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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Can't load Nobara installed alongside Windows and Ububtu
I had windows and Ubuntu installed and tried to install Nobara. After installation I restarted the device and couldn't see Nobara in dual load window. These are the only options:
Ubuntu
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I am stuck in grub
Ok , i was running windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu , everything was fine.I tried to install windows 10 (while dual booting) i ran setup.exe everything went fine it installed about 30% , it restarted (...
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Error "CMOS checksum bad" after sudo apt upgrade
When I boot it up. It shows CMOS checksum bad error and goes to bios.
Then I have to exit from the Bois then it will boot as normal but with high brightness.
this all happens after an upgrade (Sudo ...
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Windows 10 has removed the GRUB menu
I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 in dual boot. Windows 10 was already installed, and I manually installed Ubuntu from a bootable USB. Dual boot was working properly and I was able to ...
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Lenovo Y410 restore grub
I have an old Lenovo Y410 Centrino Duo core. I have triple boot (no UEFI) windows xp, windows vista, linux partition.
I tried to install Lubuntu, as Xubuntu gave me desktop problems. There was an ...
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How does Ubuntu install on a hard drive with Windows already installed
I know someone who has just installed Ubuntu onto a harddrive which already had Windows 10 as the main operating system. Now there is the option on startup via Grub to either boot Windows or Linux.
I'...
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grub loaders in /boot/efi/EFI can't boot windows, /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi can, grub installs the one that can't
I'm running ubuntu 18.04 (kubuntu, but who's counting) on a dual-boot system. Its grub menu was always able to boot windows 7, but suddenly, the windows entry in grub no longer works. When I select ...
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How to remove GRUB from Windows 7
Someone really messed up the build machine here. Looks like they tried putting ubuntu on it, failed, and left it all porked up. And I cant figure out how to fix it. I do not have a windows disk but ...
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Move Windows 7 (OEM) into Virtualbox on ubuntu
I got a laptop with pre-installed windows 7, and kept using this for some time along with ubuntu in dual-boot-mode.
Now I want to move the windows-7-installation into a virtual-box, running in ...
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How to get rid of grub boot loader from external HDD
For a while, I tried Linux Ubuntu as my OS. Like any OS, Linux has its drawbacks, some of which are a big issue for me. So I went back to Windows 7.
To prevent modifications to my system while I was ...
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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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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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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:
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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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