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With Windows 7 Ultimate installed first on a single partition, what's the safest and best way to now dual boot Ubuntu 10.04 Server?
Title says it all. I've got Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit) installed on my machine, with one hard drive and nothing but the default partition. What is the safest way to now install Ubuntu Server 10.04 so ...
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How can I remove Ubuntu and install Windows 7?
I had a new hard drive and I immediately installed Ubuntu. Now I need to completely remove Ubuntu and install Windows 7 only.
I tried to set the BIOS priority to DVD but nevertheless Ubuntu is taking ...
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How do I shrink a non-boot drive?
How do I go about shrinking a non-boot drive? I've read through all of the questions on here and can't find a thread similar to mine. I have a 931.51GB NTFS partition (D:/), and I'm trying to Shrink ...
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How To Reinstall Ubuntu on windows 7/ubuntu dual boot
I accidentially changed permissions on many many files in var/ file in ubuntu and now my ubuntu will not boot on system start. The generic purple background will load, but after 5 seconds, the normal ...
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In wubi installed ubuntu, is '/host' needed?
I had windows 7, and i installed ubuntu 10.04 with wubi. when i did it, it created a 17gb partition, with out putting much data in it. it is called 'New Volume' and it is mounted ad '/host', it is ...
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Windows 7 taking too much time for shutting down?
I have a PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 installed in it. My PC has a Pentium dual core processor and 2 GB RAM.
Both OS are working without any problems. But when it comes to the case of shut down,...
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How to free space on hard disk to install another OS?
Here is the scenario.
I have Windows 7 installed on my Dell Inspiron 15" C: drive. The C: partition size is equal to the capacity of the hard disk, but the used space on C: is far less than that.
I ...
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Multiboot with Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu
I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years and now I need some version of Windows alongside it. So, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Black Edition on the free partition I had. Now I cannot get my ...
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Can't Install Windows 7 on a second disk along side Ubuntu
When trying to install Windows 7 after install Ubuntu, I get to the screen where I can see all the disks.
After clicking my second empty disk, formatting it from Windows, when I click next Windows ...
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Why does my touchpad go crazy on Windows but not Linux?
I've had this problem on my laptop for sometime now. Anytime I try to use my touchpad it works correctly about 60% of the time in Windows, the other 40% of the time, it will jump to a random spot on ...
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Restore Windows on Ubuntu [duplicate]
A few years back, my parents gave me a Windows 8 laptop. After years and years of messing with the poor thing, I got it to a hardly working point, and it seemed Windows hardly even worked on it ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 14.04 and windows 7 [closed]
I had Dual boot System with Ubuntu and Windows 7 ultimate .. Windows 7 Got corrupted so i had to reinstall windows 7 (Ultimate 32bit) ..
When i had the dual boot when the windows wasn't corrupted it ...
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Replace Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 by converting to MBR, but keeping Ubuntu partition intact?
I have a Lenovo G500 laptop and I've had a dual boot of Ubuntu 14.10 and Windows 8.1 for a while. I decided to upgrade Windows 8.1 to the Windows 10 technical preview, however it's fairly buggy so I ...
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How do I make the Linux and Windows versions of a game share save files?
I recently obtained a new computer. I also got a 1 TB hard drive. I want to partition it so I can use both Linux and Windows. This is mainly used for gaming. More games are available for Windows, so I ...
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Several Drivers unavailable after dual boot with Windows 7/Ubuntu 14.04
I just dual booted my system 76 laptop with Windows 7 x64 and Ubuntu 14.04. After a successful installation though, Windows 7 is not detecting several drivers including my WiFi and Ethernet. Can ...
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