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The title of this posting really say it all. I am going to to get the Quantum View 10.1 tablet. If you don't know what tablet I am talking about, Google is your friend. Ask him. The tablet comes preinstalled with Windows 8 or 8.1, doesn't matter. I saw a video from MW Technology who dual booted a PC to run Windows 8 and beyond and OS X and beyond. He did this from a PC that did not have any OS pre-installed. Hope fully you get where I'm going with this and how my question is clear simple: Can I dual boot my tablet to have Windows 8 and OS X? It is powerful enough to run the Operating Systems and I do have the storage. If anyone could help me, that would be greatly appreaciated. Also, some links to the websites to where I could execute my plan would also be nice and some instructions would also be nice. -Thanks ProHacker1337 AKA Noah A
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So for obvious reasons Ive been wanting upgrade to Windows 10 on my laptop. However, for other reasons that aren't necessarily relevant I DO want to keep Windows 8 on it... interesting predicament. I was wondering if anyone has experience dual booting operating systems on a laptop. I'm assuming it's fairly simple? (Install 10 ISO on a USB Drive, create a partition in system memory, etc. Etc.)I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of this, but I just wanted to get people's opinions and experiences. Thanks so much.
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I was Curious if anyone knows if this works or if anyone has tried this, partitioning a ssd or hdd with both windows 7 and 10. can you still choose to boot either one, does the partitioning work. If this works I plan to do it on my desktop pc.
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So i have a dual boot system on my computer with w7 and w8. And i want to disable w7's disk check because its ruining the system files on w8. Is there a way to permanently disable dskchk?
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I'm building a new computer, hoping to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Should I get 2 120GB SSD's for each OS with a 1TB hard drive or just put them both on one bigger SSD?
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Hi, I have built a pc with one SSD and two HDD's. I want to install windows on the SSD and then ubuntu on one of the HDDs. I would like to know how I would go about doing this in such a way that I get the GRUB selection menu at startup. Also what would happen to the third drive? Would it be used by both or just one of the operating systems? Im not too familiar with partitioning so I'm not sure how to make it so that Ubuntu takes the entire HDD and leave the second HDD for windows. I know that I must first install windows on the SSD. After doing that what do I do next? Assume the SSD is sda and the two HDDs are sdb and sdc. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hello LinusTechTips fans, This is my first PC build : http://pcpartpicker.com/user/TheSabby/saved/FNdYcf I intend to later upgrade my CPU cooling to the H110i and add a GTX 980Ti. However, I have some questions about the build as it currently stands. First: I have two HDD's and an SSD. I intend to install windows on the SSD but I would also like to dual boot Ubuntu as I prefer it for programming. My question is, should I install it on the SSD too alongside windows to benefit from the speed or should I install it on one of the HDD's. Second: Is my choice of motherboard good? My usage is mainly programming and gaming. I don't intend to do any content creation or streaming. Just gaming and programming. Assuming I have a GTX 980Ti, will my motherboard hold up? Third: The case. I just want to know if this case can fit all of these components and whether or not it will be hard to build in for a first timer like myself. Any tips are appreciated! Thanks in advance for your help!
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Is it possible to install Windows XP Pro 32-bit on my existing SSD that contains Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on two different partitions without any harm to the existing OS? Well let me rephrase that. I just installed WinXP on the same harddrive that my Win7 is installed on, but in another partition; did I damage the Win7 OS? If not, how can I boot to my Win7 because it keeps booting to my XP. I don't have the slightest clue why I didn't think before installing XP.
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As the title suggests, I'd like to install OS X alongside of my Windows 8.1 installation. I have absolutely no idea how to do this, or where to start. Most, if not all, tutorials I've seen require having a Mac/some legit copy of Apple's OS. I have neither. I know there are .isos that can be downloaded, I just don't know if those work with making a hackintosh for whatever reason. I have an AMD 8350, a GTX 970 and 8 gbs of ram. Any information/tutorial links would be appreciated
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Hello everyone, i am interested in getting into the linux distrobutions but i dont want to lose windows, i have already tried VM but it is very slow. i give it nearly 7 GB of ram, 500MB of graphical memory, and i even give it both of my cores but it still runs very slow, not to mention i also stumble apon ALOT of resolution issues and i have the resolution the size of a phone, so i would rather dual boot linux without having windows running in the backround. I would also like to mention i am not familiar with bootloaders in any way and i don't know how to install them.
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Guys, I had to install Ubuntu on my system due to project work. So had thought of dual booting Windows 7+ubuntu. But after several tries i was not able to create a partition for ubuntu and also the partition i created via Windows disk management tool. that Partition was also not visible and i was not able to install ubuntu. Luckily i Had spare 500gb HDD lying around and i installed ubuntu on that system and now when i boot my pc.. it directly goes into windows and not into ubuntu MBR i.e GRUB(i guess after reading several articles over internet). My main Question is now how can i make my PC's boot loader to recognize that there are 2 OS in the system and and to give me the option to select 1 on every bootup. Please help me over here....
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I can only see my second hard drive (in the bios and in Windows 8.1) after I press ctrl + alt + del after pressing F11 to select boot option. This is the fastest way, but I could boot windows and press restart if I wanted too. Nevertheless, I can't see my second hard drive until I soft restart. If I do a cold boot, I can't see it. Once it shows up, the read/write is totally normal, and on any other computer, it works as it should. It's only on this one that it does this weird thing. Even if no other hard drive is in, It only works upon restart. any help is appreciated. Here are my specs: Intel Core-i3 4150 3.5 GHz Asrock B85M Pro4 Motherboard EVGA Nvidia GeForce 750 Ti 16GB DDR3 Ram (4x4GB by Hynix) (not official site) Hard drives (couldn't find official sites): Seagate ST3750528AS (working fine) Seagate ST3320613AS (the weird one) I tried other cables, but to no avail. Can anyone help me?
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Hello, Anyone have any good suggestions for a tutorial for setting up a dual-boot with Win 8.1 and Mint? I have my OS on an SSD linked up with a Harddrive. I want to install Mint on the harddrive. I'm going to take a guess and tell me if I ****ed up- I partition the hdd separating ~30gb of unallocated space. Then I download the ISO file onto a USB flashdrive, and then enter the bios. Tell it to boot from the USB, then go through with the installation making sure that it installs onto the new 'drive'. If the above is correct, do I have to go to the bios every time I want to change the OS I'm using? Thanks in advance! Not sure if it matters, but my Mobo is the Z97 Extreme 4 from Asrock.
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Ok so i have used my copy of windows 7 ultimate house party edition on many computer, probably 5-10. The last time that i used it was the first time that i had to call to make it genuine, this was about a month ago. However i now need to use it again to dual boot it on my macbook, bu i am worried that it either wont work or it will and i will have to call again which is fine but i am worried that if it activates and works they will take it off of my current desktop. Also do you guys think that this will work and they will allow me to use it again as i have heard of many people who have use their keys tons of times with no issues, but basically i really dont want to risk having windows removed of blocked from my current desktop.
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I have a Macbook Pro w Retina. It's awesome, but it only has a 128 Gig ssd. I can get a 256 Gig sd card for it to expand storage. Would it be fast enough to support a full Windows installation on it, and dual boot with OSX? I think this would be really cool if it could, but I don't want a slow and sluggish experience. Thanks!
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CPUIntel i5 3570 MotherboardASRock H77 Pro4/MVP RAM8 Gigabytes G.Skill Ripjaws GPUSapphire Dual X 7970 CaseNZXT Phantom 410 StorageSamsung 840 120 Gig SSD. WD Caviar Black 1 TB. WD Hybrid 2TB. PSUAntec High Current Gamer 520 Watts Display(s)2 Dell u2412m CoolingStock Cpu Fan KeyboardCooler Master Quickfire Stealth Cherry Mx Browns MouseAlienware TactX Sound2.1 Sony Speakers Circa 2007 Operating SystemWindows 7 I am currently dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu on my pc. I recently acquired a macbook pro with retina and realized that now I have a source of osx in order to make a hackintosh. I know that with hackintoshes, they are specific about the components. Would it be relatively easy to make my computer a hackintosh?
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Sobi recently installed ubuntu on my pc alongside windows 8.1 and it says i am able to choose operating system at startup but it just boots straight into Windows. What do i do?
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I'm planning to dual boot windows and osx yosemite on my newly built rig (already have windows on it), I've been using unibeast and I'm not stuck on the boot loader trying to get to the actual mac osx installer, and I've tried every possible boot parameters, and to no avail whenever I try something (without verbose) it just flashes a gray screen with an apple logo in the centre for a split second then goes black and then the system reboots I've tried almost every possible combination of boot flags, and I switch from the gpu to the integrated graphics, but it still gives no results :L I've got an msi z97 lga 1150 board, an i5 4690k with an msi gtx 970,and I heard that yosemite had support for the new maxwell cards, so I picked a 970. I've got 2x8gb 1600mhz ram. I'm trying to install it to a 512gb crucial mx100 ssd which has been split into two, half of it was allocated to windows and the other is unallocated. then I have 2 wd blues 1tb each, one has windows stuff on it already and the other one is unallocated planning to put mac stuff there. (all the specs are in my siggy) If anyone has this config and has successfully got into osx with it, pls help
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Hi, Well it appears that I've broken windows. I had an install of windows 7 on one SSD and an install of Windows 10 on another, but it annoyed me that the documents / download / pictures / other folders where i save stuff and also the default save place for things were different. So I decided to move both of the "Users" folder to the same place (i now realise this was a bad idea) A few hours later, booting into command prompt and moving the folders and creating symlinks to the new place and I'm unable to login onto either OS... I have an image of my Win7 install and I only just installed Win10 so I don't really care about saving / recovering the information, but I was wondering what the best way to install two OS's, to have the normal, user accessible files available to both. I think moving the files to the exact same location has screwed up all of the installed programs (especially if I installed the same program on both OS's). I know I can move the documents, pictures, downloads folders to where ever, but most programs default their save path to "../Users/[PC_name]/" as a default save directory, which I wanted to be the same place. I have two Samsung EVO 250Gb SSD's. Would you suggest: A. partitioning one and installing both OS's on it and move the docs / downloads to the second SSD? B. Installing one OS on each. But then what would I do with the user folders? (documents for both on one SSD, and pictures on the either etc?) C. RAID 0 them (to create a single partition of 500Gb), then partition it into two, one for each OS? (has the same problem with option B) D. RAID 0 them, create three partitions, 100Gb for each OS and a third of 300Gb for docs/pics/downloads folders? E. other??? Thanks heaps AusTempest
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Hey Whats a good solution to run multiple OS's easily I'm looking for a flexible PC storage setup so i can easily switch between OS's and Hypervisors. Fun and work... Am looking at things like http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=169 or motherboard ability to switch on a HDD Even considered Hypervisor passthrough to dedicate hardware to a VM Any good ideas or experiences out there? cheers
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Hi Guys! I have the following problem: I've installed Windows 7 and 8 in dual boot on one machine. I've installed Faronics Deep Freeze Standard on both partitions to protect the system from alterings. So far, everything worked great. When the system was turned on, you would see a BIOS-like screen where you could choose the OS. I later updated Windows 8 to 8.1 via the store and since then, the problem started. When I turn on the machine now, Windows 8.1 starts and presents its OWN bootloader (GUI-like where I can choose the OS with the mouse pointer). Anyway, if I choose Windows 7, it will just reboot and present the bootloader again, Windows 8.1 is booting without problems, but Win 7 is not booting at all. I've found out that this has something to do with Deep Freeze on the Win 8.1 partition. If i "thaw" the Win 8.1 partition, I'm actually able to boot into W7, otherwise (when frozen), it will only present the Win 8.1 GUI-bootloader and boot into W 8.1. Seems like the fast-boot feature from W8.1 and the sh**ty bootloader actually have to write files to the W8 partition, even if I want to boot W7. Has somebody of you guys made similar experiences? Does somebody know what to do? I would be very glad if someone could help me here. I recently switched position in my company and now I have to maintain about 10 to 15 workstations, which all will have the same problem. Fortunately, I only updated one so far... ;-) I know this is a very specific problem, but i don't know where else to ask, and this community seems to be one of the most competent and reliable I know. Greetings to all of you! bs_180
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I've been wondering for a long time if this was a thing. Ever since asus tried to make dual-boot convertibles that could switch between windows and android without rebooting it's been haunting me even more. Does anyone know if something like this is possible on a standard desktop? Being able to switch from ubuntu to windows instantly when needed would be epic for me. Thanks!
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I have been dual booting Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 for a while now. And it has worked. Just now I was playing Bioshock and the screen went black and my fans started ramping up the RPM. I shut down my computer, and now I can boot in to my BIOS and my Ubuntu partition just fine, but when I try to load up Windows 7, it just blackscreens. Another weird thing is: when I tried to do a fresh install using my Windows 7 install disc, it just doesn't boot with it. I went to my BIOS and booted up from my DVD drive, but it just tries to boot up and then blackscreens. Any ideas as to what is causing my problem? I would prefer not to have to do a clean install, but I can if necessary. Also, I am able to access my Windows file tree from Linux, so I can delete or edit files on my Windows from Linux if that helps.