserved partition. I have tried installing Ubuntu from both disk and USB, and it just cannot pick up on my partition table either way. It thinks ...
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New to Ubuntu…Installation problem…!
Downloaded ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso from official website and created the bootable pen drive using Universal USB Installer. Then I booted with it and when asked to select installation type, I ...
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Correctly align Advanced Format drive?
I bought a new WD Hard Drive. 250Gb, WD2500BPT.
I installed Ubuntu (13.04 was it?) on it. I heard that I don't have to worry about the block size/ alignment.
However,
cat ...
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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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Can I Adjust/Reduce My Partition Size for Ubuntu?
I'm a brand new user to Ubuntu and Linux for that matter. I just installed Ubuntu in a Dual-Boot setup and loaded all the updates I could get.
During installation it asked me to set the partition ...
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wubi move to partition [duplicate]
im new in ubuntu and I really liked ubuntu 12.10 with wubi (windows ubuntu installer) and I want to emigrate to the partition system which is more faster, but I don't want to install grub, I want to ...
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Ubuntu and fat partition, why and can I change it?
I have a mac from 2006 and it is already not supported by new Apple system. So I did get back to Linux and I did chose Ubuntu 13.04. I did install Ubuntu side by side with OSX, but I did notice that ...
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Partitioning issue on already installed ubuntu when re-installing
Scenario:
Ubuntu 13.04 is already installed with seperate promary partitions for -
UEFI Boot area
/boot
/home
/
swap
Attempt to reinstall ubuntu 13.04 and in the partitioning options, select ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 install along windows 8 fails [duplicate]
I have a MSI FX-600 laptop with core-i3 330M, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard Disk. My laptop comes with windows 7 pre-installed. I have upgraded it to Windows 8 recently. As it is with windows 7 pre-installed ...
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Will using DMRAID wipe my drive?
I have a sony win8 laptop -- that I like btw, but would love to dual boot ubuntu or multiboot with some other distros.
After much research and banging my head against the wall, it seems I have a ...
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Accidentally Wiped out Hard Disk With Windows 8 while installing ubuntu 13.04, Is there any way to recover? [duplicate]
I brought my Dell Inspiron 15R (5521) laptop yesterday only, I tried to installing ubuntu 13.04 as I go along with installation (I selected first option for selecting disk) I think wiped out entire ...
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Help me find a tutorial to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 13.04
What I've got is a compatible PC with both systems ,Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 ,I've Windows 7 already installed ,now I want to install Ubuntu, and be able to choose which one I want to boot when I ...
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How should I partition my 128Gb Crucial SSD in my netbook for Ubuntu 13.04?
I know this is probably a question this is asked over and over again but I'm not finding anything close to an answer that I need. I am installing Ubuntu 13.04 on my Lenovo x130e netbook . It has ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 sees NTFS partition but not Windows 7
Trying to install Ubuntu on a Windows machine running Windows 7. I started by using the WUBI, but when I restarted the computer it just went straight to Windows. Then I went into the disk management ...
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Installation of 12.04, Error 30
I am very new to ubuntu so i would really appreciate your help
I am trying to install 12.04 from a CD but the error message causes the installation to crash. Error 30 - they say its possibly a faulty ...
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Problem after installing Ubuntu 13.04
I installed the 13.04 version on my desktop, on it's own partition,formated it as ext4, alongside Windows 8, after the installation finished and the PC rebooted, I can't go in Ubuntu and can't find ...
