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Can't access content in secondary drive partition after installing Manjaro Linux
I'm going through this problem for some time now, bit more than a month.
I am not a Linux user, I was installing it to learn it. I have two HD's in my note, I had Windows installed in a SSD and used a ...
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Booting Windows on centOS
Obviously just plugging a bootable Windows 10 USB drive on it doesn't cause centOS to open that drive and show me the Windows 10 install GUI like it would on another OS. However, I'm done with centOS ...
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Why my pc doesn't display the boot menu to choose an OS when I start the pc? [duplicate]
I originally had a Windows OS and I wanted to also have a Linux OS. So I added Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows. However, when I start my pc, it doesn't display the boot menu and goes on the Windows ...
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How to reset Windows 10 installation without losing grub
Is there a way to reset windows 10 installation without affecting other oses? I have one windows 10, and two linuxes (Ubuntu 20.04 and 16.04). I was planning on using windows recovery option->...
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Dual boot - tried to mount Windows drive on Ubuntu 20, failed, now Windows won't boot
I installed Ubuntu on my laptop today in place of Mint. I was able to boot the Windows drive under Mint, but it failed in Ubuntu with the error described in this page.
However, when I tried to start ...
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linux and windows 10 having issues in dual booting
I've installed Pop OS alongside my windows 10, but now I have a problem: I have to choose which partition has to boot in my boot settings, no dual boot menu at all.
This is how I installed the pop OS:
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uefi boot not showing ubuntu / GRUB
I've an acer aspire e 14.
It has a single HDD with 7 partitions:
EFI system on /dev/sda1
Something described as "Microsoft Reserved" on /dev/sda2
Windows 10 FS on /dev/sda3
Linux FS on /dev/sda5 ...
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BOOTREC /FIXBOOT => Element not found
So the other day, there is a post about this here but there have been some developments, I installed Linux Kali to dual boot and messed up the booting of my PC.
After messing around with the boot ...
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How to change boot options on Linux
I am attending a robotics camp in a week and was given a USB and was told to set up my computer by booting it through the USB so that I can use Linux. I did this, and it worked successfully. But the ...
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dual booting a larger 3TB hard drive in legacy mode or EFI only?
For a "new" refurbished PC:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information'
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex 790
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If both are UEFI, can I physically switch between a Win10 HDD and a Linux HDD as needed?
I have a work laptop with Win10 that only has room for 1 HDD, though I have a spare drive. I'd like to mostly outright switch to Linux, but I don't want to commit 100% in case an issue arises for ...
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Create Bootable usb for Win 10 1909 from Ubuntu/KDE Neon
I have KDE Neon installed on my laptop and I want to dual boot with windows. I downloaded Windows-10 ISO from Microsoft download page. This is Windows 1909 version.
I have tried many approaches ...
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Why I can't install Debian 10 in dual boot alongside with Windows 10 (bitlocker enabled)?
As the title says, currently I'm trying to install Debian 10 in a dual boot configuration alongside with Windows 10 (this is in my personal laptop).
With my previous laptops I didn't had any troubles ...
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BIOS cannot find any disks and will not proceed past the startup screen
I should start this question out by acknowledging the numerous poor choices that led to this situation.
For some time now I have been thinking about switching from Windows to Linux as my primary ...
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OS not booting from secondary hard disk
Recently I replaced my Optical Drive with another Hard drive (so it is my secondary hard drive) on my laptop Dell Inspiron 15 3542.
Now I installed my Windows 10 on the primary hard drive and Ubuntu ...
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