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[ubuntu] Dual booting question.

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http://ubuntuforums.org – After awhile of booting to Ubuntu from an external hard drive, i finally decided to try a dual boot. Using the wubi.exe, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS onto my Compaq Presario CQ56 64 bit. Everything went fine until i actually logged into Ubuntu. It is running slow and hangs a lot of the time. I thought that creating a swap file would help. Is there anything i can actually do, short of taking ubuntu off or windows 7, to speed it up? (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 11/21/2012 – Made popular on 11/21/2012

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hey, i am trying to dual boot my laptop so i can have ubuntu and windows 7 running alongside each other. i have deleted the 'hp_tools' partition in windows and shrunk the 'C:' partition so i had a partition to install ubuntu on, but when i go to install ubuntu, it says there is an extra partition that is 1mb in size, with a flag of system, and the drive i created is recognized as unusable data!

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Hello Group,

I'm a long time follower of Ubuntu and FOSS :D. After trying out Ubuntu (WUBI included), I'm finally ready to dual boot (need to keep windows for work related programs).

My hard drive has 2 partitions - C: (user files) & D: with Windows installed on D: (free space about 50 GB).

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I wanted to set up Ubuntu on an external usb hard drive. So I did that. Got it all installed on the external drive with a boot CD, but it set it up as a dual boot on my computer.

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.

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I am situated in Mumbai, India, which is +5.30 hours time zone (no daylight savings). I have windows xp installed on one hard drive and Ubuntu 12.10 installed on the other hard drive (installed each OS disconnecting the other hard drive; Use the boot menu using F12 to boot into each OS).

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I have used ubuntu for almost 6 months full time at home while using windows for almost 6 years,so I previously used ubuntu on separate hard drive while I have one attached hard drive with partitions having NTFS file system so I used data from those partitions also. Now I want to again shift to ubuntu as I am a web developer and want to use ubuntu and I have a hp probook.