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EFI Partition Corrupted
I've got my hands on a laptop that went down several linux installation and has now a corrupted boot configuration with a mix of EFI/MBR grub configs.
For starter when I turn it on it says:
Booting ...
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Move Windows Boot Loader to another disk where Windows 7 is installed
For the last two days, I have been trying and searching for a way to boot Windows 7 from the new disk.
My disk configuration is as follows:
Disk 0 - Multi boot/multi portioned 1 TB HDD - Windows and ...
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Ubuntu types... Need to fix win 7 from in my dual boot Mint 17.1. Read write screen of death
Not sure what else to say. My Linux Mint knowledge is very peicemeal but i can do some scripting and have hacked my win 7 before from within Mint.
Am sure it can't be too hard to fix the memory ...
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How to install Grub Loader correctly
I recently tried to install Linux Mint on my PC having installed Windows 7, after that what I noticed, one partition of my hard drive is invisible, means Linux has been installed, but when I try to ...
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How to dual boot Linux Mint 18.1 along with windows 7?
I recently installed Linux Mint 18.1, the latest stable release, on top of Windows 7. The installation went well. However, windows 7 is not listed in the boot loader at all even though I have access ...
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Windows + Ubuntu Triple Boot — Keyboard doesn't work in Windows 7
I have a triple boot of Windows 7, 10 and Ubuntu 16.04.2. I had to reinstall Windows because of corrupted drivers that could not be fixed manually. After I finished the install, I booted into Ubuntu ...
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Windows 7 Installation booting goes black
Windows 7 Installation goes black and blank when trying to boot it.
This started happening after I installed Linux and GRUB. GRUB shows Windows 7 and Linux as options, but Windows 7 needs the ...
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Linux + Windows dualboot, both encrypted
i want to dualboot w7 32bit and arch linux (antergos) on an old netbook (lenovo s10-3). I've installed windows but i need some help with next steps.
I found this guide that i plan to roughly follow:
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Uninstalling Kali Linux 2.0 from dual boot
I recently installed Kali Linux 2.0 along with genuine Windows 7 Home Basic.
But now I want to remove Kali, I thought to remove it by just formatting the partition in which Kali is installed, but the ...
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Windows 7 black screen dual boot
I have a computer with Debian and Windows 7 installed in dual boot. When I turn it on I get the normal motherboard screen, then the GRUB screen and from there I can run Debian without any problems. ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu 16.10 to dual-boot with existing Windows 7, getting fatal "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda" error
As the title says, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.10 so that I can dual-boot Ubuntu alongside my existing Windows 7 installation. I'm installing from a USB drive and I keep getting the error:
Unable ...
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Migrating Windows 7 from BIOS-MBR to BIOS+GPT
I have a BIOS-based system running Windows 7 on a MBR partitioned 1TB HDD.
This HDD is partitioned as following:
P0: 60 GB NTFS for Windows and Program files
P1: 940 GB NTFS for data
As this disk is ...
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Install windows 7 on the 2nd disk, gives 'hd1 cannot get C/H/S values
I had a hd0(SSD, GPT), installed Ubuntu.
Now I wanted to install Windows 7 on hd1(HDD, MBR), the 4th primary partition(labeled boot flag).
I tried to install with the original Windows 7 iso. It ...
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how to remove menu or change TIMEOUT for selecting OS (Windows 7) in grub boot manager / bootloader?
when I power on my notebook (Lenovo V580c) this window appears:
and the TIMEOUT for selecting one of them is 30 seconds.
there is only windows 7 on this laptop (in addition to default FreeDOS that ...
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On system boot, Grub is not letting me to choose between Operating systems but it does on system restart
he issue is when the system is booted for the first time, my Grub shows Ubuntu 16.04 as well as Windows 7 but it is not letting me to choose between operating system and boots Ubuntu.
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