Questions tagged [multi-boot]
Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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Creating a bootable disc from an ISO file
I am trying to create a bootable DVD disc from an ISO file I downloaded from this website: Ye Olde SteamOSe. My goal is to dual boot this OS on a desktop(32-bit) I have, but I haven't been able to ...
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Windows Boot Manager, linking a 'device' to boot linux
I'm attempting to boot linux on a UEFI-GPT machine with a Windows Boot Manager (WBM).
So far I have installed Archlinux (Arch) with Grub. The grubx64.efi is successfully on my windows boot partition ...
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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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Installing Windows 8 next to Ubuntu
Is it 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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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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Installing Linux on a Windows 8.1 laptop
I would like to clean install a Linux distribution as Ubuntu etc. My laptop runs Windows 8.1.
I have two options in mind. Clean install or dual boot.
My technical question is: My laptop have a 8GB ...
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Trying windows 7 dual boot on a windows 8 machine
I have a ThinkPad (T530) with Windows 8.1 with one HDD and this is what I have done to achieve dual boot with Windows 7 on this machine -
On my main and only hard disk I created a new volume (...
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Fedora 20 - bootmgfw.efi' not found - GRUB2
I have a problem with the bootloader after the installation of Fedora 20.
Today I've installed Fedora 20 overwritng Ubuntu 14.04 without experiencing trouble. When I rebooted the pc, I noticed that ...
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where are the second stage bootloader and partition table is stored in the case of multiple bootable hard drives
I have some doubt on the booting process. Lets suppose I have two bootable hard drives and each hard drive has 3 partition, having 3 different operating system installed. Now my questions are:
How ...
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EFI GPT Windows 7 boot-loader/manager issue and grub
My computer(asus N76VM 64 bit) with windows 7 (64 bit home professional) pre-installed got in a bad state while partitioning from a later installed Ubuntu environment. This had lead me to run testdisk ...
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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:
My question is, if I install Ubuntu on the D: drive, will it work ...
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Disk partition order concern for dual booting Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
When dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on a UEFI system with GPT Disk, is the order of the partition, on which I install the OSes, of any concern?
Previously, after the EFI Sytem Partition and ...
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Fedora20 is still there despite deleting partition
I dual booted fedora20 and windows 8.1 on my PC. Later I deleted the fedora partition and merged it with windows partitions, but still I was getting the fedora option while switching on my system, ...
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Dual boot repair after a reinstall
I have (had) a dual boot desktop with W7 and W8. I installed a new SSD, and after days of failed attempts at cloning using several different software options, I gave up. So I did a clean install of W7....
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Removing old XP partition, but it's the active, system partition
Although my active partition contains the old XP installation, the secanario described in
Removing old Vista partition, but it's the active, system partition
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Removing old Vista partition, but it's the active, system partition
I originally had Vista installed on my laptop and installed Win7 as a dual boot option. Now I've moved everything from Vista, I have removed the dual boot option via msconfig.exe. Finally, I want to ...
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Adding Windows 8 to a dual-booting computer
I currently have a laptop which has been set up to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I want to add Windows 8 on top of this (I do not want to upgrade my copy of Windows 7).
I know that installing ...
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Adding multiple iso's to a pen-drive [duplicate]
This may sound strange but I have all windows instillation iso's back to windows 95. Is there a way to add them all to a 512GB pen-drive and make it boot-able. So when I put the USB in it will give a ...
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Enable external boot devices in UEFI
I own an HP Pavilion 5 Notebook which came pre installed with Windows 8. I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my system via a LIVEUSB.
But my system doesn't detect the LiveUSB during boot. My boot order ...
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How do I fix a boot process that broke because of a failed hard drive? (Windows 7)
I used Windows XP for years, before I was able to get my hands on Windows 7 RC, which I bought a new HDD for, and setup to dual-boot. About a month ago, Windows XP started acting funny, and I thought ...
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PXE Boot Server without DHCP, for many different computers?
I work at a helpdesk for a university where it is very common for us to reformat people's computers using XP, Vista, and Win7 CD's and DVD's. Of course, the discs get scratched and lost a lot.
It is ...
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Grub menu not showing for Ubuntu 12.04
This is the first time I installed Ubuntu(v12.04). I have a HP laptop pre installed with Windows 8. I installed it alongside Windows and the installation was successful. But after the customary ...
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Removing win xp after installing win 8 [duplicate]
I've win xp and win 8 installed at the same time (dual-boot) and now I'm thinking about removing windows xp and just keep windows 8 for the usage,
The problem is that I'm unsure how to proceed on ...
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System chooses boot drive seemingly at random
I have a system with two identical 1TB harddrives, where I image to a backup drive using the dd command. When I boot up, though, despite setting harddrive priority in the BIOS, the system sometimes ...
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LMDE, Windows 7 Dualboot ond UEFI Laptop
I've bought an Asus laptop where was Windows 8 preinstalled. Then, I've dropped Windows 8 and installed Windows 7 on the whole HD instead. This drive has a 100 MB system-reserved boot partition.
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Install Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit without CD, DVD or USB
I am trying to get Ubuntu 13.10 onto my laptop, but do not have a CD, DVD or USB drive at hand. When I had this problem previously, I used UNetbootin, however when I tried doing that this time I ...
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Which linux distributions offer seamless support for UEFI and an LVM root out of the box?
My new ultrabook (an Asus UX32VD) requires UEFI in order to boot from the internal harddisk. I use an LVM partition which contains my root fs and dual-boot Windows 8. I somehow managed to get this ...
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Installing arch linux - unable to format filesystem
I had Centos & Windows systems dual booted previously. I am replacing Centos with Arch now.
I have Centos's /boot installed on /dev/sda8 and / on /dev/sda9
When I try the following command on ...
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How to safely reformat C drive from other Windows boot?
One hard disk. 3 partitions (C D E). Windows XP on C and D. E just has data.
I am booted to D. I want to reformat of the other boot, i.e. C, for space.
I see windows management console doesn't ...
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Windows XP stuck in loop
I've an old PC, which was used in dual-Boot with Linux Mint. I removed the Linux Mint partitions and an old data partition and enlarged the Windows XP partition. After starting, I got the grub not ...
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dual boot windows 7 with xp hard drive compatibility mode
I need to get a Compaq 620 laptop with Windows 7 to dual boot with Windows xp
I tried running the Windows XP setup CD, but soon after I get a BSOD error
This page says that I need to change the hard ...
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How can I install a legacy bootloader on a Windows EFI system?
Background Information / My Reasons:
I want to use the chameleon bootloader to boot a windows 7
installation, windows was installed in EFI mode on a GPT partitioned
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When chameleon loads I see ...
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Dual boot W7 64bit + Ubuntu, W7 does not boot
Dual boot W7 64bit + Ubuntu installed. Ubuntu appears to work fine, but W7 will not boot. I downloaded boot repair and did the recommended repair. That did not work.
I now have 6 partitions:
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Triple boot (OSX, Vista, Ubuntu 12.04): replace Ubuntu with CrunchBang
I'm probably not really a power user (I can read instructions) but my problem is pretty specific, so I figured it would fit here. I'm sorry if it doesn't.
I managed to set up triple boot (OS X ...
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Can i play 2 instances of a game at the same time?
I have a friend who comes to my place often but i only have 1 pc so i was wondering if it was possible to play 2 games at once on two separate screens. I have 24 gb of ram, a 3.5-3.9 ghz quad core cpu ...
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Problems booting onto Windows 7 (Dual-Boot Linux / Windows)
I have an Acer Aspire 5742G laptop, with Dual-Boot Elementary OS Luna and Windows 7. This installation was created as following:
First I installed Windows 7 with all the drivers and all the programs ...
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Reinstall Windows 8.1 on PC with Ubuntu dual boot
On my PC I already have a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu. Now after a while, Windows is acting a bit sluggish and I want to reinstall it. I have a lot of data which I don't want to lose, so I ...
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How do I dual boot Backtrack 5r3 on a PC with Windows 8.1?
I am curious about working on Backtrack but don't want to remove the Windows 8.1(64 bit) OS.Can anybody help me with the step-by-step process to dual-boot Backtrack 5R3 with Windows 8.1 ?
I have the ...
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OS Label at System Boot Menu
I have two disks in the same computer and both have installed Win7 (for easier transition purposes). Now, for the time being (a week or two), I will customize the new installation and when I am ...
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Recovering HDD Space From Failed Linux Install
I had a dual-boot (Windows/Linux) on my laptop a while back, but the Linux partition became corrupted when I tried to install a different version of Linux and overwrite the previous one.
How do I ...
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Automatically boot into Fedora instead of Windows 8
I have installed Fedora on a machine that has Windows 8 on it. Everything is fine except for the fact that it boots straight into Windows and I need to hit esc and pick Fedora if I want it to load up.
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Stuck at the Thinkpad startup screen on first reboot after Wubi
I have just downloaded Wubi and Ubuntu and rebooted around 10 minutes ago. Oddly enough, I am stuck at the ThinkPad screen:
What should I do from here? I have tried clicking the ThinkVantage button, ...
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delete linux os booting choices from os choice menu
I have a problem with a computer that had Linux OS installed (Ubuntu) a couple of times and after that, someone installed Windows XP. The OS choice menu now has one of the Ubuntu choices as default, ...
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can't install windows 8.1 after Ubuntu install
I have lenovo G510 laptop. Initially it was running on Win 8.1, I wanted to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside it. after installation I couldn't boot my Win8.1 (I choose it, after one second it return ...
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Upgrading OS from Macbook pro obtained in 2006
My friend has a Macbook pro bought at 2006 (she thinks). The CPU is Intel. She did a clean install from the disc and is currently running 10.4. What's the latest OS she can upgrade to? How do I ...
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How can I make a bootable partition to run XP.iso from USB stick in Linux?
I have a 16GB USB stick, and I am on Ubuntu 13.04 OS. I want to place XP.iso into one of the partitions and then use it to install XP from within USB stick. I searched for the web but I didn't find a ...
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Re-install OS X on iMac that's currently running Windows 7
I've got a 27" iMac (late 2011, maybe 2012 model) which I have completely wiped and loaded with Windows 7. Works great. No problems.
Lately, I've gotten the itch to get OS X loaded back onto this ...
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removing ubuntu from a dual boot system (xp/ubuntu)
i have a dual boot system with xp and Ubuntu. Now i wish to remove Ubuntu from the system.
I checked run->compmgmt.msc->Disk Management. There it shows the primary partitions and I am able to identify ...
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Why Windows is not booting from the disk
After Ubuntu 13.10, my Windows 8 was not loading properly. So I decided to repair Windows by booting from the disk. When I starts my system it ask to press any key to boot from CD or DVD. When I press ...
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windows 8 product ID error with evaluation copy
I've got a toshiba satellite c855d, that came pre-installed with windows 8. I accidentally deleted it when installing Ubuntu. I bought windows 7 (and downloaded the stupid drivers), and now I ...
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