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Primary vs secondary HDD slots, what are the performance effects
What's the difference between the primary and secondary HD slots in a laptop?
On a clean OS install. If I have identical 500gb SSDs in the primary and secondary Drive slots on a M6500 workstation, ...
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Can I fix a windows 7 booting issue with ubuntu?
I had a windows 7 machine working fine. Then it crashed and wouldnt boot, it wouldnt even post. So I assumed the motherboard went so I bought a new one and replaced it. Still nothing (i gave the ...
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Dual boot and installing Ubuntu on F drive
Currently I have two hard disks:
Local Disk C (where Windows 7 is installed)
Linux F ( where I want to install Ubuntu)
I don't know which is my F Drive. I can't find the answer anywhere.
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dual boot linux installation type empty
I have win7 in my PC and I want to install Ubuntu alongside.
I shrink-ed ~40 GB from the C drive to install the Ubuntu on it.
I prepared a USB drive with the OS. I found that the screen installation ...
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Data Recovery Help Ubuntu and WIndows
Okay so I was trying to backup files on my HDD. I took it out of my linux machine and put it into my windows machine. Windows said there was a problem with the drive and asked me if I wanted to run a ...
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Free up space in disk that installed Linux from another disk that installed Windows?
I installed both Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows on my Laptop, but on different disk partitions.
I accidentally used up all space on the Linux disk when I set up a PostgreSQL database on it, and tried to ...
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How to access my 2nd internal harddrive?
I have replaced Windows 7 with Ubuntu on my old PC. There is another internal hard drive in my old PC, that contains a lot of data.
I cannot access this hard drive, as it is not mounted.
This is how ...
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VirtualBox: Why Virtual Hard Disk is showing more space than assigned?
I am using VirtualBox Version 4.3.20. Host operating system is Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1, 64-bit.
I created a Virtual Machine for Linux Ubuntu 13.10. For the Virtual Hard Drive I set the ...
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Two different operating systems on two different hard drives?
I have windows 7 installed on my hard drive (installed it as BIOS not UEFI), and I want to buy another hard drive and install ubuntu 16.04 on it through UEFI. When I have both hard drives connected to ...
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Failed to boot Win 7 from external HDD on modified Chromebook
The HDD has Windows 7 on it and I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 on a Parrot Chromebook with SeaBIOS.
I got the internal hard drive from an old Toshiba laptop and put it in a caddy so I can use it as ...
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external usb hard drive for win7 + ubuntu
I bought a new laptop and removed the hard drive and plugged it in an external HDD enclosure. I would like to use this external hard drive on Ubunutu and Windows.
I used the "Disk" utility from ...
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How to merge/create new partition using unallocated space left after installing Ubuntu?
I formatted my computer a few days back and installed Windows 7 first and then Ubuntu alongside. But I noticed that there's about 140 GB of unallocated space, left after the Ubuntu partition.Here's ...
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Would my computer be damaged if I used two different operting systems on two different hard drives?
So I have two different hard drives, one is 2TB and another is 500GB. They both have windows 7 on them and Ive transferred my data from my old 500GB one to my newer one and I was looking to install ...
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Issues installing OS (Windows or Ubuntu) on brand new SSD
So recently I got an old computer from a friend so had a computer to do linux-stuff on, an Asus K50ID. The computer works without any issues and I have been able to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16....
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IDE HDD not showing up after installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Okay, so that title is really messy and non-linear, as least to me, and that's because I don't know how to properly title it, but I can describe it.
Essentially I have 3 hard drives in my machine. ...
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