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Partitioning best-practices for SSD+regular HDD with multi-boot
I have a (couple of) regular HDDs on my machine , and I'm about to buy an SSD, probably 128GB, for it.
I would like the machine to be a Dual-Boot Linux (3.x kernel) + Windows 7. My question has two ...
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How best to partition an SSD boot drive and HDD storage drive for Windows and Linux
I'm not 100% sure if this question belongs here or the unix stack exchange.
I consulted the following thread(s) on superuser and while helpful don't answer my questions:
Dual Boot Windows 7 + Linux ...
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Setup for two SSDs and one HDD?
I currently have one 2TB HDD. In about a week, I'll have 2 SSDs; one that is 60GB and the other that is 128GB. I would like to setup Windows 7 and some Linux operating system. I am also a pretty big ...
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Using internal SSD for Linux installation
I have a Samsung NP530 ultrabook. I am planning to dual-boot the Win7 on it with Xubuntu 12.04. The ultrabook has a 500GB Hitachi HDD and a 16GB SanDisk SSD. I can see the HDD in BIOS, but not the SSD....
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Partitioning Scheme on HDD+SSD system
I have a fresh Samsung ultrabook with 500GB HDD and a 16 GB SSD. It came with Windows 7 installed. I am going to dual boot with Xubuntu 12.04. The following is the layout as seen from GParted.
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Aligning partitions on a new SSD (dualboot)
I've been reading up on SSDs under both Windows and Linux. While Windows seems to do most of the aligning automatically and frankly all this information found online baffles me, I thought about ...
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Best way to handle portable Virtual Machine instances?
Background: I have been working on Linux as my desktop OS for a couple years now. I love the development flexibility it provides. However, I also need to run windows since I do video and photo work. ...
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Dual Boot Windows 7 + Linux on 2 separate SSD + Data HDD
I'm about to build myself a new machine (to replace my old Celeron, yes you can laugh :P) and I want to be able to dual boot on Windows 7 (mostly for games) and Linux (development/programing). I'm a ...
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Linux and Windows 7 dual boot on SSD with data HDD
I'm soon about to purchase a new desktop (for gaming, programming etc), and I'm trying to figure out a good setup for a dual boot with Linux and Windows 7.
I'm thinking of getting a SSD for storing ...
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