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Non-System disk or disk error but HD works on bootable USB
So I have a used HP Computer with two hard drives. I installed Ubuntu on one of them and the second one is used like an external drive.
Ever since the pc sometimes struggles with booting and poops up ...
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Hard Disk Not Detected Only When Restarting Windows 10
I have ran into an issue that I'm having trouble Googling my way out of. To summarize what has happened:
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10 (Windows was already installed). I have made ...
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dual boot linux installation type empty
I have win7 in my PC and I want to install Ubuntu alongside.
I shrink-ed ~40 GB from the C drive to install the Ubuntu on it.
I prepared a USB drive with the OS. I found that the screen installation ...
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Need access to Apple Time Machine Backup on hard drive that was booted on Ubuntu
I have a hard drive that I used for backing up an old Macbook via Time Machine (OSX Lion). I accidentally booted the external drive on my Ubuntu box which seems to have have changed the MBR.
Now ...
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Not able to install Windows 10 on an existing Ubuntu OS on an HP laptop
I am trying to install Windows 10 on an HP laptop which is currently running Ubuntu 18.04. I go to the boot device options it gives me the option of booting from a USB Flash Drive but when I select it,...
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PXE-E61 Media Test Failure however laptop still boots - dual HDD and SSD on Ubuntu 18.04
I recently added an HDD to my HP Elitebook 840 G2 and reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 such that only my home directory (and swap partition) is on the HDD, while everything else is on my SSD. Upon booting I ...
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How to move EFI from booting primary HDD to internal SSD
I had a machine with Windows 10 on an HDD. I installed a smaller internal SSD and installed Ubuntu 18.04. During the installation process it automatically (with my approval) set up the machine to ...
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Windows 10 died suddenly, can't access hard drive
I'm having a kinda bizarre problem right now. First of all, just to be specific, the problem is with a MSI GV62 laptop that came with Windows 10 preinstalled. To be completely honest, I didn't mess ...
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Triple boot - Windows, macOS, Ubuntu - should I use SSD + 2 HDD? [closed]
So far, I had been using Windows 10 Pro as my primary OS and using macOS and Ubuntu via VMware.
But, since I'm planning to record videos of macOS and Ubuntu, and I want to record them in the highest ...
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Lenovo T430 double hardrive booting
I have been encountering a problem with my Lenovo T430. I have replaced main hard drive with SSD (evo850) and installed news windows-10, while original hard drive (7200 rpm) with Ubuntu is in optical ...
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Booting from the drive of an external hard disk with MBR
A newbie to MBR/GPT here. I am living in the world of Ubuntu 16.04.
I use Ubuntu Live CD very frequently. Since I have an external HDD with lots of drives, my ingenious :) idea is to dedicate one ...
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Fresh Reinstall of Windows 10 on a dual boot PC
For Reasons, I can't determine, my Windows 10 installation is completely borked - I'm rapidly losing space on my SSD because something is installing and taking up so much space on it, and is still ...
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BIOS detect switched Drive
I just bought a new ASUS laptop with 1 SSD and 1 HDD. First, I installed Ubuntu 17.10 on SSD, but it couldn't start (with TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to errata message), so format everything and install ...
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After installing Ubuntu, Windows laptop will not boot and repair fails
So I have this Lenovo Y510P laptop with Windows 8.1 installed on it. Everything worked fine until two days ago, when I tried to install Ubuntu.
I successfully installed Ubuntu and after few minutes ...
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Two different operating systems on two different hard drives?
I have windows 7 installed on my hard drive (installed it as BIOS not UEFI), and I want to buy another hard drive and install ubuntu 16.04 on it through UEFI. When I have both hard drives connected to ...
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