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weird c:/boot folder after installing ubuntu
so i installed ubuntu yesterday and everything was working great i can boot into both os but i've noticed something strange which is boot folder and bootmgr in c partition that wasn't there before ...
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Can I add free space to Win7 partition in Ubuntu dual boot setup?
I'm not sure why this free space is there, but if I extend the Win7 partition to use the space, I get a warning that it may mess up my mbr. Obv not critical to fix this, but I like to keep things tidy....
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Expand OS Partition inside Extended partition
Originally Win7 --> dual booted with Ubuntu 20.04. Shrunk win partition and want to grow Linux into that unallocated space but no luck. Tried everything incl booting from usb Ubuntu 19 and easus ...
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Dual boot and installing Ubuntu on F drive
Currently I have two hard disks:
Local Disk C (where Windows 7 is installed)
Linux F ( where I want to install Ubuntu)
I don't know which is my F Drive. I can't find the answer anywhere.
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Resize Ubuntu partition using a non-adjacent Windows space
Im using Ubunt 14.04 LTS. I have a dual boot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu. When I want to install upodates in Ubuntu I get the next messenge:
error messenge
I really need more space in my Ubuntu partition.
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I'm trying to install an Operating System
I am currently running Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron R17 N7110, and I'd like to run Ubuntu alongside Windows.
I need to shrink the Windows partition somehow so that I can install Ubuntu. Currently, ...
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Fail to resize Ubuntu VDI, using virtualbox on windows7
I am trying to resize storage of my Ubuntu on Windows 7 with VirtualBox. The current storage configuration is dynamic 10 GB
Command used:
.\VBoxManage modifyhd "C:\Users\Administrator\VirtualBox VMs\...
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Resized partitions on dual-boot with Ubuntu and Windows 10, Windows crashes on start up now
I was trying to make more room on my Windows 10 partition, so I used Gparted Live to reduce partition size by 6GB of the Ubuntu boot. The Ubuntu will still boot, but the Windows partition boots with a ...
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Paging file and swap partition on a Ubuntu/Windows 7 dual boot
I'm planning hard drive partitions for my new laptop and I had a curious idea:
Can the same partition be used to house both the paging file (windows) and the swap space (linux)?
The reasoning ...
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Unfound linux partition after installing windows 10
I had win7 alongside ubuntu 16.04, having a problem with win7 boot, I installed win10 and launched boot repair (macrium reflect) from there (win7 was fixed).
I think, I made a big mistake, cause now ...
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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:
Unable ...
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How to merge/create new partition using unallocated space left after installing Ubuntu?
I formatted my computer a few days back and installed Windows 7 first and then Ubuntu alongside. But I noticed that there's about 140 GB of unallocated space, left after the Ubuntu partition.Here's ...
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Convert MBR to GPT on already dual-booted system without data loss
I have dual booted system Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 8 with Grub2. I plan to convert MBR to GPT. I was looking at AOMEI Partition Assistant
and just need to know whether it will preserve my dual boot. ...
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Can I create a Windows 7 recovery disk on a dual boot system?
I want to uninstall Ubuntu from a computer running both Ubuntu and Windows 7. I understand that to do this, I need to delete the Ubuntu partitions on the computer and use a windows recovery disk. ...
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Low disk space for shrinking even after defragmentation
To install ubuntu in my windows laptop, I need to shrink my disk space into two sections, windows C drive and unspecified space. However, given my 350Gb empty space out of 650Gb in C drive, available ...
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