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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu live usb boot stuck on HP logo (Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10)
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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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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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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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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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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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