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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 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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Is it possible to create an entire windows enviroment on an external hardrive? [duplicate]
I have dual booted Windows and Linux before and I am aware virtual environments exist, however I was curious recently. If I have a 1 tb 'wd elements' external hard drive, could I download and install ...
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Bootloader can't detect Deepin OS
I installed Deepin OS using Deepin boot maker and it installed successfully. After installation there was Reboot Now option. I pressed on this but bootloader didn't detect Deepin OS. But I could boot ...
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Dual-boot windows 7 + linux black screen during boot
Currently I am encountering an issue with my dual-boot (Windows 7/Fedora) Dell laptop.
Few days ago when i was doing some works using Fedora, the system was suddenly frozen. From then, when I turn on ...
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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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I enabled Bitlocker on Win7 and now I can't boot Windows from Grub (Linux works). How to recover?
I have a computer that was setup to dualboot between Win7 and Kali linux using Grub, which worked fine. Now I enabled Bitlocker on the Win7-partition and now it won't boot. The error message is ...
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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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How to install Windows 7 from SSD?
I need to install Windows 7 from SDD (since I don't have optical drive nor a USB stick). I currently have Linux Mint 18. What I already have done:
Created 7000 MB NTFS partition.
Copied there 4.7 GB ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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grub - Keyboard stuck in GRUB
I have dual booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. I have Intel DH67BL motherboard which does not support PS/2 keyboard,mouse and am using Logitech K120 USB 2.0 keyboard.
I have set GRUB to load Windows 7 ...
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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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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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Win7 cannot sleep because of GRUB [closed]
I have Win7 on an MBR HDD for 6 years now, that was my primary operation system, but I intend to use Linux instead.
At least I am trying out several Linux distros on another HDD, which I set to GPT ...
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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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Reinstalled windows 7 now can't get access to dual boot [duplicate]
I had a dual boot setup with a Debian based distro (crunchbang) as primary and win 7 also installed. Recently I reinstalled win 7 on it's existing partition but now the boot loader is gone and win 7 ...
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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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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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How to make my restore partition usable again?
I have an old Samsung X420 in which I had installed Linux years ago, alongside Windows 7.
I gave it to my girlfriend to use and since she didn't deal well with Linux and GRUB, I wiped and recreated ...
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Installing Windows Update 3033929
I am using grub as default boot loader for my dual boot laptop (DELL Vostro 3750). My system is currently undergoing a reboot loop (infinite) because of Windows Update 3033929.
As described here:
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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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Windows 7 changes my uefi default boot when it starts
I installed Windows 7 in a HP Compaq 6300. First I disabled secure boot and enabled legacy mode. Then I installed Ubuntu in other partition. Ubuntu detected some uefi partitions and let me create / ...
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GRUB Bootloader selection window showing 2 times
Currently I have installed 4 os on my 2 HDDs, Windows 7, Windows XP, Ubuntu 14.04 & Open Suse 12.3, in same order.
Before I have Installed Open Suse.
GRUB was showing options:
Windows XP
Windows ...
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Grub can't find Windows 7
Using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS after upgrading from 12.04. I have 3 hard drives: sda has Windows, sdb has Ubuntu, sdc is a non-bootable backup drive. Before I upgraded to 14.04, I had an option to boot ...
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Restoring Windows boot entry on GRUB
I made a lot of mistakes lately with my systems, and now I have an issue.
After installing fedora 20, I tried to resize my windows 7 partition, and generated an error with the actual size of the ...
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Is my Windows partition too far down on the disk?
I have /boot/ on /dev/sda1 (1GB), followed by my Linux root LVM on /dev/sda2 (1.3GB). Finally, I freshly installed Windows 7 on /dev/sda3 in the remaining 700GB of space.
When I select Windows 7 in ...
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Computer sometimes load grub not Windows bootloader
Sometimes my notebook loads grub instead of windows bootloader and I do not know why. Before I reinstalled Windows 7 32 bit I had ubuntu on it (windows installation). I have not installed another ...
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Setting up a dualboot by installing cloned partitions using clonezilla
I'm trying to setup a dual boot system where I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Here's the kicker both are partitions I've saved using Clonzezilla from different places and to make matters worse Linux ...
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Cloning Linux and Windows from two separate disks to a single SSD
Backstory TL;DR: cloned OpenSUSE from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sdc1, Windows 7 from /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdc2; formatted /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb1; reconfigured GRUB2 and installed it on /dev/sdc; OpenSUSE loads, ...
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GRUB doesn't show up when second hard drive is present
I just finished messing with Windows 7 + Linux Mint dualboot and finally got it to work. Grub handles the booting. It works as expected as long as I have only my main hard drive connected.
When I ...
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How to restore Ubuntu broken partition after Windows 7 install
I previously had a Windows 7 partition and a Ubuntu partition. When I formatted and reinstalled Windows 7, somehow the Ubuntu partition got corrupted. I can't open it and recover my files even with ...
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Create live mulitbootable flash drive with linux and windows7
So recently I have been having some trouble with my laptop, been getting bsod...
So I thought, instead of carrying my external around with me and risking it becoming damaged, why not create a ...
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Can't boot into Windows with Grub | Debian install
I have Windows 7 installed on a second harddrive, and I just installed Debian on my first hard drive. Sadly, the bootloader (grub2) is not picking up my existing Windows installation, and I can't ...
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boot error: unknow filesystem. GRUB rescue
I've been struggling with a problem for a few days now, and hope some of you can help me out. I'll just explain what happend breifly.
Well, I have an AMD E-350 APU HTPC, which I use for media center ...
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Unable to boot into windows after removing Linux
I had Linux Ubuntu and Windows dual booting from my computer. I used partition manager to remove the Linux Ubuntu partitions, now I can't get into Windows.
The machine loads in to a command prompt ( ...
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how to boot into windows from grub rescue?
everyone.
I used to have linux mint 15 , ubuntu, and windows 7 dualbooted on my samsung E300.
I did so using the following video: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUgIkl4oFA
Afterwards, after ...
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Windows 7 not showing on Grub 2 list
I have Linux Mint and Windows 7 installed on two separate drives. I have bounced between the two all day (initially trying to get mint to show in the windows boot list, and now working on getting ...
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Disabling Windows Boot Manager And Using Grub2
All, I'm in a wierd situation, I would like to use grub2 to boot my Ubuntu, Windows 7 (old) and Windows 7 (new).
I purchased an SSD and installed Windows on it. My old Window installation still ...
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Using Windows bootloader instead of GRUB2
I installed Ubuntu onto a partition on my SSD along side an install of Windows 7. However, after booting the PC continued to boot into Windows without offering Ubuntu as an option. I found a solution ...
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How to delete the bootloader
I dualboot my pc, windows 7 64 bit, and some linux distro, nowadays i'm using crunchbang.
I once had a problem, i lost my bootloader so i created one using easybcd. Later on, i installed a linux ...
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