A dual boot configuration allows for two or more operating systems to be installed and used on a single system.
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Installing Windows 8 next to Ubuntu
Is is possible to install Windows 8 without reformatting the entire hard drive?
I have a machine running only Ubuntu 12.04, and I want to install Windows 8 and dual-boot the two. Does Windows 8 allow ...
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Ubuntu and Windows 8 shared partition gets corrupted
I have a dual boot (Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8) system. Both systems have access to an NTFS "DATA" partition which contains all my images, documents, music and some application data like Chrome and ...
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Dual boot new laptop win 7 / ubuntu 12.04 - 750gb + 32gb SSD
I have just purchased a new HP dv7t-7000 and I would like to run Windows 7 / Ubuntu.
How do I setup the dual boot? Can I install both operating systems with an 8gb USB drive?
Can I still make use of ...
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How to dual-boot Ubuntu and OS X on iMac?
I trying to install Ubuntu on an iMac. For that purpose I have installed rEFIt and it is trying to boot Ubuntu from my pendrive. Whenever I do so, however, I end up with a black screen saying ...
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Remove dual boot screen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove boot loader entry on Windows-8?
some time ago i bought an SSD and since i had to reinstall windows i bought windows 8 with it.
I kept windows 7 on my old ...
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Can Mac OS X and Windows 7 have same computer name in a dual boot setup?
I am running Mac OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro, and I just set up Boot Camp on the system and installed Windows 7 into another partition. This means it is now a dual-boot machine, and I can boot up into ...
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Creating bootable NTFS partition on Debian
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive:
first one is ext3 formatted with a Debian installation on it (bootable)
second one is NTFS formatted and was used from a previous Windows installation as ...
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Installing Ubuntu to dual-boot from mSATA
I'm about to recieve a 2012 Dell XPS 15 with 128GB mSATA and 1TB 5400rpm HDD, it should come with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
I understand that Smart Response Technology (SRT) in the Intel Rapid Storage ...
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Manually remove Windows 8 from Mac Book Pro (OS X 10.8.2 ML)
Here's what I did:
I wanted to try W8 on my MBP.
installed W8 dualboot with bootcamp
got fed up with W8 cause it wouldn't work as expected
I deleted the Windows partition with the Disk Utility of ...
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Not Loading GRUB After Installing Mint and Ubuntu
On a new computer (less than 3 months), I originally installed Fedora 16 to give it to try.
I wasn't all that impressed and un-installed it about a month ago and I'm not exactly sure how it happened ...
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Secure Boot is not compatible on my PC; will I be able to install Windows 8 on it?
Yesterday, I ran Windows 8 upgrade assistant on my PC, Only problem it gave is that
Secure Boot isn't compatible with your PC
Your PC's firmware doesn't support Secure Boot so you won't be able to ...
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Grub stuck on “Grub loading”
So, on my laptop I have two OS'es. Debian Squeeze and Windows 7. My problem is that Grub doesn't load anything. It stops on the message " Grub Loading.". Now I am trying to solve that problem using ...
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Resize partitions after instalation
Is it safe to resize partitions (with gparted live) after successfull instalation dualboot w7-mint? I swapped partition size by mistake so I need to reduce win partition and enlarge mint part.
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Windows 8 Unable to perform hibernate
Windows 8 Enterprise edition x86. Already enabled hibernate option, to have it on shutdown menu (start menu?) and set to hibernate on lid closing. However it's not hibernating for me. When I'm trying ...
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Dual boot centOS and Win7
I posted this on stackoverflow, but it looks like superuser would be more appropriate.
I have a CentOS 5 machine that runs Windows 7 as a dual boot. CentOS is the main OS and each OS is set up in a ...
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Can't access file from another installation of Windows 7
A while back my laptop stopped booting into Windows 7 and instead constantly loaded a blue screen of death. So I installed another copy of Windows 7 and opted to keep the installation of the original ...
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Resizing and moving MacBook partitions
I have a MacBook Pro set up with a dual boot OS X Lion + Windows 7. My OS X partition is ~100 GB and the other partition is ~300 GB. I would like to make the OS X partition bigger and the Windows ...
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Is possible to share programs between Windows 8 on a VHD and Windows 7 on a physical disk?
I have a lot of programs installed on Windows 7 that I need on my Windows 8 (runs on a VHD). Do I need to duplicate all these installations or is there some tool that can update the Windows 8 system ...
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Need to download Ubuntu ISO, but getting “Invalid ISO” error message
I'm using a USB/DVD download tool within my current OS (Windows 7) for allowing Dual Boot functionality alongside Ubuntu. I downloaded Ubuntu off their main site and when I use the download tool, I ...
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Upgrade only one version of XP to Windows 8 on a dual boot computer
I have a computer running Windows XP Pro 32-bit and 64-bit in dual boot.
I need to retain Windows XP 32-bit Pro, as I have expensive software that will only run on that specific version. I want to ...
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Partition/install issues
I am new to Ubuntu and tried to install 10.1 as dual boot option from a USB. At first I encountered the error when in partition dialogue of installation process that cannot find root directory. I did ...
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How to speed up VirtualBox's raw partition guest and dualbooted computer by SSD cache?
I brought new Lenovo Ideapad U410 Ultrabook. 8GB RAM, 24GB SSD disk, 1000GB HDD, intel i5 processor. I use most of the time (80% of time) Ubuntu Linux. But I need to use Windows sometimes too. That is ...
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Windows 8 safe mode grub 2
I need to boot into safe mode in Windows 8 Ultimate to un-install Avira as this is not supported in windows 8. The problem is I have also installed Ubuntu 12.04 and from the grub 2, I do not get the ...
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How can I automatically boot to my new Windows 7 installation?
When I bought a new computer, I reinstalled windows on the larger hard drive it came with, but kept the old hard drive as well. I'm keeping the old Windows installation on the hard drive in case I ...
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Dual Booting - Ubuntu Installer doesn't recognize Windows 7 or find partitions
I have a new HP Pavilion HPE h9-1130 Phoenix Desktop with Windows 7 64-bit pre-installed. I would like to dual boot with the latest stable release of Ubuntu, version 12.04.1 LTS. I followed the steps ...
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Using the exact same OS to virtualize and dualboot
I want to be able to run a guest Windows 7 VM on my host OS X system and then be able to shut down my entire computer and boot that exact same Windows 7 system and pick up exactly where I left off in ...
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Windows Boot Manager set to boot to Linux and not to display choices
My computer (Dell XPS M1330) dual boots to Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04. I made the mistake of changing the Windows startup options so that it boots to Ubuntu by default, and also displays the choices ...
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Windows 8 - Ubuntu dual boot
I bought a new Toshiba s855 notebook with windows 8 preinstalled. Secure boot feature was enabled by default.
I installed latest version of ubuntu after disabling secure boot feature(it was not ...
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After installing Windows 7, I can no longer get to Debian 6 (dual boot)
I had Debian 6 on my machine (Dell Vostro 260) and used GParted to shrink the partition. I then tried installing Windows 7 on that partition. After Windows 7 installed, I could not choose which OS to ...
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grub refuses to install
I'm trying to triple-boot MacOS, Centos 6, and Ubuntu 12.04.
Here's my approach:
Use rEFIt to choose between MacOS and grub
Use grub to choose between CentOS and Ubuntu
I have all installed on ...
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Windows Vista machine locks up after login
I've got an HP desktop machine circa 2009, running Windows Vista 64-bit and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The machine has been in this configuration (dual boot) for some time (3 years) but recently developed a ...
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Possible to restore Windows Partition disk image?
I have a machine that was dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I used the Disks program in Ubuntu to make a disk image of my windows partition which I saved on an external disk. I then reformatted ...
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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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Chromium OS partitions won't appear on GParted
I dual boot Chromium OS with Windows 7 on an Asus U36 PC. To do this I simply installed a Chromium OS build from chromeos.hexxeh.net into a USB, then I copied C-STATE and C-ROOT to my hard drive, ...
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Adding Windows 8 on Windows 7 PC's 2nd HD
If I install a new HD with the intention of of installing Windows 8, how would I be able to boot to the OS of my choice? Dual-boot option needed.
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Shrinking Windows drive/system recovery on a dual boot
I have a dual boot Windows 7+Ubuntu 12.04 computer. I recently shrank the Windows partition by around 20GB via Gparted (Disk Management was hanging while querying shrink space). Now, whenever I boot ...
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ubuntu boots into gnu grub 1.99
I've tried
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
boot
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz...
and the loopback (loop0) /ubuntu/disks/root.disk command etc.
When I try the boot command it tells me ...
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System Restore with a Dual Boot with Windows 7
I am dual booting W7 and W8. When I boot into W7 my restore points are deleted in W8. When W7 came out there was a registry hack for XP to preserve W7 restore points. Does something like that exist ...
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I want to dual boot Windows 8 on a Macbook Pro that doesn't already have Windows. Do I have to buy Windows twice?
My girlfriend just bought a Macbook Pro, and she wants to to dual boot OSX with Windows. Specifically, she would like to use Windows 8. What I already know is the following:
Windows 8 discs are only ...
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Can not boot windows XP from cloned hard disk - what can I do?
My configuration:
a PC (some years old) with MSI K8N-Neo-4F Motherboard, 1 GB RAM.
Disk 1 (Maxtor, SATA II, 250 GB): 2 Partitions,
on Partition 1 (48 GB): Windows XP Professional (NTFS)
on ...
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Reinstall Windows 7 on dual boot
I've just upgraded to Windows 8 from 7, but one of my programs doesn't work. (The required drivers don't work under Windows 8.)
This program is imperative. So I need to reinstall 7 with 8, as a dual ...
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Dual-boot does not work
I have a PC with Linux Mint installed on it, and I wanted to install Windows 7 alongside it.
What I have done is:
Created a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu.
Restarted the computer, this time with ...
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Error while booting Fedora 17 from Live USB on Windows 8 HP Envy 4 1102tx
I am trying to run Fedora 17 using a Live USB on my recently bought HP Envy 4 1102tx which came with Windows 8 pre-installed. My system has a 500GB HDD and a 32GB SSD.
Every time I try to boot from ...
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Booting CDs/USB devices after installing Windows 8
I recently installed Windows 8 on one of my four primary partitions. I had two partitions for Windows 7 (boot and os), one for the Windows System Recovery Environment and the last for Ubuntu. I was ...
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Windows boot menu doesn't appear when booting
I have installed two versions of Windows, Windows 7 and Windows 8. At the beginning it showed both entries and I could select which one to use (either Windows 7 or 8), but since 3 weeks this menu ...
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Preinstalled Windows 8 and Linux UEFI dual boot on a laptop
I am trying to set up Windows 8 and Arch Linux on a new Sony Vaio E14 with preinstalled windows 8.
So far:
installed W8 to my new SSD (switched for the original HDD) using Recovery Media
shrunk the ...
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How to create dual boot in my win7 HP laptop
I have HP Pavilion Dv6-3120tx laptop with pre installed windows 7 home basic OS
I have a single 320 GB hard-disk with Windows 7 x64bit pre installed, and the current partition schemes is as follows:
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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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Can't dualboot Windows 8 with Linux on separate drive
I have two hard drives, one has Linux on it, the other one is empty(the MBR was also cleared with dd).
When I try to install Windows 8 on the empty hard drive I get this:
note: not my actual ...
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Boot from a OS on a separate partition via Plop boot manager? [duplicate]
If I install a linux OS on a separate partition, would I be able to boot that partition using VMWare (via Plop boot manager)?
