dual boot

Snip... "Hi guys, I installed win 8, and Ubuntu (dual boot) in my computer. Now I don't want Ubuntu. I want to uninstall Ubuntu. I searched for it. They said find Ubuntu disk drive, and format it. I don't know Ubuntu disk drive. So I'm formatting disk drives sequentially, and deleting...

Hello everyone, this is my first post on these forums. Recently I decided to dual boot Windows 8.1 with Linux Mint 17.1. While everything works fine, the boot screen sometimes appears corrupted. It's basically just random colored distorted lines. This doesn't really affect boot-up except from...

Hi, I recently purchased a Lenovo laptop with pre-installed windows 8.1. However, after using windows 8.1 for a while, I still wanna go back to windows 7. But since I bought my laptop with licensed windows 8.1, i dont want to waste it which led me to dual booting w7 and w8.1. I encountered...

Hello, please, thanks, bye ! I install CentOS in dualboot with Windows 8.1, problem, GRUB don't have Windows 8.1 Entry, so i insert a DVD of Windows and i run the cmd fo repair boot, i do " bootrec /fixmbr" and "bootrec /fixboot", i rebbot and after the BIOS image i have a flashing dash in...

Hi all, I had W7 on my PC, then partitioned the HD so I was able to dual boot with Ubuntu. Now I don't remember because it was a while ago but I'm nearly positive that after installing Ubuntu, I also used W7 and it worked. But I'm not 100% positive. I can still access the W7 HD from within...

Hey all, Surface Pro 3 user here who dual boots Windows 8.1 Pro with Windows Technical Preview. In the latest build, when checking for updates to apps, OneNote can not be updated due to the version installed actually being newer (and less functional) than the latest Store release. This can be...

Hello everyone! I have one question. In my computer I have already two OS - ubuntu and windows 8. Can I install third OS - windows 7 and remove ubuntu? If you have please give me some tutorial how to do that. P.S. sorry for my english. I hope you all can understand what i'm saying. I hope I can...

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

Hello, I have Windows Vista installed on my computer. I am going to install Windows 10 64-Bit from a Flash Drive. When I boot from the flash drive to install windows 10, will it give me an option to partition the drive so I can keep Windows Vista? Thanks Geza

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...

I know it is an old issue, but I never had to encounter it until now. I dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP. Win 7 is set as my default OS. Just now, I went to my Win 7 and check my restore points. The latest was Nov 14. That means I lost quite a few already. I went to my Win 10 and found out all...

I dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP. If I want to switch OS, all I have to do is to click Restart and I will be given a choice of the 2 OSs. That's nice. The time it takes to switch to the other OS seems to be forever. That's disgusting. Is there any way to speed up the switch over ?

I have 2 laptops...... 1. Running Win 8.1 Pro solely. 2. Running dual boot Win 7 and Win 10 TP Enterprise 9879. All 3 OSs have joined the home group. My problem is........ Win 8.1 and Win 10 can see each other as well as Win 7, BUT Win 7 can't see them. I had read some time ago that Win 7 can...

Hi I would like to dual boot windows 8.1 and Mac OS on my laptop I have a Toshiba L875 -12V CPU Intel Core i5 3230m it supports SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 RAM 8GB Graphics Gard AMD Radeon HD 7670M HDD 1TB Current OS Windows 8.1 Pro Let me know if I require anything eles

First of all i didn't know where to post this so sorry if it's in the wrong section Ok so about 2 years ago i got bored of windows 7 so i wanted to try out a new OS, i went to install it as a dual boot (Ubuntu) and it said there was an error and couldnt be installed, sad and dissapointed, i...

Win 7 Home Premium. I was doing dual boot with Win 7 and Win 10 TP. I decided to remove the dual boot. So, I went to disk management and removed the volume where Win 10 was. The trouble is, the partition should be marked as unallocated. Instead it is marked as free space. Now, I right clicked...

Laptop #1..... 32-bit. Win 8.1 Pro dual boot with Win 10 TP Laptop #2..... 64-bit. Win 7 dual boot with Win 10 TP There is something inherently wrong with the Win 10 TP iso non-Enterprise copies. Both 32-bit and 64-bit copies. In both copies ( 32 and 64 bit ), sfc found corrupt files but unable...

Hi I am having a issue dual booting windows 8.1 and 7 I upgraded from the windows store and I disabled secure boot and I put csm mode to boot into my usb drive and after that I clicked on the partition and it said that I cannot install windows the partition is of the style is gpt please help...

Within the span of one week, I have installed Dual Boot on my 2 laptops. Win 7 and Win 10 TP 64-bit Win 8.1 Pro and Win 10 TP 32-bit In BOTH cases, after install and before I started to install programs, I made a restore point, and then did a sfc. Both cases, sfc reported corrupt files but...