Microsoft's Windows operating system(s).
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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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Ubuntu 12.04 Wired Connection Not Working
I am a beginner to Linux and Ubuntu, and my laptop currently dual-boots Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. Neither of my wired and wireless connections are working. My wired network was working, but when I ...
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How do I mount disks with an Adaptec RAID controller on a dual-boot machine? (error code 12)
I'm trying to migrate from Windows to Ubuntu 12.04, dual-booting at the moment.
One problem I am facing is the RAID controller, I'm not able to mount any of the drives connected to it.
(The OS is up ...
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How do I test if a Windows share exists and is ready to be mounted?
How do I test if a Windows share exists before I attempt to mount the share?
Regards
Hendre
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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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How to install MSMXL version 6.10.1129.0 in Ubuntu?
I am trying to install a legit copy of windows office using Wine Program Loader. It keeps telling me to install MSXML version 6.10.1129.0, which I look up and download, execute it, and am told it ...
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how to sync email client between ubuntu and windows for seamless use of mails and archives
I am looking for an email client which offers seamless integration of (offline) mails when used from linux (ubuntu 12.04) and windows 7. Being a windows user till now, I have been using Outlook and ...
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Getting an error while installing 12.04 via WUBI
I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate with a 2GB RAM and 500GB SATA HDD and a 2.60 GHZ Intel Dual Core processor. I want to use Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7. Being a complete Linux newbie, I ...
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Mounting encrypted file system on Windows
Is there a way to mount (read/write) an encrypted file system on Windows? By "encrypted" I mean whatever it is that Ubuntu does to encrypt a file system when you choose that option during formatting. ...
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How can i get the MacOS green + button function in Ubuntu?
Is there a way to get que MacOS zoom button (the one called "+" in green color) fuction in Ubuntu windows?
not to maximize windows, just to "optimize" them like in MacOS?
Here a video showing it ...
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When I switch workspace all workspaces are merged
When I switch workspaces it looks like all workspaces are "merged" into one workspace and then they re split again. This would be no problem if it weren't for the fact that all my browser windows get ...
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Bad WiFi reception on Asus Zenbook (Works great with Windows 7)
My WiFi reception on my Asus Zenbook (model ux31) is very weak compared to when I boot my Windows 7. I use both from the same location, and the reception on other devices (ex: my iPhone) is great.
I'm ...
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Triple boot win 7, win server 2008, and Ubuntu
I have a system that dual boots Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2 Datacenter. I'm trying to add Ubuntu for a triple boot. Every time I install Ubuntu, it installs, but when I try to boot it, it ...
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Samba shares, using smb.conf or /var/lib/samba/usershare
Ok, so I caused my own problem by trying to be funny. And now I am very confused about how to fix it.
So here we go:
Our server has had 2 open shares since day one. only one of them offered windows ...
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Windows client: stop synchronising all subfolders from ~/Ubuntu One?
How can I prevent the Windows client from downloading the content of all folders I created in the Ubuntu One web interface? In the folders tab there is no option to deactivate the sync for the Ubuntu ...
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Can I force window to open on top of other windows when opened by keyboard shortcut?
I use SpaceFM as my primary file manager on Ubuntu. I typically open folder directly by keyboard shortcuts, so, e.g. Ctrl+Super+W opens my Work folder.
Specifically, I use execute the command spacefm ...
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installing ubuntu 12.10 VM on a win 7 host
I attempted to install Ubuntu 12.10 on Oracle Virtual Box and I had difficulties.
I am using a Windows 7 64-bit host machine. I set the VDI disk size to dynamic at 8GB
and the Base memory at 644MB.
I ...
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killed windows, trying to recover data through ubuntu
windows got corrupted during a update, i am trying to access the data on the HDD to back it up to restore windows. the HDD is mounted already, but when i try and acces the HDD, it does not show any ...
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Issues with installing Ubuntu next to Windows 8
I've tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 via Wubi on my Windows 8 computer. The computer used to have Windows 7, but I upgraded it and made a clean install.
Now when I choose Ubuntu in the Windows boot ...
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Remote Desktop / File Transfer PC to PC using Ubuntu 12.04 as Master with DHCP
I'm new here, I need help on this following case as my job requires it.
Master - using this for field work
Brand/Model: Dell N7110
Type: Laptop
Interface: eth0
OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Note: Installed DHCP ...
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Cannot sync Ubuntu One client in Windows 8
Getting information, please wait...
I keep getting the above in Windows 8 (64 bit) in the Ubuntu one client.
I have a problem with syncing in my Windows UbuntuOne client. I've searched about ...
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How do I find out on which partition is my Windows?
I have fully functional Windows and Ubuntu that is broken (I accidentaly broke it) and want to do reinstall. With Live-CD, I can see:
3 NTFS partitions,
one ext4 and
one unknown.
How do I find out ...
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Cannot find installation.iso?
I've been attempting to install Ubuntu for a few hours now, and I keep getting an error after the reboot telling me the installation.iso wasn't found.
I've tried using the Wubi installer, and tried ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. I have to use the bios to choose at boot
Ive been at this all week. ive tried installing ubuntu first, windows first, installing to separate drives, installing to the same drive with partitions and i cant get anything to work right.
current ...
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Connecting to windows share as guest - cannot read files
I have an HP scanner with an SD card that it shares over the network. It requires no username or password to access the files. I connect to it daily with a Windows 7 PC without problem.
I try to ...
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Windows Home Server 2011 connection issue
I am currently dual booting Ubuntu on a PC and it's all going great. However I have an issue when trying to connect to my server running Windows Home Server 2011. Ubuntu says it "Cannot mount the ...
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Laptop doesn't boot after installing 12.10
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows 7. Now when I turn my laptop on the lights come on and then nothing. I press the power button again and then it's OK. Before Ubuntu was ...
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Can't mount my internal harddrive
Im trying to mount my internal hard drive. Whenever I click on my 320 gb hard disk a pop-up comes up saying "Unable to mount location , cant mount file" Thats all it says and I just got started using ...
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Why does booting 12.10 dump me into GRUB?
I used the Ubuntu Windows installer to dual boot Ubuntu 12.10 and my already installed Windows 8.
Ubuntu came up after the boot when the process was through with the installation. When I attempt to ...
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New files on host not showing on ubuntu (vmware)?
I have a host machine (Win7 64bit) running a VM with Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I have set up the shared folder fine (although that was a headache in itself) and everything is working great. I use the Ubuntu ...
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How do I access NTFS partitions from Ubuntu after upgrading from Windows server 2008?
After having my own server at home for a year now I am ready to take the step and replace my windows server 2008 environment with Ubuntu.
My server's hard drive is partitioned into three partitions, ...
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Invalid EFI when trying to boot Windows.
When I try to boot into Windows I get 'Invalid EFI file path'. I can still get into Windows by going into BIOS and making my other hard drive the boot priority, which is a pain.
I've since installed ...
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Ubuntu not showing up in windows 7 network
I have a windows 7 laptop and ubuntu desktop, and both are connected to the same network, I can see the windows laptop in ubuntu's network, also I can access it, copy past files,on windows I cannot ...
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My USB is blank on boot screen
So I just got a new Toshiba Satellite, running windows 8. I made sure to use the universal USB maker, (Forgot the name but it was the one recommended) And it seems to be fine.... It has all the files ...
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Installed Ubuntu using LVM, now cannot boot windows
Just installed Ubuntu using the LVM method.
I shrunk my main drive into a separate partition of ~30GB thinking I could install it there.
However when I was installing, I couldn't find that partition ...
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grub no such partition recovery - all I have is the ubuntu install media and i didnt remove ubuntu
the title speaks for itself, now all I have is the ubuntu Live CD and no windows recovery media. I didnt remove the ubuntu partition but i was clearing out my windows PC and i delete other partitions ...
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How to make a partition Ubuntu can read?
I have Windows Vista and I installed Ubuntu 12.04 along with it.
I have three partitions on my hard-drive on Windows, but when I open the laptop through Ubuntu it only reads the first and second ...
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Installed from Windows Vista but get flashing screen trying to boot
I ran the Windows (Vista) based installer and everything appeared to be successful except when I choose Ubuntu from the boot menu, the screen flashes between red, green, blue, black and white.
I have ...
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PDF not printing on Printer shared via CUPS/SAMBA
I have a Printer (Brother HL-2035) attached to an Ubuntu server (latest version) via USB and shared via Samba/CUPS. On my clients (Win7) I can print from Word, etc., this just works fine.
The only ...
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Windows Server 2008 in KVM
I've been working on getting a Windows Server 2008 KVM in my linux box running Ubuntu Server 12.04. I've got virt-install and virt-manager installed, got the install up and running via
virt-install ...
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Could not display "smb://
I'm trying to mount a Windows share in Ubuntu 12.10 and Pinguy 12.04 with Nautilus. I'm getting the typical "Could not display "smb://192.168.0.7/groups" error message.
The share's name is Groups, ...
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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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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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ubuntu 12.10 installation problem on win 7
After running installation through wubi.exe, when I rebooted and chose Ubuntu I'm getting a message:
[3.157981] kernel panic- not syncing: attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
What should i ...
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Tinkering with GRUB4DOS resulted in mix-up
Good day!
For the nth time, I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 and run it alongside my now-Windows 8 installation, and as always it doesn't show in the boot manager. After adding an entry with ...
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Client for windows shadow copy
A windows file server at works serves up files that can be reverted to previous snapshots. I think this is the windows shadow copy service. Googling reveals a lot of articles about how to serve such a ...
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I messed up, installed 12.10 on usb, then downloaded 12.4, now double login in Win 7
the situation is that
I messed up, installed 12.10 on usb, then downloaded 12.4, now double login in Win 7
I was just honestly being a user, and trying to do the right thing while handling a high ...
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Why doesn't Ubuntu boot?
I downloaded the ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso.
Then I created a bootable USB stick using the guide from here. I booted the USB stick and after the Ubuntu logo and some circles loaded beneath it, ...
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Best solution for sharing External HDD
Describing the problem:
Computer A: dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows7
Computer B: Windows7
External HDD C: on USB, NTFS formated
From computer A I want to make regular back-ups in Ubuntu with ...
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Problems with ubuntu wubi
I tried to install ubuntu 12.04.01 on my hp pavilion g7 1303 and when the installation was finished, I rebooted the computer and first I got no wubildr. Then loading screen appeared (ubuntu and a few ...
