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Windows 7 can't find Hard Disk
I had Ubuntu 11 installed, and now I want to install Windows 7. I formatted one partition (with the help of Ubuntu's live CD) and I started the installation of Windows. I formatted the partition again ...
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Installing Windows 7 on an XP/Ubuntu dual boot machine
My machine has Windows XP and Ubuntu installed. I now want to install Windows 7 by removing Windows XP. Is it possible to do this without affecting my Ubuntu installation?
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Possible to Boot install OS (Ubuntu/Windows 7) from hard drive folders/partition?
So I've been installing OSes from USB for sometime. Now when I am using Ubuntu mainly with Windows sometimes, I wanted to have a way to have multiple OS installers in 1 USB or even internal hard drive....
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How do I manually install VMware Tools?
I installed Ubuntu with VMware Player on my Windows 7 system.
For some reason VMware Player cannot get the Vmware Tools files from the Internet, possibly a connection problem due to firewall ...
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Why can't I install ANY operating system?
Why can't I install ANY operating system?
I tested the memory and I tested the hard disk and everything is fine!
Mini Windows XP booted from Hiren's BootCD works. I tried Windows 7, Windows XP SP3 ...
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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 to have 3 operating systems on a mirror RAID 1
How do one proceed if I want to have 3 Operating Systems: Windows 7, Ubuntu, Debian plus a swap partion, all in all 4 partitions?
Lets say I have 2 disks, each 640 GB and make room -> 300 GB for ...
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When I try to install Windows 7 on dell inspiron 1420 which came with Ubuntu freezes at the beginning of installation
I have searched many forums and tried a lot of suggested solutions but nothing works.
I am sure that installation disk is ok cause it worked before (I was able to install Windows7 on my other notebook ...
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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
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as the tags suggest, i'd like a fresh install of linux using grub2, and partition my harddrive
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Installing Open Suse11.2 on a PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu
Currently I have installed in a dual-boot setup, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Grub2 is the loader.
I want to install openSUSE 11.2 without wrecking havoc on my Windows 7 installation and getting rid of ...
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