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After running windows 7 on dual boot system (with Ubuntu 14.04), machine does not reach GRUB
I did the following:
Partitioned my C drive
Installed Ubuntu 14.04 from USB .iso
After my computer failed to boot, I used the boot repair disk, live from USB, to fix. This fixed the issue.
I started ...
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Dual-boot windows 7 and Antergos Linux. Windows will only boot some times
Not long ago i clean installed windows 7 on ,y laptop. I then installed Antergos for dual-booting. Then windows chould not boot so i used boot-repair to fix it. When i now go in to grub to boot ...
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grub - Keyboard stuck in GRUB
I have dual booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. I have Intel DH67BL motherboard which does not support PS/2 keyboard,mouse and am using Logitech K120 USB 2.0 keyboard.
I have set GRUB to load Windows 7 ...
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How can I boot into Ubuntu where grub was removed?
Here's my situation:
I installed Ubuntu on my work laptop on a partition before IT implemented whole hard drive encryption via bitlocker. I had to do some quick work when IT announced they were ...
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Windows can't boot after Samsung Recovery Solution 5 restored it
This is the story:
I have (or should I say had?) Windows 7 "home basic" edition, service pack 1 installed (preinstalled from factory). One day I installed two Linux OS: First Debian 8.3 Jessie and ...
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How do I fix my MBR after removing dual boot OS?
I have a PC which I cannot boot into anymore. I really really don't want to reinstall the OS on it. (I don't want to lose the data and, besides, it's Christmas week.)
The PC has an SSD which had ...
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Remove Old Grub Loader From Second Drive Without Linux (Windows 7)
I have two drives. One small SSD which windows 7 is installed on. One terrabyte hard drive from ages ago. It has all my data and steam games. I just got a new motherboard and CPU so I reinstalled ...
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Too many Windows 7 option on GRUB
When I boot my Laptop, with a dual boot Ubuntu 14.04 / Windows 7 PRO, I've noticed that I can select from 4 different Windows 7 options, instead the one and only I had some days ago.
Some of those ...
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Can't install Windows 10 from Windows 7 PRO
I'm trying to upgrade my Windows 7 laptop, a Dell Latitude 3540, with a dual boot with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
When I try to upgrade it, and it reboot, I'll select the Windows OS from GRUB, and then the ...
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Lenovo W540 w/ Dualboot Win7/Ubuntu 15.04 restarts 3 seconds after Grub
I have a Lenovo W540 which is almost 3 years old and has served me well so far.
2 weeks ago I finally got around to reinstall Ubuntu on it and I went with 15.04 (previously I had an old version on it ...
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will Kali linux GRUB make changes to MBR on windows OS
I am new to Kali Linux and am trying to install it in a Virtual Box on my windows 7 system. My question is will Kali linux GRUB make changes to the 'Actual' MBR on Windows OS when I am installing ...
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Using GRUB to boot into encrypted windows disk
This is similar to other questions already asked here before. Still none of them actually answered my problem.
My PC has two SSDs. One containing Windows 7, one containing Kubuntu 15.04.
The Linux ...
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Win7 cannot sleep because of GRUB [closed]
I have Win7 on an MBR HDD for 6 years now, that was my primary operation system, but I intend to use Linux instead.
At least I am trying out several Linux distros on another HDD, which I set to GPT ...
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Can't boot Windows after installing Kali Linux?
I recently tried installing Kali Linux on HP notebook, but during this the installation of grub failed.
Now on rebooting I get the message "No boot-able device found please insert boot-able device ...
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Trying to get back to Win 7 after deleting Ubuntu 15.04. Can't get past "grub rescue >"
I wanted to go back to an all Windows machine after trying Ubuntu 15.04. It was a good experiment, but not for me.
I had installed Ubuntu 15.04 on its own partition and it put in a dual boot menu. At ...
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Windows 10 does not boot (Maybe isn't considered as OS?)
I have a problem with booting Windows 10.
I use Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 and first I instantly got back to GRUB when selecting Windows 10 then I booted from Windows 10 installer media and ran ...
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Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 While Multi-Booted With Linux
My PC has two separate physical hard-drives in it, one with Windows 7, and one with Ubuntu Linux. In order to get the dual-boot set up to work properly, I set up GRUB to be installed on both hard ...
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Grub won't boot after patitioning Windows 7
I partitioned my Windows 7 into two drives using Minitool Partition Wizard. I also have a Ubuntu partition on the same computer.
After the partition was over, it restarted into the Grub rescue mode ...
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Triple boot laptop no longer boots after deleting partition
I am facing a problem on my Lenovo laptop Model No : G500.
When I press the power button, then the lenovo screen flashes and
the laptop further does not boot,the lenovo screen freezes.
It also does ...
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Restore Windows bootloader on Virtual Machine [duplicate]
I recently p2v'ed my old Computer into a virtual machine. Since it had a dual-boot and I only copied the Windows partition this broke GRUB. I can still boot Windows with Rescatux though. So my ...
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Install windows7 and ubuntu 14.04 on a computer which already has windows and ubuntu 12.04 installed
I have installed windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 in 2 separate partitions in my machine and I can access both using the GRUB. Now I want to re-install windows 7 and ubuntu 14.04 to my machine. What is the ...
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Reinstalled windows 7 now can't get access to dual boot [duplicate]
I had a dual boot setup with a Debian based distro (crunchbang) as primary and win 7 also installed. Recently I reinstalled win 7 on it's existing partition but now the boot loader is gone and win 7 ...
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Kali Linux and Win 7 dual boot, I want to change the active partition and bootloader, not sure in what order
I created a partition for Kali Linux and a Live USB. I used the Live USB, was intrigued by what I saw ( first time ever seeing Linux ) and chose to install but the install wouldn't complete.
Several ...
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Grub2 with Kali, how to boot into Windows 7
I will preface this with saying I am new to linux. I had windows 7 installed on my main SSD, I wanted to give Kali a try so I installed that on a 2nd SSD. When the option to install grub2 came up, ...
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How to add Windows to grub?
The following is the list that I got when I executed the command sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 Gb, 120034123776 bytes
Id disk: 0x975e4baf
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 17 ...
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Windows 7 screen not displayed after installing Ubuntu
I bought a new Lenovo laptop with DOS and I wanted to make it dual boot (Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7, both 64 bit).
I took the following steps to install both systems:
Installed Windows 7 OS
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GRUB shows up unexpectedly when booting after CMOS Reset
Basically, my computer has 3 hard drives. 2 HDDs, 1 SSD. Years ago, I installed a Linux partition on one of the HDDs, but decided to move back to solely using Winodws(gaming pc) and removed Linux from ...
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Remove Linux and GRUB while keeping Windows 7
My situation: I had a Windows 7 laptop, then installed Astra Linux on a new 10-GB partition.
If I try to boot Windows, it asks for a name and password, but I'm not sure what name it expects me to ...
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How can I boot Windows from external hard drive using GRUB?
I have installed Windows 7 in my internal hard drive, and used a external hard drive box which turns the internal hard drive into a external hard drive.
I installed both Ubuntu and Windows 7 in my ...
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How to make my restore partition usable again?
I have an old Samsung X420 in which I had installed Linux years ago, alongside Windows 7.
I gave it to my girlfriend to use and since she didn't deal well with Linux and GRUB, I wiped and recreated ...
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Installing Windows Update 3033929
I am using grub as default boot loader for my dual boot laptop (DELL Vostro 3750). My system is currently undergoing a reboot loop (infinite) because of Windows Update 3033929.
As described here:
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Partition resize error
I've decided to remove my old linux [/] partition and enlarge my Win7 partition, before install new linux distro.
For first time in my experience something gone wrong
when I tried to resize (enlarge ...
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How to recover my ubuntu (start ubuntu from a raw disk partition)
I have windows 8 PC. 931 GB HD (641 windows and 200 gb for ubuntu.)
windows and ubuntu in different drives.
Ubuntu partition is a raw type of disk drive while windows is a ntfs.
when I needed to ...
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Windows 7 changes my uefi default boot when it starts
I installed Windows 7 in a HP Compaq 6300. First I disabled secure boot and enabled legacy mode. Then I installed Ubuntu in other partition. Ubuntu detected some uefi partitions and let me create / ...
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GRUB Bootloader selection window showing 2 times
Currently I have installed 4 os on my 2 HDDs, Windows 7, Windows XP, Ubuntu 14.04 & Open Suse 12.3, in same order.
Before I have Installed Open Suse.
GRUB was showing options:
Windows XP
Windows ...
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Grub can't find Windows 7
Using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS after upgrading from 12.04. I have 3 hard drives: sda has Windows, sdb has Ubuntu, sdc is a non-bootable backup drive. Before I upgraded to 14.04, I had an option to boot ...
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Restoring Windows boot entry on GRUB
I made a lot of mistakes lately with my systems, and now I have an issue.
After installing fedora 20, I tried to resize my windows 7 partition, and generated an error with the actual size of the ...
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remove a boot option from Windows 7 menu (with grub)
I've an old eeepc that was shipped with Windows 7 starter installed, about a year ago (or more) I've installed a Debian/Linux using the Debian installer for Windows, everything went fine or so I ...
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how to modify Grub or mgr so that I can boot into windows 7 instead of Neogrub
I have installed windows7 in C drive. Now I use easyBCD to install ubuntu. I followed the steps according to an article which teaches how to install ubuntu-windows dual system(not in English, so I don'...
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Windows 7 hangs at "Starting Windows" screen when dual-booting with Ubuntu
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 in a dual boot configuration. I have my original Windows 7 installation on my C: drive and the new Ubuntu 14.04 installation in a partition on my d: drive. GRUB shows ...
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Windows 7 not booting. grub bash shell appears
My Windows 7 x64 desktop PC stopped booting after I restarted it.
This message appears:
drive 0x80(LBA): C/H/S=1023/255/63, Sector Count/Size=16434495/512
Partition num: 0, active, Filesystem ...
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No boot menu for Ubuntu 14.04 after dual boot installation
I assume, this is not a duplicate post. Please read my findings below before assuming so.
I have gone through several questions over the Internet regarding people complaining that they are not ...
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how to enter into my win7 from rescue mode?
I have installed dual os :win7+debian7 on my pc.In the grub.cfg:
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
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grub having problems with Windows7 booting
I installed Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my laptop. It was working properly until yesterday. I went to do some work after I switched on my laptop and selected Windows, but when I came back my laptop's ...
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Can't boot into windows or CD
This is my third reinstall of Debian, this time because I wanted to update from wheezy to Jessie, but it wouldn't run anymore so I switched back to windows and deleted the Debian partition and ...
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Boot Loader for windows 7
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I have Windows 7 and opensuse 13.1 and Windows boot loader is replaced by grub 2.
Now I want to format opensuse
how can i restore my Windows boot loader over grub 2. How can I format ...
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Is my Windows partition too far down on the disk?
I have /boot/ on /dev/sda1 (1GB), followed by my Linux root LVM on /dev/sda2 (1.3GB). Finally, I freshly installed Windows 7 on /dev/sda3 in the remaining 700GB of space.
When I select Windows 7 in ...
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Computer sometimes load grub not Windows bootloader
Sometimes my notebook loads grub instead of windows bootloader and I do not know why. Before I reinstalled Windows 7 32 bit I had ubuntu on it (windows installation). I have not installed another ...
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Setting up a dualboot by installing cloned partitions using clonezilla
I'm trying to setup a dual boot system where I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Here's the kicker both are partitions I've saved using Clonzezilla from different places and to make matters worse Linux ...
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Problems with starting Windows after installing Ubuntu on a multiboot pc
Before I recently upgraded my Ubuntu OS, I had a multiboot with Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu.
When I started the computer, the GRUB bootloader would usually show the options: Windows 7 and Ubuntu ...
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