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How to recover files from macOS after accidentally overwriting it with Linux> [duplicate]
I'm not a kid (this is an alt account with a different email. I forgot the other password of @adamgewely)
But I accidentally replaced macOS with Linux! I had important files there. Thinking it was on ...
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grant ownership to everybody / remove ownership completely
I had a dual boot system with Win10 and Mint 19.3 for some time and I am now in the process of adding a hackintosh to the mix.
I have a NTFS partition to which all three should have access. Between ...
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dual boot, dual drive Macbook pro unibody mid 2012
I have recently bought a new SSD for my macbook pro, and plans to put my old HDD in a caddy and place it on the optical drive slot.
In my old HDD is ParrotOS and some important files. I plan to ...
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On a dual-booted mac, can I hibernate from macos and resume on the other operating system? [duplicate]
I have a dual-boot setup with MacOS and Arch Linux on my Macbook Pro mid-2009 17-inch.
I have rEFInd boot manager installed to my EFI System Partition as EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi with a simple, nearly ...
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Multiboot USB with UEFI/BIOS support for Windows, Ubuntu and MacOS
I'd like to do the following, on a single USB stick:
Have installations for Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS
Be able to install Windows and Linux in both BIOS and UEFI modes (BIOS in case the system ...
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Is it dangerous to have a dual boot Macos / Apricity?
I have a Mac and I would like to know : Is it dangerous to split my Disk to have a Macos/Apricity dual boot ?
Thanks you
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dual boot total mess, what ways to continue?
I have a macbook pro and I wanted to switch to linux (mint, mate).
I have rEFInd installed and working, but everything is a total mess now.
So here are some questions.
In the rEFInd boot menu I have ...
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How to triple boot OS X, WINDOWS, AND KORORA (fedora)
Background: I believe this is a mac book pro 2013 with 500gb not 100% sure
My friend was dual booting mac and Windows and decided he wanted Linux. He asked me which ui looked the best and I thought ...
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What should I do to ensure that multiple OSs installed on a computer work together? [closed]
If I have multiple OSs installed on a single computer (e.g. Windows 10, Mac OS X El Capitan, and Arch Linux), what can I do to make these OSs work together better? Is it possible to synchronize ...
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I'm hoping to turn a USB stick into a multi-partition (4+), multi-boot tool. How do I properly set it up?
There are a lot of links about multi-boot, multi-OS USB drives and various tools to create them. What they don't explain in detail is how to, or whether or not it's possible to, properly partition and ...
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trying to install windows after ubuntu
Recently I have wiped out my macbook pro and reinstalled ubuntu on it.And now I want to install windows alongside so I can have dual boot.After doing some research online, I have created a partition ...
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grub-update and "/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem"
I've got a Debian 7 Wheezy (stable release) and my GRUB suddenly refuses to see one of my partitions. It is an OS X HFS+ partition on the GPT disk.
This behavior was introduced in the month or so and ...
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Dual partition Linux Mint/OS X. Mint booted fine at first and now fails.
I'm attempting to dual boot my MacBook Air (1.3 ghz intel core i5) into OS X (v 10.8.5) and Linux Mint ("Quiana", Xfce edition).
I installed rEFInd, rebooted and installed Mint from a USB, and ...
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How to configure dual boot NixOS with Mac OS X on an (U)EFI MacBook?
I could not find any description of configuring dual boot of NixOS and Mac OS X on an (U)EFI MacBook. I am willing to experiment, but i would like to know at least that what i will try is supposed to ...
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How can I dual boot Mac OS X and Linux on the same machine?
How can I install Linux on a Mac without screwing up any data? I don't want to open Mac OS X and then use something like VirtualBox. I want to boot right into Linux OR Mac OS X.
Is there a good way ...
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