General :: Recover Windows If OS Has Crashed In A Dual Boot

Jun 7, 2010

I wanted to know the solution that if my linux crashes then can I recover my windows in adual boot env.

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General :: Any USB Tool To Recover Partitions In Dual Boot System?

May 23, 2011

I have a dual boot Acer Aspire One, after reinstalling Windows back to "original factory", the way it was straight out of the box, it now will not boot up at all. It goes to the Windows start screen goes blank, and loops there infinitely. Is there a USB tool I can use to figure out what went wrong and recover either my Windows or Linux partition with out having to do a complete reinstall?

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General :: How To Recover Windows Boot Capability?

Mar 1, 2011

I have two partitions Windows XP (which was already installed before Ubuntu) and Ubuntu 9.1 (which I installed later).Now the XP doesn't boot anymore (sorry but I need it sometimes), the Windows screen with the progress bar appears and then it reboots after a couple of secs.

I can access to the XP partition from Ububtu.Of course I don't want to damage Ubuntu during the XP recovery action.

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Ubuntu :: Recover Dual Boot Capability ?

Jul 5, 2011

I am running dual boot Linux Mint/Windows 7 Home Premium on a Dell 560s Computer. Recently, had an event which required me to use the Windows 7 recovery CD to fix my mbr and rebuild it. After doing so I discovered when I boot the computer I know longer have the option to select either Windoze or Linux.

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General :: Dual Boot And Windows 7 But Use The Windows Bootloader Instead Of GRUB?

Sep 11, 2010

Is it possible to have the Windows bootloader point to Windows 7 and a Linux partition instead of using GRUB to point to Windows 7 and Linux?

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General :: Windows XP Failed To Boot In Dual Boot System?

Jul 5, 2011

The problem is this: I have a 320gb HDD splitted in 4 partitions. When I first installed Windows XP I formatted the HDD in 3 (Windows system partition, Media partition and another one I left for Linux). However Linux requires another partition for swap. Everything was just fine. One day Windows stopped working and I tried re-installing it. After the system was ready to start, Windows failed to boot with "NTLDR is missing" message. I tried to recover the Master boot record, even replaced NTLDR manually - nothing worked. I read that in order a HDD to be partitioned in more than 3 parts the so called "extended" partitions must be created. I think this may cause the problem but I don't want to wipe out everything (I have more than 100 GB of books most of which are not available anymore in the same locations I have downloaded them)

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Debian Installation :: Recover Grub On A Dual Boot Machine With Encrypted LVM

Oct 16, 2015

My laptop setup is:

sda1: W7
sda2: FAT16
sda3: /boot
sda4: encrypted LVM with debian (everything besides /boot)

now I've re-installed W7 so grub was overwritten. I've tried the procedure which worked for me previously:booting with the netinst usb in rescue mode, choosing a root partition to mount, using grub-install to reinstall the grub:

Code: Select allmount /dev/sda3 /boot
grub-install /dev/sda

Now I'm on Jessie (stable), and this time this fails, and I am able to mount only sda3.grub-install doesn't exit so I'm assuming it has been replaced by `grub-installer'. also '/boot' doesnt exist so I created it manually.

Code: Select allmount /dev/sda3 /boot
grub-installer /dev/sda

The latter fails with
Code: Select all/dev/sda/proc not a directory

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OpenSUSE Install :: Recover Grub Installation In A Dual Boot System?

Nov 19, 2010

I would like to recover my grub installation in a dual boot system. if there is an easy way to recover grub using flash disk? If yes is your suggestion opensuse developed? (currently running 11.3) . It would be nice also to have some gui just to make things easier. If not I assume that then the only option is the boot from dvd. Is that right?

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Hardware :: Recover Data From Crashed System?

Sep 18, 2009

I was running CentOS 5 with VMware Server on top of it. The system died and I'm trying to recover the VM images. The system died with a 'end_request: I/O error, dev' type message. It looks to me like the 2nd partition is wonky - is that correct? The GRUB portion does boot. I pulled the drive out and plugged it into my Ubuntu box to see if could get to the files. I ran 'fdisk -l' and found:

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Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders

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To me this shows the GRUB boot partition and the system drive - correct? Next I created a mount point and tried 'mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/recover' At that point I get a

mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

Here's where I'm a bit lost. I believe I need to add filesystem support to my Ubuntu box. I've been looking but have yet to find something that says the default filesystem of CentOS 5 is <blah>. After I do find that info, how do I install the filesytem support to read the drive?

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General :: Dual Boot Ubuntu From Windows 7 64 Bit?

Dec 18, 2010

I've been reading many threads on the ability to dual boot. I am not a "newbe" but have installed linux and Fedora many times, included starting from Windows 7 using EasyBCD. I wish to install Ubuntu Studio 64AMD on my PC:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965
RAM: 8GB
HD: Hitachi HDT721064SLA360 SATA ~600GB C: 200GB & D: 200GB, Fedora: 100GB the remainder for Ubuntu.

My problem is that the installation instructions don't seem to talk about NOT installing grub on MBR as it was on the Fedora install. I don't want to accidentally overwrite my MBR. Is this option available? Will EasyBCD work with Ubuntu? No, I want Windows 7 left intact and do not want to dual boot from Grub!

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General :: Dual Boot Windows XP And Suse 10?

Feb 7, 2011

I Would like to dual boot my computer for it to have suse linux and windows xp professional I have an 80 GB hard drive partitioned in NTFS is it possible to dual boot and what software do you suggest to partition the hard drive.

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General :: Dual Boot Windows Xp And 10.10 Server?

Nov 15, 2010

install on my machine with windows xp an Ubuntu 10.10 server without losing windows xp..I can't find some step-by-step procedure on how to set up a dual boot

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General :: Installing BT4 Dual Boot Windows 7

Jun 10, 2010

I'm looking for a good partition scheme to install BT4 dual boot with windows 7, I've freed up about 160 G for my install and was going to use BT4 as an everyday distro and wanted enough space to install extra packages like vlc and what not as well as use wordlist.sh to create a substantial dictionary. These are my initial partitioning plans 3G /,6G usr, and about 3G swap with the rest being /home for word lists and whatnot would you mind sharing your partitioning setups so I can make this efficient as possible?

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General :: Windows Failed On Dual Boot

Jul 25, 2010

i do not get this i have a computer here that i installed ubuntu 10.04 on it side by side with windows using the ubuntu installer now windows will not boot at all it just restarts every time we try to boot into it now im not stupid i tryed reparing the os many times with the disk no luck when i was exploring in the windows cds command line it showed that his intire os was moved to the d:/

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Ubuntu :: Can't Recover Files From A PC That Crashed And Wont Shut Down

Apr 10, 2011

My wife's Windows Vista laptop crashed and now will not boot. It is a Compaq and when we turn it on it loads into the HP recovery program. The only option is to format the drive and reinstall windows.

We can't do this however because we need to extract the files for my wife's college classes. I was told that you can use an Ubuntu Live CD to access these files so I burned a CD with 10.10 on it. It access's the computer and it appears to access the folders from the hard drive but all the folders are empty. Also the partition appears empty as well.

I found a thread on here that mentioned that the file system needs to be closed for it to be mounted but the computer had to be forced shut down so that isnt an option. Also i read something about chkdsk /f.

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Software :: Recover Evolution Mail From Crashed System?

Dec 1, 2010

My ubuntu 10.04 pc crashed (hardware). The hard drive from the old computer would not boot in the new machine.I am able to access the data on the old hard drive, and I was able to copy the .evolution folder from the old hard drive to the new one. How can I get the mail, and contacts from the old hard drive to appear in Evolution on the new pc running Ubuntu 10.10.

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General :: Windows - Backup A Dual Boot System?

Aug 29, 2010

I dual boot windows and ubuntu on a particular machine and I'm looking for a comprehensive backup solution. Basically I'm after a single tool to clone the entire drive and do incremental backups with little to no concern for the underlying os.

My first instinct is to set up rsync to do the back up from ubuntu and just mount the windows partition when it does its thing so it backs that up too. Does that sound reasonable or am I missing something? At face value this seems like a reasonable answer, but I can't help but feel like something is "off" with that approach.

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General :: RedHat Enterprise 6 And Windows 7 Dual Boot?

Mar 2, 2011

I have currently Windows 7 running and installed on partition C.I have partition D empty , and I would like to install Red Hat on it without affecting Windows seven ( i.e., dual boot Windows 7 & Red Hat6 ).

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General :: Install Fedora 12 On Windows 7 As Dual Boot?

Mar 13, 2010

i installed windows 7 successfully. When I installed it,I created 40 gb of unallocated space in the hard disk for the Fedora installation. However, whenever i start the partition editor during the Fedora installation, it says that there is no free space in your hardware, even though it shows 40gb space in the disk partition table.

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General :: Removing Windows From Dual Boot Using Wubi?

Mar 7, 2011

I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 using Wubi inside of Windblows and I want to remove Windblows completely.What filestem does Ubuntu use and how do i delete the NTFS partitions and redistribute the free space once partition removed?I only installed through Windblows cos I couldn't get a decent cd burnt to install from there.Just noticed that it looks like the installer has locked up again becuase there is no mouse action. If it has locked up again, i think it may be the cd drive playing up. If i replace it temporarily with a newer drive will Ubunutu kick up a fuss when i out the old one back in. I don't intend using a cd-rom anyway. i just want to use it as a domain controller and file server.

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General :: Disk Partitions For Dual Boot With Windows 7 GPT/EFI

Jan 9, 2011

I have a Centos 5.5 system that had 2 primary partitions (2nd is setup as LVM with multiple LVM partitions) and then installed Windows 7 as Dual Boot.

However, Windows 7 has installed a 200MB system partition which is GPT/EFI as partition 3 and the Win7 OS as a Primary Partition.

I have a heap of space undefined after this fourth primary partition.

However, as 4 primary partitions have been used, I can no longer create an extended partition to utilise this.

As such I would like to know what is the best and safest way to proceed, and if possible step by steps instructions for the best option eg:

1. Delete the Windows 7 System Partition and create the extended partition (I expect this will prevent Windows from booting)

2. Use something like partition magic to change the Win 7 OS Partition 4 to an extended partition (Not sure if this will work)

3. Make changes to the overall system including both Linux and Windows so that it will use GPT only (I have
had no experience with GPT so this is a bit scary)

4. Other?

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General :: Dual Boot Lilo Won't Load Windows

May 17, 2011

Just installed Slackware 13.37 and am trying to get dual boot to work properly. I have edited /etc/lilo.conf to point the Windows section to what I believe should be the correct partition (/dev/sda2) Here is the relevant section

Code:

# LILO configuration file
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda2

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I have mounted /dev/sda2 to /ntfs-c as suggested during install and when I browse through there I see the files from my windows setup so it is in fact the correct partition. When I load Windows on boot, however, it is pointing to the recovery partition (/dev/sda1).

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General :: Dual Boot Centos 5.0 And Windows XP Pro (XP Installed First)?

May 13, 2010

linux and a good thing to start is to install centos in my pc together with windows xp. please help me on how to dual boot Centos 5.0 and Windows XP pro step by step.

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General :: How To Configure Dual Boot :ubnto1104 And Windows 7

Jul 23, 2011

i have win7 already installed and working well on my hard drive and [FONT="Arial Black"]then i wanted to install ubunto 11 04 but i had a lot of problems .After several trials , I succeded at insalling ubunto (i had a message telling that installation was successfully done and asking me to reboot ) But after reboot I had no boot options . That is the boot went directly to win7 . Who can tell me how to fix this problem? If I don't find an adequate answer to my problem I will format the ubunto partition and give the free space to win7 (by the way I have given 50 giga space to ubunto )

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General :: Install Fedora 13 On My Dual Boot - Windows-7

Jun 30, 2010

I am planing to install fedora 13 on my dual boot (windows-7 + fedora) laptop. Previously some one helped me installing fedora on my laptop. Below let me mention the my file system architecture as the question is related to it. It's a 320 GB hard drive.

1. First 250 MB primary partition (used to be for /boot, which is currently unallocated, because in last installation I chose fedora to install automatically).

2. Next 120 GB windows primary partition.

3. Next 200 GB Logical partition

a. First 125 GB for windows backup

b. rest for Linux (500 MB + 60 GB).

As Linux was installed later thus it wrote the boot partition itself. I want the boot partition in the first 250 MB partition (reason, to be safe, I don't want to mess up with the master boot record while playing with Linux), also need to install fedora 13. The architecture I want is following:

1. first 250 MB: /boot

2. Next 120 GB: Windows

3. Logical:

a. First 125 GB: Windows backup.

b. Next 4 GB: /swap

c. Rest: /root -- I want to install Fedora here

So, what I plan to do is to whip out all the current Linux file systems and insert fedora dvd and install according to my criteria!

Now my questions are:

1. since currently Linux has the master boot record, will it cause any problem for the machine to boot up from installation dvd, if I whip off all the current Linux partitions? (Or in other words, does installation/ live-CD need a master boot record to boot? -- I am guessing once I reinstall Linux, booting is not a problem).

2. Once Linux is whipped off, can windows boot up automatically?

3. Is there any worry of messing up windows, specially its boot sector(off course I will take precaution not touching windows partitions!)

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General :: Partioning With Windows And Ubuntu 10.10 Dual Boot?

Oct 15, 2010

i recently attempted to dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 10.10 on my toshiba satallite l50d5 laptop (which has had major problems booting/running ubuntu except for this latest release) anyways . i ran the live boot through a cd. saw that everything was running good and decided to dual boot . everything was fine until i got to the screen where it asked to put my name and password. it would not advance from there (it set trying to set up network time or something of that nature), i do not have internet access so im guessing that might have been a problem. anyways the installation wouldnt complete after HOURS so i decided to just turn off my computer. i booted it up again and windows loaded. i checked my windows drive and it was half of what it used to be (so the partioning worked i guess) but i cant get to my ubuntu partition. i see it when i go in through the live cd though but it doesnt give me the option to boot it when i turn it on normally. how do i get rid of the ubuntu partion or actualy allow it boot up?

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General :: Partitioning For Dual Boot OpenSUSE And Windows 7?

Jan 25, 2010

I have a 2 year old Acer laptop running Windows 7 from a 160 GB HDD. This is currently divided into C:/ for Windows and D:/ for data with two small hidden partitions for Acer Utilities and Windows reinstall.

I ran OpenSUSE v11.2 from a LiveCD and decided I would like to dual boot it with W7. I downloaded the full 4.2 GB OpenSUSE Install DVD and ran that as recommended. All went well until I reached the Partitioning stage where the Intelligent Partitioner refused to offer any option other than delete all the Windows partitions and create a single extended partition for OpenSUSE.

It offers (without option):

Delete Windows /dev/sda2 70 GB impossible to resize (25 Gb are free under W7)
Delete Windows /dev/sda3 70 GB although 40 GB are free
Create Extended /dev/sda2 140 GB
Create swap /dev/sda5 2 GB even though I have 4 GB RAM
Create Root /dev/sda6 20 GB ext4
Create Home /dev/sda7 115 GB ext4

The whole HDD is currently formatted to NTFS as a factory default.

Is their a way to resize sda2 and/or sda3 to install OpenSUSE as their is lots of free space available for this installation?

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General :: Partitioning - Dual Boot Windows 7 And Slackware 13.0

Oct 13, 2009

My current laptop (purchased off of a local computer store owner, I think it's brand is generic but it is called a SPARTAN for those that need to know) is running windows 7 professional and I am attempting to install Slackware 13.0. Now, I did the whole partitioning thing under windows (computer>manage>etc.) but for some reason whenever I boot the DVD to install it seems like it cannot read my hard drive. I then went directly into setup > target partition and I notice that it is reading my hard drive because my two partitions that windows exists on is there.

Now, what is says when I use cfdisk is that it seems to be reading the DVD and it gives me an error saying that the disk is read-only (which I see why). Is there a step I'm skipping while preparing the hard drive while under windows or is there just something wrong with my computer completely? I tried to read the readme and attempted to use fdisk but it's really confusing for me considering I have never used terminal type code before (except random DOS commands). I can get it installed in virtualbox but I just can't install it on the main computer. If it's worth mentioning, I downloaded the DVD ISO off of the website.

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General :: Updating Windows In Dual Boot Not Working

Apr 8, 2011

linux and windows dual boot.

Dell desktop (older)
openSUSE 11.2
Windows XP
Grub Bootloader

I had XP installed first then i installed openSUSE and configured for dual boot. What do I have to do to reinstall windows? Can i just do it like i normally would and just make sure it installs on the correct partition and doesn't do anything to the others. I don't want it to screw up the bootloader or something else.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Recover Mysql From A Crashed Hard Disk ?

Aug 2, 2010

My server got crashed due to some power glitch i am somehow able to get the access to the /var folder i have copied all my webpages to a new system from /var/www folder, and i have install LAMP server but still i am not able to access the database from phpmyadmin.

I have copied the database to /var/lib/mysql..in phpmyadmin it has initially given there is no data base when i replaced the mysql folder but now after a restart it is giving me #2002 cannot log in to the mysql server even undoing the things is giving me the same error...

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