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I had Windows 7 and Vista installed on my laptop. When I installed Ubuntu 9.04 the GRUB entry for Windows 7 was erased and I can only see choices for Vista and Ubuntu in the boot menu. How do I overcome this problem?
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Hi
I have install oracle linux 4.5 on server twice but having same problem.
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Topic title says it all. Right now I have 2 things I need to do...
1) Remove the windows.old folder.
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I have W2K installed on my older HDD (Drive C). Later on I bought a new HDD and installed XP's under W2K environment. Each time I turned my PC on, I had…
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I wish to dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
I wish to have my documents available from both OSes.
Do I create a single partition and it just works?
2 partitions, one for each OS?
3 partitions, one for each OS and one for the "my documents"?
[EDIT]
I used 3 partitions, one for each partition and…
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I wish to dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7.
I wish to have my documents available from both OSes.
Do I create a single partition and it just works?
2 partitions, one for each OS?
3 partitions, one for each OS and one for the "my documents"?
[EDIT]
I used 3 partitions, one for each partition and…
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