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How can I get back my grub menu after Windows update?

I have a dual boot installation on my laptop, I have both Debian 12 and Windows 11 installed. I updated Windows 11 yesterday and my laptop boots directly into Windows after the update, no grub menu is ...
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Is Windows / Linux Dual Boot a scam? [closed]

I have searched for this topic a bit on the web without any success. Is Windows Dual boot + Linux way worse than it is imagined ? Installaed a dual bot linux mint on a windows 11 computer. THe main ...
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Preserve Windows partitions when computer is not booting from HD and MBR2GPT fails?

On attempting to install Ubuntu alongside an existing Windows installation on the same hard disk, the Ubuntu installer created a mix of MBR and GPT partitioning scheme, and UEFI/BIOS don't find any ...
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Cant boot from ubuntu install media

I have a Surface Pro 7, currently running Windows 11 and want to install Ubuntu as a second OS. I can not get the install media, which I created using rufus on Windows 11, to boot. With the same ...
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Lost option in dual boot menu

I have dual boot on my machine: Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. I do not use the Grub menu to choose the OS. Instead, I use the startup menu. It have been working few weeks but now (I guess after some ...
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Having issues with Windows 10/11 running dualbooted Zorin (Ubuntu Fork)

I'm having issues getting windows to run in AHCI mode. When I switch my bios into AHCI, windows bluescreens, as expected- but RegEdit isn't saving my changes to storahci and iaStorV to allow windows ...
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Booting in WIndows 10 Installer from Grub

I have a 250GB drive on GPT. There are three partitions, boot, root,home for Ubuntu. I have recently had to add Windows 10, so I partitioned home and opened up about 60GB for Windows 10. I did (try to ...
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Moving a (suspected) grub partition safety when resizing partitions

I am trying to allocate more space to a windows partition by shrinking a linux partition on the same drive, but there is an EFI partition in between the linux and window partitions. This is a picture ...
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Repair Ubuntu and Windows system loading from dualboot

I have some strange behavior with my ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4th. It has two OS: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 I working only with Ubuntu, but I cannot delete Windows, because it is a work laptop. ...
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Impossible to power off and lost of USB on dual boot

I am facing a weird issue I think. I was working on my Ubuntu 21.10 on my laptop. This laptop is configured with a dual boot with Windows 10. It usually works flawlessly. I then rebooted it to go on ...
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Can I use one M.2 SSD and one SATA SSD at the same time

Is it possible to have M.2 SSD and SATA SSD in the same machine and run dual boot? Can I run Ubuntu on M.2 SSD and Windows on SATA SSD and essentially use one machine as a Linux and Windows machine? ...
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"Warning Machine not in commited state"

I am responsible for an HP Elite Desk G4 desktop. It has a dual boot configuration with both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It works fine except for "Warning Machine not in committed state&...
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Extra entry in Grub menu

My Toshiba laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I installed Xubuntu on dual-boot (BIOS not UEFI). When Windows 10 came out, I upgraded to it, but now Grub shows two entries for Windows (besides ...
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Bluetooth stops working after some time Ubuntu 20.04.01 LTS

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 330-15arr. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on the same SSD and I use grub2 for dualboot. My problem is that whenever I boot over from Windows, bluetooth works, ...
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Windows 10 black screen boot alongside Ubuntu 20.04

I'm trying to dual boot Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 20.04 (I've already installed Ubuntu). I have two disks, a SSD (the main disk with the OS) and a HDD (where some folders such as /var and /home are ...
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Dual booting two different operating systems on a SSD and HDD

I plan to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu for open source. Since my laptop specs are the minimal for dev work, I'm also planning to install a 250GB SSD on my laptop. I want to ask two questions: Can ...
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Can i dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu on different drives?

I have an SSD that i have Windows 10 installed on and i have a second drive (HDD) and i would want to know if it`s possible to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu and if it is how to step by step because ...
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Can't boot Windows (Windows and Ubuntu dual boot)

I recently installed Ubuntu. I wanted to make it dual boot with Windows so I made multiple partitions. I can't boot to Windows. My boot menu looks like this: A boot-info report is available here. ...
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Rebuild RST Fake RAID on dual boot system

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 as a second OS on a computer which had Windows 7 already installed. The computer had an Intel RST FakeRAID level 5. After a good deal of messing around, I finally followed the ...
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how to install pop!_os alongside windows

I would like to install pop!_os (basically a reskin of Ubuntu with some convenience features added) alongside windows 10. So far, I have installed windows 10, using about half the space on my ssd and ...
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