I am having some trouble installing Ubuntu 12.04 with the Windows installer. The instructions at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-ubuntu-with-windows say (in step 7) that I chose to boot with Ubuntu, but the black screen doesn't come up: it just goes straight to Windows. I've tried to boot it from a USB stick but it won't read it until Windows boots up.
I am having problems getting grub to load Windows 8 properly after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 on a solid state drive.
I'm installing Ubuntu 12.10 along side windows 7. I have installed windows then Ubuntu 12.10, each on a different partition. while choosing where to install boot loader I left the default, it was my hard disk name in general not a specific sda or something like that. everything was fine and after rebooting again windows start up logo appeared.
The Ubuntu installer gives 3 options.
Install Ubuntu INTO Windows.
Erase everything and install Ubuntu.
Manually install Ubuntu.
What happened to the "resize the Windows partition and setup a dual boot box" option I remember from the last time I installed Ubuntu?
I have dual boot configured with Windows 7 (32bit) and Ubuntu 12.04(64bit). I installed Ubuntu after windows, now my windows is corrupt due to some virus and I need to reinstall it. Currently when I start my PC, grub loader comes up and I need to select Ubuntu or Windows.
I was wondering how can I install windows again and still have my Ubuntu install?
I have followed the Ubuntu windows installer procedure, but after step 7 I get a message from the windows boot manager saying that windows has failed to start and that I should insert a (nonexistent) windows installation disk.
Further on it reports
File: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.br
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
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I followed the instructions for the Ubuntu windows installer on my Sony Vaio laptop (model SVT131A11M). Upon restart I was prompt to choose the OS for boot (Win7 or Ubuntu), but then I shut down the machine and from the next boot, every time I choose to boot into Ubuntu, the GNU GRUB terminal appears with a grub> prompt.
Now I'm able to boot into Win7, but can't boot into Ubuntu properly.
I've decided that I'll be updating to Windows 7 (a bit late, I know)on my machine. I dualboot with grub Ubuntu 12.04 and I will be doing a clean install.
My plan was to backup all my files in the Ubuntu partition, but will completely erasing the C partition and installing a fresh new windows mess with grub or my Ubuntu partition?
Thanks, any help is appreciated.
Could someone please help?
I used to have Ubuntu 10.xx (don't remember exact version) as my main operating system, and then later, I decided to install Windows 8 CP to try it out.
I didn't get rid of Ubuntu, it's still on a partition.
The problem is, after installing Windows 8 CP, it set itself up so it'd install as my main operating system and not boot into my grub anymore.
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