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I broke my Ubuntu partition in a dual-system after resizing from Windows to give more space to Linux [closed]

I hope I can get some help here. I start using a dual-system boot with Ubuntu 19.04 and Windows 10 Home and am loving Linux. It feels much great and faster. Nevertheless, sometimes I used Windows ...
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Windows deleted linux partition .. now on grub rescue

I had dual boot - Windows and linux. Due to windows upgrade I had to make windows boot partition as active (by using windows disk management). After windows update when I made grub boot partition ...
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Grub ends in bash after resizing Windows partition from inside Windows on dual boot

I resized Windows partition with Aoemi Partition which obviously messed up boot. I am running Windows 10 / Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot and the PC shows Grub bash on boot. From Bios i can boot to Windows. ...
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how to recover a deletd ext4 GPT partition on one drive, from a DD'ed 2nd drive that was RM -RF'ed [duplicate]

good day to all! I goofed. In prepping for a migration .. I DD'ed a drive to another spare to have a backup of the files. Then I booted next weekend not knowing that I mounted the 2nd DD'ed backup ...
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How to get a partition back after choosing erase disk and install, but stopping the process there

My laptop is a Dell 7567 with no SSD, Windows 10, SSHD 1tb I have created a volume to install Ubuntu 16.04.5 (30gb). But I made a mistake when choosing to erase the disk. I went back immediately, so ...
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testdisk not happy with Windows as Primary partition and Ubuntu as Logical?

I am in the midst of trying testdisk to recover a borked dual boot system, and have a specific question to testdisk .. it seems it doesn't like any combos I enter of Primary & Logical labeling.. ...
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Repairing/Recovering boot partition on ubuntu 16.04

Recently I accidentally formatted boot partition (sda1,512MB) as fat32 on ubuntu 16.04 computer. I haven't turned off my computer yet so I can still use it. I tried to use boot-repair tool to recover ...
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Shared partition wiped by Windows ScanDisk - how to recover?

There's a laptop I bought about 10 years ago, it arrived with Windows 7 (which I almost never used) and back then I installed Ubuntu in dual-boot (last update was to Ubuntu 16.04). So It had three ...
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WIn10 upgrade from Win7 trashed my existing multi OS instal

I had an old windows 7 installation, which I used occasionally when wine didn't work, which I used alongside my Ubuntu 20.04. I had 5 partitions including an extended Unix with data and swap on 1 1TB ...
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Linux partitions deleted after Windows 10 Update (Version 1909)

I have a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 10. I have only booted into Windows a handful of times over the last 2 years or so. I left Windows logged in overnight and it decided to update. The next ...
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Deleted Windows 10 MBR Trying to Fix Ubuntu Boot

I have a dual-boot Win10/Ubuntu 16 system. After Windows updated itself one time, I lost the ability to boot into Ubuntu. Trying to fix that with boot-repair, I mistakenly deleted the Windows 10 MBR ...
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Help! I wiped out my /boot/efi partition. How to recover?

I made a foolish mistake and copied an *img file over my /boot/efi partition instead of an SD card. System: Dell XPS15 Kubuntu 19.10 1 TB SSD My system was set up to multiboot Kubuntu 19.10, Kubuntu ...
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Boot-Repair failed

I have got four partitions on my Ubuntu 18.04. My var partition somehow got filled up, and I used a live USB using the GParted utility to increase the size of the partition. That went well, but now ...
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Help with dual boot: BIOS changed and I can no longer access Linux Ubuntu already installed

Two years ago, I downloaded the latest version of Linux Ubuntu to do dual boot with windows 7. In this configuration, I do not remember what BIOS version was there, but I was always asked to choose ...
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"Unable to install grub2" while installing Lubuntu

I recently got a Lenovo Ideapad and I want to dual boot it with Lubuntu for studying purpose,and probably for daily uses. Its built-in OS is Windows 10 and it has a 1TB hard drive. I've made a ...
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