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installing Mint GRUB on: the HDD (with Win7), or, on the Caddy SSD (with Mint19.1)?

++ I am a beginner, I need your help please, to illustrate this issue:- ++ In the case of dual Boot, with Win7 (on HDD of an old Laptop, Ram = 2+1) as primary, and Mint19.1 (on Caddy SSD) as ...
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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 7 not showing on Grub 2 list

I have Linux Mint and Windows 7 installed on two separate drives. I have bounced between the two all day (initially trying to get mint to show in the windows boot list, and now working on getting ...
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Error - unknown filesystem grub rescue - can't boot from any other media whatsoever

I've been trying anything and everything under the sun to fix this problem. Have a Lenovo Y570 laptop and decided to dual boot Linux Mint alongside Windows 7. I partitioned some space on the Windows ...
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Dual booting Linux/Win7, Grub refuses to load Win7

Decided to give Linux Mint a try (Ubuntu's interface annoys me), so I installed it with the intention of dual booting with Windows 7. Installation went fine, but now I can only boot into Linux Mint. ...
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How to uninstall GRUB and get windows 7 bootloader back?

I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB. Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader ...
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How do I install GRUB to a partiton and not MBR?

I am trying to dual boot Windows and Linux. I would like to continue using the Windows bootloader in my MBR. I installed Windows 7 first. During the install I left some unallocated space that I ...
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