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Is it possible to create an entire windows enviroment on an external hardrive? [duplicate]
I have dual booted Windows and Linux before and I am aware virtual environments exist, however I was curious recently. If I have a 1 tb 'wd elements' external hard drive, could I download and install ...
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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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How to install Windows 7 from SSD?
I need to install Windows 7 from SDD (since I don't have optical drive nor a USB stick). I currently have Linux Mint 18. What I already have done:
Created 7000 MB NTFS partition.
Copied there 4.7 GB ...
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Is it possible for GRUB2 to boot directly into Windows 7 skipping the boot menu?
GRUB2 boots to Windows 7 by chainloading the BCD. BCD is usually is installed in the System Reserved Partition without drive letter.
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Partition 1 - Ubuntu & GRUB2 bootmanager installed, ...
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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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GRUB shows up unexpectedly when booting after CMOS Reset
Basically, my computer has 3 hard drives. 2 HDDs, 1 SSD. Years ago, I installed a Linux partition on one of the HDDs, but decided to move back to solely using Winodws(gaming pc) and removed Linux from ...
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How to remove Grub Rescue?
Okay, before you flag this as duplicate, let me explain my exact situation.
I had Win 7 installed on HDD1. I then installed Ubuntu on HDD2 as dual boat using unetbootin. Then, I installed a fresh ...
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Windows 7 cannot get C/H/S values
Alright, so I'm a bit of a novice at this kind of stuff, but I had a CD version of Solaris and decided to install it on the disk it came on. I put it into my Windows 7 computer and did all that stuff ...
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repair windows partition on GRUB boot + IRRT managing SSD disk on mini pci express
You see it in the post, my system is not the simplest one. I have an HDD and a SSD, the SSD being on the mini-pci-express interface, while the HDD is on a usual SATA 2 interface. I have windows 7 on ...
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windows crashing after installing fedora 16
I have HP dv6 pavilion. I installed fedora 16 in it along with windows. I installed fedora on a separate partition. After installation I booted to windows, but it crashed. It shows a "starting windows ...
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How to make GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu?
How to make Windows Boot Manager automatically open GNU GRUB and then with GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu 11.04. Please answer detailed with the proceedings.
Thank you.
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Windows 7 destroys my GRUB2 on every boot
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7, I generally use Ubuntu but some times start Windows 7. Every time I have used Windows 7 my GRUB2 installation brakes and as soon as GRUB2 is ...
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