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Installing windows 7 next to linux
I installed backtrack to a netbook drive but how do you install windows 7 and get dualboot? It has the grub bootloader installed. Does Windows have a dualboot option for install?
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I used windows 7 in dual boot with opensuse, I deleted the partition on the opensuse, but how can I delete grub bootloader?
I already tried using a windows 7 disk for repair, and I tried the bootrec.exe commands in command prompt as well but they don't work, the automatic repair also does not work. Is there any way to ...
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Unable to change default OS
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint and Windows 7 in my system. I tried to set Windows 7 as my default OS but Linux Mint remains as default. I tried to change the order through StartUpManager in ...
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Dual Booting Arch/Windows - Windows sets self as active partition?
First time Arch install, though technically I've done it about 3 times in the last couple days :0)
Trying to dual boot with an existing Windows 7 partition, which is almost working, with one small ...
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Moving Win7 partition to other disk using Linux: how can I have win7 boot again?
I recently got a new notebook which came with Win7 preinstalled. I'm not a Windows guy (all Linuxes here) but I decided to keep it just in case. The problem is that the notebook came with a 5400rpm ...
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How to install only GRUB bootloader and put chainloader to load automatically Windows?
I broke my boot partition but Windows is still installed and unaccessible. I had only Windows installed on my computer before.
How can I install GRUB and chainload it to automatically load Windows? ...
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How to make GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu?
How to make Windows Boot Manager automatically open GNU GRUB and then with GNU GRUB automatically boot Linux Ubuntu 11.04. Please answer detailed with the proceedings.
Thank you.
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Installation Recommendations For Dual-Booting Win 7 & Arch Linux
I want to install both Windows 7 and Arch Linux on my 1 TB HDD so that the partitions look like so:
grub name | lin name | label | fs | mount point
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How to uninstall GRUB and get windows 7 bootloader back?
I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB.
Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader ...
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How do I install GRUB to a partiton and not MBR?
I am trying to dual boot Windows and Linux. I would like to continue using the Windows bootloader in my MBR.
I installed Windows 7 first. During the install I left some unallocated space that I ...
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Can I dual boot Linux and Windows 7 but use the Windows bootloader instead of GRUB?
Is it possible to have the Windows bootloader point to Windows 7 and a Linux partition instead of using GRUB to point to Windows 7 and Linux?
Any links to tutorials, guides, or how-tos would be ...
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Can I boot my notebook via eSata pci-xpress card?
I would like to boot directly from an external hard disk to improve performance over my internal notebook hard disk. My notebook has no native eSata jack but a pci express card.
As my BIOS doesn't ...
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How do I make a boot loader load the existing boot loader from the first partition
I installed ubuntu using wubi and then I tried installing grub 2 but it failed. I need a way to reinstall the mbr sp it will load the windows 7 loader from the first partition.
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How to: Install ubuntu 10.04 on a netbook without killing existing windows and recovery hdd
The question is in the title
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as the tags suggest, i'd like a fresh install of linux using grub2, and partition my harddrive
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How can I make grub2 boot into Windows 7?
I had Windows 7 installed on my system, then I installed Debian testing with grub2 as its boot manager. Initially I couldn't see windows entry in grub at all, so I ran:
aptitude install os-prober ...
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