A dual boot configuration allows for two or more operating systems to be installed and used on a single system.
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Windows 8 partitions - Create and Delete
I'm less than a beginner in this. I want to make a partition so I can dual boot my Windows 8 (pre-installed with my laptop) with a Linux distro.
I don't know how to make a partition, but what worries ...
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Booting Linux from USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
When I boot my computer, in the boot manager, I have the option to click "Windows 7" (my default OS).
When my External Hard Drive is plugged in to USB 2.0, it boots Linux (when I click on "Windows ...
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Linux boots when I click “Windows 7” in boot manager
I've been trying to dual boot, which has pretty much been successful. I have Linux installed on an external Hard Drive. In the boot manager when I click on Windows 7:
(with the hard drive plugged ...
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I have a dual-boot Win 7/Ubuntu 12 machine, when in Ubuntu can I run the Win 7 partition as a VM?
I have a working dual-boot configuration with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as the primary OS, and Win7 x64 Ultimate as the secondary.
Most of the time, rebooting to run Windows programs is just fine, as I want ...
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Windows 7 & 8 dual boot MBR broken
I had a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 8, where Windows 7 was first and on the C:\ drive, 8 on the D:\ drive. I booted up into Windows 7 and deleted Windows 8 files (I should've deleted it ...
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Can I run Windows 8 dual boot on a mac using an external drive instead of having both OS's on the internal drive
Basically, I want to keep Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro's hard drive only, I don't want to partition the drive to install Windows 8. I'm already using Win7 and WinXP in Parallels Desktop ...
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Can I 'move' Windows 7 from an SSD to an HDD?
SEE BELOW FOR SHORT
Hello,
Due to boot problems after fiddling with a Fedora 18 install (see details below), I want to install Windows on another harddisk. My plan is to use a Windows Backup (System ...
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Repairing Windows 8 after trying to dual boot it with Fedora 18
As the title states, I turned off secure boot and installed fedora 18 as usual using a liveUSB installer. This seems to have really miffed windows and now it refuses to boot.
Grub2 comes up fine, I ...
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misterious collapse of Fedora 18 on a dual system
I've recently (about a month ago) installed Windows 7 and Fedora 18 as a dual system on my Dell Vostro laptop, and everything went well until my Fedora started shutting down out of a sudden, just like ...
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Dual Booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu
I'm planning on dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu on one of my old computers, when I was looking at disk management I have this:
http://i.imgur.com/dZFNSP9.png
(Can't post images, not enough rep)
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No icons, launcher, top panel or anything else while 'Try Ubuntu' 13.04
I just got Ubuntu 13.04 to my USB and pressed 'Try Ubuntu' and that worked very well, so I decided to install. At the end of the install I got a fail message and it said something about the boot ...
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Bootcamping Windows 8 Installation issues: Blue screen of death
I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro, using Bootcamp.
I've stepped through the assistant and used the Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk, and stored this on a Usb ...
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Can I reinstall Linux from live USB?
I just wanna confirm, if I uninstall Linux and have a problem booting Windows XP, I'll still be able to reinstall Linux from my live USB, right? I guess it would reinstall Linux and reinstall Grub2, ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 does not boot after I upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
First had I problem with to install Ubuntu 12.10, that fix I with to edit the grub(nomodeset), but now have I problem with Ubuntu 13.04. Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't boot up after I upgrade from 12.10. I have ...
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Boot from secondary HD
I have a Dell XPS 15 and have been using it for some time with the factory HD. I got an SSD to be the primary drive (I have installed in the HD bay) and moved the factory HD to the optical bay.
When I ...
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Dual Boot TrueCrypt Encrypted Windows and Linux with Grub workaround?
The Major issue of not being able to dual-boot on TrueCrypt disc encryption systems won't get out of my mind.
My idea is, wouldn't it be possible to create an encrypted HDD with an Windows system on ...
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How can I find out if I have enough ram to dual boot?
How can I find out if I have enough ram to dual boot or boot from a usb? I have a windows xp sp3 laptop with 2gb of total ram and I'm interested in trying out linux (maybe ubuntu or mint), for fun. ...
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Different times between OS's
I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 8. Ubuntu is 1 hour ahead, so I set it to 1 hour back and then when I next log into Windows 8, the clock is 1 hour behind. If I then set it forward in Windows 8, it is 1 ...
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Should I transfer windows installation to VirtualBox
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. I use Windows 7 rarely and it consumes a lot of space (25 GB). I only use Office and IE (my dad uses it for accessing a bank website which supports ...
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Can I repair Win XP MBR using WIn 7 CD?
I have a dual boot machine (ubuntu 12.04 and xp sp3) and now I want to get rid of ubuntu.
After searching over the internet I found that I should first remove the grub (by fixing the MBR) so that the ...
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How to dual boot Ubuntu/Win7 without password?
I have Win 7 ultimate on my C drive with a primary partition of 50GB. There is currently 14GB free. Is it possible to install Ubuntu side-by-side with existing win 7 on the same drive without ...
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Recovering a dual boot
My system at home used to have a dual boot of
Windows 7
Windows 7
Due to some requirements I have had to blow away my primary partition and make it XP. So I now have;
XP
Windows 7
However, ...
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iMac replace GRUB2 with rEFIt
I have a dual-boot of Mac OS X Lion and Ubuntu 12.10. When I installed Ubuntu, it came with GRUB2 as a boot manager, but I can't really use it since I have a bluetooth keyboard that is not supported ...
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Ubuntu boot menu not recognizing bluetooth keyboard
I have a 21.5" iMac, and I have recently installed Ubuntu on it on a different partition, so i can choose my preferred OS each time i boot the computer. When I installed Ubuntu, it automatically ...
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To install co-exist Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7
Recently I have had Windows 7 re-installed on my laptop. Now the layout of partitions and volumes
=============Primary=======================================
Partition0\system reserved: size 100Mb
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normal OS boot and virtual boot in windows as vhd
Is it possible to install e.g. ubuntu on a vhd in virtualbox and boot it normally at the pc start or start it as a virtual machine in Windows 8 or Win7?
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I used BCDEDIT to dual boot Windows 8 and ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
I used
"bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi" following this link http://askubuntu.com/questions/235567/windows-8-removes-grub-as-default-boot-manager to dual boot linux, but now my ...
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How do I repair my dual boot windows 7 and windows 8 bootloader?
I had my laptop running both Windows 7 and Windows 8 as a dual boot. When I would start it, it would show the nice OS selection screen.
Then, I reinstalled Windows 7. What happens now is that when I ...
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Best way to install Windows?
I run a dual-boot Linux/Windows system. Every once in a while, I make a clean installation of one or both.
Installing Windows is always a pain. I need a DVD I don't have at hand, which then the ...
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Just installed Fedora 18 and computer is not booting
After some initial trouble, I was able to install Fedora 18, but Had to Disable Secure Boot, disable Fast Boot, and Enable CSM.
Side Note: I was reading that by Enableing CSM I was not going to be ...
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Installed Windows 7 Ultimate on D Drive and previous Windows 7 Enterprise on C Drive has stopped starting up
Please please help!
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate on same hard drive on D Drive on my laptop and the previous Windows 7 Enterprise which was installed on C Drive is not booting up now.
When I ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Windows 8 dual boot, won't start Windows nor Recovery on Asus N56
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5688077/
Hello, I need help with this. Installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Asus N56 with preinstalled win8, secure boot off, fastboot off, IVT off, legacy mode not enabled, both in EFI ...
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Black Screen, Blinking Cursor after cloning from HDD to SSD
(I'm aware there are similar questions, but from what I've seen I've already tried the fixes suggested.)
How I got into this situation:
I'm running a Macbook Pro (Which means a hybrid GPT/MBR ...
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windows 8 & 7 on separate HDDs
I had windows 7 on my old hard drive then I bought a new one so I decided to install a win 8 on it .
now I have them on separate disk and if I want to use one I should select that Hdd on setup boot ...
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Two windows installed but there is no boot manager
A Windows XP has been installed in C: however I have installed another windows XP on D:
The problem is that as I power on the computer, it goes directly to the old windows!
There is no boot manager ...
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How can I force the boot menu to always show up at start up without pressing F10?
I have Visual Studio 2010 installed on Windows 7 on one hard disk and Visual Studio 2012 installed on Windows 7 on another hard disk in the same computer.
When I start up my system, I want the boot ...
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installing dual operating system
I have a laptop with a 500 GB hard disk and my partitions are:
C:\ 57.7 GB (OS installed)
D:\ 57.7 GB
E:\ 300 GB
F:\ 50 GB
All partitions use the NTFS file system.
Each of these 4 partitions is ...
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Installing ubutu without hiding an already installed windows 7?
I have a bootable flash drive containing a ubuntu installer. I want to install ubuntu on my system without hiding windows 7. Last time when I installed windows on my system it hid the ubuntu boot ...
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To dual boot from an SSD with a 2 TB HD for data, must I use UEFI?
I currently have a 120 GB SSD with Windows 7 and a 2 TB harddrive for data. I wanted to install Ubuntu alongside win7 on the SSD but as I am using UEFI I ran into lots of problems and gave up after a ...
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Is it possible install Windows and Linux on a USB device?
It is easy to install Ubuntu on a USB device.
I can install Windows 7 on USB with the help of nt6.zip. But how can I install both Windows and Linux on USB?
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How can I install Windows without uninstalling existing Linux?
I installed Lubuntu 12.10 on a single drive. How can I install XP without uninstalling Lubuntu 12.10?
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Attempted downgrade from GRUB2 to GRUB; can't boot into ubuntu anymore
So I just did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate and installed ubuntu 12.10 beside it. I kept the windows bootloader in the mbr at the advice if my tutorial (i used easyBCD to enable an option for ...
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macbook pro bootpartition problems
In my macbook pro early 2011 15" i have installed 2 harddrives.
First harddrive is a 160gb ssd for osx
Second harddrive is a 500 gb harddrive for windows & data partiton (300 GB)
I have created ...
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Installing Windows 7 and Windows 8 in same partition
I have Windows 7 installed on my pc. In c:\ I want to install Wwindows 8 on the same drive as I have created the partition size as 350 Gb. I want to keep both Windows installations on the same ...
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Linking Ubuntu Documents to Windows Documents
I would like to make my documents synchronised across my dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu system.
I've chosen to implement this as mounting the Windows data partition in Ubuntu at boot time with fstab, ...
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installing MS-DOS on new computer
I am going to install MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on my new Lenovo IdeaPad U410 laptop just for fun and just to prove myself I can do it.
I want to ask if I can expect some problems? And if so then ...
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Missing Boot Menu [duplicate]
I have windows 8 and windows 7 installed in my system, yet I don't have a boot menu. When I load my computer it goes straight to windows 8.
I installed EasyBCD and tried to recreate the boot files ...
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Upgrading Win7/Quantal(secure boot off) to Win8/Quantal dual boot
I have a Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot setup on an HP g4 laptop that is Win8 ready. Secure boot is off(using legacy boot).
I want to upgrade to Windows 8, keeping the Ubuntu 12.10 install ...
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OS X Snow Leopard in Virtual Box fails to boot after software update
I installed a copy of Snow Leopard on a virtual drive in a Windows 7 host. It has been working fairly well in the past few days. I decided to install the updates for OS X and now it is stuck at the ...
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Windows option is missing in Dual boot Grub loader
I installed Windows 7 and then Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. After installing, when I restart, GRUB didn't load. Instead, it straight away went to Windows booting as if there's Only windows available on ...
