I have 2 hard drives, one with Windows and one with Ubuntu.  How can I easily add Windows to the boot menu? I've installed GRUB customizer; can it be done with that program?
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I recently got a computer from school. It came with Windows 8.1 installed. I then installed another copy of Windows 8.1 (so it would use the built-in Windows Pro license) and upgraded it to Windows 10. I then installed Ubuntu alongside both Windows 8 and 10. Note that I made a separate 255MB ext2 partition for /boot. Now, when I boot the computer, I first see a GRUB prompt (I already un-hid the grub prompt 'cuz I like it that way) with Windows 8 and Ubuntu options. However, there is no Windows 10 option. If I select Ubuntu, the computer boots into Ubuntu. However, if I select the Windows 8 option, I then get sent to the Windows bootloader, where it then gives me options to boot either Windows 8 or Windows 10. (However, by this point, the computer has already loaded the kernel and all. Apparently Microsoft misunderstood the concept of a bootloader and decided that that meant &quot;boot practically the entire system before actually showing the bootloader&quot;. Typical Microsoft.) How can I disable the Windows bootloader and add a Windows 10 option to GRUB? EDIT: Someone has answered telling me to disable the Windows bootloader. However, I still do not know how to add Windows to the GRUB OS list. Can anyone help with this? EDIT 2: After removing Windows 10 from the Windows bootloader with EasyBCD, it seemed that, after a few reboots, it would continually unhide itself and Windows 10 would reappear. However, I then later deleted Windows 10 from the list of OSes in msconfig, and it seems to have stayed deleted. However, I STILL have not managed to get Windows 10 to appear in GRUB. It's as if GRUB simply doesn't detect it. Also, I'll put this in the question so that people see it - I have tried using boot-repair, however, it has NOT helped any.
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I have Ubuntu on my laptop. Now I want install Windows 7 in a dual-boot. How can I do this? I can't lose my Ubuntu files, and I'm afraid that I might break . Go  for UEFI only!
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I recently installed Ubuntu in dual boot along with Windows 10 on an HP laptop. Initially I was unable to boot up Windows using grub as selecting the Windows options would just loop back to grub.  Then I performed a boot repair, and all these extra options showed up in the grub menu.  I'm able to open up Windows using "Windows UEFI bootmgfw.efi" option, but not using the standard option of "Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1).  How do I reduce these entries and why can't I boot Windows using the latter option?  Here's an image of grub. The first option is Ubuntu:
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I am going to be buying a second hard drive for my desktop here pretty soon, because my current hard drive is a piece of junk running windows 7. What I want to know is how to install Ubuntu on the second drive. I am looking for a non complicated answer as I am not familiar with the Ubuntu lingo. I am so sick of Windows.. I used Ubuntu before but it didn't work properly. When I installed it, it said I didn't have enough space... Even though I had 600GB to use. Anyway if anyone can help me out it would be much appreciated. Thanks
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is a tool that let you install Grub on a USB flash drive. I really like it because it lets me boot from ISO files and let me put a bunch of ISOs on my USB and choose which one to boot.  The problem is, this is a Windows tool, and I don't know how to do it through the command lines. I would also like to know how to install Grub (2) this way, Grub Legacy seems to be easier...  EDIT: I'm not asking for a tool (and definitely not a Windows tool). I want to know the commands that I have to execute to have the same effects. I'm having Ubuntu in my mind right now, but if there is a general way that I can boot any ISO in the USB then that would be better.
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I have the following setup:  first partition is windows 7 partition second partition - ubuntu 12.04 partition  while installing ubuntu I installed grub2 bootloader to ubuntu partition  mbr contains windows bootloader  I have tried using EasyBCD to add entry to windows boot menu, with no luck - this entry just boots into grub4dos command prompt  how to add Ubuntu to windows boot menu?  please do not suggest installing grub2 to mbr or wubi..    Update:  I followed the instructions to install EasyBCD and add an entry to Windows boot menu to boot Ubuntu step by step. When I reboot both the NeoGrub Bootloader and the Ubuntu menu items take me to the screen below.
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I have installed Ubuntu 15.10 alongside Windows 10 with UEFI. To install Ubuntu, I chose the option install alongside Windows 10 or something similar to this. Then I created a new partition for Ubuntu and installed it. After installation, the boot menu did not show up. Initially I thought Ubuntu has not been installed, but when I plugged in the USB drive and wanted to install Ubuntu I saw an option of reinstalling Ubuntu on my machine. So, I found out that Ubuntu is installed. Pressing F8 and F12 also does not help. Can anyone help me bring up the GRUB boot menu? In Windows, I also entered the command bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi in cmd, but still the boot menu does not show up.  Reply (Himanshu) : Just boot in bios and, if you can, add boot option with name say ubuntu and path EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi. No need for live PCB or anything. Move the boot option to top. This is for dell GUI bios but I assume it works for all. Or you may want to see  or , where you can enable Windows Boot Loader for one boot or forever as you wish, and boot Ubuntu from it. If you want now, you can use the installed Ubuntu terminal to use the commands update-grub to use GRUB instead. (Not enough reputation to answer properly btw.)
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I have a PC with 5 hard drives (SSD and HDD). One of the drives has Windows 10. In the past, I have tried to install Ubuntu and Windows using the following method so there will be no interference between the two operating systems:  I Simply removed all the hard drives, except the one that I wanted to install Ubuntu, then install ubuntu and connect other hard drives. Then select the boot drive using the BIOS.  Can I do the same thing without taking out taking all the drives?  I mean I do not like  to see the GRUB on boot, I want windows to boot as default without the need for GRUB.
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I installed windows 10 on my laptop in UEFI mode with HDD GPT disk format, then I installed Ubuntu 16.04LTS on another partition. So I have Ubuntu dualboot with Windows 10 now.  I also installed rEFInd (it's like GUI for you to choose between different OSs) because I don't wanna use Grub2 as the default bootloader. Now I want to have Windows 7 too, but when I boot from the USB stick, an error screen showed up saying something like  the windows boot manager is having problems due to a recent hardware change   My system is still working fine so I don't know if the problem came from my system or if the setup I want is impossible.
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I have two partitions on my hard-didk , I have installed ubuntu on my 1st partition and windows 8 later on another partition.Now i can only boot into windows 8 because it doesn't recognize Ubuntu.  How would i dual boot my PC without using grub . I would like using Windows 8 boot manager as its pretty neat.  This is what i have tried :  I tried using easyBCD but it doesn't work.It causes the boot manager to switch to windows 7 Boot Manager .  EasyBCD creates a C:/NST/AutoNeoGrub0.mbr file .  As EasyBCD was causing the boot manager to switch i created a manual entry to the BCD store uisng windows bcdedit command and point it to the C:/NST/AutoNeoGrub0.mbr file created by EasyBCD. This gave me the Windows 8 Boot-Manager with Ubuntu Entry,but grub is unable to find the root partition.  Is there any other work around or solution for this ?  Any help would be appreciated.  Note: The windows 8 boot Manager is sky blue color interactive menu with mouse and other options and windows 7 boot manager is the normal black and white one where you can only use your keyboard  I don't want to install grub because it would prevent my windows 8 from updating as its a genuine MSDN version and various other reasons
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Can I install Ubuntu without formatting any partitions on my hard drive?  I am already running Windows 7 and I want to install Ubuntu as well without formatting any of the partitions I have already created.
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So I've got 2 hard drives, a 128GB SSD, on which Windows 7 is installed, and a standard 1TB hard drive.  Now I want to install Ubuntu. The SSD has only got about 4GB of space left, and I don't really want to delete anything to make space for Ubuntu so I want to install it on the 1TB hard drive. I know that in order to do this I will have to change the boot order each time I want to switch OSes, but I don't really mind since I won't be using Ubuntu as much as Windows anyway. I've got a lot of data on the 1TB hard drive, about 850GB, but there should be enough for Ubuntu.  My question though, is if I can just make a new partition on this drive and install Ubuntu to it, without erasing any other data. If I can, can I, like I specified, also just change the OS I want to use by simply changing the boot order? Sorry if this has been asked before, but most of the answers I could find were about installing it to an empty second hard drive, whereas I would like to keep the data on mine.  Thanks in advance!
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How would I go about dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu, the windows drive is on an ssd as my c drive and my s drive is a hdd that I want to use for Linux. I have no idea what I need to download it or anything.
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I am dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. How to tell grub not to show the boot menu and boot directly to Windows 10 by default? What should I do if I want to boot to Ubuntu 18.04 instead of the default Windows 10?
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I bought my PC with Windows 10 on it, later installing Ubuntu for dual-booting. Recently, I wanted to replace the HDD inside with an SSD of the same size, so I copied all the partitions to the SSD (GPT partitioning) using GParted and installed the SSD in the laptop. On startup, GRUB is loaded and I can:  Boot Ubuntu normally Select the &quot;Windows Boot Manager on /boot/sda1 or select bootmgfw.efi manually, however it loads a Recovery BSOD, stating the following with options to access the recovery environment (F1) or boot parameters (F8) but those don't work (same screen): File: \WINDOWS\system32\winload.efi is missing or broken Error code: 0xc000000e    As I understand it, Windows Boot Manager is loaded but cannot find the Windows boot loader (probably because not looking into the right partition), so what I need to do is give the right partition to the boot loader, but I have no idea how to do that. How do I fix this, preferably something that can be done from Linux and doesn't involve a reinstall of Windows?
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I did dual boot with Windows 7 &amp; Ubuntu 14.04. I get both in boot menu but can't boot into Windows 7. The primary drive where Windows 7 was configured now shows to be logical drive with all files in it. How to resolve it ?  This is what it shows:  irshad@irshad-desktop:~$ lsblk NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk      ├─sda1   8:1    0  58.6G  0 part /media/irshad/B2E08E69E08E339F     ├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part      ├─sda5   8:5    0 195.3G  0 part /media/irshad/8E90A6A690A6946D     ├─sda6   8:6    0 182.8G  0 part /media/irshad/7650B08250B04B1F    ├─sda7   8:7    0    25G  0 part /    └─sda8   8:8    0     4G  0 part      sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom     I tried to run update-grub but I get the following result.  $ sudo update-grub  Generating grub configuration file ...  /etc/grub.d/06_custom: 31: /etc/grub.d/06_custom: function: not found  /etc/grub.d/06_custom: 34: /etc/grub.d/06_custom: save_env: not found  /etc/grub.d/06_custom: 36: /etc/grub.d/06_custom: Syntax error: "}" unexpected
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I'm looking to install 32-bit windows with IIS to dual-boot with my 64-bit edition of windows on a laptop. I have a ten gig partition on my harddrive - is this large enough for a simple Windows install and a few programs?   I've never dual booted before, so I'm not quite sure how easy it is to mess up the process. Can you recommend any tutorials on how to set up a dual-boot configuration on Windows?