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Hello, My main OS is Windows 10 installed on my boot SSD and I also have Windows 7 on another hard drive so I can boot either (because Sims 2 is no longer compatible with Windows 10 and I want to play it). I has been working fine for about a month, until yesterday when I booted Windows 7 and it performed a disk check. This disk check seemed to remove/edit all the Windows 10 files it found and basically broke it, so I could no longer boot Windows 10. I had to format my SSD and reinstall Windows 10. I'm now wondering what is the best way to prevent anything like this from ever happening again (perhaps Windows 10 will decide to break my Windows 7 next time). I believe I have been able to exclude my Windows 10 drive from the automatic Windows 7 disk checks, but is there anything else I can do? Advice?

So I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex 755 about a week ago running Windows 10 Pro 32-bit and it worked fine. But now after disassembling the PC to upgrade the CPU and give the case a new paint-job, it refuses to boot. Now I get the Dell splash screen, then an error message that says "Floppy Diskette Seek Failure" And I have the options to press "F1 to continue, F2 to enter set-up, F5 to run diagnostics". Running diagnostics produces no errors. Entering set-up and turning the diskette off removes this error. Pressing F1 goes into my Grub boot menu to choose between Linux and Windows. Booting into Windows throws another error "Inaccessible Boot Device", while rebooting will give me the "automatic system repair", but my keyboard doesn't seem to work during that so I cannot continue the repair. Booting into Linux (Manjaro Linux 64-bit, Budgie Desktop) doesn't even produce an error, it just boots into an Emergency shell. In addition, the diagnostics LEDs on the case seem to flash in a pattern while powering on in this order (3 4, 2 3, 1 2 3). The power button just stays a solid green. Also, using the BIOS set-up menu shows my 1Tb HDD as not being online, yet the case LEDs shows it is reading from the HDD and I still get my Grub menu. This is my only Windows device so I am unable to create installation media to reinstall Windows. I do however, have a Xubuntu 17.10 laptop and a Chromebook. Flashing a Windows ISO onto a USB drive doesn't boot at all. It'd be great if someone could possibly provide a solution to at least be able to boot into Windows (I don't care much about not having a Floppy Diskette ;-) ), or if you could link me to a relevant source that may provide a solution that'd be awesome too! And no I don't have important stuff on this HDD so completely erasing it is fine by me, oh and my BIOS version is A10 just so you know.

It's a rather general question, but I think some people would like to know more about it (if there's anything else that's known). With a plenty of complaints regarding Windows 10 Anniversary Update messing mostly with partitions it doesn't recognize, I'm getting less and less convinced to try that OS out. I'm a dual-boot user (Windows 8.1 & Ubuntu 16.04) and I would like to install the latest Windows 10 build as the secondary Windows installation, before making a final choice of either staying with Windows 10 or ditching it. I've been told that the clean installation of Windows 10 using the latest ISO also causes partition removal. Is there anything I can do to prevent that? Do we know which partitions are most often removed (except Linux/ext4 partitions and external storage)? I cannot backup it all (I can backup Ubuntu partitions and that's it, my second partition with most of my data won't fit anywhere), yet I'm still tempted to try W10 out.

I installed ubuntu yesterday and had a lot of trouble in managing to start it up. Now it's working but I can seem to access to my windows 10 partition anymore, here is how it turned out : I installed Ubuntu on the same disk as windows, but without replacing it My computer would not detect ubuntu at startup and only started on windows 10. In windows 10, it would not detect it either I booted on ubuntu thanks to my ubuntu installation usb and performed a boot repair. I then tweaked my bios to give priority to ubuntu When booting into grub, there is no windows option anymore I used the command sudo fdisk -l and here is what I got : Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram12: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram13: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk /dev/sda: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: D12B70EA-7DF6-46BB-BC94-9A486CBADE4D Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 2050047 2048000 1000M Windows recovery environment /dev/sda2 2050048 2582527 532480 260M EFI System /dev/sda3 2582528 4630527 2048000 1000M Lenovo boot partition /dev/sda4 4630528 4892671 262144 128M Microsoft reserved /dev/sda5 4892672 944373759 939481088 448G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda6 944375808 976773119 32397312 15,5G Windows recovery environment Disk /dev/sdb: 232,9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x9bf7942f Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 2048 1026047 1024000 500M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb2 1026048 390816087 389790040 185,9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb3 390817790 488396799 97579010 46,5G 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 390817792 480169983 89352192 42,6G 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 480172032 488396799 8224768 3,9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris Both systems should be installed on the 240GB disk (sdb in the command) I'm pretty sure that the windows partition is the sdb2, but I still can't boot on it. I had my sensible data saved before installing ubuntu, but I'd prefer to be able to boot on this partition rather than reinstalling. I'd appreciate some help, as I'm completly lost and new to linux. Thanks in advance, Nastaliss.

I am going to be using Linux as my main OS from now on, but for gaming convenience I'm not getting rid of Windows. But I am not sure if I should keep a dual-boot set up of if having a Windows VM to game on would be enough! Reasons: I want to have my Boot Drive in GPT and I've found getting windows to work on it is somewhat tricky... I can game and then switch to whatever else I'm doing (not too heavy stuff I now my hardware limitations), without rebooting every single F***ing time. My PC specs (being shpped): CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 4 Core, 6MB cache, 3.2 GHz Mb: GIGABYTE GA-Z170 Gaming 3 LGA1151 DDR4 RAM: RIPJAWS DDR4 4x4GB 2133MHz PSU: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze SSD: 120GB Intel Series535 M.2 I guess I want to now mostly what experiences gamer have had with playing on VMs. For now I only have integrated graphics, but I read a ton of guides for passing-through GPUs to VMs, so In the future It should be alright, I'm more wondering for meanwhile. I won't be gaming too hard, No Crysis 3 nor Bioshock Infinite... Mostly CivV, LoL, CS:GO, AC:Unity, AoE, RoN, etc... Eager to hear opinions!

I'm looking to dual boot linux on my computer, and I'm simply wondering which distro to go with. I'm a newbie to Linux, and I'm really just looking for something that will work like windows, only instead it will be Linux. Right now I'm looking into Linux Mint and Unbunto. What do you think?

so i have a new pc .... i'm new to linux but i want to dual boot it on windows ... i have made a partition on the hdd how do i install it ? my windows is installed on the hdd Se image

Greetings, I've been using a Macbook Pro for about seven years now, and have just moved over to Windows (8.1) after building my PC. However, until I get the chance to finally learn how to use Windows editin gprograms (Premiere, Cubase, Vegas etc.) I didn't want to waste the years of experience I have on OSX software, like Logic or Final Cut. I've been considering using my copy of OSX to install Hackintosh, but I would also like to use this computer for gaming, and need a way to keep Windows on it. Two methods that present themselves are dual-booting Windows and Mac via a bootloader, or installing OSX and then loading into Windows via BootCamp. Does either method have any advantages over the other? Thanks, Aereldor.

Greetings, I've been considering upgrading to a solid state drive in the next few months, and I had a few questions about this. Since I currently have my operating system and all my programs on my hard drive, will I have to back up my data, format it, install the OS on the SSD, then plug in the old HDD and reinstall everything? Also, is it possible to dual boot OSX and Windows off an SSD and use the same HDD for storage and programs on both via partition? Or will I have to get separate drives for storage on each operating system? Sorry about the multitude of possibly idiotic questions- I'm very new to this. Regards, Aereldor.

Guys I have my laptop that was running windows 10 and I have downloaded the latest version of ubuntu and made a bootable usb with them. Then I tried to install them. Because the installation wasn't recognizing I had windows 10 installed on the laptop I chose the "Something Else" option and followed a simple guide to install Ubuntu. Then restarted the pc as supposed to. The problem is that I don't get the Dual boot option menu before booting from an OS and my computer boots imediatetly to ubuntu!! How to go back to windows? Any ideas? Also my laptop has an 256gb ssd on it. What I noticed when I was creating the new partitions for Ubuntu was that i had 256gb of "Free Space" instead of lets say 200gb that I actually had free. Hope that helps. Thank you in advance!!

My brother recently decided to try dual-booting, since he wanted to try the Linux environment. When he was asking me about mounting an ISO to his USB drive, I sent him the link to the software I did it with and also a link to Elementary OS, to see if he would like to give that flavor a try. Fast forward a couple of hours and Elementary OS turned out to be disappointing, and he now wishes to "uninstall it". I explained to him that he would have to delete the partition that he installed Linux on. Problem is: He/I/We can't find it. He has 2 drives in his PC. The primary being a 1TB, and the secondary being a 500GB. When we checked for partitions, he only had 3. One reserved for the system, and the 2 others being the drives. The 2 drive partitions are nearly full size. Why can't we find the Linux partition? And more importantly, how do we delete it? Thanks in advance. -Zonus

Hi! Let me start from the beginning. My HDD's partition table is GPT. I was using Win8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS in dual-boot. Now that I've installed Win10, grub is gone. So, I have to fix/reinstall grub. I tried "boot repair disk" -method. But, "recommended repair" option is not easy. It asks me to run some command in terminal. I'm kind of familiar with basic terminal commands, but I'm no expert. So, I'm kind of afraid to step forward with this. See, I used MBR before and had no trouble. But my last HDD died after I converted it to GPT and did the same (fix grub after reinstalling Windows). Experts, please help me to fix/reinstall the grub on this GPT table (with a safe method, so I won't lose any data or my HDD). Thanks in advance.

WARNING: long story I had Windows 7 installed on my computer, and decided to dual-boot Windows 8 onto it. It worked, but I only allocated 32GB of space to it. I soon ran out of space. So, I went back into Windows 7, went into Disk Management, and added a third partition to the drive. I merged the two newer partitions. Little did I know, this would change my drive from a basic disk to a dynamic disk. And you can't install Windows on a dynamic disk. So, I deleted that partition's data (I don't know why), Windows started giving me an error when booting (I can still boot), and I can't get rid of the error. The partition is gone now, by the way. If you want pictures, they may or may not come later.

Hi guys i was just wondering if it is actually possible to run multiple OS on the same phone. Would i fx, be able to install iOS on my current One Plus One? And how would i do it? Thanks in advance Peace out -Niemann

Hi, I'd like to know your opinions about the PC I'm building. I will use it for coding on Linux and gaming and video editing on Windows. FYI I'm currently using a Dell Vostro 3700 with a 2.4 Ghz core i5 and I am able to edit videos and playing a few games. I've been able to finish Arkham City without changing the default settings. I have about 30 games released between 2009 and 2013 in my Steam library, so I don't plan to play very recent games for the moment, otherwise I'm okay with reducing the settings. So these are the components : - CPU Intel core i3 4330 - Case Zalman ZM T4 - CPU Cooler Thermaltake Nic - PSU LDLC QS-450+ Quality Select 80PLUS Gold (it's French !) - Motherboard ASRock H81M - Graphic card Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2G GDDR5 - RAM memory Kingston DDR3 1600 8 Go KVR CL9 HyperX - Keyboard Zalman ZM-K400G - Hard drive SSHD Seagate 1 To So the total price shouldn't be above 500€. I already have some of the components : the CPU cooler, the PSU and the RAM. I'll order the HDD this weekend. For the next evolutions, I planned to buy a SSD (unless SSHD become better), do a crossfire and maybe change the CPU. But I won't do any change before Christmas. So are there better choices to make? Thanks

I have read several articles about the unusual things that happens in Windows (e.g. extra 0's, safe mode's 2nd Admin, etc.) and I was wondering.... Is it possible to run Windows in a VirtualBox on a LINUX machine? I would have a stable standard environment with LINUX (Ubuntu) and I've gotten the hang of VB with other distros. I figure I could run Windows and most of my Steam games in the VB and not have the hassle of a dual-boot or anything like that. Would that work or would I still be better with a dual-boot set-up?

I recenctly purchased a new Asus laptop. Upon its arrival, I added a previously used SSD and installed Windows 8.1 Pro on it. After I got that working the way I like it, I went to install Ubuntu on a seperate partition. In the process, I corrupted Windows and didn't even successfully install Ubuntu. Now, it won't boot at all. I don't even get a BSOD. Whatever I did, it's bad. I am attempting to boot from a Windows installtion media to either repair or reinstall, but it goes extremely slow and the hard drive activity light is constantly going. Does anyone have some insights into what is happening and how it might be remedied?