Questions tagged [windows-7]
An operating system from the Windows NT family of operating systems from Microsoft, released in 2009 and the successor of Windows Vista.
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Trouble with Wubi and dual boot install
Is there a difference between wubi install and doing an install of Ubuntu alongside windows7? I ask because I used wubi, but I'm having trouble with certain things like being unable to change my ...
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Do I have to make a backup of my files, when I change OS?
I´m at a turning point .. to change my OS from W7 to Ubuntu.
The thing is: Do I need to make a backup of my files?
Or, can I just install the new OS and my files will ALL be quite safe?
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Windows 7 when starting ubuntu black & blue striped screen after upgrade
I got a message saying that my version of ubuntu was obsolete so I clicked to update. I have Windows 7 and run ubuntu in a Virtual Box vm. When ubuntu tries to startup I get a screen with black &...
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Edit Windows Boot Loader from Ubuntu
I am using Ubuntu 12.10, and Windows 7. I accidentally removed the Windows option from the Windows Boot Loader using EasyBCD. I do not know how to access the windows boot loader configuration files. I ...
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Installing Windows 8 alongside with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04
I installed Ubuntu a long time ago from Windows 7 with Wubi. I want to give Windows 8 a try but at the same time I don't want to screw up the setup I have, and I still want to keep Windows 7. So my ...
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Can't install Ubuntu with Windows 7
In spanish:
Hola.
Estoy teniendo problemas para instalar Ubuntu 10.04 de 32 bits en una pc que tiene Windows 7 Ultimate preinstalado de 64 bits.
Puntualmente el problema es que al insertar el cd de ...
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Windows7 Gone after Ubuntu dual boot install
I had a very hard time to dual boot install Ubuntu 12.04
Apparently, Ubuntu has restriction of 4 partitions and I already had 4, so it just couldn't recognise my partitions. This was something I ...
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How to start Windows 7 after setting wait time = 0
After I installed 12.04, I think waiting a long time to choose between Windows 7 and Ubuntu is such a waste.
So I went into Windows 7 and set the default to Ubuntu and no waiting time (not the grub ...
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Windows 7 won't let me connect to my Ubuntu samba share
I set up samba on my 12.04 Ubuntu install. I shared a folder from my home directory.
When I go to my Windows 7 box, I can see the Ubuntu box on the network, but when I try to connect, I get a "...
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Can Ubuntu be installed on Windows 7 drive that is encrypted with Truecrypt?
I've been looking everywhere. Truecrypt forums and over the Ubuntu forums. I have yet to find an answer that comes close to my issue or question. My computer came with Windows 7 preinstalled so I ...
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Print to an Ubuntu Printer that is not supported by Windows 7
I have an HP Laserjet 1000 that is working fine in Ubuntu 12.04 and is shared but there is no driver for Windows 7. Is it possible to create a wrapper for it, maybe with something like GhostScript to ...
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How to connect to internet through VM's internet connection?
I am new to Ubuntu. I have a wimax connection(UH-235). I connect the device through USB. The connection must be DHCP(assigned by the service provider). Problem is, the driver+connection manager ...
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No Windows7 entry on GRUB2's menu after installing Ubuntu
I Installed Ubuntu 12.04 and after installation no Windows 7 entry shown.
Boot-Repair output : http://paste.ubuntu.com/1396793/
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Windows 7 refuses to boot after installing Ubuntu
On my old but light travel laptop I had Debian and Windows 7, which I could both boot from GRUB. I have replaced Debian with Kubuntu, but now booting Windows 7 from GRUB results in a black screen.
On ...
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Window 10 not showing Ubuntu installed partitions on harddisk - Also not showing boot to Ubuntu options
My laptop came with an SSD with Window 10 on it, and I extended that storage using a hard disk from a laptop which had Ubuntu installed. Some partitions of that hard disk are NTFS and those ...
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I can't boot up Windows 7 and WINDOWS drive partition doesn't show up
I have 2 major problems.
I can't boot Windows 7.
I have Windows 7 Home Premium. I had removed one of the Windows recovery partition during installation. But when I researched it showed that that isn'...
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Removing Windows Partition after hdd clone and boot ubuntu
I have cloned to a new SSD an ubuntu/Windows 7 setup which used Windows Boot manager to dual boot. After the cloning i removed the old partitions and formatted the old hd. Now the Windows Boot manager ...
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Need help with Ubuntu/W7 dual boot
I'm having an issue setting up a dual boot system. I previously had Windows 7 Ultimate on my machine and have just installed Ubuntu, which worked just fine.
Problem is, I can no longer boot Windows 7, ...
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Dual boot between Windows 7 and Lubuntu 20.04
My laptop is DELL Inspiron 15R 5520 with Windows7 64 bit installed and i want to install Lubuntu 20.04 on a free space on the same laptop to dual boot between Windows 7 and Lubuntu. What are the side ...
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To dual boot Ubuntu with Win7: Do I have to manually make root/home/swap partitions?
I’m trying to set up dual boot for Ubuntu and Win7. My partitions are MBR type, this is how the installation screen looks right now:
sda1, ntfs, 104 MB
sda2, ntfs, 254599 MB
free space, 245295 MB
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grub Can't open windows 7
Background : I am a windows user and i just want to use dualboot windows 7 and ubuntu, and my pc is so old, cause i heard that ubuntu is lightweight and i want to give it a try, i have an old hdd with ...
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Boot Linux Ubuntu using Windows Boot Manager in Legacy mode, is this possible?
It might sound a noob question from the title, but I'm pretty new into operating systems.
I have a laptop and I would like to run Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Windows 7 is the default OS, and the ...
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I MESSED UP: I can't install ubuntu as dual boot anymore
I'm not such an expert user, thanks in advance for your help. Sorry if I can't get quite clear, I'm not a native speaker.
I had a laptop with windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 in dual booting, but after an ...
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Dual boot: After Win7 MBR repair a restore of Grub2 reverts to Win7 boot problem
This is on a dual boot system with Win7 and Ubuntu 19.10. It is a BIOS system.
After a Windows update last week I couldn't boot into Windows anymore. The boot halted with error 0xc0000428 for /...
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Can't Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad 420 with Windows 7 running in legacy mode. I wanted to dual-boot Windows 7 along with Ubuntu.
I downloaded Ubuntu and created a bootable USB using Rufus 3.8. I used Rufus 3....
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Sharing Firefox 69.0.3 (64 b) profiles between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 18.04
All Windows partitions are in NTFS. I need using Windows FF profile also from U FF installation.
FF profile resides at two places (why?):
/home/loz/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/l87wht4f....
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No menu choice for Windows after installing Ubuntu 19, but it works
I have Windows 10 and 7 together, with dual boot, then I installed Ubuntu 19. Everything was working just fine. First screen I could choose either Ubuntu or Windows. If I selected Windows, then it ...
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How to print to a shared Konica Minolta pagepro 1580 MF printer?
In my office all computers are Windows, except my PC runs Ubuntu 18.04.
We are connected to the same LAN where the IPv4 default gateway is 192.168.2.1, my IPv4 address is 192.168.2.10 and the Windows ...
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Bios problems when attempting to install Ubuntu
The bios on my HP pro 3120 MT does not contain a usb option. How do I install ubuntu? (PC needs to be formatted. Not planning to keep windows 7)
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WoeUSB exit code:256 on Ubuntu 18.04
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v@@WOEUSB_VERSION@@
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Mounting source filesystem...
Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/...
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Dual boot between ubuntu 18.04 and windows 7 boots straight into ubuntu
I know there are several threads on these but none of their solutions seem to help me.
I had WIN7 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed on this computer and dual booting was working fine. Keep in mind they are ...
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Grub can't detect Windows 7
Grub won't detect Windows 7.
Output from blkid:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="ESP" UUID="AA51-CBCB" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="87996d8d-4fbf-4473-a1fd-7a8bf2ca9136"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="...
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Install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on old Samsung r519
I found a Samsung r519 from 2009 laying unused in my house and decided to wipe Windows 7 from it & install Ubuntu 18.04 from live usb.
The problem is, when the installation is finished and I try ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 7 fails to boot after GRUB
There is a dual boot of a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 and a Windows 7 on my machine, and after I choose Ubuntu in the GRUB menu it falis to boot, the screen stays black. When I choose Win 7, it ...
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Can Boot-Repair fix my dual-boot with the Legacy -> UEFI conversion if my Windows 10 UEFI machine was upgraded from Windows 7?
I know there are approximately a million variants of this question, but please hear me out!
I have a Windows 10 Pro machine, upgraded from a Windows 7 Pro pre-install; both booted in UEFI mode. I can'...
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Invalid MBR Signature found for dual boot
My dual boot laptop (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7) suddenly stopped booting. The GRUB menu did not show up. I tried the utility boot-repair and it did not even show "Recommended Repair" in the small ...
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Can someone help me set up dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu
I have Win 7 and latest ubuntu on 500 gb drive. Dual boot worked fine, till I decided to install VeraCrypt and now I lost my ability to boot into Ubuntu. When I press ESC in veracrypt boot loader 1.21,...
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No boot menu shown after installing Ubuntu next to Windows
Unable to boot Windows 7 after Ubuntu installation because no boot menu is shown. Both OS are in /dev/sda:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disque /dev/sda : 238,5 GiB, 256060514304 octets, 500118192 secteurs
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Can't mount Windows partition from Ubuntu
And meanwhile Windows won't start. It says I should use a disk image to fix it or something.
The error I get from Ubuntu when trying to open the Windows partition:
ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread ...
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Dual Boot - Grub showing only "System Setup"
I had Windows 7 dual booted with Ubuntu 14.04. Yesterday I ran
sudo apt-get upgrade
and after installing everything and restarting, I only got Ubuntu's option in my Grub.
Checking in grub-...
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Ubuntu 16.04 running hotter than Windows 7?
I'm trying to setup Ubuntu as my new primary OS, and I really, really want to like it. There have been and still are quite a few issues I've had to resolve, but most have been easy enough to fix.
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Installing Ubuntu 16.04 over a windows partition
I've looked around and couldn't find an answer to my problem so here it is.
I have win 7 installed on a 500Gb drive. On it I have a small loader partition, 80 GB partition of windows 7 OS and 400 GB ...
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Dual boot Win7 + Ubuntu
I bought a new win10 lappy and have already started hating it. I want to go back to Ubuntu but some of my office tasks require me to have Windows, so I guess the only solution is to have my lappy dual ...
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Lost my windows 7 after installing ubuntu
So i just installed Ubuntu latest version and i can't find my windows 7 anywhere.While doing the install i chose the "install Ubuntu along with windows7" but nowhere to find them after that.Please ...
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rEFInd can't find Windows
I had to install Linux in UEFI mode, but my Windows 7 is not UEFI. Therefore, I can't use my UEFI GRUB to boot Windows. To solve this problem I downloaded rEFInd. However, rEFInd can't find my Windows ...
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Windows OS not showing up in dual boot menu
I've had Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot capability on my Dell for over 2 years, and then today I turned on my laptop and the Windows option has disappeared. Any ideas?
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Windows 7/8/Ubuntu 16.10 Triple Boot Issue
Okay, so my issue with this is the fact that whenever the initial grub screen boots, I am able to see my Ubuntu boot option, and I can see Windows 8.1, but I cannot see Windows 7.
The only way I can ...
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X2go from a windows client to Ubuntu 16.04
I set up X2go server with the latest build on the X2go website with Ubuntu 16,04. I am able to get the MacOSX client to login to the Ubuntu16.04 box. Yay! When I try the same with the windows client I ...
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Grub rescue problem all filesystems are unknown
I know it's pretty common but I can't find which one is the ext file system.
I tried all partitions and all answers were that Filesystem is unknown.
and I don't have a CD or flash drive for any OS of ...
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Try to install the Ubuntu 16.04 along with Windows 7 OS
In Windows 7 OS, in disk management utility, it shows "unallocated" disk partition size as 50GB and other 5 partitions in my system. In Ubuntu 16.04 installer, it is not showing the partitions ...