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dual-boot of mint and windows 8.1 doesnt work - mint doesnt appear
I got a new laptop and installed Linux Mint 17 MATE and Windows 8.1. I want to use dual-boot so that I can choose at start-up which OS will appear. Now only the Windows appears and I dont get asked to ...
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Synergy broken on Windows 8.1 + HDPI
When I run synergy and move the cursor to a client, the cursor goes invisible and sticks to the bottom right corner of the screen (triggering windows peek). This renders all computers useless until ...
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Disk partitions are not appearing separately when installing Ubuntu along with Windows 8.1
I have installed windows 8.1 and now I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 along with it and want dual boot OS. I have 250 GB HD and they partitioned in four drives in windows and in which one is 20 GB ...
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Canon LBP-810 in modern os
I have an old but working printer (Canon LBP-810 LPT+USB). Is there a way to use it in windows 8.1? I can connect it to my laptop and install any Linux distribution, but I want to print to it from my ...
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2 x Windows 8.1 + Linux - boot configuration
I've got a strange situation. I must install two windows 8.1 systems and one linux (for example Debian) on one machine (one disk). I know that there is a huge amount of information about it on the ...
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Windows 8.1 Backup System Image on Samba Share - 0x807800C5 - 0x80070001 (Invalid Function)
This was the error message of the backup utility:
There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set. (0X807800C5)
Additional Information: Invalid Function (...
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Use displays on Linux machine to extend Windows Desktop [duplicate]
I have a Linux server with two monitors standing next to my Windows 8.1 machine. Since I won't be actually interfacing with server too much I would like to use its two monitors to extend my Windows ...
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How to Install Kali Linux on Windows 8 With BCD instead of Grub
I have Windows 8.1 64-bit installed on my PC. I have been trying to install Kali Linux using its ISO and Universal USB Installer (1.9.5.2) using a USB drive since the CD drive won't work.
The ...
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Does the host OS is lost while booting from a bootable USB?
I am running Windows 8.1 on my Sony Vaio laptop and want to run a Linux-based OS from a bootable USB. Can anyone tell me whether my Windows will be safe during and after the booting process or I'll ...
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Block/hide partition for Windows
I have a notebook w/ Win8.1 installed, and Linux alongside it in it's own partition.(duh)
The thing is, I don't want the Windows system to be able to put crap on the Linux partition. I'd like to set ...
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microsoft boot manager replaced by grub2?
I was running my pc with Win 8.1. I was thinking about trying linux for a long time so I decided to give it a try. I tried to install it several times but I was never able to boot to it, all I could ...
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Dual Boot SteamOS from VHD [duplicate]
I have a Windows 8.1 machine.
I made a SteamOS Virtual Machine on HyperV, using the Ye Old SteamOS ISO
I know it's possible to dual boot from VHD, however Windows bootloader does not support non ...
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mounting a local folder on an ssh server
I want to temporarily mount my local folder on a computationally powerful server so that I can compile my files in parallel there. The server runs linux and I have ssh access to it.
I dont have root ...
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Running VirtualBox on a Windows 8.1 host
I have a Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit machine, with an Intel Haswell i7 processor, and 8GB of RAM.
I installed the latest VirtualBox (4.3.6) and I'm trying to install a Linux guest. I've tried several ...
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How to identify my Windows 8.1 partition(s)
I have a home assembled desktop computer with Windows 8.1 installed. I have previously had Windows Vista Business 64 installed and I remember experimenting with Ubuntu some time ago (dual boot).
I ...
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