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Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu on 2 separate drives Not working
I have a Dell Vostro 5581 laptop with Windows 10 installed.12GB RAM installed. Recently I installed a 500GB M.2 NVME SSD card. I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on this drive. So the 2 operating systems ...
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CMOS reset does not clear old boot options
I'm trying to get rid of old boot options for Ubuntu on an Asus P8C WS motherboard.
I moved the jumper over to the reset pins and took out the CMOS battery and waited about 5 minutes before putting ...
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ASUS running Ubuntu suddenly boots into BIOS only and says "cannot find any bootable devices" – what should I check or try?
My son (too young for a Stackoverflow account) has an ASUS X515EA on which he had installed Ubuntu versions 23.04 and 20.04 in addition to the pre-installed Windows 11 OS (so three partitions in total)...
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How is the BIOS name of a bootable hard drive created (and can it be changed)?
I have an external hard drive with three partitions: an EFI partition, and two Linux install partitions.
When I plug the hard drive into my computer and enter the boot menu to boot into my portable ...
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Which part of the hard disk does the BIOS backup get stored?
I have a Gigabyte 880GM-USB3 motherboard, purchased around 2015. In all these years there has been no BIOS update. I don't remember switching on any setting that would perform an auto-update of the ...
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Chrome OS Version 94.0.4606.124 (Official Build) (64-bit) [closed]
[Error/main.rs:181] ERROR: unknown command: shell
I've been having this problem for a couple of days. I am in developer by turning off my chrome:power-esc-refresh and ctrl+d and you know the rest.
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Ubuntu live usb boot stuck on HP logo (Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10)
Background Info
I am dual booting Ubuntu 20.04 on an SSD with pre-installed Windows 10. This has been working for the past 2 months.
What happened first
I tried to boot Ubuntu and I got the same error ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot manager of OS after dual booting with Windows 10
I am using a HP laptop which has both SSD and HDD. Windows 10 is installed in the SSD so I have decided to install Linux in HDD. I have allocated around 50GB for Ubuntu 20.04 and installed it in the ...
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increasing the size of dual booted ubuntu /dev/sdb5 from the windows /dev/sda4
My GParted disk map looks like following:
/dev/sdb: Ubuntu
/dev/sda : Windows
Low disk space warning on ubuntu
I want to increase the size of Ubuntu so the low disk space warning doesn't come. I ...
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is it possible to install BOTH Zorin OS and MX-19.4 OS on THE SAME MACHINE?
I have an old dell laptop that I recently installed zorin os on, and I have been told that since I am a newcomer to Linux, I should try out different distros to find one that suits my needs best. I ...
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Can I fix a windows 7 booting issue with ubuntu?
I had a windows 7 machine working fine. Then it crashed and wouldnt boot, it wouldnt even post. So I assumed the motherboard went so I bought a new one and replaced it. Still nothing (i gave the ...
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Hard drive flagged to unallocated and i cannot boot or format the hdd
I had Windows 10 and I wanted to install Ubuntu beside my Win10, so I installed Ubuntu with root and home and swap but I chose to boot from root so that I could add it in Windows10 boot menu with ...
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Getting no bootable device on laptop, but the hard disk is working fine on other computer
I got no bootable device on my 2-year-old laptop Acer Aspire 515-51G a couple of days back. It had windows 10 pre-installed in it. I tried to install ubuntu but got the same error although the hard ...
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Default Boot device is missing or Boot failed
2 weeks ago I upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 but it crashed. So I had to install Ubuntu 20.04. I was already having Windows 10 as dual run option. a week ago, I noticed issues with my laptop;
If I remember ...
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Possible Hard Disk failure
I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 10 on /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu on /dev/sda6; recently, Windows will boot properly, but Ubuntu will not, saying the filesystem encountered errors and prompted me to ...
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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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