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Operating System Not Found - BIOS recognizes, Live OS doesn't (Laptop)
Here's the deal:
I have a multi-partitioned hard drive on my laptop set up with GRUB. I got a blue-screen while working on Windows 7 and when rebooting I got the Operating System Not Found error ...
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Fixing bad Windows partition and startup with Linux
Here is what happened:
Don't have enough space on my Windows partition
Delete the stock "recovery" partition to make space
Enlarge the Win partition
Software messes up the Windows boot
Go under ...
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dual booting(Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.10/11.04) not seeing any of the OSes
I've run into a problem on my HP laptop G32-301TX with i5 Intel processor and ATI Radeon graphics.
I have a dual booting with Windows 7 and at first Ubuntu 10.10 every thing runs fine till I upgraded....
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Can I erase a GRUB bootloader?
I installed ubuntu on my Windows 7 pc. Automatically it used the GRUB bootloader. Then I learnt how to use VirtualBox. I have no need for Ubuntu. So can I delete Ubuntu and GRUB while leaving Windows ...
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What's the Best Practice reinstalling windows 7 on a dual boot with ubuntu 11.04
I've posted a question here that I have a 32bits windows 7 on a dual boot machine with ubuntu 10.04 upgraded to 11.04. From the responses I had from the questions, I decided to reinstall the windows 7 ...
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Boot to Windows once from Grub then back to Ubuntu on next boot
I do a lot of remote work on computers and my home comptuer has 2 OSes: Ubuntu and Windows 7. I would like to be able to switch to Windows occasionally but this is impossible without losing my ability ...
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Windows 7 Pro x64 hangs on boot when loading classpnp.sys [duplicate]
Don't know what happened but this happens almost every time I boot. Never happened before a couple days ago and I haven't even done anything.
Computer powers up, GRUB (From fresh Ubuntu 11.04 install)...
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How to disable GRUB boot menu and boot in default OS
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my system.
I want to configure GRUB so that it automatically boots into the default OS without displaying the boot menu; it should only appear if I ...
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Grub doesn't find any partition, what can I do?
So I just recently installed Ubuntu Linux 10.04 on my desktop machine alongside Windows 7, it booted just fine the first few times but after I went into my Windows 7 recovery software provided by ...
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I can't boot to Ubuntu after installing Windows 7
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and it is working properly, but today I installed Windows 7 to another partition, and now I did not get any boot menu and automatically Windows is working fine still.
Is ...
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encrypt multiple systems (Windows 7 + deb)
I've installed two operating system on single drive with 3 partitions (#1 Windows 7, #2 Debian Squeeze, #some data). Grub 2 is installed in MBR and lets me choose which system to boot.
I would encrypt ...
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Grub: boot failed!
I installed a PCI Magic Card on my system. It installs grub bootloader (I presume). When it tries to boot I get the following:
Boot failed! Press any key to enter command line.
I'm using Windows 7....
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Deleted Linux partition - how do I make Windows boot normally?
I just deleted the Linux partition. As far as I know that volume also contained GRUB and when that's installed it overwrites the Windows boot record. How do I make Windows boot again?
user64775
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Dual-boot Debian Squeeze and Windows 7
I had Windows 7 on my system, after which I installed Debian Squeeze. However, grub doesn't show my Windows 7 in the boot menu.
How can I fix this problem?
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Installation Recommendations For Dual-Booting Win 7 & Arch Linux
I want to install both Windows 7 and Arch Linux on my 1 TB HDD so that the partitions look like so:
grub name | lin name | label | fs | mount point
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Triple boot Ubuntu + Win XP + Win 7 - Windows 7 won't boot
I have a laptop that I have installed Windows XP on, then Ubuntu 10.10, then Windows 7 in that order. All three OS's are on the same HDD on separate partitions (XP: NTFS with Full Disk Encryption, ...
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How can I fix a "no such partition Grub Rescue" error? [duplicate]
Earlier I installed Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB flash drive.
Since the system was unable to detect Ubuntu in the initial menu that appears on reoboting, I deleted the partition onto which I had installed ...
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How to uninstall GRUB and get windows 7 bootloader back?
I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB.
Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader ...
Matt
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How do I move grub so that it's not on the MBR (so I can choose win7 / linux / osX from the refit menu)
I've got a triple boot system with OSX, Ubuntu and Windows 7. Currently when I boot I get the refit menu first which sees all the partitions nicely, and if I choose os X it works just dandy, but if I ...
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How do I install GRUB to a partiton and not MBR?
I am trying to dual boot Windows and Linux. I would like to continue using the Windows bootloader in my MBR.
I installed Windows 7 first. During the install I left some unallocated space that I ...
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Can I dual boot Linux and Windows 7 but use the Windows bootloader instead of GRUB?
Is it possible to have the Windows bootloader point to Windows 7 and a Linux partition instead of using GRUB to point to Windows 7 and Linux?
Any links to tutorials, guides, or how-tos would be ...
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windows 7 not booting after ubuntu partition deletion
I had on my laptop windows 7 and ubuntu server 9.10 (the partition with windows 7 was automatically selected at boot time). Today I wanted to install ubuntu 10.4, and for that I deleted the 9.10 ...
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Will Windows 7 pick up XP when grub is installed
There's similar questions but nothing quite exactly what i'm looking for
I have a laptop that currently dualboots XP and Ubuntu, with XP chainloaded by grub. I'd like to get windows 7 in the mix, ...
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How to repair boot in a dual boot setup with two Windows 7?
I installed a second Windows 7 installation on a separate hard drive on a computer that already had a Windows 7 installation.
Initially all worked great - each time I restarted I received a boot menu ...
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Can I boot my notebook via eSata pci-xpress card?
I would like to boot directly from an external hard disk to improve performance over my internal notebook hard disk. My notebook has no native eSata jack but a pci express card.
As my BIOS doesn't ...
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Windows 7 destroys my GRUB2 on every boot
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7, I generally use Ubuntu but some times start Windows 7. Every time I have used Windows 7 my GRUB2 installation brakes and as soon as GRUB2 is ...
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How do I make a boot loader load the existing boot loader from the first partition
I installed ubuntu using wubi and then I tried installing grub 2 but it failed. I need a way to reinstall the mbr sp it will load the windows 7 loader from the first partition.
tmim
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Windows 7 Keeps Changing the MBR on boot (grub2)
I installed Ubuntu in my new notebook. It originally comes with Windows 7 installed on it. Everything works nice however every time i boot into Windows7 the grub menu doesn't work any more. i can't ...
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Remove windows 7 entry from grub
I recently installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS and formatted my windows 7 hdd, but the windows 7 entry is still showing in grub. How can I remove the entry from grub?
Greetz
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Can Grub be configured to remember the last OS you booted into?
I typically have 2-3 OSes in my boot menu:
Ubuntu 10.04
Windows 7
[Sometimes, a third option, such as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook]
If I am in an OS other than the default choice (Windows 7 in this case), ...
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How to: Install ubuntu 10.04 on a netbook without killing existing windows and recovery hdd
The question is in the title
edit
as the tags suggest, i'd like a fresh install of linux using grub2, and partition my harddrive
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How to move the Windows 7 bootloader to the Windows 7 partition?
I recently installed Windows 7 in a triple boot setup alongside XP and Linux. When I was finished and was in the process of restoring the bootloader for Linux I discovered something strange about what ...
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Grub loading. The symbol ' ' not found. Aborted. Press any key
I have a dual boot system on dell xps 9000 with windows 7 and ubuntu. But after I performed system backup on it as requested by windows 7 I am no longer able to boot into the computer, instead at the ...
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How to boot into Linux (Ubuntu) with Windows Bootloader? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using Vista boot loader instead of GRUB
OK, so I had Windows Vista on a drive, and then installed Ubuntu Jaunty on another drive. When I did that, grub took over. I had many ...
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How can I make grub2 boot into Windows 7?
I had Windows 7 installed on my system, then I installed Debian testing with grub2 as its boot manager. Initially I couldn't see windows entry in grub at all, so I ran:
aptitude install os-prober ...
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"Reinstalling" the Windows 7 boot manager
I've run into an interesting predicament. I've got two HDD's, one running Windows XP (Primary) and another running Windows 7 (Secondary). I recently installed Gentoo over the XP installation and used ...
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Ubuntu 9.10+Windows 7 dual boot, dynamic disks
Ok. Long story follows. I'm a Windows dude, but have started playing around a bit with Ubuntu. I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my notebook until a couple of days ago. Ubuntu's GRUB was ...
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Delete Grub and OpenSuse but keep Windows 7
I have OpenSuse installed alongside Windows 7.
Grub is the boot loader from where I access OpenSuse and Windows 7.
I want to delete Grub and also the OpenSuse partitions.
My first failed approach was ...
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Why do I get a GRUB error after deleting the Linux partition?
I had a dual-boot setup with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I used Easus Partition Manager and shrank my Windows 7 partition. In the empty space, I installed Linux Mint. I decided I didn't want it ...
user5828
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What determines screen resolution on boot?
I am running a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Studio 1500 with 1900x1080 native resolution. I am using grub2 as the boot manager.
When the computer boots up the ...
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Active partitions with Windows 7 and Debian
On, my system I originally installed Windows 7 and then after that Debian. At this point GRUB would appear and I could choose to boot either Win 7 or Debian. Now after upgrading to the latest version ...
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Dualbooting Windows 7 and Gentoo, error
I'm trying to setup a dualboot with Gentoo Linux and Windows 7.
Heres my partitions:
/dev/sda1 /boot partition, ext2
/dev/sda2 Windows 7 partition, ntfs
/dev/sda3 swap partition, Linux swap
/dev/...
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How do I move the Windows 7 Boot Files (bootmgr, ...) to a different drive?
I wanted a dual-boot setup. So first I installed Windows 7 on the 1st partition of one hard drive (we'll call it HDD1), and then I went to install Ubuntu 9.10 on the second partition of HDD1. ...
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Grub auto fixer
I have managed to kill Grub by upgrading windows (to windows 7) after installing linux, debian.
Now i still had a spare blank partition,
so i put on some pc-bsd, thinking it would havbe a decent ...
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repairing ext3 partitions using windows?
I have a linux partition with arch linux installed,i installed windows 7,and now GRUB is gone,i tried installing it again,but it turned out that my ext3 partition is corrupt,i need to fix it before ...
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Installing Windows 7 on a dual boot machine
My current setup is a dual boot of XP and Ubuntu 9.04. Installed Ubuntu after XP and dual booting with GRUB. I want to install Windows 7 now to make it a triple boot system without disturbing my ...
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