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Lenovo W540 w/ Dualboot Win7/Ubuntu 15.04 restarts 3 seconds after Grub
I have a Lenovo W540 which is almost 3 years old and has served me well so far.
2 weeks ago I finally got around to reinstall Ubuntu on it and I went with 15.04 (previously I had an old version on it ...
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Using GRUB to boot into encrypted windows disk
This is similar to other questions already asked here before. Still none of them actually answered my problem.
My PC has two SSDs. One containing Windows 7, one containing Kubuntu 15.04.
The Linux ...
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Laptop won't boot after running executable in wrong location
I wanted to make a bootable flash drive to try out Porteus Linux. I made the stupid mistake of running an .exe file that comes with Porteus (should be run from the flash drive of course) and makes the ...
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Can't boot Windows after installing Kali Linux?
I recently tried installing Kali Linux on HP notebook, but during this the installation of grub failed.
Now on rebooting I get the message "No boot-able device found please insert boot-able device ...
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Encrypt hard disks with VeraCrypt in a mixed Windows / Linux system
My system is a dual boot Ubuntu / Windows PC. I installed several hard disks: Two SSDs (one for Windows 7 Pro, one for Kubuntu 15.04) and some conventional disks for data.
Currently the Linux disk ...
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diagnosing random power failures and failures to POST
I have a laptop (Toshiba satellite C650), over the last year it has symptomatically been starting to display some rather peculiar failure behavior, some of the more peculiar behaviors follow:
it will ...
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Kali Linux and Win 7 dual boot, I want to change the active partition and bootloader, not sure in what order
I created a partition for Kali Linux and a Live USB. I used the Live USB, was intrigued by what I saw ( first time ever seeing Linux ) and chose to install but the install wouldn't complete.
Several ...
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Triple Boot with Linux, OS X Yosemite and Windows 7 on iMac
I have a iMac 2015 with Retina 5K display and OS X Yosemite installed. I intend to install Linux Mint as well as Windows 7 or in other sense triple boot all these three OS.
I did find some ...
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windows 7 boot screen logo issue
I have a problem with my Lenovo b50-70, I installed Ubuntu and Windows 7 in two different disk partitions, but when I choose Windows in the grub I see that instead of windows boot logo:
So, I ...
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How to add Windows to grub?
The following is the list that I got when I executed the command sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 Gb, 120034123776 bytes
Id disk: 0x975e4baf
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 17 ...
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Remove Linux and GRUB while keeping Windows 7
My situation: I had a Windows 7 laptop, then installed Astra Linux on a new 10-GB partition.
If I try to boot Windows, it asks for a name and password, but I'm not sure what name it expects me to ...
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Booting Debian from USB stick fails although Secure Boot is disabled
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (3rd gen.; 2015) with Windows 8. I used Unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with Debian Testing (the USB stick is FAT32 formatted). When I plug in the USB ...
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Boot from a windows 7 harddrive on a linux first laptop?
I have a windows 7 hardrive from my old laptop that died. I use Ubuntu exclusively on my new computer so I never had a need to dual boot.
Now, there's some info on the old drive that I want to access....
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Partition resize error
I've decided to remove my old linux [/] partition and enlarge my Win7 partition, before install new linux distro.
For first time in my experience something gone wrong
when I tried to resize (enlarge ...
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Reinstall Windows without key, unable to boot into the old install
I have tried everything, but I just can't boot into my Windows 7 install. Repairing and all of that didn't work. I don't have a Windows CD, but I downloaded the ISO image and burned it onto an USB ...
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