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[ubuntu] Dual booting problem on seperate hard drives

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Win7 desktop PC. I have 2 internal hard drives (120GB the first and 1TB the second one). My Win7 was installed in one partition on 1TB and I wanted to put Ubuntu in other hdd. I did it (partition /swap, /home and the root), Ubuntu worked fine but Win7 didn't boot. After trying all possible methods (repair, command prompt with all /fix solutions, inactive partitions and generally whatever I could find about these booting issues), I decided to format Win7 disk. After this (and new problems because Win7 installation DVD doesn't recognize the 1TB format (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 09/15/2012

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I've had Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot installed via WUBI on my Win7 HP laptop for several months.

I primarily use Win7, using Ubuntu on the weekend and for Ruby on Rails.

Recently Win7 crashed on me. After the crash I can no longer boot up with Win7.

well, after a lot of searching i have decided to ask here. i had win7/ubutu 10.10 32bit dualbooting on Asus 1201N for long time peacfully until i decided to give 10.10 64bit a try also. i had 92 gb sda1 ntfs partition for win7 and a 190 gb sda4 extended partition with: 10 gb ubuntu root, 10 gb ubuntu home, 4 gb ubuntu swap and the rest was big ntfs data partition. i have tried to resiz

i got a new laptop sonyvaio E-series wiht win7.i installed ubuntu12.0.4 x64 but i formatted ubuntu partition due to some booting problems.from then i`m unable to boot with previous win7 and recovery disk for win7 is unable to load though it is available .how can i regain my previous booting from win7?

I've been using Win7 for a while now, but recently bought an SSD. I decided to use it to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win7.

First I installed win 7 on the SSD, together with some programs and games, which worked fine and left me the old Windows installation on my HDD.

I installed 12.10/64 on my Win7/64 machine by downloading the setup file from the website. It went flawlessly (installing my wireless printer was a 3-hr challenge, but I got it sorted). I have a dual - boot option screen, but I'm wondering how exactly does it get installed and run. Is it on its own partition or does it run from a ram disk or a virtual machine of some type?

I'm dual booting win7 home premium and ubuntu 12.10 32bit (the machine is 64bit, I think AMD), and if I check the C:\ drive with win7, it shows about 90 gb remaining. I'm new to ubuntu, and recently ubuntu said that only about 800 mb was left on the hard drive. How do I expand the amount of space ubuntu takes up on the hard drive so that it doesn't run out of space?

-Many thanks in advance!

hello all, well , I made a real bonehead move today. I had pc set up to boot Mint, Ubuntu and win7. Ubuntu and Win7 on a SSD and Mint on seperate 1 TB HD , I also have a 2TB storage drive.

so I decided to install #! on my desktop, now that i got my laptop squared away. I had ubuntu 12.04 dual boot with win7. I deleted the ubuntu partition with the windows disk management utility (as i dont know any other way to uninstall linux... seems a little hacky to me) and then rebooted using the win7 install cd to run bootrec.exe /fixmbr, then bootrec.exe /fixboot.

The move from Win7 to Ubuntu 12.04 has been honestly awesome. But I've come into a snag because my Win7 inevitably broke.

I can still boot into Ubuntu even though Win7 is broken (won't boot, can't repair).