A bootloader is a program that loads and launches a program or an operating system from boot.
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How to fix GRUB after Windows breaks it, and how to edit the GRUB menu
I had Windows XP and Ubuntu both installed. I could easily boot into either until Windows "fixed" the bootloader so that it now only boots into Windows.
I guess there is no way to prevent Windows ...
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How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader?
I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in EFI mode on a hard disk some days ago. Today, the bootloader got missing/corrupted.
I currently have the Windows 8 installer on a flash drive and tried using ...
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Remove entry from Windows 7 bootloader
After making an error installing windows, I now have two entries in the Windows 7 boot loader, one of which is incorrect.
How can I remove it? I've seen some entries recommending EasyBCD, but can't ...
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How can I add Linux to the new Windows 8 boot manager?
Which OSes can be put into the new Bootloader that Windows 8 provides? It seems to be quite pretty and consistent with the rest of the new Windows 8 design so it would be cool to put Linux (Ubuntu) ...
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How do I install the Windows 7 boot loader?
I have 2 hard disks, on first I have installed win xp. I boot into xp and run setup of win7 and installed it on second hard disk. Now the problem is that win7 bootloader is installed on first ...
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Full disk encryption on dual boot system using TrueCrypt
I'm thinking about encrypting my whole harddrive for example using TrueCrypt, which I've used for encrypting file containers for a while. It is possible to encrypt the whole harddisk through the ...
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“Reinstalling” the Windows 7 boot manager
I've run into an interesting predicament. I've got two HDD's, one running Windows XP (Primary) and another running Windows 7 (Secondary). I recently installed Gentoo over the XP installation and used ...
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How can I “dual-boot” both Windows XP and Windows 7 from a partitioned hard drive?
I have a 750 GB hard drive that is partitioned into C and D drives. I am running XP Professional. I will be installing Windows 7. Can I install different operating systems on different drives? XP-c ...
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Multiple live CD ISO images on a single USB drive
I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple live CD ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is ...
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Fastest way to restore Windows 7's original MBR?
I have removed GRUB's partition, and I wanted to restore the original Windows boot part. WinToFlash failed again to make my pendrive bootable, thus I'm in a bit of a trouble now.
I looked all ...
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How to make Windows bootloader the default?
When I got a new computer, I installed Ubuntu and Windows XP on it. When I turn it on, GRUB shows up and lets me choose between the OSes. All right so far.
A while later, I decided I don't want ...
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How to remove boot loader entry on Windows-8?
I have just installed Windows-8 preview twice, because at first I accidentally installed it at the wrong partition and now I have got 2 entries with Windows-8 in the boot loader and would like to get ...
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How do I fix a Windows XP bootloader error when BOOTCFG, FIXBOOT, and FIXMBR do nothing?
I recently replaced a faulty hard drive with two hard drives that I then raided (1) together and installed Windows XP on about a week ago. Since then, I have always received this error:
Windows ...
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Windows 8: Boot to non-Windows OS
I previously had an install of Windows 7 on one drive, and an install of Fedora on the other hard drive. I have a partition on the second drive for GRUB, and the normal Windows bootloader partition on ...
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NTLDR missing Windows XP [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
missing NTLDR / no CD drive recognition
I have a Windows XP system and the NTLDR error appears. Any advice?
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Effect on factory setting after installing linux
I have a basic question in my mind about the dual operating systems. I bought a new lenovo laptop G450 which is shipped with Windows 7. Now I want to install Ubuntu Linux as a second operating system ...
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How to get the Windows 7 bootloader back after installing XP, as well?
So I installed XP on a partition alongside Windows 7 and I have lost the Windows 7 bootloader. I'd like to have it back, even if it means getting rid of XP, as I no longer need it. How can I ...
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How to embed-assign a catalog assigned driver?
"Drivers can be signed in one of two ways: catalog signing (which includes the signature in a catalog file) or embedded signing (which embeds the signature in the driver file)."
I was looking over a ...
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How to move the Windows 7 bootloader to the Windows 7 partition?
I recently installed Windows 7 in a triple boot setup alongside XP and Linux. When I was finished and was in the process of restoring the bootloader for Linux I discovered something strange about what ...
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Grub doesn't show OS selection menu when booting a dual boot setup
I have installed windows and Linux(ubuntu) on the same machine. Now the problem is when I start my machine, It goes directly to Linux and does not ask me for the selection of OS either I want to load ...
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Can xcopy make a bootable copy (clone) of Windows?
Following on from my discussion with @JustinD in the comments here, is it technically possible to simply xcopy the contents of a Windows partition to a partition freshly created and formatted on a new ...
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How should I get my bootloader working for my Ubuntu, Windows 7 and Windows 8 on VHD?
I have a dual-boot system - 2 partitions - 1 Windows 7 and 1 Ubuntu 11.04 - using the Windows 7 boot-loader, with the Ubuntu boot option added via EasyBCD.
I also installed the Windows 8 preview on a ...
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Why does GRUB load after I select my Ubuntu Partition from Windows Boot Manager?
So first of all I'm running Windows 7 on one drive, and Ubuntu 9.04 on another. I downloaded and installed Easy BCD 2.0, which I have to say is an excellent piece of software. I used to have grub as ...
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Linux partition deleted, GRUB no longer boots
My notebook computer came with Vista and I installed Ubuntu on 2 partitions and kubuntu on another partition.
After a while, I wanted to delete one of the Ubuntu partition, so I did it in Vista's ...
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Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 mobo won't boot from USB flash drive
I am trying to boot BAMT, a Linux distribution based on Debian via USB on a brand new Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 motherboard. I tried various flash drive and various OS. I never had this problem with ASUS ...
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Most painless way to restore Windows 7 bootloader?
What is the most painless way to restore the Windows 7 bootloader without a Windows DVD?
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How do I set Windows 7 as default OS but retain Windows 8 Boot screen?
I am dual-booting between Windows 7 and Windows 8 on a test workstation, and typically reboot 3-4 times per day.
If I set Windows 8 as the default OS, I get the Windows 8 graphical boot screen, which ...
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How can I duplicate HBCD's XP boot loader with my MBR?
I'm stumped.
I'm migrating a Win XP Lenovo T500 to an SSD:
I copied the XP partition using EaseUS to the SSD.
Aligned the boot sector using Gparted
The MBR needs to be rebuilt (fair enough)
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Booting Linux live CD from USB?
I'm using the Ultimate Boot CD, and I've added a bunch of customized .iso's to it. I can boot into those .iso files fine, but most of them are mini-versions of Linux that are designed to run off of a ...
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Regenerating a winload.exe
If one is missing or has a corrupted winload.exe - and winload~1.exe, winloadOLD.exe, etc. do not work - what can you do to regenerate it? (Such as after a failed logon screen customization.)
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How to install Oracle Solaris 11 with Windows 7?
I want to install Oracle Solaris with Windows 7 without Virtual Machine...like means there should be an option of dual boot means that i can select the operating system during booting and can work in ...
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How to restore WindowXP loader within running Windows?
How can i restore WindowXP loader after installation of boot manager(GRUB, LILO,..).
I can boot to windows, so it may be restored within windows enviroment.
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Reinstalling Windows 7 Bootloader
On a computer running windows 7, I created a new partition and installed Ubuntu on the empty partition. Then in windows, I deleted the partition that ubuntu was installed on. After restarting my ...
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Linux: Advanced Grub Bootloader configuration? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Aesthetically editing grub.cfg
Make grub keep its default boot under kernel updates
Hello,
I want to use the Grub bootloader to boot up my system with my triple boot.
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Windows XP Boot Loader
I have recently completely formatted my computer's hard drive and installed a copy of Windows 7 on it to play with. However, because it has been a bit buggy on my system, I decided to reinstall my ...
