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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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How should I create a folder that automatically links to a shared drive between Windows and Linux?
I'd like to set it up so that when I click on my 'My Pictures|Videos|Music...etc' folder it just redirects to my middle data drive. Likewise for my linux folders.
How can I set this up? I'm sorry if ...
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New laptop - no install media - Backup Windows - Install linux
So I've got a new laptop, but no installation media. The hard drive has a hidden restore partition, a Windows 7 partition, and a small partition for vendor tools.
My goal is to make a backup of the ...
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Virtualization-enabled dual-boot linux with universal access to data folder/partition
My situation: I want to setup my work laptop as a Windows + Linux dual-booting system (probably Windows 7 and Ubuntu) with the possibility of running the Linux installation as a virtual machine from ...
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Playing random short clips from a collection of movies
I'm hosting a party, and I want to play random sequences from a collection of movies in the background. I don't want to sit and edit together five hours of footage by hand though. Ideally I would:
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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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Installing Ubuntu to dual-boot from mSATA
I'm about to recieve a 2012 Dell XPS 15 with 128GB mSATA and 1TB 5400rpm HDD, it should come with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
I understand that Smart Response Technology (SRT) in the Intel Rapid Storage ...
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How to access linux disk from windows 7? [duplicate]
I have a computer with Linux installed. And I want to be able to read and write data to its disk from Windows 7. Is there any software or does Windows 7 have any functionality for it built-in?
I've ...
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How to delete visible Desktop.ini, Thumbs.db and album art from My Music
How do I delete album art, desktop.ini, and thumbs.db from my music folder in Windows 7? I can see all of these files because I took the hard drive from my old computer and put it in my new one. It ...
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Why does booting Fedora 17 (and 18) into virtualbox from a live cd fail?
Background: I was recently trying to install Fedora 18 into Virtualbox. The version of virtualbox is listed as: 4.2.14.0. My host system is 64 bit Windows 7 home premium. My processor (Intel Pentium ...
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Windows 7 Laptop - Truecrypt - Ubuntu?
I have a windows 7 Professional Laptop that has had the entire drive encrypted so as to require a password to allow it to boot up.
There is only one partition on the drive that takes up the entire ...
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Windows error: "'Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature' is not recognized"
I am attempting to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on my Windows 7 machine, following the instructions shown in this documentation.
The first step there says to run the command
> Enable-...
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bootmgr missing after restoring with sysresccd
I backed up my laptop months ago. Today i repartition the drive and used sysresccd with partimage to restore the HDD. I got a success msg after restoring however when booting i get a bootmgr missing ...
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“no medium found”, usb flash drive
My Debian Sid on Thinkpad X61 has troubles reading from one of my USB flash drives (ADATA S102). Even accessing raw block storage is a problem:
liori:% LANG= dd if=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 | hexdump
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Weirdly I can't ping my Gateway from linux virtual machines
Assume the following Situations:
Gateway IP : 10.0.0.60
Host IP (Win7) : 10.0.0.81
Guest 1 on this Host (VMWare-Linux-Kali) : 10.0.0.16
Guest 2 on this Host (VMWare-Win7) : 10.0.0.27
Gateway is a ...
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