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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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Computer freezes and won't boot again
I'm using (or rather, have used) a desktop with Ubuntu 16.04 running on an SSD. A few days ago while I was using it, it froze. That is, I could only move the mouse but not click on anything. A red led ...
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Failed to boot Win 7 from external HDD on modified Chromebook
The HDD has Windows 7 on it and I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 on a Parrot Chromebook with SeaBIOS.
I got the internal hard drive from an old Toshiba laptop and put it in a caddy so I can use it as ...
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Cannot boot lubuntu from HDD after clean install
I have installed lubuntu 17.04 on an old Pentium 4 machine, using a lubuntu live DVD.
After installation I cannot boot the newly installed OS. It says "missing operating system".
It did work after ...
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Not able to access hard disk on ubuntu
I am having a weird issue. I am using an HP pavilion dv6 laptop. It has windows 8 as well as ubuntu on the same disk (without partition). I do use both the OSs. When I boot on Ubuntu and try to access ...
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Will Booting From Flash Drive Format my C: drive? (UBUNTU)
As the title suggests, when Installing UBUNTU is it possible to JUST install on USB, not onto my whole C: drive?
The reason is is because I want to be able to boot this from any computer (if they ...
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Bios cannot detect boot drive, but Gparted/ubuntu can access it fine
I'm running a dual-boot system of windows and ubuntu. I have an HDD and SSD, with windows and ubuntu installed to my SSD, and the EFI boot partition installed to my HDD. This setup has been working ...
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How to install GRUB on a USB drive
I have an installation of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I'm a huge security freak, so as an extra layer of security and a fun project to occupy my time, I thought about removing the bootloader from my hard ...
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LVM - adding space to /boot
I am struggling with an empty 500 G hard drive, and a full 236 M /boot partition :-(
It seems the system has been set up with LVM.
Here is the configuration :
I found the LVM how to a bit dry :
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Issues installing OS (Windows or Ubuntu) on brand new SSD
So recently I got an old computer from a friend so had a computer to do linux-stuff on, an Asus K50ID. The computer works without any issues and I have been able to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16....
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installing ubuntu and starting windows isn't in boot option
I didn't installing ubuntu alongside my windows7.
I have windows7 installed in my ssd and ubuntu in another. Right before I install ubuntu, I unplugged all my other hdd. 1st because it the ubuntu ...
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Unable to boot Kali Linux from External Hard Drive, with Ubuntu
I have installed Kali Linux on an external hard drive. ON my laptop Ubuntu is installed. When I connect the external hard drive via USB cable and booted the laptop from external USB/hard drive. Kali ...
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How do I clone a USB stick including partitions?
I have several USB flash drives, and one of them has an installation of Ubuntu with several partitions. I want to make the other USB drives exactly the same as that one (to share with family and ...
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Can I fix my Windows installation?
What I did was I loaded up Ubuntu via USB, installed it on my second hard drive, and that messed up something with my other hard drive that has Windows 8.1 installed on it. Now, when I try to access ...
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Dual boot with HDD and SSD
On my desktop PC I've got an HDD with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Ubuntu was installed second after Windows 7, and GRUB lets me choose between the two OSs.
A short time ago, I bought an SSD. I installed ...
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Windows 10: Can I safely remove WINRE or RECOVERY partitions?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:
Thus, I ...
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Dual boot on SSD and HDD (Windows 10 and Ubuntu)
I have an Acer Aspire S3 (20GB SSD and ~500GB HDD) and I want to install Windows 10 on the SSD while creating a ~400GB partion on the HDD for windows. I would use the other 100GB on the HDD to install ...
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Windows 10 Black screen after moutherboard logo,no cursor,no safe mode
I had windows 7 and upgraded via windows update to windows 10.Everything ran smoothly but i deleted my windows 7 recovery backup to free up space.The next time i turned on my pc i get to moutherboard ...
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Recover data from formatted harddrive [duplicate]
I had a dual boot machine with Windows 8 and Deepin linux on it. Last week I removed WIndows 8 and installed windows 8.1.
After installing Windows 8.1 grub was removed. I followed How can I repair ...
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Can not access Hard Disk from Ubuntu 12.04 live CD
I am new to Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 . OS is corrupted in my system and can not boot. I just go through recovery mode and upgrade my OS but still i can not boot.
Using Ubuntu 12.04 Live ...
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Unable to mount windows hard drive on linux live usb
I am fully shutting down windows with "shutdown /s /t 0".
I also tried "shutdown /s /f /t 0"
I then insert my linux live usb and boot from it. Everything works fine, but when I try to access my ...
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