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Hello. I use a Lenovo laptop where I had W10 and Ubuntu on different partitions. It would let me choose between W10 and Linux upon startup and would boot into Linux by default. After a long update last night, my PC boots directly into Windows (no more bootloader screen). I still see the 60GB...

when I update Feature update to Windows 10, version 2004 on release preview I get error 'windows cannot be installed because this pc has an unsupported disk layout for uefi. then run into other problems. I have dual boot release preview and fast ring on separate hard drive. now I tried to...

Hello, I have some experience setting up Windows Linux Dual boot, but unfortunately yesterday I ran into a problem. The grub menu does not have Windows 7 on it, and I don't know how to get it on there. I installed a new version of Linux onto an old laptop. The laptop does not have UEFI, it has...

Below in my screenshot I have marked the W10 installation, W10 bootloader, and Linux install. For some reason, every time I install W10 it decides to install the bootloader on a seperate drive. When I boot into the linux drive grub shows W10 but I am unable to boot into it. I am able to boot...

Hi! I have a problem. I have installed Debian 10 on my computer as second OS next to my Win 10. After this the Debian was my default system to boot into, but I wanted my Windows as default, so I went on and made some modifications after tutorials that I can't remember, and now I couldn't boot...

I have a (new) Acer Swift notebook which does not allow to switch/enable Legacy BIOS mode. So I can only disable "Secure Boot" and use UEFI. However my bootable, GPT and NTFS formatted USB flash drive is NOT recognized or even bootable. It works on other computers. I read that FAT32 should be...

I have 3 partition in my pc C, E,and F. I installed Prime Os in E DRIVE and had installed windows 10 in c drive. I used prime os for pubg. I installed it and after first restart i could not go into the prime os. The boot was only going with windows 10. So i ised easybcd 2.4 i guess for the first...

Hi all. Last week I've installed Windows on one of the SSDs in my computer (the other one has a linux installation). During install I chose the free disk however Windows decided to install the bootloader in the other SSD (I believe I was never asked about where to place the bootloader...) My...

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my HDD and it asked me to format full drive. So, I backed up my data on my friend's drive and formatted mine and installed Ubuntu but then I came up to a point where I couldn't work on Ubuntu any more. So, I decided to reinstall Windows back. So, I booted in using my...

I have dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18 in UEFI mode. I don't want to use GRUB (but I don't want to delete grub). I want to use Windows boot manager. I set Windows boot manager as first boot device in BIOS and I want to add new entry to windows 10 boot loader to boot into Linux. EasyBCD...

So I had Linux mint installed on my Laptop, dual booting with Windows 10, and decided I wanted to get rid of it. So without research I just deleted the partition and extended the windows partition. I was then left with GRUB, the Ubuntu bootloader. I spend some time trying to get rid of this: I...

One morning recently, I found that during the night an update had occurred and rebooted my pc without asking me for confirmation. The reboot caused it to come up in Linux, because I use the grub loader and have Linux as the default. When I rebooted into Windows, it finished the update, which...

Hey, so recently I wanted to play some older games that did not work on any windows 7+ so I wanted to install windows vista as a multiboot system, now I saw that there was this warning: Warning You must install the older operating system first, and then install the more recent operating...

My computer is a Lenovo Y50-70 and if I press the power button to start up I get a black screen with a blinking underline character in the upper left hand corner, I don't seem to be able to type or do anything from this screen. If I start up using the Lenovo one key recovery key I can open up a...

How can i add Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 i want to do Dual Boot So i can use both os. I have made the partination but don't know what to do next.

Hello, I had a working 64gigs SSD + 160gigs (friends) HDD. Today, my new 1TB HDD arrived, so I switches the HDDs, but after I wanted to boot, weird thing happened. no partition Grub Rescue >> and something like that... Okay I tried some things I found on net, but then I just reinstalled my...

Hi all, I have to admit I have a problem I caused myself. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my computer next to a Windows XP/7 installation. I had to install XP before I could install W7 on this system although it is a full version of W7, so no upgrade version. What happened? I had a running system...

Ok, so earlier today I was trying to load Ubuntu on my ThinkPad. When I tried to load it on the boot menu it just loads Windows 7. I have also tried this with Chromium OS. But it just loads Windows 7 as usual. Does anyone know a fix to this? My model is a Think T60 2009 (I think.)

Hi guys i've been facing the blue screen of death issue from yesterday.I know there are already many thread on this issue but also did notice the solution was different for different people so thats why i created my own thread. Stuff i did recently in my computer: 1) Recently i've installed...

Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary...