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will Kali linux GRUB make changes to MBR on windows OS
I am new to Kali Linux and am trying to install it in a Virtual Box on my windows 7 system. My question is will Kali linux GRUB make changes to the 'Actual' MBR on Windows OS when I am installing ...
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Using GRUB to boot into encrypted windows disk
This is similar to other questions already asked here before. Still none of them actually answered my problem.
My PC has two SSDs. One containing Windows 7, one containing Kubuntu 15.04.
The Linux ...
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Win7 cannot sleep because of GRUB [closed]
I have Win7 on an MBR HDD for 6 years now, that was my primary operation system, but I intend to use Linux instead.
At least I am trying out several Linux distros on another HDD, which I set to GPT ...
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Can't boot Windows after installing Kali Linux?
I recently tried installing Kali Linux on HP notebook, but during this the installation of grub failed.
Now on rebooting I get the message "No boot-able device found please insert boot-able device ...
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Trying to get back to Win 7 after deleting Ubuntu 15.04. Can't get past "grub rescue >"
I wanted to go back to an all Windows machine after trying Ubuntu 15.04. It was a good experiment, but not for me.
I had installed Ubuntu 15.04 on its own partition and it put in a dual boot menu. At ...
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Windows 10 does not boot (Maybe isn't considered as OS?)
I have a problem with booting Windows 10.
I use Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 and first I instantly got back to GRUB when selecting Windows 10 then I booted from Windows 10 installer media and ran ...
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Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 While Multi-Booted With Linux
My PC has two separate physical hard-drives in it, one with Windows 7, and one with Ubuntu Linux. In order to get the dual-boot set up to work properly, I set up GRUB to be installed on both hard ...
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Grub won't boot after patitioning Windows 7
I partitioned my Windows 7 into two drives using Minitool Partition Wizard. I also have a Ubuntu partition on the same computer.
After the partition was over, it restarted into the Grub rescue mode ...
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Triple boot laptop no longer boots after deleting partition
I am facing a problem on my Lenovo laptop Model No : G500.
When I press the power button, then the lenovo screen flashes and
the laptop further does not boot,the lenovo screen freezes.
It also does ...
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Restore Windows bootloader on Virtual Machine [duplicate]
I recently p2v'ed my old Computer into a virtual machine. Since it had a dual-boot and I only copied the Windows partition this broke GRUB. I can still boot Windows with Rescatux though. So my ...
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Install windows7 and ubuntu 14.04 on a computer which already has windows and ubuntu 12.04 installed
I have installed windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 in 2 separate partitions in my machine and I can access both using the GRUB. Now I want to re-install windows 7 and ubuntu 14.04 to my machine. What is the ...
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Reinstalled windows 7 now can't get access to dual boot [duplicate]
I had a dual boot setup with a Debian based distro (crunchbang) as primary and win 7 also installed. Recently I reinstalled win 7 on it's existing partition but now the boot loader is gone and win 7 ...
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Kali Linux and Win 7 dual boot, I want to change the active partition and bootloader, not sure in what order
I created a partition for Kali Linux and a Live USB. I used the Live USB, was intrigued by what I saw ( first time ever seeing Linux ) and chose to install but the install wouldn't complete.
Several ...
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Grub2 with Kali, how to boot into Windows 7
I will preface this with saying I am new to linux. I had windows 7 installed on my main SSD, I wanted to give Kali a try so I installed that on a 2nd SSD. When the option to install grub2 came up, ...
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How to add Windows to grub?
The following is the list that I got when I executed the command sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 Gb, 120034123776 bytes
Id disk: 0x975e4baf
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 17 ...
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