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hd0 read error; tried boot repair still won't boot [closed]
I have tried to boot from grub rescue from console. I have also tried boot repair, but it didn't help. Here is the full boot repair log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5668816/
Boot repair reports that the ...
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reinstall linux system without overwriting
I have a server that I use to host my mythtv backend among other things. It seems that root partition with the system on it became corrupted. I booted it with a livecd and repaired the partition with ...
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Grub rescue fails with “Boot Repair” with error “unknown file system” [duplicate]
THE PROBLEM WAS IN FILESYSTEM, THIS IS NOT DUBLICATE TO GRUB RESCUE STANDARD TOPICS.
After laptop system crush (which was caused by hard restart), my ubuntu linux is not booting, it is showing now:
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Error mounting USB
I've just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and I tried to open my USB directory, but it gives me the error Unable to mount location,Can't mount file.
What can I do to open it?
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ubuntu repair on windows 7
I installed ubuntu 12.04 inside windows 7. Later I changed the ubuntu folder location in windows 7. then I cannot log into ubuntu saying that \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.inbr file missing. how can I ...
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Kernel crash 3.2.0-40 — takes Window Manager with it
My last Ubuntu 12.04 kernel upgrade may have led to a series of problems. There were intermittent error warnings indicating sudden crashes of applets such as Gnome Time Tracker and a few others, the ...
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If I repair my Windows XP installation, will it damage the dual-boot setup I have with Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I'm running Windows XP SP2 alongside Ubuntu 12.04 (for legacy compatibility), but after some failed Windows updates I think my only option is to perform a Windows repair.
If I do that, will (or ...
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Repair degraded/failed Raid1 Ubuntu 10.4
My search Fu and brain are exhausted, I need to ask for some help.
Our Company Server was taken out of the building for about 5 months while some restructuring was done. When returned from sitting ...
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External Hard Drive is not recognized
I have a new 1 GB external hard drive which I was trying to partition with Gparted. Evidently I did something wrong and now it does not show up in My Computer or in Ubuntu. How can I repair it?
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Dual-boot or reinstall
First I would like to preface that I had originally bought a cheap Windows 8 laptop. Then after being very bored in the desert I decided to attempt dual booting. Long story short: it wouldn't work but ...
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How to fix Ubuntu after accidentally uninstalling many packages?
I accidentally removed all the packages starting with the name jpeg with:
sudo apt-get remove jpeg*
This screwed up a lot of things, removed Unity, Firefox, Flash player etc.
I somehow managed to ...
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How can i repair my ubuntu installation without erasing any packages & thier settings?
I am having a dual boot Windows 7 & Ubuntu 12.04. I was having system slowing down issues on Ubuntu 12.04 so i googled & finds BleachBit, but when i perform the operations in it, i finds no ...
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Used system repair disk in windows, got blue screen, now ubuntu doesn't appear as an option, etc [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
So my goal here is to remove ubuntu and then install mint with a disk that I have already made. ...
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Menus not coming up on USB boot
I'm using the newest version of Ubuntu to test out laptops that I repair as part of my job. I boot off of the USB stick, and sometimes when it comes up to the desktop the menus on the left side, and ...
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Repair ubuntu 12.10 installation
I installed ubuntu 12.10 lately. But some problems seemed to occur.
Brightness control not working.
Mouse flickering randomly.
I downloaded a newer version of ubuntu 12.10 and after booting it as ...
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exfat external hard drive + format
i have a 1TB usb3 adata ch11 external hard drive that was formatted with ex-fat file system
ihave pluged it into a DVR device and the device tries to format it but fails(ididnt want to do that it was ...
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I was playingn with grub a bit… a bit more [closed]
I was playing with grub on my computer a bit more. Then I tried to reboot and I can't enter my operating systems (windows and Ubuntu). It looks like I've rewritten something very important because ut ...
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Cannot boot into Windows 7
I cannot boot into windows 7 after trying to dual boot. Here's my BootInfo Summary from boot-repair:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1392920
I'd appreciate some help in trying to get back into Windows.
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How to repair dependencies in apt-get to the previous state?
Recently I tried installing teamviewer7 on my Ubuntu 12.04. I tried downloading the deb which due to some reason never did finish its download (stopped at ~~10MB/17MB).
Expectedly, installing the ...
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Grub rescue prompt, repair grub [duplicate]
I recently repartitioned my hdd and I have damaged grub on my system. On boot I get the grub rescue prompt and I have to go through the following steps in order to boot normally:
set ...
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I am not able to boot into window 7 after ubuntu 12.04 installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 doesn't boot after Ubuntu install
not able to boot into window 7. I am naive in ubuntu usage. Pls guide immediately. The following link a got after boot ...
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I dont know how to run e2fsck or fsck and what are their differences
My Kern.log file advise me to run e2fsck.
Aug 30 14:10:11 ubuntu kernel: [ 122.378292] EXT4-fs (sda11): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Aug 30 14:10:11 ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not starting (dual boot)
On my dual booting laptop, I have Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04. I've had XP on the laptop for years, and install Ubuntu 12.04 a few months ago. For some reason, Ubuntu 12.04 has stopped working.
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Ubuntu broken installation
Basically this is my other post: "/usr/bin/python" missing after installing Python 3.0
But well that hasn't really got much to do with python now, I think it is a bit more serious.
I ...
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Windows or ubuntu wont boot after boot-repair
Pre-installed windows 7 then installed ubuntu 120.04 using live CD
Ubuntu did not boot so used boot-repair to fix this problem but it did not work
Now it directly boots to BIOS
Here is the summary
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Mouse not working and many UI errors after 12.04 upgrade
Upgraded from 10.x or 11.x and I'm having lots of problems.
All icons in the dock are gone, as well as most other icons:
No icons, applications can't be focused, no window chrome (title bar etc):
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How does one undelete or repair BTRFS partitions?
Had a power‐cut last week and thought nothing of it but today when I opened (mounted) a data partition for archiving edited video files, I noticed it had 50GB free when it previously had only 2…
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Repair damaged hard drives with Ubuntu?
I have two damaged hard drives one external, and I'm running my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on
the other!
So the problem is that I couldn't repair it , i tried GParted , mkfs and nothing helps.
I saw a ...
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Installing Windows 8 over 12.04, but getting “error: unknown filesystem” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem
I have had bad experiences with 12.04 on my laptop, too many things just dont work so am wiping it and replacing with Windows 8 ...
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How To Recover All Ubuntu 12.04 System Files? (From Live CD)
Last night I succesfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, and then I tried to install Mac OSX Theme from this site
But after and after I followed I don't know what's going on terminal, after I installed ...
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Corrupted MBR, MBR repair does not recognise
Alright here's how I got to this point.
I tried to partition my external drive so that I could install multiple OS's on it, 3 linux distros, 1 being ubuntu, and a partition for windows.
So I used ...
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Windows 7 is not accessible or can't be repaired after installing ubuntu 11.10 using live USB
I've messed things up a bit.
I was running windows 7 ultimate 64-bit in my HP laptop. I was using live USB of Ubuntu 11.10 and then i tried to install Ubuntu on hard disk using the same live USB.
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Need to repair or reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 without losing programs or data
I was trying to change the ownership on an external drive, and mistakenly used
sudo chown -RL myuser:myuser /media/"New Volume"
Unfortunately, it changed the ownership on the entire drive to ...
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Installed ubuntu but I am not getting boot loader screen to choose between Ubuntu and Windows 7
This is what happened. I was using 12.04 beta. I was asked by update manager to make required updates, which I did. I shut down my pc that night and the next day I was not able to boot in xwindows or ...
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system not booting
During an upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 my computer suddenly froze. I restarted the computer and now it will not boot. I tried using boot repair but it did not help. I have seen various commands such as ...
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System broken after installing glib2 from sources [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 from VirtualBox.
My goal is to install Gtk+ 3.4.1 from sources. I already failed to do this once (described in the original version of this question), then restored system ...
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NO MBR options in “Boot Repair” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can't boot XP after Ubuntu Installation, how to fix?
I started trying to fix my XP boot (can't get' earlier ques' Can't boot XP after Ubuntu Installation, how ...
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Installing ubuntu on customer computers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I legally build and sell desktops with Ubuntu pre-installed?
So i am running a small computer repair shop and i was wondering is it legal to install Ubuntu on my ...
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Live disk session installer hangs [closed]
So here's the long story, WIn7 updated itself, broke its ability to boot. I use the windows repair session, and that breaks grub. Now I'm running from an ubuntu live disk, have tried multiple times to ...
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How can I restore all hidden subdirectories those were created during packages installation in case I completely wiped out my home directory
My /home directory was on the separate partition. By mistake I destroyed all the data on it. Now it's resized and formatted. It contains no directories but empty lost+found.
So I lost config data for ...
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How to repair a Degraded RAID? [closed]
I have had/used Ubuntu for a while as my NAS Server/HTPC box for a while. Recently, I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 via clean install. I am getting a Degraded Raid error every boot. When I go into Disk ...
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Cant boot after trying to install a second Hard Drive [closed]
I tried to install a second hard drive in my PC {not much experience with that}, and when I tried to boot neither the new nor the old drive worked. {The extra drive I added had already Windows on ...
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Software Center has a blank window
I can't launch the Software Center anymore. I've got a blank window each time I try to open it.
I have tried to repair it by typing "software-center" in Synaptic Packages Manager, and I selected it ...
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Use Totem's decoder to re-encode video?
I recorded an OGV screencast in GTK-RecordMyDesktop that seems to play back differently in different players (and YouTube doesn't seem to understand the video stream at all -- it just displays a ...
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I think a PPA update broke my system. What can I do?
A few weeks ago I installed ppa:ricotz/testing on Ubuntu 11.10. It worked fine then, but since a recent upgrade, trying to launch GTK applications results in lots of cryptic errors.
Can I revert all ...
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Repairing 11.10 / downgrading to 10.04 on a dualboot
I used 10.04 for a while and loved it. Got a new laptop and installed 11.10 as a dualboot with the pre-installed windows 7 (for skype and spotify. kill me.). I didn't like Unity, tried loading Gnome, ...
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Repair whole NTFS filesystem
I'm searching for useful tools for repairing a whole NTFS partition / drive, not only specific files.
My usecase: I'm trying to clone a netbook drive via partimage. Unfortunately the NTFS partition ...
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How do I fix grub so that it shows up during boot?
I installed ubuntu alongside windows but grub wont show during boot and windows starts instead.
I used a liveCD and followed these instructions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
But ...
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I broke Ubuntu after a forced shutdown
A program started misbehaving, and quickly ate up all 4GB of my RAM and 2GB of my swap. This meant the system came to a crawl. So I forced a shutdown. Now, when I reboot, I would normally get a Grub ...
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Recovering a faulty disk
When I plug in a removable 1TB USB disk in my laptop, the operations led keeps blinking for a while and then you can hear the servo mechanism resetting with a short "tack".
I'd like to recover the ...
