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I am trying to demo Ubuntu, the latest Non Beta version as of 1/28/2015 on the Dell OptiPlex, but how can I do so? I thought I would have to change the boot sequence to have the USB on top, but that didn't seem to work at all.

hello to all! i am trying to help someone who commented on one of my YouTube videos on how to install Ubuntu. I have a step which involves shrinking a partition to make room for Ubuntu, and he has over 50GB of free space, yet can only take away 3000MB... if anyone could help that would be great...

I have Windows 7 on my laptop and yesterday I created a partition for Ubuntu. All was right, but I noticed that when I try to hear music from my headphones on Windows I could not do it. In Ubuntu there was not any problem, only happened in Windows. I can hear music from my laptop's speakers, but...

Have a brand new Lenovo Y50-70 running Windows 8.1. Wanted a Ubuntu partition so that I can run Kerbal Space Program in 64-bit. download 64 bit image of Ubuntu 14.10 and pendrivelinux's Universal USB Installer to burn it into a bootable USB. Go into BIOS and set it from UEFI to Legacy and to...

Hello, I'm encountering an issue with Windows 8.1 when trying to do a clean install. The OS install boots, but then crashes saying: "Un unexpected error occured. The computer will now restart." I've been thinking this is a driver issue, Wi-Fi card or DVD, both of which I've removed from the...

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...

Hi, I have recently bought Samsung galaxy S5 device. When I tried to connect it to my computer I nothing happend (what should have happen is that it will pop up the "What do you want to do? Go to folder/..." menu). So I tried another usb socket. still the same problem. I have Ubunto install as a...

How do I get my laptop to boot again? I'm new to Windows 10 Technical Preview, Ubuntu, and dual-booting, but I was able to successfully set up dual-booting on my laptop by following the advice to install Windows 10 first, then Ubuntu 14.04 so that the latter OS’s boot-loader would be the...

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...