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how can I install and operate printers etc that must run on win xp 32bit, on win7 ult 64bit laptop?
can it be done with or without VM? and if need VM can I include Linux Deb 12 as 3rd OS option? I have newer laptop to merge all on. all 3 laptops are Lenovo Thinkpads. winxp 32bit on a T61, win7 64bit ...
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Moving a hard-drive that has Linux and Windows 7 installed
My memory is that if one removes a hard-drive running Windows and re-installs it in another computer it immediately craps-out, until one can go through Microsoft to reauthorize it (I hope this makes ...
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Primary vs secondary HDD slots, what are the performance effects
What's the difference between the primary and secondary HD slots in a laptop?
On a clean OS install. If I have identical 500gb SSDs in the primary and secondary Drive slots on a M6500 workstation, ...
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How to fix accidentally deleting EFI partitions on dualboot windows 7 and linux
TL; DR: How to fix EFI partitions that accidently deleted and cause windows 7 gone from dual boot
What happend: So recently im dualbooting windows 7 with linux zorin os (based on ubuntu) and tried to ...
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Can i transfer my wsl ubuntu installation to a usb and run it from there?
I am running out of space on the c drive of a shared work windows computer. I am currently running ubuntu using wsl downloaded in the c drive and I'm hoping to move it to free up some space in the ...
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windows and linux, both on different drives. Any performance issues?
I dual-booted windows and Linux, in a different way. The way I did it is by having both operating systems on different hard drives. I am able to switch back and forth as the Linux one is installed on ...
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I am stuck in grub
Ok , i was running windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu , everything was fine.I tried to install windows 10 (while dual booting) i ran setup.exe everything went fine it installed about 30% , it restarted (...
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ThinkPad T420 is not booting
I bought a used T420 without a drive, I installed a Kingston SSD, but I still get this when trying to boot: https://i.sstatic.net/8FMLF.jpg Thanks for the help
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Unable to install windows subsystem for linux, error 0x800f0831
When I tried to install wsl without enabling it, it gives me this error
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wsl --install
wsl : The term 'wsl' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, ...
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Windows + Arch with 2 EFI partitions: Boot select only discovers windows
Prior information
I wish to install Arch-Linux in a dual-boot configuration with windows 10. I have partitioned one singular drive into 7 partitions as shown here. I wish to enter into GRUB going ...
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NTFS RAID partition plus Linux and Windows
Periodically I find one of my old photos or other files has become 0Kb and lost. By the time I have found this the backup is the same. So I am considering using RAID 5 or perhaps RAID 1 to ...
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Trying to passthru my RTX 2080 ti to a Windows 7 x64 bit vm using virt-manager on Ubuntu 21.10 : it gives error 12
I would like to virtualize Windows 7 x64 bit passing through my graphic card (rtx 2080 ti) with qemu-kvm on Ubuntu 21.10. It's failing for me,so I'm trying to understand what's wrong. After several ...
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How do I install Linux as a third OS alongside Windows 7 and Windows 10?
I currently have dual-boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10, although I'm not sure they boot correctly.
If I previously booted Windows 7, the next boot I get a black & white, DOS-looking boot menu. ...
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How to find USB thumbdrive volume on PC booted from Easy Recovery Essentials?
My PC (Windows 7) was having a problem and I'm using https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/ to try to fix it. It seems to be a minimal Linux-like OS that boots and lets you get files off the native file system ...
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laptop screen blinks continuously, Ubuntu and Win7 Display settings show's there is a connected external monitor
The screen blinks continuously (Usually, On startup. It blinks when it show's there is another monitor connected or if that same monitor disconnects), it shows that an external display is connected, ...
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Windows 10 has removed the GRUB menu
I have installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 in dual boot. Windows 10 was already installed, and I manually installed Ubuntu from a bootable USB. Dual boot was working properly and I was able to ...
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evtest(or alternative) for windows
My laptop has been behaving weird lately, with me finding that it usually registers the down key being pressed by itself(the page scrolls to the bottom on Chrome).
In a Linux distro, I'd use evtest to ...
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Lenovo Y410 restore grub
I have an old Lenovo Y410 Centrino Duo core. I have triple boot (no UEFI) windows xp, windows vista, linux partition.
I tried to install Lubuntu, as Xubuntu gave me desktop problems. There was an ...
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Batch rename files w/ leading zeros and variations in filename [closed]
I have a set of files:
foo_1_somestring.txt
foo_2_adifferentstring.txt
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foo_124_anotherstring.txt
I want to batch rename them to:
foo_001_somestring.txt
foo_002_adifferentstring.txt
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Stuck in Grub Rescue
I had a dual boot laptop which I had to fix, so I figured I just had to delete the Linux partitions and reinstall Windows.
After formatting the Linux partitions and rebooting to reinstall Windows I ...
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Is it possible to create an entire windows enviroment on an external hardrive? [duplicate]
I have dual booted Windows and Linux before and I am aware virtual environments exist, however I was curious recently. If I have a 1 tb 'wd elements' external hard drive, could I download and install ...
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Linux client loses connection to Windows share but can connect with smbclient
I have a Linux box that connects to a shared folder on a Windows 7 desktop. When the Windows computer goes to sleep and then resumes, the share is no longer accessible. If I reboot the Linux computer, ...
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Triple-boot Ubuntu with existing dual boot Window 7 and 10
I would like to install Ubuntu alongside my existing dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10.
During installation of the Ubuntu "trial" it recognized Windows 10 but no mention of Windows 7. This ...
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Virtualbox on Linux without windows manager and win 7 as guest
is there a possibility for having a host system without gui (e.g. ubuntu server) and have a windows 7 guest fully working? The guest system should not be working in headless mode, I need a full ...
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Can I add free space to Win7 partition in Ubuntu dual boot setup?
I'm not sure why this free space is there, but if I extend the Win7 partition to use the space, I get a warning that it may mess up my mbr. Obv not critical to fix this, but I like to keep things tidy....
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Expand OS Partition inside Extended partition
Originally Win7 --> dual booted with Ubuntu 20.04. Shrunk win partition and want to grow Linux into that unallocated space but no luck. Tried everything incl booting from usb Ubuntu 19 and easus ...
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How to repair boot info from Kali Linux to get Windows 10 booting again?
I have a laptop in which Windows 10 war pre-installed. I made a USB stick boot of Kali Linux and tried installing it on a partition of my disk. During the process of "Installing Base System" ...
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Connecting openVPN windows 7 clients to the server
Apologies for the wording of the question - it was done in a rush, here with the altered wording:
I have an openVPN server running on Ubuntu 18.04 which has samba running.
I have no problems ...
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Encrypt an external hard drive with read+write access on both Windows and Linux
I've used NTFS+Bitlocker in the past for USB external hard drives, and it's easy to use in read+write on Windows.
But it's less easy to use on Linux: NTFS read+write requires ntfs-3g (which some ...
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Can't log into Linux Samba share from Windows
Whenever I go to my network shares on windows, I am prompted with a request for username and password on the folder I want to access. Most of the time it won't let me log in with the username and ...
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Can we install 3 OSes in a system in legacy mode?
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 installed in my system. Both are installed as legacy.
Now I want to install Elementary OS in my PC and don't want to remove the other operating systems. I read on the ...
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Bootloader can't detect Deepin OS
I installed Deepin OS using Deepin boot maker and it installed successfully. After installation there was Reboot Now option. I pressed on this but bootloader didn't detect Deepin OS. But I could boot ...
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Can i Install an operating system in SSD?
I have only 250GB SSD in my laptop. There are already 2 OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Now I want to install kali Linux. Obviously I can't install it in this condition of my laptop. So I decided to Buy new ...
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What will be the best to increase the speed of the computer i.e. RAM should be increased or SSD should be installed in the computer [closed]
I have Dell,i5 laptop 7th generation windows and I am a android developer and we know android studio requires a lot of memory. So, to increase the working speed of my computer what should be done. I ...
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Can I use My Desktop Internal Hard Disk as Internal Laptop Hard Disk and Linux on it?
I have a 3.5' Desktop Internal Hard Disk 320 GB. I want to install Linux Operating System. Can I install Linux on it as use it as my Internal Laptop Hard Disk????
Because I have Laptop as a Primary ...
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When installing Kali Linux, Windows 10 suddenly became unbootable
Here's the story about the problem...
Yesterday i was Kali Linux when the setup told me to reboot. I clicked OK on my Windows 10, when suddenly after restart, my dual booted Windows 7 booted up. ...
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Can cifs-utils be used to access a Debian/Linux filesystem from Windows?
I need to access files on a Debian 10 machine from a Windows 7 PC. The Debian machine is just a VirtualBox VM on the same Windows PC host. The Debian machine has a minimal Command Line Interface ...
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How to install win7, xp and linux triple boot on Ssd?
i would also like win7 to boot up as default from the grub menu first, and then from windows menu itself also, so that it would always come up after a reboot...
and probably give win7 and xp the same ...
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Dual-boot windows 7 + linux black screen during boot
Currently I am encountering an issue with my dual-boot (Windows 7/Fedora) Dell laptop.
Few days ago when i was doing some works using Fedora, the system was suddenly frozen. From then, when I turn on ...
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How to extend linux display(Ubuntu 19) onto a windows 32 bit
I was considering to use my old laptop as a second monitor. Although, I have been able to do this on windows using spacedesk but did not find any alternative for it on Linux.
I currently have windows ...
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Boot Linux Ubuntu using Windows Boot Manager in Legacy mode, is this possible?
It might sound a noob question from the title, but I'm pretty new into operating systems.
I have a laptop and I would like to run Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Windows 7 is the default OS, and the ...
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Dual boot and installing Ubuntu on F drive
Currently I have two hard disks:
Local Disk C (where Windows 7 is installed)
Linux F ( where I want to install Ubuntu)
I don't know which is my F Drive. I can't find the answer anywhere.
From ...
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Run 64-bit Kali Linux on 32-bit host Windows 7 with x64 processor
I have this in my computer
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
VMWare Player 6
Kali Linux amd64 iso(Downloading)
Intel i3 2120 x64 processor
My question is that will Kali Linux run on my system provided I ...
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Would a network level WAN-blocked Win7 VM host be sufficiently secure with a WAN-enabled VM guest?
I have a client who is adamant about avoiding Windows 10. For the time being, they've accepted using Windows 7 with the network interfaces disabled, but they're looking for options to continue with ...
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Encrypted volumes [closed]
I want to encrypt some data and access it from either Windows 7 (having support for latests Windows is desirable too) or Linux (debian 9). Which software / filesystem should I use?. Data will be ...
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Options to manage a Win7 machine remotely from macOS/Linux [closed]
My mom lives on another continent and is very computer-illiterate, e.g. she doesn't know how to open Skype again after she mistakenly closed it so we can't talk to her for weeks (until somebody comes ...
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Could a damaged internal disk that is just under power cause the OS to stop responding?
Recently a friend of mine had problems with his Desktop PC and more general the PC got slower (Windows -7-, so this is not strange to me) and had some problems like stop responding from time to time.
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Kali Linux 2019.3 Wi-Fi Driver Issue
So I have recently installed Kali Linux 2019.3 on my Windows 10 Operating system. I decided to do a dual boot with it as well with 40 GB partitioned for it dedicating 16 GB of memory to the OS. (UEFI ...
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My laptop was designed for Windows 7 and has issues with Windows 10. What should I do?
I have bought my laptop in 2011, when Microsoft Windows 7 was latest desktop Windows OS.
Today, Windows 7 is dead. There is no reason of installing it for four months.
I have attempted to install ...
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How can i install back windows 7 after install linux if i lost my windows 7 product key?
I bought my pc together with the windows 7. After a while, i decided to use linux. So, i install centos 7 on that pc. Now, there is a software which i only know can run in windows 7. So, i have to ...
