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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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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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Ubuntu 13.04 not detecting Windows 7 during Install

I am trying to Install the latest Ubuntu 13.04 on my netbook but the installation is not able to detect any operating system installed on the machine. And asking me to either wipe out the whole disk ...
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Ubuntu doesn't detect Windows 7 partition

I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 machine. I have set aside another partition in my only hard drive (1TB). When I put in my CD, the installer does not detect my Windows 7 partition, ...
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How to make Ubuntu One work w/ Windows 7 and custom ProfileDir?

I have the following problem: System resides on drive C: User data resides on drive A: - it's a partition of a fixed, built-in hdd. Users directory is on drive A: and it is rewritten in the Registry ...
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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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Repartition HDD to give Ubuntu more space

My Laptop came installed with Windows 7 and 320 GB of hard drive space. A few weeks ago I decided to try Ubuntu for a change, and created a 30GB partition for it. Now, I want to give more space for ...
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Partitioning ubuntu 12.10 hard drive [duplicate]

About a month ago i installed ubuntu 12.10 on my computer, but i installed ubuntu on my whole 600 gb hard drive because i did not like the partition of only 30 gb that i could create from windows with ...
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Ubuntu installation failed every time after choosing “install ubuntu alongside window 7”

I want to install Ubuntu with window 7 as a dual boot PC. After Booting from pendrive when I choose "intall ubuntu on Hard disk" , then installation window comes, I choose "do not connect to wifi ...
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Changing size of Windows partition

when I was installing Linux, I divided my HDD into few partitions. By mistake, I let for Windows too little space. Question is, how to uninstall Linux, join all partitions and then again divide HDD ...
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Installing Ubuntu with preloaded Windows 7

I am trying to install Ubuntu as a Dual Boot with my preloaded Windows 7. I have a 1 TB hard disk. Primary Partition for windows is limited at 80gb and the rest of the space was unallocated and i ...
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Ubuntu installer not seeing free space on hard disk (dual boot)

I'm trying to install Ubuntu (12.10) on a laptop on a 240 GB Intel SSD drive already containing a Windows 7 installation. I have the disk partitioned as follows: 1500 MB, NTFS, system partition, ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after installing it and it looks like it isn't even installed in the disc management

I Installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 45GB partition, and when it asked me to reboot the computer, the dual boot menu didn't appear, it boot directly Windows 7. When I checked the disc management, there was ...
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Can't see Ubuntu partitions in Windows disk manager!

Apologies for any stupid questions as I am an Ubuntu newbie (an impressed one, for sure!). I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 using wubi. Before doing so, I however did not create a separate ...
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Recommended dual boot partitioning for Asus N56VM s4089V Windows 7 64bit

Being brand new to this, although I've done alot of research, I would like confirmation that what I want to do is achievable with the current disk partition I have on my laptop. Current set up via ...
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How to Install Ubuntu 12.04 With Win7 Dual-Boot

I had been using Ubuntu for a little while now and I must say very nice a few hardware compatibility issues but that's not why I am here. I have recently uninstalled Ubuntu because I did not feel safe ...
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Can't access Windows 7 partition and blkid crashes when I try

I found nothing about this specific problem on the internet so I'm asking for help here: Once I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu on dual boot working flawlessly. Then I bought a new internal 1 TB HD and ...
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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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Ubuntu Installer cannot see windows os partition and sees my hard drive as blank?

Good day, I have just downloaded ubuntu 12.10 today using windows 7 and installed it to my SD card. I booted up using the sdcard, and everything was going perfectly well until Ubuntu said i currently ...
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Dualboot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on UEFI Unable to Boot to Ubuntu

Here is the layout of my disk: /dev/sda1 (EFI partition) /dev/sda2 (Recovery partition) /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 (Windows 7 partition -- boot) /dev/sda5 (/boot) /dev/sda6 (swap) /dev/sda7 (/) I have ...
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Installing windows 7 after a kubuntu install?

I have a kubuntu 12.10 installation that I use as a primary work machine. This is a single installation (2 partition OS / Swap). I need to install windows7 and the majority of tutorials (all) ...
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Why doesn't Ubuntu 12.04 recognize my Windows 7 partition?

After some problems trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, now I have Windows 7 installed and it works just fine. But when I am going to install Ubuntu it doesn't recognize my windows. What ...
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Ubuntu Installer Doesn't Start from a Separate ISO Partition [Unetbootin]

My PC doesn't have a working CD drive and the BIOS is too old to boot from USB drives. It has Windows 7 installed. I've split the hard drive into 2 partitions with the first one (H:) being NTFS and ...
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Remove space from Ubuntu partition

I accidentally gave Ubunto 1.7 terabytes of space and only left about 300 gigs for Windows. I would like Ubunto to have 300 gigs and Windows to have 1.7 terabytes as it is my primary OS. How would I ...
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How “Alongside Windows” option works?

I have Windows 7. Two partition with ntfs, one of them installed with windows 7. Also there's 100 gb unallocated area in my hard drive. So If i choose "alongside windows" is it using my unallocated ...
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Windows 7+Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot partitioning confusion

I'm trying to dual boot desktop Ubuntu for the first time, and hopelessly flummoxed by the partitioning process. I've got a Lenovo notebook (Windows 7) with a 500GB HDD + 28GB SSD, and my goal is to ...
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How do I create a partion to install windows? [duplicate]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I want to create a partition to install Windows 7 onto it. How can I do this?
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How to extend Ubuntu partation size?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64BIT under my laptop, Asus K53E-B. Its hard disk drive volume 640GB. I have 3 operation systems: Windows 7, Windows 8 (I just wanted try it), and Ubuntu 12.10. I don't know ...
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Replaced Windows 7, but where did my old files go?

Ok, let me start by saying that I know nothing about Linux and that I switched because I was sick and tired of windows. So I had Windows 7 on my C: drive and I chose to replace it with Ubuntu 12.10. ...
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Does selecting “Remove Windows” option during install remove all my Windows partitions?

I had Windows 7 installed on my laptop, I installed Ubuntu and chosen the option to delete everything. But when I clicked that, it deleted my windows 7 partitions. C: Windows E: Documents F: ...
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I can't see my partitions to install ubuntu

I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC. It already has Windows 7 on it. I wanna use both as a dual boot PC. My HDD is 1TB & it has 4 partitions in Windows. But when I try to install Ubuntu I cant ...
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Can I have a NTFS data partition both accessible (r/w) by separate Windows and Ubuntu partitions?

The following image illustrates the partition setup I have in my head, but what I'm unsure about is the data partition. I've heard Linux support for NTFS is fairly good nowadays, but since it is ...
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Uninstall Ubuntu 12.10 and revert back to Windows 7 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and regretted it almost immediately. Don't ask why, I was just wondering if I can completely ...
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Triple booting Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8

So I was here a month ago or so and asked about the dual booting. I managed to fix it after reinstalling Ubuntu four times (four different mistakes were made). The biggest issue I had to fix back then ...
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Why can't I Resize/Move in GParted?

I have a 12.04 LTS system running on my PC with a 320 GB hard drive. Unfortunately, I need to use Windows 7 in my lab. I tried doing this using a virtual machine (VirtualBox and VMware) but it was ...
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Ubuntu / Win7 issues

I have an Edimax 7811Un wireless adapter that isn't working, I've downloaded the drivers via Windows but can't figure out how to install them (just learning Linux) to connect Ubuntu to the internet to ...
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Half of my disk space is assigned to Ubuntu. How can I move some to Windows?

I don't need half my disk space on Ubuntu and I would love to move it back to Windows without having to uninstall and install Ubuntu all over again. I'd appreciate any help on this.
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ext4 partition ubuntu lost after Windows 7 installation

I've got this problem: I have one hdd and use ubuntu 12.10 on this hdd with several partitions(one nfts, two ext4 and one unallocated). today after windows 7 installation, and booting with live usb, ...
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I need specific direction: I have a Windows 7 formatted partition of 30g- Completely empty and wanna know how to install Ubuntu-

If I understand correctly, it will not recognize the ntsf file system.... so should I delete that partition? then... 1. create new unformatted partition.. 2. do i wipe it completely clean, as no ...
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How can I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 if I didn't create logical partitions?

So this problem may sound familiar to a dozen other questions like these but I still haven't found an answer to mine in particular. When I installed Ubuntu I thought that when choosing to install it ...
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I want to extend my partition

I am currently dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. I have 500GB with 300GB free space on my Windows, and have a 100GB on my Ubuntu. I want to move 200GB from my Windows partition to my Ubuntu ...
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deleting ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? i have ubuntu 12.10 with windows 7 installed on the same hard drive. ubuntu and windows are both installed on different ...
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Can I change file systems inside of partitions within GParted?

I'm looking to share documents, pictures, etc. between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04.1. I have an extended primary partition (sda4) that is comprised of a swap partition (sda5) and a "/home" mount point ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, facing partition issues

I have just bought a new PC having Windows 7 installed, it has 500 GB disk space. Attached is the screen shot of the disk management C:-Installed Windows 97.5 GB D:- Kept required data 195.31 GB ...
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Ubuntu doesnt detect one partition on dual boot with windows 7

I have windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in my dell inspiron 5010. I have these three partitions in my lap. C (windows sys),D,F. I have installed ubuntu alongside but when i log in to ubuntu i can only see ...
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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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Can installing Ubuntu 12.10 on its own partition affect my Windows 7 partition?

Here is the scenario I have already downloaded the ubuntu 12.10 desktop 32bit on ubuntu site. Now I want to put it in my 4gb flash drive using the universal installer. Assuming i have a 100GB hard ...
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Ubuntu shows disk volumes as one partition

When I was installing Ubuntu(12.04 and 11.10) showed 2 partitions, whereas I have 4 partitions on Windows 7: C(70GB),D(300GB),E(300GB),F(30GB). Ubuntu is only 2 disks: one is 70GB, the latter is ...
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Laptop won't boot or enter BIOS after deleting partition in Windows 7

I dual boot my computer and later decided to delete one of the Ubuntu partitions while using Windows 7. After my computer hibernated and I tried restarting my ASUS laptop it stopped at the logo and ...

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