Despite the abundance of dual-boot issues lying in the World Wide Web, I decided to create the new topic with my specific question. I have a laptop Asus K55V + UEFI + 500Gb HDD + Windows 8 upgraded to 8.1. The disk is divided on several partitions, according to GPT disks requirements, user’s partitions are … Read more
The system is Acer Extensa 2510G, and there’s only one HDD. This is how the GRUB2 menu looks: Output of sudo update-grub2: The scripts themselves: Windows UEFI bootmgfw.efi: search –fs-uuid –no-floppy –set=root F27A-20E4 chainloader (${root})/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi Windows Boot UEFI loader: search –fs-uuid –no-floppy –set=root F27A-20E4 chainloader (${root})/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1): insmod part_gpt insmod fat … Read more
I am using Ubuntu 14.10 and will upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 this afternoon. I was curious while looking at hard drives and was seeing that SSHD drives are the perfect mix of hard drive and solid state technologies. My only questions are how do I clone my 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSHD without losing … Read more
I have a 120 GB SSD in my laptop, and it runs windows 8.1 (not preinstalled). I have countless times dual or triple-booted the laptop when I ran Windows 7. Now I want to dual-boot it with Win 8.1 and Ubuntu 15.04, but Gparted and the Ubuntu installer wont let me re-size the sda2 partion … Read more
I’m going to install Ubuntu 14 on my laptop. This is now my hardrive config: C: Windows D: Music, Photos, Documents, etc I’ve two questions. After I get free space from D, which partitions I’ll be create to install Ubuntu? And second, all my data stored now in D, will be accesible from Ubuntu? Thanks … Read more
Noob here, please bear with me. I installed Ubuntu 14 LTS on a separate partition of size 10GB and formatted it to ext4 during installation. Now it is not visible through windows. The installation finished, was asked to reboot. The boot menu still shows only Windows. I was not asked an option like “dual boot” … Read more
So I was going to take this weekend to throw in another SSD and install Ubunutu on it. But Windows (Win 7) has been acting up lately, so I was thinking I was going to go ahead and reinstall Windows while I was at it (I usually do this once a year-ish just to keep … Read more
I replaced my CD/DVD with a 2nd HDD using an HDD/SSD IDE to SATA adapter rack. I would like to know if i can have these configuration: Windows 8.1 licensed on first hardisk Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the second hardisk (HDD or SSD) located on IDE to SATA adapter rack (former CD/DVD) I would like … Read more
I used ubuntu 14.04 and windows 8.1 as dual boot. windows was in sda2 drive. I removed windows and sda2 drive became empty which was not writeable. I was able to write in that drive following this. Now problem is that every time I boot PC i face The disk drive for /media/ext-hdd is not … Read more
I’m currently running on dual boot (win 7 and ubuntu). I’d like to know how to delete my Windows 7 OS using ubuntu Answer Graphical with “gparted”. You can install it from Ubuntu software center. You can ONLY edit partitions that are not active (Windows from Ubuntu will not be so you are OK there). … Read more
