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accessing linux directories from windows [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I get access to EXT2, EX3 and EXT4 partitions on Windows 7? I want to access linux drives from windows. I have ubuntu and fedora installed along with windows. I can ...
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windows crashing after installing fedora 16

I have HP dv6 pavilion. I installed fedora 16 in it along with windows. I installed fedora on a separate partition. After installation I booted to windows, but it crashed. It shows a "starting windows ...
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Pairing bluetooth mouse with two system on same computer

I have a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 paired to my notebook under Windows via Bluetooth. However I have a Linux installation as well (openSUSE 12.1) and I thought I could make that mouse work ...
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Install Windows 7 from Ubuntu

I need to install Windows 7 on an Ubuntu PC (and remove Ubuntu), but this PC doesn't have any CD reader. How can I accomplish this?
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Using a Windows application from Fedora Linux

When I use Fedora, sometimes I feel the need to run applications installed on Windows 7. I have dual booted Windows and Fedora. Is there any application that can run a Windows application from Linux?...
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Linux and Windows Dual Boot

I set up a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Server 11.10. Everything works fine until I boot into Windows. After booting into Windows, the machine reboots when I select Linux from the grub menu. ...
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Will VMware Server make my virtual machines use less RAM?

I have many virtual machines on my system (6 at the moment) and many times 2 of them are running in the same time. I have 6GB of RAM but most of time it's on 90% of usage because of the running ...
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Symlink directories outside an NFS share in that NFS share

I'm trying to share a directory over NFS: Client: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Server: Arch Linux x64 I have a directory called /data/authorized. I'd like to symlink other directories that are not in /...
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Can't Install Windows 7 on a second disk along side Ubuntu

When trying to install Windows 7 after install Ubuntu, I get to the screen where I can see all the disks. After clicking my second empty disk, formatting it from Windows, when I click next Windows ...
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What do I need to share a partition for both Windows & Linux?

I wand to use a partition and to be accessible for Windows 7 & Linux Ubuntu for read/write operations. Can anyone recommend me something?
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Reinstalled Windows 7 on new HDD, installed Linux over previous Windows 7 on old HDD, how to dual boot?

I reinstalled Windows 7 on my new HDD, installed Linux over the previous Windows 7 on the old HDD. How do I dual boot? It seems that I overrided the Windows bootsector in the original HDD that was ...
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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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Is (Ubuntu) Linux file copying algorithm better than Windows 7?

Windows Copying is a real mess ever since Windows Vista. Even Microsoft claims they've improved the performance, from a user perspective, it's not quite visible. Even with single file the copying ...
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Spliting display in half, making two virtual displays

I would like to split my display in two, so they would behave like two physical monitors, i.e. it would be for example like to connecting two 960x1080 monitors through physical ports. Is something ...
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Linux mint 10 seems to corrupt ntfs filesystem

I have Linux Mint 10 and Windows 7 installed on the same HDD. First partition is Linux, then swap, then the Windows system partition and finally an NTFS partition for commonly used data I would like ...
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