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    Windows 8 Windows 8 fails to boot. Linux grub doesn't recognize additional OS.

    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...
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    Windows 7 Cannot boot into Win7

    Hi all: I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 as a second OS on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Long story short, I can no longer boot into Windows 7. I turn on my computer, select Win7 from GRUB, but the screen freezes at the Starting Windows screen. Similarly, when I try and boot into safe mode, it...
  3. Windows 8 UEFI/secureboot preventing linux bootup, can I remove it but still have windows 8.1 work?

    Okay now I have an issue with windows, namely secureboot and UEFI. This is not for my computer but for my fathers machine. As an early birthday present I got my father a HP Pavilion laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8.1 but he didnt like it and wanted a dual boot. So I gave him Ubuntu...
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    Windows 7 Error: Bootmgr is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

    Hello. I have windows 7 ultimate 32 I got problem when i downloaded Spyhunter and after i did what it asked me and restarted my pc. My computer came to a place call "grub>" . Every time i reboot my pc i came. To the same place. After some serching i did something real STUPID. when i came to...
  5. Grub Rescue

    When I attempt to boot to the drive containing Kubuntu 13.04, I get a black screen that only says Error: No such partition, Grub Rescue>. I attempted to boot from the disc that I installed Kubuntu with, but for some reason, only got the same black screen message. The partitions are still...
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    Windows 7 deleting partitions

    So, for the longest time I have had windows 7 and linux on my laptop. I decided i will just stick with windows, so i can single boot and so i have more HDD space (something all my games is about to take up on my current C: drive). When I installed linux (PCLOS if your curious) it added some...
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    Windows 7 Virtual Box partition identification

    Hello, I am trying to use raw disk for my Virtual Box. The only problem is that I don't know how to map vbox numbering of partition to that of windows. So basically I don't know which one's which. I have two hdds, one with a full partition, the other with two windows partitions, a 100MB...
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    Windows 7 Balls'd it all up with Ubuntu on spare drive. I want Win7 back

    A few weeks ago I tried out an Ubuntu installation, just to see if it met my requirements. I have all I need on Win7 but being the adventurous type and already having tried and dismissed Win8 I thought I'd try Ubuntu. My machine has 4 hard drives and one of them had shown up as not available and...
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    Windows 7 bootmgr not found. bootrec /rebuildbcd and /fixboot give 'Element not found" error

    ello, I've run into a problem with my Windows 7 install. For context, I originally had Windows XP dual booting with Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the upgrade at the time. Windows XP was on my old 300 GB HDD, while I had Windows 7 on my 1.5 TB HDD (with 83GB allocated into...
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    Windows 7 hi i have problem at my BIOS where i have installed ubuntu so when it started it asking Grub.the dri

    I have tried to install ubuntu server version 11.04 and it was installed in a D: drive the partition which i have installed has been missing but is in healthy partion.Before i opened my system by using windows then in windows it gave me pop to format the drive to open it where in that drive i...
  11. Windows 8 Installing Windows 8 over a dual boot PC (W7 and Ubuntu)

    Hi guys, I've got a dual boot PC, with Windows 7 and Linux Ubuntu 12.04 side by side. I want to install Windows 8 over my Ubuntu partition. I know that just delete the partition with Ubuntu is not enough, so I'd like to know: If I just run my bootable USB with Windows 8 and use Windows 8...
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    Grub Rescue Windows 7

    Hey guys, I know there is a million posts out there on this same topic, but not one explains in detail what to do if you do not have the CD/DVD that came with the PC. I have a Toshiba Satellite A505 running Windows 7 on Intel Core 2 Duo. I had partitioned my 500 GB hard drive and installed...
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    Windows 7 SOS:Misused mke2fs and cannot boot into system

    I installed ubuntu with wubi in windows7 64bit, and I had installed Mandriva 2011 with a disk. I tried to learn linux with Ubuntu and misused mke2fs; after I reboot my computer, windows7 and ubuntu has crashed. As I have mandriva, I boot into mandriva and found # df -h /dev/sda7 12G...
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    Troubleshooting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Installation on USB Flash Drive

    Hello I have tried pendrivelinux.com and unetbootin to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in a flashdrive. Each time it quickly jumps to run from usb drive before I can touch it when I set boot with F12 to usb. Then after about ten seconds it seems to freeze. I have to hard boot. I have formatted the 4GB...
  15. Windows 7 Grub Bootloader Upgrade

    Hello windows7forums community, i reacantly took a EQUIINET Cachepilot (Basic Version) Link Removed due to 404 Error and tryed to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate for a media center pc. When i boot (I have removed all of the partitions and volumes shown in windows disk manager) anyway when i...
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    Windows 7 Ubuntu dual boot: grub crash caused missing partitions and HDD memory. Windows problem

    Hello there. I have posted this issue on a Ubuntu help forum, but everyone seems to be suggesting that this is indeed a windows error. This is a copy and paste of my problem. ------ hi there. I haven't messed with ubuntu in a long while, because of this problem. what happened was i had ubuntu...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Won't Boot - Blinking cursor

    Hi everyone, So I installed Windows 7 on my HD. The installation process went well. I chose my Username, password, etc, and then Windows prepares the Desktop for the first use, and then the PC automatically reboots. The problem is that when the pc reboots after the final stage of the...
  18. Windows 7 Windows 7 wont boot / black screen

    Hi, i bought a external hard drive and really wanted to have windows on it, so i installed windows 7 with some program, ok the problem is when i start the windows just dont boot, just appears a black screen with a blicking cursor, i think it is because mbr or boot are damaged because i removed...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 installation problem

    first of all this is the screen i get if i booted my pc from any windows 7 dvd or even vista dvd Link Removed sorry for bad quality (by mobile ) as u see background colors are interrupted and also no mouse no keyboard to continue .... now i will tell the story from the beginning 1) first ... my...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 won't boot -- "broken" MBR -- help please!

    So some time ago I installed Ubuntu and I've ever since been irritated by having GRUB for my bootloader. Stupidly, yesterday I tried to change that. Here are all the steps I've taken so far: Tried to change bootloader whilst I was logged into Windows 7. Rebooted and it had failed miserably...