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How to fix accidentally deleting EFI partitions on dualboot windows 7 and linux
TL; DR: How to fix EFI partitions that accidently deleted and cause windows 7 gone from dual boot
What happend: So recently im dualbooting windows 7 with linux zorin os (based on ubuntu) and tried to ...
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I am stuck in grub
Ok , i was running windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu , everything was fine.I tried to install windows 10 (while dual booting) i ran setup.exe everything went fine it installed about 30% , it restarted (...
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Windows + Arch with 2 EFI partitions: Boot select only discovers windows
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I wish to install Arch-Linux in a dual-boot configuration with windows 10. I have partitioned one singular drive into 7 partitions as shown here. I wish to enter into GRUB going ...
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How do I install Linux as a third OS alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10?
I currently have dual-boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10, although I'm not sure they boot correctly.
If I previously booted Windows 7, the next boot I get a black & white, DOS-looking boot menu. ...
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How to find USB thumbdrive volume on PC booted from Easy Recovery Essentials?
My PC (Windows 7) was having a problem and I'm using https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/ to try to fix it. It seems to be a minimal Linux-like OS that boots and lets you get files off the native file system ...
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Windows 10 has removed the GRUB menu
I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 in dual boot. Windows 10 was already installed, and I manually installed Ubuntu from a bootable USB. Dual boot was working properly and I was able to ...
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Lenovo Y410 restore grub
I have an old Lenovo Y410 Centrino Duo core. I have triple boot (no UEFI) windows xp, windows vista, linux partition.
I tried to install Lubuntu, as Xubuntu gave me desktop problems. There was an ...
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Stuck in Grub Rescue
I had a dual boot laptop which I had to fix, so I figured I just had to delete the Linux partitions and reinstall Windows.
After formatting the Linux partitions and rebooting to reinstall Windows I ...
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How to repair boot info from Kali Linux to get Windows 10 booting again?
I have a laptop in which Windows 10 war pre-installed. I made a USB stick boot of Kali Linux and tried installing it on a partition of my disk. During the process of "Installing Base System" ...
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When installing Kali Linux, Windows 10 suddenly became unbootable
Here's the story about the problem...
Yesterday i was Kali Linux when the setup told me to reboot. I clicked OK on my Windows 10, when suddenly after restart, my dual booted Windows 7 booted up. ...
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Boot Linux Ubuntu using Windows Boot Manager in Legacy mode, is this possible?
It might sound a noob question from the title, but I'm pretty new into operating systems.
I have a laptop and I would like to run Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Windows 7 is the default OS, and the ...
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How does Ubuntu install on a hard drive with Windows already installed
I know someone who has just installed Ubuntu onto a harddrive which already had Windows 10 as the main operating system. Now there is the option on startup via Grub to either boot Windows or Linux.
I'...
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Possible alternatives to dual-booting and virtualization?
I am primarily a Linux user (Linux Mint). I am also a college student at an online school. My school requires that I install a remote access client (LogMeIn or GoToMeeting) so they can proctor me ...
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PC won't identify Linux Live USB. "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready"
I installed Mint 19.1 Cinnamon and it was working poorly. The USB port were not identifying flash drives. I tried lots and lots of things (really, lots of possibilities), but nothing worked. Then I ...
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My computer won't boot, and I don't have another device to install usb repair tools
So, I recently uninstalled Linux on my Hp Elitebook 8570p. It came installed with Windows 7, so, I booted into windows 7 to delete the Linux partition. When I restarted my computer, it won't start! I ...
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Repairing Corrupted Windows 7 USB/Internet Drivers from Linux Boot
I have a Windows 7 Pro computer for which all drivers (internet, USB, COM) are corrupted or missing. I was able to use a PS2 keyboard to go into to the computer and confirm this.
I then tried the ...
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Remove boot option in Windows Boot Manager that is not listed in bcdedit
I've accidentally installed grub2win in order to configure a multiboot setup witch a Linux distro. I've figured out that the correct way is to create an EFI partition and install the 'real' GRUB. This ...
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Does booting from a linux live distro leave any trace in a windows hard disk that it mounts?
Background: at work I have a Windows 7 PC where I only have normal user privileges. The PC can boot from CD o USB. I suspect that one of my colleagues is, from time to time, booting my PC with a Linux ...
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EFI Partition Corrupted
I've got my hands on a laptop that went down several linux installation and has now a corrupted boot configuration with a mix of EFI/MBR grub configs.
For starter when I turn it on it says:
Booting ...
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Windows 7 and Linux fedora do not recognize my Samsung 850 evo SSD, but the BIOS does
A few days ago I got a blue screen in windows, and my system restarted. After that, when I try to turn on my computer, the ASUS logo stays up for a long time (like 2-3 minutes) and then goes into a ...
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Moving multi-boot HDD between laptops: Linux works, Windows 7 does not
I had a laptop that is now dead, it had a double-boot configuration, Linux&Win7.
I quickly needed access to its files and moved the hard drive on a different laptop. All seemed fine, the boot ...
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Move Windows Boot Loader to another disk where Windows 7 is installed
For the last two days, I have been trying and searching for a way to boot Windows 7 from the new disk.
My disk configuration is as follows:
Disk 0 - Multi boot/multi portioned 1 TB HDD - Windows and ...
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Live USB: Why Windows OS requires an MBR to be installed?
I have always managed to create bootable linux usb devices using only dd. But when it comes to Windows, the computer fails to boot from USB .. - I don't know why it doesn't work that way, but the most ...
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How to dual boot Linux Mint 18.1 along with windows 7?
I recently installed Linux Mint 18.1, the latest stable release, on top of Windows 7. The installation went well. However, windows 7 is not listed in the boot loader at all even though I have access ...
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Accidentally installed ubuntu over Windows 7 now reinstalling Windows won't boot
I am quite new to Linux Ubuntu and had installed it as a dual boot with my Windows 7. I then tried to reinstall the ubuntu partition and accidentally wiped Windows. Now i have tried to reinstall and ...
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Windows 7 Installation booting goes black
Windows 7 Installation goes black and blank when trying to boot it.
This started happening after I installed Linux and GRUB. GRUB shows Windows 7 and Linux as options, but Windows 7 needs the ...
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How to install Windows and linux on separate drives so that their booting is independent
I've a system with a UEFI firmware, to which I'll be adding two drives. I wish to install Windows 7 on one and a linux distro on another. I would like it set up such that if one drive were to be ...
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Windows 7 boot loop with Linux disk present
I recently installed Windows 7 Professional on a spare disk (SATA3 SSD) and intend to dual-boot it with Debian Unstable, my main OS. For this, I removed my Linux disk (SATA3 SSD as well) so I wouldn't ...
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Uninstalling Kali Linux 2.0 from dual boot
I recently installed Kali Linux 2.0 along with genuine Windows 7 Home Basic.
But now I want to remove Kali, I thought to remove it by just formatting the partition in which Kali is installed, but the ...
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Broken BIOS and Linux
Hello everyone!
I have the following problem: my laptop refuses to boot.
When booting to Windows, it gets stuck at loading CLASSPNP.sys, on Linux its some ACPI error (dont have the exact logs atm, I ...
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Dual boot stopped working after temporarily changing BIOS settings
I have a laptop (Toshiba Portege Z30-C) where I dual boot between Windows 7 Pro and Linux Mint 18. Today, in an effort to test a bootable USB, I changed the boot BIOS from "UEFI (legacy)" to "CSM Boot"...
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Cannot boot from USB to install Linux. Need administrator password that I dont have. Any easy way arround this?
I have made a bootable USB with Elementary on it - in order to erase my Windows 7 and install Linux Elementary. So far so good.
I get the message shown on the photo in the link - indicating that ...
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Computer won't boot from internal drives
I'm trying to get a computer up and running again. It has an NF4U-AM2G mobo, AMD 64 x2 Athlon 4600 cpu, a DVD drive, a 250GB samsung IDE HDD, a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, and a 320GB Hitachi SATA HDD. For ...
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How to make a bootable windows USB in Kali Linux
When I tried to boot my PC into Windows 10 I got a screen with a sad face saying unmountable_boot_volume.
After searching it said I needed a Windows 10 USB or CD which I do not have.
I still have ...
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Does using the windows repair disk to repair the MBR after uninstalling Ubuntu partitions delete your files and programs?
After reading the articles How to Uninstall a Linux Dual-Boot System From Your Computer and How to Manually Repair Windows 7 Boot Loader Problems (on howtogeek.com) in order to uninstall Ubuntu on a ...
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Computer not booting after hard drive disconnect
I have four drives in my computer
500 GB HDD ext4 for data
2 TB HDD ntfs for data
250 GB SSD with debian linux
128 GB SSD with windows7
I have windows installed first and later installed debian on ...
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Install Windows on a raw disk image in virtualbox and then use it as dual boot with linux
I currently have a laptop with linux in it.
I'd like to install Windows 7 on dual boot with it but instead of doing it with a usb drive I was wondering if it was possible to create a raw disk image ...
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Repair Windows EFI system partition from linux live OS
As part of my project I am working on a ubuntu based live os that can be used as system rescue disk for linux as well as windows.
Basically it will be used as a rescue disk in case of boot failures.
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Windows can't boot after Samsung Recovery Solution 5 restored it
This is the story:
I have (or should I say had?) Windows 7 "home basic" edition, service pack 1 installed (preinstalled from factory). One day I installed two Linux OS: First Debian 8.3 Jessie and ...
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how to access external bootable Linux disk from windows 7 machine [duplicate]
I have an bootable external disk which a Linux is installed on it. I can boot into it and use Linux there. It is a 1TB disk. I think it will be better if I can also use it as a storage when I use my ...
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Does Windows needs its own boot partition when dual booting?
My laptop comes with Windows 7. There was 100MB NTFS partition. I decided to remove it and use it as a /boot partition. After installing Archlinux and Syslinux, Windows didn't boot from syslinux. It ...
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How can I undo “mark partition as active” using GParted/Linux live CD?
In the process of trying to shrink my hard drive partition, I marked my C: drive (the only drive I have) as “active” in Windows’s “Disk Management” software. When I rebooted, it said something like “...
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Internal HDD stops working and the led indicator not flashing
I have 2 HDDs, one is old and one is new. Recently my PC has a problem. HDD stops working and I sure about it because the led indicator of front panel is not flashing. I removed the old HDD and it ...
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Format SSDs through MSI Motherboard MS-7751
I ran into a couple of problems and ended up at a point where I cannot boot into Linux nor Windows. I was wondering if there was a way to wipe my drives using MSI's shell and whatnot.
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Trouble after mainboard replacement
the problem is the following. Either my gfx or my mainboard had a problem on the previous pc, so I replaced everything (except HDD, Tower and DVD drive) since I figured I might as well upgrade.
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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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