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How can I fix Windows boot problems from Linux?
Is there some way I can fix Windows boot-problems from Linux (Like I could use EasyBCD from Windows)
When it is booting, it is booting to a corrupt Windows 7 version, though I do have a working ...
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How to reinstall bootloader after migration to SSD
I must say, it was difficult to name this question.
Basically, I need to properly reinstall the bootloader on my system, because I already have the working system disks for my OSes.
The long story ...
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How to get rid of GNU GRUB menu
I had both windows 7 with UBUNTU installed on my laptop but long time ago, I tried to uninstall UBUNTU (I am not sure if I did it right!). I find this GNU GRUB menu really annoying now that I only ...
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I shrunk the Windows partition, now it says grub rescue on boot
I have got a machine with dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10, and I wanted to add another OS to that (Jolicloud), so I started the partition manager in Windows and shrunk the Windows partition by ...
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using Grub to boot windows 7 off an extended partition
I am trying to set up a multi-boot computer with grub that will allow the user to boot to VxWorks or one of several windows instances.
The partitions are set up like the following:
Vxworks - (hd0,0) ...
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Can I triple boot Windows 8, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10?
I have Windows 7 dual booted with Ubuntu 12.10. I can't get rid of any of them, and I want Windows 8 too. How can I triple boot them? Thanks in advance.
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Windows won't sleep after booting from grub
I recently added a second hard drive to my computer and I am using it do dual-boot Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) with Windows 7. Both hard drives are SATA. I am using the default grub bootloader on my second ...
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Windows 7: moved system partition, need to update boot partition
So, I have a decently standard Windows7/Ubuntu dual-boot setup, and (since Ubuntu is my usual operating system) I found I needed to grow my Ubuntu partition and shrink my W7 partition. Originally, my ...
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Unknown filesystem Grub rescue error
I have a lenovo z570, and I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7. Recently all my games that I've been playing stop responding due to a AppCrash.
I searched for the error on Google and they ...
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grup error while installing windows 7
i changed my HD and i can not install win7 from the DVD even if it is the 1st boot in bios it always get to Grup and give an error: No sash partition, any help with this?
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Two hard drives with windows and linux, windows won't boot
I recently installed fedora 17 to one of the hard drives in my computer. Before hand, I had windows 7 on my other hdd in the same computer. Now, when I try to boot the windows 7 hard drive, I get the ...
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Slow Windows 7 bootup after grub dual boot
I have a 1.5TB SATA drive with a fresh (working) installation of Windows 7 Ultimate. I decided I'd like to dual boot with Ubuntu. I have a separate 500GB drive that I wanted to use. Previously, my ...
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Error - unknown filesystem grub rescue - can't boot from any other media whatsoever
I've been trying anything and everything under the sun to fix this problem.
Have a Lenovo Y570 laptop and decided to dual boot Linux Mint alongside Windows 7.
I partitioned some space on the Windows ...
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How to install multiple OS's on a clean HDD
I want to install multiple OS's on my clean harddrive.
It will consist of Win 7, Ubuntu, and LinuxMint. I've heard about problems with the boot sequence and such, so is there a standard operating ...
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Deleted entire harddisk. Now my laptop won't boot anything and stuck at grub rescue
My laptop is Dell Inspiron N4030. I used to use Ubuntu 12.04 and it was on the entire hard drive. I tried to install windows 7 but my laptop couldn't install it. So, I decided to delete the entire ...
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stuck on grub bootloader and cant access windows
OK so I developed a lot of mobile software but have just broken into computers. I installed debian 6 and I put grub in the wrong spot (hd0,2) to be exact. When I boot up to my debian 6 amd64 I get ...
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Can grub and BCD work simultaneously?
Here's my setup. After I installed a new SSD, I have:
Original Windows 7 on sdc1 (to be retired)
Copy of Windows 7 on sdb2
A Windows system partition on sdb1
Ubuntu 12.04 on sda, /boot and ergo grub ...
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Can't boot into Windows 7 from GRUB
So a while ago I installed Ubuntu. I was hoping I would be able to use Windows boot loader to choose between Windows 7 and Ubuntu every time I booted, but no Linux had to install GRUB. After a while ...
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Dual booting Linux/Win7, Grub refuses to load Win7
Decided to give Linux Mint a try (Ubuntu's interface annoys me), so I installed it with the intention of dual booting with Windows 7. Installation went fine, but now I can only boot into Linux Mint. ...
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error: no such partition. Grub rescue
I deleted my Linux (Ubuntu) partition from Windows and I forgot to repair the MBR. I don't have my windows boot CD with me nor a CD drive. Is there any small utility that can be easily downloaded (I ...
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repair windows partition on GRUB boot + IRRT managing SSD disk on mini pci express
You see it in the post, my system is not the simplest one. I have an HDD and a SSD, the SSD being on the mini-pci-express interface, while the HDD is on a usual SATA 2 interface. I have windows 7 on ...
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When laptop lid is opened, Debian login screen shows up instead of Windows login - how to re-instate?
I installed Debian beside Windows 7 in my laptop. I had an issue with GRUB not recognizing the Windows partitions at first, which I could fix by running grub-update (this found the windows partitions, ...
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windows crashing after installing fedora 16
I have HP dv6 pavilion. I installed fedora 16 in it along with windows. I installed fedora on a separate partition. After installation I booted to windows, but it crashed. It shows a "starting windows ...
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Installing windows 7 next to linux
I installed backtrack to a netbook drive but how do you install windows 7 and get dualboot? It has the grub bootloader installed. Does Windows have a dualboot option for install?
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Run Windows from USB Disk
I have an internal hard drive with Windows 7. Usually, it's in my desktop computer, but I now want to run it from my laptop, as well. (The laptop is a dual boot Windows 7, Ubuntu machine.) When I ...
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Unknown filesystem on Lenovo B460e laptop
I got a Lenovo B460e laptop yesterday (given by the Tamil Nadu Government). It has Windows 7 Pro on it.
I set it up the way I liked it. All software drivers and all. I wanted extra drives, so I ...
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Restore a bootloader with no accessible partitions?
I recently deleted my openSUSE partition, and before deletion was using the default SUSE bootloader whenever I wanted to access my other partitions, such as Win7. When SUSE went, so did the bootloader ...
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I used windows 7 in dual boot with opensuse, I deleted the partition on the opensuse, but how can I delete grub bootloader?
I already tried using a windows 7 disk for repair, and I tried the bootrec.exe commands in command prompt as well but they don't work, the automatic repair also does not work. Is there any way to ...
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Grub2 fails to chainload Windows 7 with error "invalid signature"
I've built a new UEFI 64-bit system with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 installed (on separate hard drives). I'd like to be able to boot Windows 7 from the grub menu, but I have so far been ...
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How can I get around this boot crash?
I've been using some alternative software to check how efficient the multiple x64 OS are in my laptop. One of the so called activators happened to break something it wasn't supposed to and now I'm ...
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How to add Windows 7 to Grub menu?
The following is the list that I got when I executed the command sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * ...
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How to fix Truecrypt MBR using Command Prompt or Linux live USB?
I was playing with TrueCrypt and decided to make a fresh installation of Windows 7 from USB stick.
Unfortunately Windows 7 installer: "setup was unable to create a new system partition"
My entire ...
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Triple booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10
I already have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 installed on my laptop, and would like to add Windows 8 Consumer Preview to that list. Here's some information which may be relevant to this question:
The ...
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Reboot into the other OS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to automatically boot from Linux distro to Windows?
I have both Windows 7 and Debian installed on my computer. I thought it would be cool if you could restart your ...
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Unable to change default OS
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint and Windows 7 in my system. I tried to set Windows 7 as my default OS but Linux Mint remains as default. I tried to change the order through StartUpManager in ...
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Dual Booting Arch/Windows - Windows sets self as active partition?
First time Arch install, though technically I've done it about 3 times in the last couple days :0)
Trying to dual boot with an existing Windows 7 partition, which is almost working, with one small ...
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Moving Win7 partition to other disk using Linux: how can I have win7 boot again?
I recently got a new notebook which came with Win7 preinstalled. I'm not a Windows guy (all Linuxes here) but I decided to keep it just in case. The problem is that the notebook came with a 5400rpm ...
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After installing debian 6 on my laptop along with windows 7 64bit , my laptop only boots to debian what should I do?
I've installed Debian 6 32bit on the same HDD but different partition along with Windows 7 64bit, and now my laptop only boots to Debian 6 where I want both Windows / Debian.
How can I edit GRUB to ...
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How do I remove Windows 7 from GRUB in Ubuntu 11.10?
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Windows 7 Box. It's a single boot. The intention was to install Ubuntu and destroy Windows 7 with a full erasure if you will. However, post install my PC was ...
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Windows7 and Ubuntu 11.04 in grub
I installed Windows7 on my new netbook (x121e ThinkPad) and then installed Ubtuntu 11.04 afterwards, but grub won't load after startup and windows always starts immediatly. I already did such a setup ...
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Changing which drive the boot sector is on
I ordered a pre-built computer from a custom computer manufacturer, but asked them to install an SSD and make it the primary drive (C:), with the hard drive that was formerly the primary drive to be ...
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Fixing misaligned Windows partition without affecting Ubuntu
I have dual boot setup with my partitions set up like so:
/dev/sda1 - DellUtility (FAT)
/dev/sda2 - RECOVERY (NTFS)
/dev/sda3 - OS (Windows 7 NTFS)
/dev/sda4 - Extended
/dev/sda5 - swap
/dev/sda6 - ...
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Netbook Windows 7 recovery
I have an Asus 1005PE netbook which I installed Ubuntu on as a second partition a while back. Its primary partition is Windows 7 Starter. I've now upgraded to a bigger laptop and am selling this ...
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How to install only GRUB bootloader and put chainloader to load automatically Windows?
I broke my boot partition but Windows is still installed and unaccessible. I had only Windows installed on my computer before.
How can I install GRUB and chainload it to automatically load Windows? ...
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How to fix Grub Rescue error after deleting Jolicloud partition?
I have Jolicloud OS and Windows 7 dual boot and I deleted the Jolicloud partition. Next time I turned the computer on it said:
error unknown filesystem grub rescue
So I reinstalled Jolicloud and ...
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Problems with Windows boot loader and Grub. How to make one primary and the other secondary?
I had a working Windows 7 + Ubuntu 10.10 setup where my primary boot loader was that of Windows 7 and from there when I went on Ubuntu, it took me to Grub.
When I updated to Ubuntu 11.04 it made Grub ...
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Bootloader problem - Windows XP and Windows 7, dropping Linux
I have a fairly new PC. When I first bought it, I set it to dual boot Windows XP and OpenSUSE Linux. When OpenSUSE died (strictly just X and/or KDE) for no clear reason, it was the final straw that ...
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How to make GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu?
How to make Windows Boot Manager automatically open GNU GRUB and then with GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu 11.04. Please answer detailed with the proceedings.
Thank you.
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grub rescue prompt
Had win7 and ubuntu installed on laptop and inadvertently selected the recovery option in boot menu - exited and now all I get is
error: no such partition
grub rescue>
set returns:
prefix=(hd,0,...
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Can someone help me get Grub off my Pc?
I had my computer dual booted with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. My computer hasn't been running well at all, so I thought I'd use the nifty recovery program it came up with (which reinstalls my ...
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