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Unable to boot Ubuntu on boot
I have a dual boot system (Windows 8 and Ubuntu 16.04), I successfully install Ubuntu and then powered down and restarted my system, But on boot the Grub doesn’t load and it straight away boots to ...
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Can't access bios setup, just grub rescue
My laptop bluescreened last night,and when I turned it on this morning I got the grub rescue prompt. I dual boot Windows 8.0 and Ubuntu. When the bios splash screen comes up, it lists all my HDDs, ...
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dual boot/ grub menu option issue
I did not know about the partition thing to do first in windows in command line, and start installing linux ubuntu by bootable flash drive. Now, whenever I open my laptop( dell i7), it doesnot show ...
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Can I delete a logical partition to extend another logical drive
As you can see from the image below, I am running out of space on Win 8. I want to get rid of Win 7 so I can allocate all its space to Win 8. Can I just simply delete Win 7 logical partition and ...
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Restore Windows 8 uefi entry OR reboot from hibernate without booting into system
I have 2 OS installed on my PC (Windows 8 and Linux). Yesterday I lost my GRUB menu and while trying to restore it from live USB I accidentally formatted my uefi boot partition (that is /dev/sda5) and ...
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'The selected disk is not a fixed MBR disk' error
Some background
I originally dualbooted with linux, and to remove it, I deleted the partition, and in order for me to get rid of the grub thing, I booted with a recovery disk and tried all of the ...
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Incredibly strange and annoying see-through (background) windows issue
It's hard to explain this problem so i'll provide plenty of pictures, just so you can see what's going on. Basically, the problem i'm facing is that i can see background applications when another ...
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Kali Linux does not load after installation
I wanted to dual boot 8.1 pro and Kali Linux, so did the basic steps
Created around 100 GB of free space (I know its too much).
Then tried USB installation, USB worked fine (created it using ...
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Booting from a Windows 8 repair USB using Grub2 command line
I installed a Linux Mint 15 dual-boot alongside Windows 8.1. I no longer needed it, so I followed the instructions here for detleting the partitions. I then restarted my computer with the intention of ...
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Windows boot manager was destroyed after installing Ubuntu 14.04
I tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 in Lenovo G50 which runs on Pentium processor. The system already had Windows 8 (manually installed). I separated 50 GB from a partition and turned off Fast boot and ...
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Disable Windows access to UEFI NVRAM
I have written bash script which adds Grub Entry to UEFI NVRAM. Scripts is invoked by bootable USB linux. This command adds entry:
efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 2 -L "Grub2" -l "\EFI\Boot\shimx64.efi" ...
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Grub-2 not booting Windows
I have openSuse 42 and Windows 8.
After a clean installation that worked very well (even dealing with UEFI), I just noticed that windows does not boot. I took a picture of the error I get
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This ...
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Can I upgrade to Windows 10 if I got a broken Windows 8 installation?
I had 2 partitions, one was for Ubuntu Linux, (100 GB) and one was for Windows 8.1 (400 GB). I am dual-booting it with GRUB. Since I installed Ubuntu, it simply broke.
My question is: How can I ...
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Fix GRUB/EFI Boot partition after deleting Ubuntu
I inatalled Ubuntu in a new (Asus Zenbook UX305) laptop, with Windows 8.1 preinstalled, I choosed 'Install alongside' option when installing Ubuntu. Then I wanted to try ElementaryOS, and I chosen '...
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I can't remove GRUB from windows 8, How to remove it?
I'm kind of newbee in using UBUNTU and a little curious about what does it do, so I used my old HDD to use it as an external storage and install UBUNTU on it. After installing it, using it for a ...
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