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Dual boot computer , vm on both partitions, can I run os from other partition without re installing it?
I have a dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 computer. I have VM Ware on the windows partition with windows 10 as a guest on it. On Ubuntu I have Virtualbox with Parrot, Kali Linux, and Whonix as ...
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Is there some way to duplicate the image between a UHD display and an FHD display without compromising the UHD resolution?
I have a TV and a Monitor both hooked up to the same computer. I sometimes like to play games on my sofa on the TV, and for this purpose I have a keyboard, mouse and controller (everything) in front ...
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USB or CD don't detects on boot menu
I bought new Acer ES1-533-P21L Laptop having Linpus Linux. The issue is I can't get option for usb nor for DVD in boot menu. Help me in this situation. Thanks in advance.!
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Preinstalled Ubuntu os on virtualbox with Win7 host can't start X server
I just installed virtualbox on my Win7 machine and created a guest virtualbox system image from a existing Ubuntu partition (according to this guide). Unfortunetaly the Xserver doesn't start properly ...
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Unable to access samba shared folder on Windows 7
I have a server running RHEL. In the network are three workstations: two linux (RHEL) and one Windows 7. I am using samba to share a storage device (connected to the server) with the workstations. For ...
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Why does my Windows PC connect to the internet, but no Linux machine?
today we've had a couple of hardware faults due to a fire at my workplace. As a result, my main work computer does not connect to the internet anymore. I can't load a website or ping Google.com. That ...
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Is there a way to increase monitor resolution by some software?
I want to control many windows without tab thing, just use keys on Numpad to change position and size of controlled area by "+" and "-".
For example, there are 4 windows 2 with Virtualbox, and two ...
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PC does not show POST screen on graphics card
I have had this issue recently where I power on my PC and it displays nothing, first I didn't thought much about it, but then the display shows up when it reaches to Windows logo and loading sign.
I ...
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How to retrieve saved password from cyberduck in windows
I forgot my admin password for my netgear readynas and did not setup password recovery when I installed. We have a whole lots of data in the server and I am a bit scare to do the hard reset. I have ...
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Making Windows 7 installation media via Linux from WIM files
I want to install Windows 7 (32-bit, sold on an Asus eeePC) in a virtual machine (VirtualBox, running on Ubuntu on said eeePC). What I have is:
A blank disk in a virtual machine, awaiting some ...
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how long should it take for ntfsclone to complete?
I am trying to backup a Windows 7 installation from a Kubuntu box.
The hard drive is a 320GB Toshiba directly connected to a SATA interface and has always wored well.
My initiall attempt was to use ...
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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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Switching from Windows 7 to Kubuntu - NTFS disk conversion [duplicate]
I'm going to be making a switch from Windows to Linux, but all my HDD's are NTFS-formatted. I understand I would have to format the boot disk and lose all data, but what about the other HDD's that don'...
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How to download multiple FTP files in windows 7?
I need to download around 200 FTP files from NCBI website.
I have a linux sytem which throws an error "Connection timed out" while using wget. I think this error would be due to administrative ...
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Unable to locate hosts by hostname in mixed Linux and Windows LAN
I have a LAN with Windows 7 and Debian 8 hosts. The stations get IPs via the router/switch DHCP.
Everything goes fine if trying to connect or ping by their IP addresses, as it should be. The problem ...
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VMware Workstation Player: get host OS to capture certain hotkeys or global hotkeys in general
I am running VMware Workstation Player 12.5.4 on 4.10.13-1-ARCH (i3wm) and my guest OS is Windows 7.
I want to use LWin+1/2/3/... to switch to workspaces in the host OS (Linux, i3wm) while I'm inside ...
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Why HEVC playback on Linux and Windows is different?
I have an old 2.7 GHz Dual Core machine on a DG41RQ motherboard, with 4 GB RAM. I tried to play a x265 encoded video (1080p) with VLC on Windows 7. The video was choppy and was lagging, while audio ...
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Ubuntu 16 Already Installed; GParted NTFS Partition for Windows; Windows 7 Installation Freezes at Starting Windows
So I got sick of Windows 10, especially when it started crashing out of nowhere. I decided to run nothing but Ubuntu. I covered my my main drive with just Ubuntu, found out I can't run Propellerhead ...
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How to make force use a general chipset driver for a vendor-modded USB Wlan adapter?
I have a Buffalo WLI-UC-GNHP adapter, which use a Ralink RT3070 chipset (https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Buffalo_WLI-UC-GNHP). But this adapter cannot work out-of-box on Windows and Linux, and it don't even ...
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dd a linux volume from windows
I'm booting Lubuntu from Windows 7 by installing Grub in the linux partition itself (and not the MBR), dumping the first 512 bytes of the linux partition on a linux.bin file and then booting linux.bin ...
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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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Removing Linux from dual boot. Have Windows 7 and Kubuntu
Already gone through windows-disk-management-not-allow-delete-volume-and-extend-volume but my problem is it doesn't show any menu other than help.
How to resolve this ?
Edit #1: I am using Windows 7 ...
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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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Can I chainload MBR from Grub on secondary GPT drive? And can I nuke MSR on secondary drive?
So I have a UEFI capable motherboard and three hard drives:
/dev/sda - 256G SSD (MBR)
/dev/sdb - 230G HDD (MBR)
/dev/sdc - 512G SSD (GPT)
For historical reasons sda and sdb have MBR partition tables ...
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Samba: Identical samba shares on Linux acting differently
Server 1: 10.0.0.10
smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
Server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic ...
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Setup for Restaurant/Store [closed]
I am trying to setup a Restaurant/Store solution with the minimum $.
Requirements:
4 customer service points (point of sales, each with ticket printers, cash registers, display keyboard and a mouse) ...
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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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Windows/Linux hang issue - BSOD
System Details:
DELL Latitude 3540 with Windows 7 & Ubuntu linux, dual boot.
Observation:
I see below error in windows 7 system logs frequently. Windows/Linux gets hanged 5 minutes ...
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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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