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Ubuntu won't boot with 4 hard drives
I got two HGST 4TB HDD's for my birthday and I'm trying to put them in my media center which already has a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. The motherboard is an ASRoxk E350M1 which only has 4 SATA headers so ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to package linux os on a hard disk for another computer?
I want to give my friend a hard disk with a Linux operating system for his/her unused computer. Using unetbootin, I tried to install a bootable iso on my hard disk in one small partition and then I ...
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Grub error 18, gparted not showing anything
Some week ago I started having some problems with my pc, sometimes it just freezed not allowing me to do anything. I had to turn it off and on and sometimes do it a couple of time even at startup.
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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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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 ...
