General :: Cause Any Harm To Use Dual Operating Systems Like Windows In Terms Of Losing Data?
Aug 12, 2011
I have Windows 7 working on my laptop. I have 20GB space unpartitioned. I want to install a flavor of Linux like Fedora or Ubuntu in that space, but I have heard that keeping a dual OS configuration sometimes results in losing data stored on the hard disk. I've also heard that it may sometimes cause unrecoverable problem because when Linux is loaded on hard disk it will take over the boot loader from Windows.
Is this correct? Moreover, I have 6 partitions in Windows, but if I use a Live CD for Ubuntu or Fedora to boot, then it is not showing some partitions -- sometimes it shows only 4 or 5 partitions. What might be the problem, and how to resolve it without formatting the whole hard disk and repartitioning it?
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Mar 18, 2010
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Aug 13, 2010
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Apr 23, 2011
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Jul 26, 2010
I have no clue how Linux works and I haven't had much experience installing/dual booting operating systems. Most of my knowledge in computers comes from fixing errors with crappy hardware or Windows. Now I want to learn how to use a computer instead of how to fix it. Hence, I want to have Windows & Linux on my computer. My laptop(Acer Aspire 4530) has two hard drives, one is Vista and the other was empty(until I filled it with stuff). What is the simplest method to install Linux (or any of its variations) on this computer? Do I just install/partition all of Drive B to Linux and leave Drive A for Vista?
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Jan 6, 2010
I am currently using ubuntu 9.04 and I am planning to have a dual boot my system with fedora 12. My computer is quite old and I have RAM of 256 MB DIMM 266 MHZ with pentium 4 processor. So will the dual operating systems work in my computer??
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May 11, 2010
I am preparing to do a fresh install of lucid lynx dual boot with vist@ Currently I am running 9.04 in this configuration. The install guide for Lucid says the new grub2 doesn't support more than 2 operating systems. plus I apparently can't edit it either. Besides vist@ there is a hp recovery partition which has a seperate entry in my existing grub. Does this mean I can't use the lucid desktop disk for a fresh install because I would have 3 operating systems? Lynx, vist@ and HP recovery partition.
I only have two applications left I am using on vist@, but I have no recovery disk, only an old image for my vist@. I am very concerned about this upgrade. 5.04 went smooth and each one since then has been a bit harder. I could not get 9.10 to run and had to go back to 9.04. I hope I am not at the end of the road. How about using grub instead of grub2?
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Jul 16, 2011
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I've tried to look through the forums but can't seem to find a solution to this exact problem - does anyone point me in the right direction or to the solution?
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Aug 23, 2010
I currently have Windows 7 installed. I wish to dual boot this with Ubuntu 10.4. On a 120gb drive I allocated a large percentage to Windows and have put two partitions on the end; 1gb for swap, 15gb for Ubuntu. However, when I go to install and get to the partition manager bit it claims no operating systems have been found. Contrary to this, when I boot into the live CD it sees all the partitions, however these cannot be accessed and no error messages are displayed (However, accessing the Windows partition appeared to corrupt the install and I had to format...). When running install from the live environment the same no operating systems found error occurs. Windows 7 works fine and the drive is IDE (if this makes any difference).
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Jan 13, 2010
Will a Linux operating system lose data during a power failure as does a Windows operating system?
(If yes.) This has not come up before but I'm going to be doing some work I don't want to lose.
Could you either point me to a backup tutorial or give me the quick overview of preserving stuff with Ubuntu?
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Aug 11, 2011
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Jun 20, 2010
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Jan 24, 2010
I have winxp and win 7.I want to install fedora core 12.I tried but I could not install.How can I install fedora core 12 with winxp and win 7.
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May 13, 2010
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Mar 2, 2011
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Has anyone made a single page listing minimum, typical and recommended system requirements, so you can easily use that single page for comparing operating system requirements especially how much hard disk space is needed?
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Sep 13, 2011
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Apr 14, 2010
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Oct 7, 2010
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Jul 27, 2011
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Apr 6, 2011
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Oct 30, 2010
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Nov 14, 2010
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Jul 2, 2011
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Sep 12, 2009
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Read through related posts but nothing seemed to work. Even tried it on a Windows machine.
Tried TestDisk utility. Found nothing wrong with the drive, but still could not repair the MBR.log code...
Palimpsest Utility recognized the drive, but just will not let me do anything with it except format it.
How can i repair the partitions and MBR without losing all my data?
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Aug 23, 2010
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Can I just boot my Ubuntu live CD and run Disk Utility and delete the Ubuntu partition? (I prefer to use GUI rather than CLI).
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May 18, 2009
I presently have Ubuntu and Windows XP Pro installed. By using the GRUB loader I can choose which to load.
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Nov 22, 2010
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Jan 13, 2010
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