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Ubuntu 13.04 don't boot with Windows 7
So I just installed the Gnome, I used the Gparted to make the partitions because the basic mode to install side by side with windows was not working. Ok, I made the partitions and installed, no ...
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How to boot into Windows 8 from Grub?
I just did a 50GB partition on my laptop thaty initially had windows 8 on it, every time i try booting Windows im getting an "invalid EFI file path" I just ran a boot repair and it gave me this URL: ...
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How to install Windows 8 on top of two Ubuntu OS
I am currently having both 13.04 64-bit and 12.04 64-bit installed using GRUB2. 13.04 is the main one and I allocated 100GB volume for 12.04.
I am trying to add a Windows 8 64-bit OS on top of the ...
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Want to repair Grub [duplicate]
I have ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 installed on my system. The main boot manager is grub, also the ubuntu and windows are installed in separate partitions. I want to install windows 7 back in place of ...
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Customizing Boot Menu
I have a dual boot system: Windows 8/ Ubuntu 13.04.
I have multiple questions to ask regarding the boot menu:
There are two instances of Windows 8, how do I make it to 1?
The default OS is Ubuntu, ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 and then dual booted it with Windows. Now, when I boot into my system, the selection menu does not come up. Instead, it directly boots into Windows. Is there any way to have ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 crashes at boot and can't access windows 7 boot
Yesterday I installed ubuntu 13.04 on my pc. Previously there was two windows 7 installations. One on a HDD and another an SSD. I brought the pc from a friend and it came with one 2TB HDD. I removed ...
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“SFS detected” - Windows Dynamic Disk help
After install of ubuntu I got a problem. I can't go to the OS selecter (Think it's called GRUB2). I tried the Boot-repair tool but got following message:
'SFS detected. You may want to retry ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu (Dual-boot Win 7 and Ubuntu)
I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit just now. I followed this EasyBCD guide to install Ubuntu on my computer as previous attempt to install Ubuntu normally was unsuccessful (GRUB ...
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Windows 8 does not appear in my grub list
I have been unable to get my windows 8 partition to appear in my grub list. I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit. My machine is a toshiba satellite s855-s5378 and is a secure boot system. I have secure ...
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How to remove Windows from Grub menu? [duplicate]
My setup is GnomeShell Remix 12.04 and Windows 7 dual boot. Now everything works fine, however, I rarely ever boot Windows and I would like to remove the Windows entry from my Grub menu completely and ...
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How to fix location of Windows from second grub
I originally had Windows Vista, later upgraded to 7.
Then I used wubi to install Kubuntu alongside Windows 7 - my load screen became the black one with white writing (grub legacy I believe).
Then I ...
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How to start Ubuntu with Windows XP?
I have installed the latest version on my old PC running Windows XP with the Windows installer.
When I select the OS from the list it starts but then comes up with a page like a command prompt with ...
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How do I hide an entry from grub?
I dual boot with windows xp and ubuntu 12.04 lts. I rarely use windows. I want to remove the windows entry from grub menu. I don't want to remove windows, i just want to remove the entry.
The purpose ...
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Unknown filesystem. grub rescue: file not found
I have 320GB HDD messed with Ububtu 10.04 and Windows Developers preview. I formated Windows partition and deleted the Linux boot folder from the disk, I thought it may help me to install newer ...
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EFI Dual-boot issue with Windows 7 and xubuntu 12.10
Thank you so much for reading. I'm pretty desperate for an answer at this moment.
So anyways, I recently solved this issue allowing me to install xubuntu 12.10 correctly. This was a problem with the ...
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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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Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04 + Invalid EFI file path + Boot repair + Grub many entries
I've a ASUS N56VZ with Intel Core i7 - 3610QM, with Win 7 Home Premium x64 pre-installed. This computer come with EFI instead of the traditional BIOS.
When I bought it, I had 3 visible partitions. C ...
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GRUB missing after removing drive with Ubuntu
My work laptop is an HP EliteBook with one hard drive in it. On that hard drive is a encryption program that boots up called "safeboot", you enter your username and password and then Windows boots ...
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Attempt to install Ubuntu 12.10 from Windows but get GRUB instead
I have a Ubuntu ISO that I have just downloaded from ubuntu.com and used the Windows Installer (Wubi) to install Ubuntu, but when it boots, instead of Ubuntu I get some GRUB ... something.
I have ...
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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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How can I multiboot Windows XP, Ubuntu 12.04, Windows 7 and Pardus 2011?
Is it possible to install Windows XP with Ubuntu 12.04 on master drive. And Windows 7 with Pardus 2011 on slave drive?
If so, can you provide instructions on how to go about doing so? I had to wipe ...
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How to install GRUB on the hard-disk? [duplicate]
I'm kinda new to Linux. I wanted to install Ubuntu, so I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, (I partitioned my HDD and left it unallocated) Ubuntu did not ask where to install and stuff, it just ...
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Unable to boot Windows 7 after Ubuntu 12.10 update
I have a Dell Vostro 3360 with 500GB+32GB SSD and I've installed dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu 12.10. Everything worked fine till I upgraded the kernel version as I noticed that Windows 7 from GRUB menu ...
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Installed new updates and now can't open Windows from grub
Just after I installed the updates for 12.04. I restarted my computer. A few hours later I tried to boot Windows and when I clicked on the Windows partition in the Grub a purple screen was visible and ...
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Replacing main OS in multiboot system with Windows and other Linux distros?
I have Windows XP, Windows 7, and several Linux distros installed on different partitions. I would like to replace my main Linux installation (an earlier version of Ubuntu) with a newer one. This ...
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Multiple Windows options in Grub Menu (Ubuntu 12.10)
Please help me. I'm curious about but VERY new to Ubuntu and Linux in general.
Short: My system has 2 OS: Win 7 x64 and Ubuntu 12.10. I'm getting 2 Windows boot options: "on dev/sda1" and "on ...
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BIOS loader on EFI system
I have an unusual case. I'm not trying to partition drives or anything, I have separate physical drives for Windows and Linux. Being a new machine and all, I have UEFI.
Last time I attempted to ...
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Windows 8 without secure boot - Dual Boot
I have a windows laptop which was upgraded from 7 to 8. Secure boot was not available during its upgrade.
Will this windows8 work as a dual boot or is there any special configuration required?
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Strange problem due to Grub 2
I know there are already a lot of posts about it but I didn't find anything similar to my problem.
I thought to give ubuntu 12.10 a try. Everything went fine until I reached the setup of Ubuntu ...
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Grub problem with Windows 8
I had Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7 in dual-boot. I made the update for Win8, and the Grub was ok. I just loggedin on Ubuntu and made an update in grub with Grub Edit (decrease the waiting time for 2 ...
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how to remove ubuntu without keyboard, mouse, and cd drive [closed]
is there anyway i can remove ubuntu without a keyboard nor mouse(I can use my mouse and keyboard in windows), and no cd drive. I could delete the ubuntu partition in windows but if i do so how can i ...
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ubuntu 12.10 isn't booting after being installed on a window 8 UEFI pre-installed os [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed UEFI Supported Windows 8 system
So, after struggling a few days to installed Ubuntu on my hp Compaq cq2000 tower...I finally managed ...
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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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Accidentally set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0, cannot boot into Ubuntu now
I have a dual boot system of Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7. Stupidly, I set my default boot OS to Windows 7 using this method and set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0. Now when I boot, the Ubuntu red/purple screen flashes ...
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Just installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows 7 and after reboot I just get a grub prompt
Please help me fix this! I can't either use ubuntu nor Windows. I have to use my smartphone to ask this question.
I've just installed Ubuntu. I chose the simple way: the partition the installer chose ...
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How to dual-boot Ubuntu + Windows 8 on a Samsung Series 9 laptop?
I have a Samsung Np900X4C which came with Windows 8 installed.
My goal is to have a dual-boot setup. I followed pretty much the answer at Samsung series 9 np900x4c-a03us Dual boot windows 7, namely:
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Windows not loading from either grub or burg?
I'm very sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find a relevant post that could help me.
Here's the problem:
Windows 7 seems to be able to boot from it's own HDD and bootloader, but then ...
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How to boot from CD using GRUB?
so I have this dualboot config in my pc with ubuntu precise and win 7 running alongside. I need to reinstall win 7 since its acting a bit strange lately; but during bios my keystrokes are not ...
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Can I set Ubuntu 12.10 to automatically reboot to Windows once only?
Is there some way when I'm in Ubuntu 12.10 that I can set it to reboot automatically to Windows just once, so that when I'm in Windows I can reboot and it will automatically boot back into Ubuntu? I ...
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Grub rescue problem after installing ubuntu
I have windows 7 installed in my internal hdd and wanted to try out Ubuntu so I got a USB to put Ubuntu LiveUSB on and installed Ubuntu on an external HDD and everything worked out fine.
Now the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 8 dual OS
I have gone through several answers listed and had a look at quite a few forums already. I understand that the root cause is the Windows 8 GRUB. When I check msconfig, it does not populate UBUNTU. My ...
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I think my bootloader is not loading my Window 7 but boot my grub
Below is my boot-repair info :
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1403448/
it could load ubuntu in the grub loader but not the window.
What should I do?
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Help with dual boot, multi boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu
I am using a netbook preloaded with Windows 7 Starter. This worked fine.
Then, In installed Ubuntu 10.4 and for a while, I could use BOTH Ubuntu and Windows as GRUB was automatically loaded with ...
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How to boot to Windows if grub is broken and BIOS won't open?
I recently accidentally deleted my Ubuntu partition. When I rebooted the computer, I got the dreaded grub rescue> prompt. I thought, "simple fix, boot an ubuntu CD and add a new MBR". However, my ...
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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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After a Windows 8 update I don't get my boot menu anymore
I did a software update on my 64-bit Windows 8 and after restarting my computer, I no longer get my boot menu with Ubuntu 12.10, but instead get a black screen that says:
error: unknown filesystem.
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Is there way to boot from Windows by default?
When the computer loads up, it shows a list of what to boot from. Is there a way to hide this and automatically boot from Windows unless a key is pressed?
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Windows 8 wont boot after installation of 12.10
I just got my new working notebook with Windows 8 pre-installed. After installing Ubuntu 12.10 the grub menu says that there is an "invalid EFI file path" and it won't boot Windows. Ubuntu works ...
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Dual Boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu
My laptop has two hard drives, one 320GB HDD and a 30GB SSD. I installed Windows 8 on the HDD and Ubuntu on the SSD. However, after I installed Ubuntu, Windows 8 did not appear on the boot list. I ...
