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I want to setup my laptop with VMWare or something similiar so that windows is running virtually, and every boot-up i am running a "fresh" windows install (sorta how most colleges have their systems setup), as well as have the option of booting into Ubuntu or Fedora as a dual boot option. BUT...

http://techdigy.com/2012/10/27/ubunt...ltimate-guide/ Ubuntu's drive accesss speeds are faster but Windows 8 boot time is. Is this because of Ubuntu EXT drive format? and does this mean ubuntu will be faster while initialized?

The following drivers will Not dual display: 295.73-Feb.2012 to 306.97-Oct.2012 But these previous drivers Will dual display: 285.62-Oct.2011 (also beta 290.53) and earlier to at least 185.93-May 2009 Card output: Dual Monitor Solution 59 pin socket (DMS-59) to VGAx2 cable adapter...

Every time I boot my computer, it come up loading files, the open the boot recovery mode. If I leave it, it says that it fix one error, then it restarts and does the same again. The error was that it the boot.ini was missing. So I booted it up with ubuntu, and created an empty boot.ini file...

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...

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...

Hey guys, So i was dumb and must have messed something up when i was installing ubuntu 12.10 because after the installation was complete and i tried to boot up windows it just showed a screen that said "A drisk read error occured, press Cntrl Alt Del to restart." After some research i think i...

I try to add a second internal SATA 6 hard drive to my computer. On restart, Windows 8 gives a message "Preparing for Repair" and after few seconds it restarts computer and again the same message and continues to restart. This SATA was already working smoothly with Windows 7 and Windows 8 RP...

i have posted this on several different forums, asked several different people irl etc but i still haven't gotten any sound to work. Windows says that i don't have speakers or headphones in when i do and just defaults by trying digital audio (i dont even have anything that can play that.)...

I have a desktop that has two hard drives. One SSD, one HDD. Windows is on the SSD, Ubuntu and various other files are on the HDD. I have Ubuntu and Windows in a dual-boot format. The other day, after playing around in Ubuntu and updating the software, I restarted the computer and decided to...

Hi All Windows7Forums member, I have some problem after install ubuntu alongside my windows 7. After I installing ubuntu, when I want to use my windows 7, when came to login area (because I place password on my account), it dont show nothing, just black screen with cursor, I tried it with safe...

hELLO EVERYONE This is my first post,and i wish if you could help me fix a problem i created by mistake... I have a windows 7 on my toshiba laptop, and i instaled ubuntu on the same partitionas windows... and now it is not like a dual boot, but when the ubuntu starts it gives abt 5 sec to...

I used to have a seperate Linux Partition on my Hard Drive. I no longer use Linux and uninstalled the Ubuntu Operating System from the partition and re formatted the partition in windows, but when i go to the Hard Drive Partitioning Utility with Windows wont allow me to re expand my main...

Hi I'm still running Windows 8 release 8250 in a dual boot setup with Windows 7. Next month I will install the final version of 8 when it becomes available. What I would like to do is start the install from within Windows 7 so that it replaces it, and leaves my present Windows 8 install...

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...

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...

Hi I'm new here and I desperately need some help, Last night I Updated my nVidia graphics driver and that all went well. I was just watching youtube videos and plaing an online game (League of Legends) when I thought that It's time for me to get some sleep but I accidently left my laptop on...

I have a dell laptop with Windows 7 installed. I have a ubuntu 10.10 installed on the same computer. The Internet was working fine till yesterday on both O.S. But due to the some odd reason I could not access Internet on Windows 7 but in ubuntu it is working fine. Actually, I am using ubuntu to...

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...

Hi all, I have been using Windows 8 release preview for about 3 weeks, installed on its own drive, and I have Unbuntu and XP installed on another drive, and a 1 TB drive with windows 7 installed. I must say that in order to get some of my legacy apps to run I just boot into one of the...