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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...

Hi everyone. For a long while now my computer freezes completely when left unattended. All the while it is being used, it's fine and I can use it continually to do resource intense tasks as well as less demanding tasks without issue. BUT, the moment to step away to make a cuppa... come back and...

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...

Hi basically i was using my computer and all was fine it was running windows xp pro i read about ubuntu and decided it was a smart idea, obviously it was and my system can handle it now its a useless pile of junk i had an xp bootable usb drive but it starts to start the setup then i get a blue...

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...

Hello everyone, this is my first post in this forum and I hope I can get some help from you guys. So I will try to explain my problem as simple as possible. My Dell laptop originally came with Windows 8. While trying to install Ubuntu alongside I don't know what happened and Windows 8 was fully...

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...

Hi Last night I was watching a TV show and the cops were struggling with getting access to the data on the computer because they couldn't get past the password. How many times have we seen that scene? I boot into computers all the time using my Ubuntu USB drive, bypassing the pass word...

I have bought "Windows 8" 1 year and a half ago. Of course, I have my product key. For reasons I do not summarize in this first message, I have installed Ubuntu and I don't have Windows anymore. I would like to reinstall it now but I don't have any cd (I have only the product key). Does exist a...

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.)

I asked this question here and i was suggested to ask on a windows forum. I want to uninstall Ubuntu, so i need to delete its partition. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management in Windows: So can you tell me please which are the Ubuntu partitions? edit: They answered me that the Ubuntu...

Hi Just a really quick question about running a OS in VMware Player (I said VB in the title and I can't change it now). I installed Ubuntu into VMware Player and it runs really slow. Everything works even the sound but video stutters etc, I'm assuming that's because my computer is really...

Hi All, I've just signed up to this Forum as I have downloaded and created a Windows 8.1 Enterprise DVD. My current OS is W7 Ultimate and I have Ubuntu installed on a separate partition, I wish to install W8 onto the Ubuntu partition. If I boot the DVD from W7 I have no options to choose a...

This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot. Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help: - booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard - booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers - random...

I bought and installed a Nvidia GeForce 8400GS but windows (7 64 bits) does not recognize it. Control Panel shows nothing, no graphic adapter in despite of the images show ok in my monitor. In Windows XP and Ubuntu I experience no problem. Does anyone has some kind of experience with an issue...

Hi Prompted by a post by whs, I tried Linux on a stick... https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=475A0A48CA6D4035&resid=475A0A48CA6D4035%211953&app=WordPdf This works much better then the VM ware players for what I'm doing. It gives me a install of Ubuntu that starts at boot loads fast and...

Hello everyone, Which windows OS is better for this features ( XP, 7 , 8 or Ubuntu ) ? CPU Intel Celeron 743 / 1.3 GHz Cache L2 - 1 MB Power Efficiency Low-Voltage (LV) Front Side Bus 800 MHz Chipset Mobile Intel GS45 Express RAM 4 GB Crucial 6400 Technology DDR2 SDRAM Speed 667 MHz Form...

Hi I'm still interested in running Ubuntu in a Virtual Machine. What free VM software do people use. I'd pay for VMware Player if I was sure it would work but after my experience with Virtual Machine I'd like to actually try it out before I buy it. Mike I just found that there is a free...

Hi I've never used Virtual Machine before but I decided that I should get a handle on how it works. I'm trying to create a virtual machine with Ubuntu in it. I followed the instructions in this video step by step... ...and I have VM installed and running. Link Removed The problem comes...