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dual boot fails Windows after update/upgrade
http://paste.ubuntu.com/23384999/
I use 12.04 and Windows 7(installed second). I updated/upgraded Ubuntu from terminal and lost wireless but found it.But the GNU GRUB version 1.99-21Ubuntu3.19 is not ...
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Sticky Note use in Ubuntu from Win 7
I have used Sticky Note in Windows 7 till now. Now I changed Win 7 to Ubuntu.
I had taken backup of all Sticky Notes from Windows 7 as I found some solution for How to take backup.
I have also ...
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join two operating system by virtual box [closed]
I have the windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC.
So, can I join them using Virtual Box or any other software which help me go from one OS to another without restarting?!!
thanks for your answer
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Dual system-win 7-Ubuntu-Locatioin is not available
I have a PC on which i install a dual system (win7 and Ubuntu 12.04).
Yesterday i used ubuntu and my external disk to copy some files from the disk. All files copied are from win7 system.
Then ...
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Factory Reset, lost grub, never upgraded from 12.0.4
Windows 7 partition difficulties due to anti-virus problems. Slow boot, could not shutdown without power down
Have separate partition with Ubuntu GNOME 12.0.4.
Tries to restore Win 7 from boot. ...
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install windows after ubuntu [duplicate]
Sometimes ago I installed ubuntu on a drive which is not windows drive, but today Iformatted my windows drive to re-install windows, unfortunately I can not access to ubuntu? please help me!
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Windows 7 - VirtualBox - OpenVPN - Ubuntu 12.04
I have Windows 7 64bit Professional. On this I have installed a VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server 12.04. OpenVPN is installed on both.
I need to allow internet on Ubuntu and I also need to connect to a ...
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"No root filesystem defined" while installing Ubuntu on Virtual box
I continuously get the error "No root System defined" in the last installation step, and it asks for partitioning, but under the condition of erasing everything on the disk!!!
How should I proceed?
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Unable to Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 (Legacy BIOS)
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12 / 14.04 (x86 & x64) alongside Windows 7.
I have a bootable USB stick and when I try to install Ubuntu there is no alongside Window` option neither the Windows ...
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Windows can view directories but not ubuntu
Ok. I know i messed up by hibernating one OS and working in other. As i remember i hibernated the Ubuntu. Now a lot of directories are not showing up in ubuntu. But shows up & works in Windows. ...
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Missing drivers on my ThinkPad
I have a ThinkPad T440s, and I have been using Ubuntu 12.04/14.04. Regardless of what version I use, I consistently have issues with
Brightness control (has an easy fix)
Bluetooth startup (has an ...
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how to create a send file between shared folder in Windows 7 and Ubuntu-directory doesn't exist
I am trying to create a shared folder between Ubuntu 12.04 server running on vmware and my Windows 7 desktop which is hosting it but I keep getting errors telling me that the directories do not exist ...
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cant start windows 7 after ubuntu dual boot upgraed
I was running dual boot win 7/64 - Ubuntu 12.04 installed via Wubi. After upgrading Ubuntu to 14.04, I can't login to windows 7, the GRUB menu loads, but its stuck on loading windows screen.
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How do I copy and paste from a Windows 7 host machine to a Ubuntu 12.04 terminal VirtualBox?
I am running VirtualBox on my Windows 7 laptop, running an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) Server as guest machine.
I would like to copy some commands (which are too long to write on terminal) from ...
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dual boot from windows 7 can't show ubuntu in boot menu
I have windows7 os in my laptop and I want to install ubuntu 12.04 along with windows 7. I have followed the instructions in this link: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/05/17/how-to-dual-boot-ubuntu-12-...
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Multiple screen after Ubuntu 12.04 LTS updated - VMware Player
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS within VMware Player and running on Windows 7 64-bit environment.
Yesterday, I got multiple screens after update it. After that, I tried to reinstall VMware tools again. ...
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Remove Edubuntu from Triple Boot
I have a computer that has Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04, and Edubuntu installed together. I would like to know how to remove Edubuntu from this configuration and then add the unallocated data to Windows 7 ...
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Restore GRUB from Windows or from USB
I had a dual boot Win XP - Ubuntu. I deleted XP and I installed Win 7. Now, GRUB doesn't exist anymore. I made a live usb with ubuntu to repair grub, but usb doesn't boot(i used it in past to install ...
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Unable to get back Windows 7 partition entry in Grub2 Ubuntu 12.04
I had Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my system along with Windows 7, running perfectly. Then I upgraded to 14.04 and many things in many things went wrong so I decided to format just my Ubuntu partition (...
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Extended Ubuntu partition taking more than it should [closed]
Consider the following picture,
As I understand from my research, partition 0 is an extended partition which doesn't exist physically, but it's only a partition that includes more logical partitions ...
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Installation problems of Ubuntu via virtualBox in my windows 7 64 bit
I am really unhappy while installing Ubuntu 14.4.01 via virtualBox in my windows 7 Professional 64 bit operating system.
***I am using VirtualBox-4.3.14-95030-Win
I am finding these problems while ...
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Would I get back all of HD memory if I remove partitioned-Ubuntu from my Windows system?
I've a system with this configuration :
- Dell Vostro 1015 laptop built Sept 2011
- Intel Core2 Duo processor @ 2 Ghz frequency
- 64-bit memory
- 320 GB HDD
- integrated graphics
- WiFi & ...
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What is the problem in wubi.exe for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop version for my Windows 7 64-Bit machine as there was no separate link on ubuntu site for only wubi.exe.
The package had wubi.exe.
I executed wubi.exe and on ...
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How to install Windows 7 on the same partition as Ubuntu 12.04 ie. dual boot?
I have a Dell Vostro 3000 Series with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed.
I want to keep the Ubuntu and install Windows 7 Ultimate along with it.
The partition on which Ubuntu is installed is the only one ...
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How to extend/increase ubuntu disk space on a dual boot win7/ubuntu 12.4 [duplicate]
I have installed Windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 as dual boot on my 320 GB laptop.
I have three partitions.
200 GB - Window's 7 is installed in it.
100 GB - NTFS partition (un used).
20 GB - Ubuntu 12....
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Installing 2 versions of Ubuntu on same hard drive?
I have a dilemma and I don't know what to do.
Currently I have Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit installed along side Windows 7 64 bit and everything works wonderfully.
I recently started a course about ...
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Install Ubuntu, but still boot into Windows 7 (no GRUB screen)
First of all I want to boot Windows only, I'm not having a duel-boot problem
I want to install Ubuntu on my Laptop after Windows has really become slow and even the live CD boots faster, the main ...
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Help booting from disk
I already have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on my computer, but I would like to get Windows back onto it. The only problem is that I can't boot from any CD/USB/SD, all I get is the GRUB boot menu, ...
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I can't access Windows 7 dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04
I'm hoping it's not all gone.
I had a Windows Recovery partition, but I can't access that. Only Ubuntu in grub.
GParted:
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How to reinstall Mac OS X 10.9? [closed]
First, here's what happened: I had OS X Mavericks (10.9) installed on my MacBook Pro. Then I wiped the operating system to get Windows 7 instead. After that, I went to install Ubuntu 12.04, but while ...
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From Ubuntu, Change Default Boot OS -Dual Boot
I have a Dual boot system (Windows 7 and Ubuntu). Currently the default OS on startup is Ubuntu. I want to change the Default Boot OS from Ubuntu to Windows (Ubuntu-> Windows) i.e. on Startup Windows ...
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How to make a ISO image from a Bootable DVD in windows? [duplicate]
I am using Windows 7. And I want to install ubuntu 12.04 to my new Notebook PC. It has no DVD-ROM so I wanna make *.iso file so I can install it fom a usb. I have the Ubuntu 12.04 bootable DVD.
How to ...
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third OS partition advice
I am here because I need a little advice to create and install a 3rd OS on my laptop.
Let me quickly epxplain, I have windows for my 3d work(maya) and gaming , then I started to move my cpp ...
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How to recover my old installed ubuntu after installing Windows [duplicate]
I am using windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 dual boot system.
In my Windows 7 some issues occurred, so i re-install windows 7.
after re-installing windows 7, i lost my ubuntu os.
how can i recover my ubuntu ...
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I am trying to share a file between windows 7 (host) and Ubuntu 12.04.4 (guest), using Virtual Box 4.3.12
I have put the folder (winshare), it has some data in it, that I need under Virtual Machine---Settings---Shared Folders---Machine Folders, and in Ubuntu I have created the directory ~/media/winshare. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 host – Virtualbox 4.1.12 Guest=Windows 7 – Network will not connect
Ubuntu 12.04 host – Virtualbox 4.1.12 Guest=Windows 7 – Network will not connect.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on an Acer Aspire 5742-7645 laptop with 4GB memory, Intel Core i3 processor, Intel HD Graphics,...
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Upgrading current version of Ubuntu, on a multi boot system.
I find that I'm unable to upgrade the existing version of Ubuntu on my multiboot system (Windows 7 on the other half of the partition). Can I simply do a clean install from within the partition?
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Booting sequence in dual boot environment - Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04
Until recently, I was able to progress without a problem in a single hard drive Windows 7 / Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot environment. The boot menu would prompt whether one wanted to load Windows 7 or ...
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Install 14.04 LTS from 11.04 [duplicate]
I have ubuntu 11.04 installed in my PC. Now, the system does not allow me to update or upgrade anything. So, I would like to use one of your LTS version. I prefer 14.04, as it is new. I am having a ...
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Use windows laptop as second screen to Ubuntu laptop
I'm using Ubuntu & I want to use my old windows 7 laptop as second monitor. I've come across a couple of questions around similar issue but none that are specific to my configuration. I'd really ...
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What to do if Ubuntu 12.04 does not detect Windows 7 during installation
I am now facing a problem in installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside windows 7. First of all, here is my pc configuration:
Intel desktop board DB75EN,
Intel i-5 3450 processor,
1 TB Western Digital ...
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Install Grub in Windows manually? [duplicate]
'm shayne.
I am using windows 7. And also I used Ubuntu 12.4. But I had to reinstall Windows 7 and now the grub has gone. Can I install grub here logging in windows? If so how could I do it?
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installer does not recognize Windows 7
I have been struggling with this for about 10 days with no luck. So after numerous installs of both OSs I now feel I need some help. I know there are many versions of this question posted already but ...
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Opening Ubuntu partition in Windows 7
I'm curious, is it possible to be logged on to my windows 7 partition, then from there also use Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, say through a window or something along those lines? Because I have all of ...
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Unable to boot into Windows after deleting Windows entry in boot menu
I was using Ubuntu 12.04.
After installing Windows 7, I wasn't able to boot Ubuntu.
So, I installed EasyBCD in Windows 7 and added grub2 Entry.
While, playing with EasyBCD, I deleted Windows loader ...
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Ubuntu 2D working fine, but not Ubuntu virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 9 Windows 7 Host
I'm using Windows 7 as the host machine with VMWare Workstation 9. I created a virtual machine Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS 64 bit version. There are two options for log in, Ubuntu and Ubuntu 2D. Whenever ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.4 boot problem with Windows 7 [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.4 on a separate partition with Windows 7 as my Primary OS (installed first)
I let Ubuntu do the distribution of the partition under the "Install Side-by-side" option
When ...
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Using an already setup RAID 1 array on Ubuntu 12.04
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS on a separate HDD to dual boot with Window 7 x64. My Windows install is on an SSD and my system includes two 3TB Seagate drives in Raid 1. Raid is provided by the ...
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Windows 7 hangs at grub's purple screen when dual booting
I have installed a new laptop (Lenovo Z510) for dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 64 bit. After several trials it now works, but I have a strange effect.
I always enter the Grub purple screen fine....
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Installing 12.04 without removing 11.04 [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed on my computer alongside Windows 7. Is it possible to also dual-boot 12.04? If not, will I need to overwrite the previous version of Ubuntu?. If so how can I do it?
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