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I have a dying hard drive and a replacement drive (same model). What is the best way to copy the old drive to the new drive?
Its a dual boot setup - Ubuntu Karmic and Windows XP.
I really don't want to have to reinstall both operating systems and all ...
Started by srboisvert on
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If you can plug your new HDD in alongside.
Is fully capable of this and would be my first choice .
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Just go myself a new computer and thinking of how set it up.
I have win7 HP and will probably install at least some version of Ubuntu on it shortly to have dual boot. Might come other Linux distros too in the future.
I have a 1TB HDD and my question is...
Started by Jonas G on
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In your setup, I would personally have a 50GB partition for Ubuntu and then you have... .
Easiest thing - A nas network share that will just work in both or a USB pen drive!
Apart from that, As Ubuntu can read from NTFS but Windows can't read from EXT2/4 etc .
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I currently have a windows XP machine and two internal hard drives. I want to dual boot with Windows 7 on the second drive. I'll have the license for it in August. This will not be the release candidate.
I haven't dual booted before. What issues should...
Started by BenMaddox on
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As for dual and what you....
Makes keeping track of which HDD easier.
Use EasyBCD to set up the dual boot afterwards appears no matter which letter its been assigned.
That way you don't have to fear formatting it.
Drive.
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I'm trying a dual-boot installation of Ubuntu 9.04 parallel to an exisiting Windows XP. On first Ubuntu boot I get a Grub error 18. As I already found out the reason therefore is a unfortunate combination of problems:
The Ubuntu partitions are at the ...
Started by desolat on
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There I set /boot as the mountpoint for the small partition and put the rest of the Ubuntu....
Then ran the Ubuntu Desktop installation and chose manual partioning .
A new small first primary Ext2 partition for /boot with GParted did the trick.
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WIN7-XP DUAL BOOT FILES - to save to backup
I have win7 and XP as dual boot on same HDD. WinXP installed first. Works fine.
I use a backup/restore program to make images of each O/S - seperately and regularly.
However, it's not made for a dual boot machine...
Started by grissom on
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Hi Dave, so I haven....
Are installed as dual boot on the same HDD.
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I have a 2 hdd dual boot configuration with UE 3.0 as primary on drive 1 and WinXP on drive 2 as secondary. Works great - however, I share this comp with my wife who uses the XP. No problems so far. My question is this: XP shows up as drive C: and shows...
Started by by Linux NOOB on
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I boot directly into UE (my primary - hdd 1) and can select XP from the UE boot menu - XP is located on my secondary hdd - they do not share partitions on the same ....
Actually, each OS is on it's own separate hdd.
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I am planning on installing linux soon to dual boot with windows 7. I am running out of room on my current HDD though, so i thought before installing linux i would buy a new one and just install linux on that drive. What do you guys think of this plan...
Started by Reloadron on
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Would like to move my Win 8 DP install to another HDD as a dual boot Presently, I have Win 8 CP on a 40GB WD HDD. What I'd like to do is dump Vista, which is installed on one of my better hard drives, slide Windows 7 over beside XP Pro x64, rebuild the...
Started by catilley1092 on
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Re: Would....
Tough to know what to respond as the question is put .
Re: Would like to move my Win 8 DP install to another HDD as a dual boot EasyBCD to fix MBR to another HDD as a dual boot Yep, I found that, too.
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Hey all,
I have recently acquired an A600 in pretty good condition, mostly for the purposes of having a 'near' 100% A500 compatible machine to supplement my A1200.
I already changed the kickstart chip to a 1.3 one and at a later date I plan to get a patched...
Started by TreacleWench on
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Workbench 1.3 (non bootable and boot the appropriate....
Boot partition, small size.
My setup:
BH0: Boot: 7mb bootable partitionWhat I did was create 3 partitions.
Here are the files for dual booting 1.3/3.1 partitions.
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Hi there,
I have a computer with Windows Vista preinstalled. I would like to purchase a second hard drive and install Linux (probably Ubuntu) on it.
I had Ubuntu installed on my old computer - but it was with XP, not Vista ... and it was just a partition...
Started by MarkR on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at computing):
But the 'How to dual-boot Vista and Linux (with Vista installed firstThe definitive dual-booting guide: Linux, Vista and XP step-by-step Since you ask, I'd suggest you to store images of ....
Sabertooth, thanks for that link.
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