I am trying to dual boot on an external USB 500GB drive using my laptop.I have Windows 7 installed and booting on 1st partition 230GB now as active primary, 2nd partition is 100GB as primary, and 3rd partition is 135GB as primary. I was intending on installing Ubuntu onto the 2nd partition.
I've had Ubuntu as the sole OS on my desktop for a couple years. Updated it to Precise soon after it came out. Today I decided to try dual booting to Windows 8. I bought a new, separate hard drive (SATA) to install Windows on. My Ubuntu installation is on my older PATA disk.
I disconnected the Ubuntu drive completely when installing Windows.
I am dual-booting Ubuntu and OS X on my mac.
I removed rEFIt because on another computer my mom nearly reformatted the hard drive by choosing the Windows recovery partition in GRUB (I was already on the way to school when she called).
So, without rEFIt, my mom will not be able to accidentally boot into Ubuntu and the only way to boot into Ubuntu is to hold option/alt at startup, which is OK beca
I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my PC which is running Windows 7. I downloaded the iso and burnt it to disk then booted Ubuntu off the disk and selected the "install along side current operating system" option. After the installation I was unable to boot either Windows 7 or ubuntu.
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I am attempting to dual boot Windows HPC Server 2008 on my existing Linux(Ubuntu) HPC machine. I know that Windows will wipe the MBR and I have the Ubuntu LiveCD to restore GRUB when that happens, but I am having some trouble with my disk partitions.
As of right now, when I boot into the Windows installation, it shows no disks available to install onto.
Alright, so I am trying to get Windoze installed on an MSI notebook which previously was running exclusively Ubuntu 11.04. I had no problem getting GRUB configured and getting Windows installed to an ntfs partition (despite the inanity of the MSi recovery disk). The laptop contains ubuntu on an ext4 and a swap partition as well.
I am very new and this is my very first time installing ubuntu. I am aiming to dual boot ubuntu with windows 7. I haven't started installing ubuntu yet, But I will start as soon as i get my ethernet cable to use it during the installation for updates and drivers (i am currently using wifi on my laptop).
I have installed Ubuntu on a second hard drive. The HD had WIN8 on it, but I replaced it with Ubuntu. The problem is that when I boot up, I get the Win7 bootloader, and it does not show Ubuntu. I see "Window's installer" and "Windows 7". If I pick window's installer, it fails. Apparently the installer is still on the boot partition.
So I currently am running Windows 7 and would like to be able to have the option of selecting either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04 when I boot up my PC. My hard drive came partitioned with C: as my "OS" drive and also D: as "data" which I have nothing on (240 GB wasted). I would like to take my D: drive and use that for the Ubuntu 12.04 install.
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