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how can I install and operate printers etc that must run on win xp 32bit, on win7 ult 64bit laptop?
can it be done with or without VM? and if need VM can I include Linux Deb 12 as 3rd OS option? I have newer laptop to merge all on. all 3 laptops are Lenovo Thinkpads. winxp 32bit on a T61, win7 64bit ...
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Moving a hard-drive that has Linux and Windows 7 installed
My memory is that if one removes a hard-drive running Windows and re-installs it in another computer it immediately craps-out, until one can go through Microsoft to reauthorize it (I hope this makes ...
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Primary vs secondary HDD slots, what are the performance effects
What's the difference between the primary and secondary HD slots in a laptop?
On a clean OS install. If I have identical 500gb SSDs in the primary and secondary Drive slots on a M6500 workstation, ...
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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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Can i transfer my wsl ubuntu installation to a usb and run it from there?
I am running out of space on the c drive of a shared work windows computer. I am currently running ubuntu using wsl downloaded in the c drive and I'm hoping to move it to free up some space in the ...
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windows and linux, both on different drives. Any performance issues?
I dual-booted windows and Linux, in a different way. The way I did it is by having both operating systems on different hard drives. I am able to switch back and forth as the Linux one is installed on ...
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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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ThinkPad T420 is not booting
I bought a used T420 without a drive, I installed a Kingston SSD, but I still get this when trying to boot: https://i.sstatic.net/8FMLF.jpg Thanks for the help
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Unable to install windows subsystem for linux, error 0x800f0831
When I tried to install wsl without enabling it, it gives me this error
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wsl --install
wsl : The term 'wsl' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, ...
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Windows + Arch with 2 EFI partitions: Boot select only discovers windows
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I wish to install Arch-Linux in a dual-boot configuration with windows 10. I have partitioned one singular drive into 7 partitions as shown here. I wish to enter into GRUB going ...
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NTFS RAID partition plus Linux and Windows
Periodically I find one of my old photos or other files has become 0Kb and lost. By the time I have found this the backup is the same. So I am considering using RAID 5 or perhaps RAID 1 to ...
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Trying to passthru my RTX 2080 ti to a Windows 7 x64 bit vm using virt-manager on Ubuntu 21.10 : it gives error 12
I would like to virtualize Windows 7 x64 bit passing through my graphic card (rtx 2080 ti) with qemu-kvm on Ubuntu 21.10. It's failing for me,so I'm trying to understand what's wrong. After several ...
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How do I install Linux as a third OS alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10?
I currently have dual-boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10, although I'm not sure they boot correctly.
If I previously booted Windows 7, the next boot I get a black & white, DOS-looking boot menu. ...
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How to find USB thumbdrive volume on PC booted from Easy Recovery Essentials?
My PC (Windows 7) was having a problem and I'm using https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/ to try to fix it. It seems to be a minimal Linux-like OS that boots and lets you get files off the native file system ...
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laptop screen blinks continuously, Ubuntu and Win7 Display settings show's there is a connected external monitor
The screen blinks continuously (Usually, On startup. It blinks when it show's there is another monitor connected or if that same monitor disconnects), it shows that an external display is connected, ...
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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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evtest(or alternative) for windows
My laptop has been behaving weird lately, with me finding that it usually registers the down key being pressed by itself(the page scrolls to the bottom on Chrome).
In a Linux distro, I'd use evtest 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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Batch rename files w/ leading zeros and variations in filename [closed]
I have a set of files:
foo_1_somestring.txt
foo_2_adifferentstring.txt
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foo_124_anotherstring.txt
I want to batch rename them to:
foo_001_somestring.txt
foo_002_adifferentstring.txt
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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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Linux client loses connection to Windows share but can connect with smbclient
I have a Linux box that connects to a shared folder on a Windows 7 desktop. When the Windows computer goes to sleep and then resumes, the share is no longer accessible. If I reboot the Linux computer, ...
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Triple-boot Ubuntu with existing dual boot Window 7 and 10
I would like to install Ubuntu alongside my existing dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10.
During installation of the Ubuntu "trial" it recognized Windows 10 but no mention of Windows 7. This ...
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Virtualbox on Linux without windows manager and win 7 as guest
is there a possibility for having a host system without gui (e.g. ubuntu server) and have a windows 7 guest fully working? The guest system should not be working in headless mode, I need a full ...
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Can I add free space to Win7 partition in Ubuntu dual boot setup?
I'm not sure why this free space is there, but if I extend the Win7 partition to use the space, I get a warning that it may mess up my mbr. Obv not critical to fix this, but I like to keep things tidy....
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Expand OS Partition inside Extended partition
Originally Win7 --> dual booted with Ubuntu 20.04. Shrunk win partition and want to grow Linux into that unallocated space but no luck. Tried everything incl booting from usb Ubuntu 19 and easus ...
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How to repair boot info from Kali Linux to get Windows 10 booting again?
I have a laptop in which Windows 10 war pre-installed. I made a USB stick boot of Kali Linux and tried installing it on a partition of my disk. During the process of "Installing Base System" ...
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Connecting openVPN windows 7 clients to the server
Apologies for the wording of the question - it was done in a rush, here with the altered wording:
I have an openVPN server running on Ubuntu 18.04 which has samba running.
I have no problems ...
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Encrypt an external hard drive with read+write access on both Windows and Linux
I've used NTFS+Bitlocker in the past for USB external hard drives, and it's easy to use in read+write on Windows.
But it's less easy to use on Linux: NTFS read+write requires ntfs-3g (which some ...
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Can't log into Linux Samba share from Windows
Whenever I go to my network shares on windows, I am prompted with a request for username and password on the folder I want to access. Most of the time it won't let me log in with the username and ...
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