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“Preparing To Install Linux Mint” freeze

I have a Lenovo Ideapad U260 and have been trying to install Linux Mint Cinnamon Maya for the past few hours! I turn on my Windows 7 computer (which hasn't been working; Startup Repair loop) and ...
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HP: Desktop: Can I Move Windows From 4 Partitions To Just One?

The office of a coworker's wife was getting rid of their old computers and I picked up an HP dual core desktop for $25. It came with Windows 7 on it. I would like install Linux Mint as a dual ...
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Synergy 1.4.10 client side mouse lag [Windows 7 server, Linux Mint 14 client]

I have recently installed Linux Mint 14 on my laptop with Windows 7 64 bit on the server. I've used Synergy before with a windows 7 64 server and a windows 7 32 client and it worked perfectly. I'm ...
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How can I bypass WIndows 7 boot loader when dual booting Linux Mint 14

As of this morning my dual-boot attempt went south. This as far as I can see is mainly due to the windows boot loader and grub 2 and I'm really not sure how to fix the issue other than deleting Mint ...
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MSI GX660 R ethernet not working

I have the laptop MSI GX660R and my ethernet does not work anymore, I am using windows 7 and it does not show up in device manager or when I boot up into a Linux distro the ethernet does not show up ...
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Dual booting windows 7 and Mint 14 with “something else” option

I would like to do a dual boot of Windows 7 and Mint 14 on my Acer netbook which already has Windows 7 Pro 64-bit installed on a terabyte hard drive. I have already shrunk the Windows 7 partition to ...
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Why does it take longer for Linux to tell me that my user password is wrong, than it does for Windows?

I use both Linux Mint and Windows 7 depending on the task. I've noticed that when I try to login in with an incorrect password it takes longer to tell me so in Linux than it it does in Windows 7. ...
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How to restore Windows 7 from backup/recovery DVD

I have a laptop, and I can not start any operating system. I have 4 backup DVDs with Windows 7 Home, which was the preinstalled OS. I formatted the disk and installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I later ...
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How to remove linux mint? [duplicate]

I've windows 8 and Linux mint both installed on my system , Now I want to remove both Linux mint and windows 8 and install windows 7 from a USB flash drive . I don't know where the Linux mint files ...
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Dual boot linux mint 14 partitioning

I have 2 primary partitions installed: 100MB system reserved (NTFS) and 230GB Windows (NTFS). Can I make a linux /home partition so that different distros can point at it and use it's files? And will ...
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Dual boot modular partitioning

I want to install linux mint 14 alongside my already installed windows 7; there is an install alongside windows 7 option but I don't know how that will partition my drive and I don't think it will ...
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Can't access my accelerated hard disk from msdos after installing linux on ssd cache

I mistakenly installed Linux Mint on my ssd (forgot my PC actually came with one), when it detected a ~31GiB disk that it wanted to install to, I was a bit confused since I had brought out 30Gb in my ...
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Error trying to boot Mint 14 in Virtual Machine with Virtual Box

I tried installing Mint 14 in a Virtual Machine and got this message.< Note that I have another VM with Debian and it works just fine! VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is ...
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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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Virtualbox issue: how to use static ip in linux guest with windows host using dynamic ip?

I'm using windows 7 as host OS, then I installed linux mint debian as guest OS. My Windows 7 is using dynamic ip. Here is the setting: ip: 192.168.1.101 mask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.1.1 ...
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Error - unknown filesystem grub rescue - Can't boot from any other media whatsoever

So I've been trying anything and everything under the sun to fix this problem. Have a lenovo Y570 laptop and decided to duel boot linux mint alongside windows 7. I partitioned some space on the ...
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Error - unknown filesystem grub rescue - Can't boot any other media to fix it

So I've been trying anything and everything under the sun to fix this problem. Have a lenovo Y570 laptop and decided to duel boot linux mint alongside windows 7. I partitioned some space on the ...
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How do I dual boot over two SSDs?

I currently have a spare SSD and would like to install a version of Linux on it. My other SSD has a Windows 7 install on it. Is there a way that I can when turning the computer on get a menu which ...
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Multibooting Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13

I have a few softwares that can only be run in Windows. So I'm thinking about multiboot. But I've a few questions. Firstly, does multibooting effects the performance of LM even a tiny negligible bit ...
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Slow Networking and Errors with Mint 13 in VMware Player

We are diving into Linux for the first time. Our goal is to create tar format LTO-5 tape backups of data sitting on a Windows 7 volume using Mint 13 to run the tar command, which is running in VMware ...
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Lenovo Ideapad Y480 can't reinstall windows?

Alright, so here's the deal... For a while, I wanted to mess with Linux. I don't know why, but I wanted to. So, what I did was use WUBI and install Ubuntu. Because of some unknown reason (Intel Rapid ...
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Dual booting Linux/Win7, Grub refuses to load Win7

Decided to give Linux Mint a try (Ubuntu's interface annoys me), so I installed it with the intention of dual booting with Windows 7. Installation went fine, but now I can only boot into Linux Mint. ...
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How can I load Windows 7 after I installed Mint 12 KDE?

I have Windows 7 installed. I attempted to install Mint side by side. Though, when I choose Windows from the Grub loader(knowing that Windows needs MBR) nothing happens. What is the best way to ...
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Share Firefox/Thnderbird data between W7 and Linux Mint 12 in dual boot computer

I've just set up my laptop (where I had running only W7) with a dual boot to run Linux Mint 12 as well. I have a "Data" partition (apart from the required partitions for W7 and Linux) where I store ...
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Remove mint 12 dvd version and leave windows 7

I dual booted my xp, installing linux mint 12 lisa with no problem. My brother decided to do the same, he dual booted his windows 7, installing linux mint 12 cd version, then upgraded to the dvd ...
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vim missing bottom toolbar on Linux Mint

I've been trying Vim/Gvim, in both Windows and Linux (Mint), but something seems to be missing. I'm missing the bottom "status" bar on the Linux version, the one that indicates the key pressed. ...
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Show Linux operating system choices

I've had Linux Mint installed along with my Windows 7 partition. Recently, I reinstalled my Windows 7 partition and now the operating system choices menu that Linux Mint created no longer shows up. Is ...
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Linux mint 10 seems to corrupt ntfs filesystem

I have linux mint 10 and windows 7 installed on the same hd. First partition is linux, then swap, then the windows system partition and finally an NTFS partition for commonly used data i would like ...
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Install multiple Linux OS using WUBI

I want to install Linux Mint, and Ubuntu on my laptop using Wubi installation. I already installed Ubuntu, but when I launch the Wubi installer for Mint. I got this guy: Does it mean to say that I ...
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Windows 7 and Mint Linux separated disks no boot?

I have installed windows 7 on disk 1 and then installed mint linux on disk 2 After a reboot it says that can-t find the device and appear grub-recover or something like that... I`m noob so I would ...
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Can I install Mandriva Linux One inside Windows 7?

I'm a long time user of Linux Mint KDE and recently i heard about Mandriva and downloaded it. I've used Linux Mint within Windows. (On autorun, it has an option "install inside windows") On ...
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How to uninstall GRUB and get windows 7 bootloader back?

I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB. Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader ...
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How do I install GRUB to a partiton and not MBR?

I am trying to dual boot Windows and Linux. I would like to continue using the Windows bootloader in my MBR. I installed Windows 7 first. During the install I left some unallocated space that I ...
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How to remove other boot loaders

I installed windows 7 on my laptop. Then installed Ubuntu 10.04(Not the wubi installation). I installed 10.04 by directly booting into the cd. Then here comes linux mint 9. I installed it inside ...