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UBUTU 16.04 Dual boot error [busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sdb]

I have a Dell Inspiron 7567 with windows 10 installed. I've been trying to make a partition (via windows disk management) and installing ubuntu 16.04. After the installation is finished and I reboot ...
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Grub2 of previous OS controls the boot process

I have 3 OS's on my computer. First, I installed windows 10. Secondly, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with GUI). Thirdly, CentOS 7 (without GUI). During Ubuntu installation, I installed Grub2 into MBR and ...
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I have dual boot enabled in my laptop. None of them is booting now [closed]

I have a Lenovo laptop. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16 installed. One day after I updated my Windows, my windows wouldn’t boot as it stayed on a black screen forever after the Lenovo logo flashed. ...
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My 240 GB SSD shown as having 2MB

I am using a Lenovo IdeaPad Z500. My SSD harddrive is a 240GB Silicon Power S60. On the SSD 2 operating systems were installed: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. Last night I couldn't boot my PC and got ...
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Windows 10 upgrade on dual Boot with Linux

I have a dual boot laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 - with the following partitions : Disk 1 - 128GB SSD : 160Mb EFI System boot partition 128Mb - msftres (no idea) ...
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Failure to boot when restarting Windows 10

After much work, I managed to install Ubuntu (16.04) on my Dell XPS-15 laptop (9550) and set up a "semi-functional" dual boot with Windows 10 (which I clean-installed prior to installing Ubuntu). If ...
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Triple boot Windows 10 Ubuntu 16 and Kali

I have been running Win and Ubuntu just fine, and then I have installed Kali and now I am facing the following issue. Just after installation of Kali I have rebooted and were able to access Kali boot ...
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Windows is not booting & Ubuntu is running very slow 😭 , may be due to bad partitioning

have dual booted my lenovo laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10. I had no knowledge about partitioning at that time, so I left that task to Ubuntu thinking that it would do required tasks ...
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Wireless adapter turns off at low battery, but system is not allowed to turn it off to save power

Currently running a Windows 10/Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot with GRUB boot loader. When I'm on windows, after the battery hits 50% the wireless adapter becomes disabled and doesn't appear in device manager. ...
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How to dual boot windows after installing Ubuntu?

I am trying to dual boot my laptop with windows 10 which already has Ubuntu 16.04 in it. So I made an unallocated partition for windows with gparted live CD and tried installing windows into that ...
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Shrink Windows 10 partition for Ubuntu 16.04 Dual Boot

In some web pages I've read that before installing Ubuntu you should resize the Windows partition from within Windows (with diskmgmt.msc) but when I boot Ubuntu for instalation (Windows was installed ...
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When installing Ubuntu dual boot side by side with windows 10, why does the installer not see my SSD?

I'm installing Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell XPS 13 with Windows 10 already installed on the SSD. In Windows I've: Ran disk management to create 90 Gb of unallocated space Ran error checking and ...
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Cannot install Windows 7 after Ubuntu 16.04

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my HP 2000-2100 laptop. Now I want to install Windows 7, and set up a dual boot. I have created a bootable device for Windows 7, and also created a separate ...
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Windows7 won't boot after upgrading Ubuntu to 16.04

I've recently upgraded ubuntu to 16.04 and my working dual-boot installation doesn't work anymore. Ubuntu loads fine, but Win7(loader) stops at blinking cursor on black screen. I've tried a few ...
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Win10 Anniversary + Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot destroyed after running "apt-get upgrade" && "apt-get update"

I have a 2013 Samsung ATIV Book 6 (I think NP680Z5E-X01US) laptop. Original OS was Win8. While I keep Windows around for some entertainment stuff I created a partition for a Linux distro (Ubuntu 14....
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