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[ubuntu] Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu (Ubuntu installed first) issues

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi there! 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. I ran 'diskpart' and it returned with "There are no fixed disks to show." I made sure to use GParted to partition the main (sda2) drive in half and format the unallocated space to an NTFS partition, yet Windows stil (Hardware)

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Hello,

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I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installed as the main OS on the SSD.

Hello,

I have a partition that I resized using gparted from my ubuntu and after that I installed windows 7 on that.

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partition 1: ubuntu partition 2: windows (bigger)

Now theres a bit of freespace left and I would like to resize my windows 7 partition to use that free space.

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Hi All, I have an Ubuntu 10.4 installation boot disk, and all I'm trying to do is set up a partition on a new Windows 8 machine. I've used Gparted and set aside the space (unallocated), then installed Ubuntu but after rebooting, there's no grub loader! It just boots directly to Windows 8. Have been struggling with this for days.

I have installed and working Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I discovered that I do not need all this space that I have assigned to my D:/ drive in Windows and now would like to include it as a partition in Ubuntu.

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Good day to everyone. I hope someone can help me with my problem.

I have a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system.

I recently encountered an hd0 out of disk error and wasn't able to boot Ubuntu.

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But now I can't boot Ubuntu up, since obviously Windows has overwritten Grub.