Questions tagged [windows-10]
An operating system from the Windows NT family of operating systems from Microsoft, released on July 29, 2015
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DNS problem ubuntu app 20.04
I install ubuntu app on my windows 10 host machine and everything is working properly except my DNS configuration! I tried it with a yamel script and defined the ip and name server but it doesn't work ...
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Can I turn Windows Bitlocker back on after installing Ubuntu?
I'm installing Ubuntu 20.04 on my new laptop, it came with pre-installed Windows 10 and I'm required to disable Bitlocker to install Ubuntu, the question is, can I enable it after the installation?
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Windows 10 won't boot in my MacBook after installing ubuntu
Well I installed windows 10 on my Macbook via boot camp assistant. After that I tried to install ubuntu 20.4 by making a partition in my disk utility. Right before the installation I noticed that ...
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Should i use free space or empty drive?
Installing Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10, should I use free space from a shrunk hard drive or empty named partition separated from hard drive?
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Ubuntu 20.04 is not booting (dual boot with Window 10) after BIOS update
I updated my Dell G3 3579 bios to 1.12.0 and tried to boot-repair for ubuntu 20.04.
Even though the ubuntu loader is showing on top of the UFEI boot setting, it does not load and only Window 10 is ...
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Grub is not booting Windows 10 anymore
The problem: Whenever I chose Windows 10 boot mgr on GRUB the laptop restarts and comes back to GRUB screen
The root: I was updating my Ubuntu version when I lost my internet connectivity and update ...
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Unable to open file from Windows NTFS partition
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04LTS
I mounted Windows NTFS partition,
I can see all files but can not open file like .jpg, .pdf & .mp4
Anyone can assist me?
screen capture as per attached
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Installing Windows 10 on Ubuntu 18.04
About a month ago, my Windows crashed (I was dual booting), giving me the BSoD. I couldn't find any other solution, so I formatted my drive and installed only Ubuntu. Now, however, I require Windows ...
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How can i remove ubuntu 18.04 correctely ? Which partition do i choose?
What I have?
Ubuntu installed in 'other' mode.
Windows 10
Ubuntu installed in 'alongside windows' mode.
What I want?
I want to remove the last one.
I have 3 images to show you.
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Can't install windows 10 alongside ubuntu
I have two storage in My laptop - 500gb ssd and 2tb harddrive, and I have ubuntu having 256gb in that 500gb ssd, I tried to install windows 10 on other half of ssd like 250ish gb.....and it's not ...
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Dual boot GRUB only boots windows into boot options
I've been working on getting a dual boot setup going, and everything appears to be working fine; upon boot, grub shows Ubuntu and Windows Boot Manager to choose from, however upon choosing Windows, I ...
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Windows USB drive from ubuntu failing repeteadly
I'm trying to boot an usb with Windows 10, and making it bootable from Linux (ubuntu).
For this purpose I installed woe-usb as a snap package. The USB drive is formated to exfat.
I get this weird ...
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Stuck on GNU GRUB screen: Dual Booted HP Spectre x360 13t
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10 on my HP Spectre x360 13t. After installation, when I turn on the laptop, its always stuck on the purple GNU Grub 2.02 screen with a frozen ...
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Booting ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64 from stick on my win10 notebook fails
I have downloaded ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso and made a bootable stick.
My win10 notebook startdt to boot but eventually stopped with the message:
BusyBox v1.30.1 (Ubuntu 1:30.1-4ubuntu6) built-in ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 very slow
I am Windows user for quite a long time and wanted to try Ubuntu. With no experience of using any other OS than Windows, I started searching about Linux and found that Ubuntu is by far the most ...
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Lost the ability to boot into Windows after Kubuntu 20.04 install
I've been asked to fix a Windows 10 PC with a weird setup. It could not connect to any network except the one at the school where my friend works, and there it could not connect via WiFi, only through ...
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Cannot access grub or boot from USB
I have been plagued by the following for over a month and at a loss for other ways of asking Google how best to troubleshoot.
Background:
Had been running Ubuntu 18.04 smoothly for many months on a ...
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Windows fails to access Ubuntu shares even though they appear in Explorer
I am a new user to Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on an old 32 bit machine as a dual boot with Windows 10. Ubuntu runs fine and I can access my Windows 10 network from Ubuntu. In Explorer I ...
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Windows 10 dual boots straight to Ubuntu
The only way I can get back into Windows 10 is to go into the boot manager where it shows these items and choosing the second option with the first being the newly-installed Ubuntu installation:
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Windows boot missing in Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 dual boot [duplicate]
I originally used Windows 10 on my laptop, and I installed Ubuntu MATE 20.04 last week.
When I try to boot Windows 10 in grub it is not an option, I tried doing
Boot-Repair and some simple googling ...
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View HTML files from Ubuntu on Windows
I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on my primary computer and Windows 10 1909 installed on secondary computer. I usually build websites. If I want to view a simple HTML file, I just open it on the ...
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QEMU-KVM, GPU Passthrough, Windows 10 - Crashing
I've been happily running a couple of Windows 10 VMs on QEMU-KVM with GPU Passthrough for the last few years with little issue. A few days ago however (21 May 2020) both my VMs started crashing on ...
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ACPI Error After Dualboot Install [closed]
For one year I was a happy user of Linux Mint on my Lenovo Legion Y540.
But for some occasions I needed Windows. As I read it’s better to install windows first if I want have dualboot, I erased ...
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Downloads in ubuntu terminal
I am using the Ubuntu terminal on my windows 10. I downloaded a file from the ubuntu terminal into a directory I created on the terminal. Right now I can't search for the file on my computer. Any ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 20.04 - Windows 10 on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 7Gen
I am trying to set up a Dual Boot Ubuntu 20.04 - preinstalled Windows 10 Pro on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7gen.
Problem:
I cannot find the bootable Ubuntu Live USB in the Boot Menu and therefore not setup ...
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Windows 10 in LEGACY mode + dual boot Ubuntu Studio 20.04
I have Windows 10 installed in Legacy mode (upgraded from Win7) and I want to add Ubuntu Studio 20.04 (dual boot). Is it safe just to start installation disk and allow Ub.Studio to install itself ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 desktop DVI issue through KVM (keyboard video mouse)
I’m trying to share the same monitor between a desktop and a laptop. I got a KVM. Switching the shared monitor from the desktop to the laptop works fine; switching the other way, from the laptop to ...
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Shared folder between Ubuntu and Windows 10 not working
I have set all permissions on a shared folder in Ubuntu and also set local network share and allowed others to create and delete files and guest access.
There are two problems:
I have checked share ...
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win10 doesn't start anymore after reinstalling ubuntu
I had a dual system set up with Win10 and Ubuntu before and it worked fine. Recently I reinstalled Ubuntu, at first it will boot into Ubuntu directly and I've fixed that with boot-repair, so now grub ...
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Unable to boot Windows 10 after installing Ubuntu 20.04
I initially had Windows 10 in my laptop and decided to dual boot it with Ubuntu. I successfully installed Ubuntu 20.04, but now my laptop is automatically loading Ubuntu only. No GRUB menu is shown ...
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multi-booting Windows 10 + multi Linux distros on two drives
I have 2 NVMe SSDs on my machine. The first one is fully and exclusively dedicated to Windows 10. The second one is fully and exclusively dedicated to Linux distros. I assembled the machine fairly ...
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Ubuntu from a PC to another
So I had this old Laptop that have 2 SSD's one(this was inside of the laptop) with Windows and another(one I bought) with a partition with Ubuntu. Now I bought a Desktop and I want two put this second ...
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Is there a possibility to use pytest and run python+selenium tests in Ubuntu for Windows 10?
Currently I'm running tests using Ubuntu in VirtualBox.
I was wondering whether it is possible to write and manage code for tests in Windows 10, but run them (for example, running selenium tests in ...
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Use Ubuntu 18.04 laptop as second monitor for Windows 10
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My girlfriend is a teacher and needs to use Windows to use some online teaching tools provided by the government of the country we live in, that do not work properly on Linux (I tried ...
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Skip GNU GRUB 2.02 menu to boot into Windows
The partitions on my laptop's memory are all dedicated to Windows 10. I installed Ubuntu 18 on an external SSD using the same laptop. When I have the external SSD plugged in, I have no problems with ...
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Move many large media files from Windows 10 laptop to Ubuntu Server 20.04?
I'm completely new to Linux. I built a new computer today to store all my large media files. I now want to move all these media files from my Windows 10 laptop to my new Ubuntu computer. I also want ...
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Operating System that boots depends on boot mode
I just installed Ubuntu alongside Windows.
When I try to run Ubuntu on Grub, it works fine. When I try to boot windows from Grub, it tries for a few seconds and then returns to grub.
Grub Page IMG
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Copy and paste from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 20
I am running Ubuntu 20 through Oracle VM and I'd like to be able to copy and paste lengthy strings into Terminal from my Windows OS.
I have installed Guest Additions and turned on Bidirectional ...
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Problem while installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS alongside to Windows 10
Windows 10 installed on my computer and I am trying to dual-boot it with Ubuntu 16.04. To do this, I shrank 100GB volume on Windows, disabled secure boot from BIOS and made USB flash drive bootable. ...
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Problem on starting Ubuntu on Windows 10 (Skipped password on startup) [duplicate]
I encountered a problem when I started Ubuntu on Win10,
The exact problem is I skipped the account password creation, which lead to invalid password,
Thanks in advanced, Kendrick
I will provide more ...
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Is it possible to make WINE look like Windows 10 by using themes from Windows 10?
So, I dual-boot windows on a separate drive, and I'm wondering if it's possible to use the themes from my Windows install on WINE. Is it possible to do that?
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Recover windows uefi after ubuntu install
I had windows 10 and ubuntu 19 installed on two different disks correctly. Both used UEFI. My motherboard bias is set to UEFI only.
I downgraded from ubuntu 19 to ubuntu 18 and after that my grub ...
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Install alongside Windows 10 option not appearing, windows boot drive seems to be unrecognized
I was trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10. I tried 20.04 (which had issues with Intel RST and couldn't be fixed, so ignore this version), 18.04 and 16.04. While installing, the "...
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After installing Ubuntu, can't boot into Windows using the UEFI boot menu
I recently have installed Ubuntu previously 18.04 but also 20.04) on dual boot with Windows 10. When the installation was completed, I could boot in Windows 10 and Ubuntu using Grub but, when I tried ...
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Can a windows file or virus in any way affect bios or Ubuntu?
first of all, this is my first question on this site or anywhere for that mater, so excuse any mistakes or the lack of info I might provide, I'll try my best:).
I have recently installed a program on ...
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Enabling OpenGL in Windows 10 Guest VM in QEMU
I'm trying to install Sketchup 2019 on a Windows 10 VM (Ubuntu 18.04, QEMU 3.1.0), however Sketchup requires OpenGL 3.1 or later in order to run. I had asked a similar question previously hoping by ...
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Ubuntu Failed to install and now I don't know which partition it's on so I don't have access to my other 500GB
I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Windows 10 system as a dual boot. It got all the way to the end and told me that the drive was unclean (Can't remember exact warning); Research told me that ...
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Browse Windows shares
When I go in Files on my new 20.04 LTS laptop I don't see my Windows 10 PC with existing file shares.
When I enter smb://192.168.x.x I get the password required dialogue. Success!
When I enter smb://...
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Unable to boot Windows 10 in dual boot
My grub screen was not showing Windows 10 boot option.
I tried the command:
sudo os-prober
but it was not able to detect Windows 10.
Then I made the following changes to 40_custom file
menuentry "...
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Where do I find grub.cfg for dual boot Windows10 and Ubuntu on external drive
I am a novice to Ubuntu, and not very familiar with Linux. I am trying to create an dual boot external drive with Windows10 and Ubuntu (20.04). I was following the instructions provided by Gavin ...
