Asus P8P67 Pro- can you disable secure boot?

I have an Asus P8P67 pro using the latest bios 3207. I already had Win 7 installed on a standard hard drive. I bought a new SSD and a Windows 8 pro upgrade from Microcenter. I was under the impression I could just install Windows 8 on the SSD and then I could dual boot from a menu when the computer started. Well, I installed the SSD and f...

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The top way to acquire Linux teaching and Linux administration expertise should be to start off by getting, setting up and running Linux on a method. This allows you to basically get the job done with Linux to run plans and learn Linux instructions. If you really don't want to obtain a computer just with the function of jogging Linux, you...

Secure boot and Hp Envy m6-1225dx

New laptop with secure boot and windows factory oem. Have been trying to dual boot windows 8 with either ubuntu 13.04 or fedora 18...this is what I have learned thus far. I can disable secure boot in order to install either ubuntu or fedora, however upon reboot, system goes straight to windows 8. Rebooted system and went int bios again, a...

How do I make a grub CD for booting Fedora 17?

I had Fedora 15 on a computer, dual booted with Windows 7. I did a fresh install of Fedora 17, but in the process I seem to have wiped out its capability to boot Windows 7, which I'm pretty sure is still on the disk. My plan is to install grub on the /boot partition of the new Fedora 17 and then fix the MBR to boot Windows and use Easy BC...

Solved Unallocated space on primary hard drive

OK, long story short. I did a clean install to Windows 8 Pro 64. Because of the System Reserved partition, it showed both Win 7 and Win 8 available and would prompt to do a dual boot. I cleaned it up by following the instructions on the below link.Dual Boot - Delete a OS - Windows 7 Forums (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/21 0983-dual...

Dual boot Fedora 18 with Windows 8

Help appreciated for a Fedora newbie. I bought a windows 8 box, so I could install Fedora 18. I did not want to risk my main PC. I first installed Fedora on a Virtual machine under Win 8, no problem, but it runs slowly. Then I tried to install Fedora as a dual boot. It failed to start from the DVD. I then discovered you have to disable th...

getting fedora 17 boot back after windows 7 install

I have Fedora 17 running on a machine and I have a spare drive which I would like to install Win 7 on. Windows 7 will blow away my Linux boot so I want to be confident I can sort out the dual boot (or as a minimum, get back to Fedora) afterwards. I wanted to setup a boot USB (or CD) with a different grub2 menu and confirm that I could boo...

Apple BootCamp 5.0 only supports 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and 8

With release of OS X 10.8.3, the latest update for Mountain Lion, Apple upgraded the Boot Camp utility, which allows users to dual-boot Windows and OS X on a supported Mac, to version 5. Boot Camp 5 allows users to install either 64-bit editions of Windows 7 or 8 alongside their copy of OS X - by downloading Boot Camp Support Software 5 ,...

Dual boot Install Windows 8 & OSx Mountain Lion on same GPT Hard Drive

Sorry I'm just now posting this, these notes are from 2 years ago on windows 7, just tested in 8 & ML. Its a pain cleaning up my crappy shorthand :) Ok there are many tutorials for installing OSX on a PC so I'm not going to make another one (This assumes you know how to create a Mountain Lion usb installation & have basic partiti...

Cannot install Windows 8 as dual boot on HP

I have tried several suggestions but, so far, without luck. This is an HP Envy, with Windows 7 OEM preinstalled. The Windows 8 installation goes smoothly right up to the last reboot. It goes successfully through the Boot manager, and then black screens with this message: "The Computer Restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected er...

How to dual-boot Windows 7 with an older version of Windows NT?

Hello, everyone. I've been trying to dual-boot (Sorry most of my questions are on dual-booting) Windows 7 with Windows NT 4.0. My one problem is that while it's starting, it says STOP: (forgot error code...) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE I thought that since Windows 7 is Windows NT, that it would work. Guess it didn't. Is there anything I di...

win xp dual boot on windows 7 Home 32 bit

I have a VAIO VGC-RB30 machine and had replaced the company installed XP with windows 7. Now I want to be able to have dual,boot whereby I could switch between the two OS. Windows XP folder is still there on the HDD. Ahave a dual boot without re-installing WIN Xp?. I am aviding this because i may face some drivers issues specailly SATA dr...

Windows 7 DVD doesn't boot, neither does USB. :'(

Hello all, My problem is that i'm not able to install windows 7. Been trying to install this since past 1 week. The methods i've tried are: 1. I have a windows 7 bootable DVD which doesnt boot up. (I've set BIOS to boot from DVD ROM first but it just won't boot from the DVD). Tried to install Windows 7 from the same DVD to a friend's PC...

DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready.

Hello, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot with my windows 7. To see my footprints, visit this page: How to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 (http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/05/17/ho w-to-dual-boot-ubuntu-12-04-and-windows- 7/) I got to the step where EasyBCD is used. When i open EasyBCD an error message pops up: The boot configurati...

Installing F17 on Windows dual boot.

I bought my Samsung notebook with Windows 7 preloaded. I installed F16 in it and made it as dual boot with W7 and F16. Recently I installed some themes and F16 stuck while booting. Instead of repairing it I decided to erase it and install F17 over it. :C Doing so will affect W7 booting? If so what should I have to do? Thanks in advance.

Need help installing another OS in dual boot with windows8

Hey all... As i have stated in my topic, i need to install opensuse in dual boot with windows8. I have just purchased samsung NP550P5C-S03IN, series 5 laptop with core i7, it came with windows 8. Ok so now i'm having both usb boot device and even the bootable dvd of opensuse 12.2, but even after putting both things into the laptop, the la...

Windows 8 Pro not booting

I have upgraded my windows 7 ultimate to windows 8 pro a month ago and activated accordingly. 3 Days ago I tried to install Linux OS on XP partition ( earlier I had a XP+ Windows 7 dual boot and I upgraded windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro). Unfortunately installation of linux failed and Windows 8 Pro is not booting now How can I restore/re inst...

Booting from Fedora 18 Live CD

Hi guys/gals, I have installed ubuntu before on my laptop (hp envy m6) before no problem. I currently have a CLEAN (i think) install of windows 8 (meh) on it. I am trying to now keep my Windows 8 install on the internal drive, and USB boot off of a 500GB toshiba external USB drive. I have the Fedora 18 disk in the DVD drive. The laptop s...

Dual Boot Issues - Window 7 & Windows 8

I am currently running Windows 7. I downloaded Windows 8 Pro and used the disk management tool to create a partition. Then, I installed Windows 8 there. Everything runs smooth, however Windows 8 just boots automatically every time without giving me an option to choose at boot. When I check MSCONFIG for boot options, it doesn't read Window...

The Irritating "Windows Recovered" screen after having recovered windows7 from crash!

I have dual operating System, although primary being Win7. I had a crashed windows, once,which I recovered with the OEM Dvd, but that was long time ago. The label of having recovered is still showing, and this really irritates, I am looking forward for help in this forum of how to get rid of this and bring it back to normal! The full stor...

Dual boot or Virtualbox

I have just purchased a Asus R500 laptop. Can with windows 8 pro 64 bit pre installed. I would like to do one of two things. 1. Set the laptop up as dual boot with Fedora 18 or 19 (when it comes out) as the main OS and have Windows 8 as the second boot. (i have some software that is only available in Windows format.) 2 Convert, if that is...

SSD woes on x79 board

HI, I am having great problems in installing windows using my ga-x79s-up5-wifi. I have managed to get windows installed but it is very slow in booting and when it has booted it has 1000's of volumesnapshot errors and takes about 8 minutes to boot, even if windows is the only thing installed. I am trying to install the C600 series AHCI d...

How do I dual-boot XP over Windows 7 on Asus 1015P.

So how do I dual-boot my Asus Eee PC 1015p Seashell series with xp and 7 ? I already have 7 installed on my netbook I just need a instruction on how to install xp via usb cause my netbook doesnt have a cd-rom. PS: I tried using a program called "rufus" alot of people say it works but when I tried using it to put my xp installer to usb to...

Booting with Fedora 18 DVD

Hi guys, I've a PC installed Windows 8 with some free disk space onto which I want to install Fedora 18 to dual boot with. But seems like I can't boot the machine with Fedora 18 DVD. I googled around and found different discussions about "Secure boot", UEFI things and checked that in my BIOS and it seems like USEFI is disabled already, bu...

Installing Windows 7 in a PC where there is Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed in my PC. I want to install Windows 7 in another drive,which partially contains some data, so that I can use both OSs in a dual boot scheme. I have read on the web of taking a backup of the data on the other drive,and formatting it and then installing Windows 7, but even then I am not really sure weather the...

Loss of Dual Boot Menu After Win8 Installed

My friend, who had a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and one other OS (either a Linux distro or XP) told me that after he installed Windows 8 on a second hard drive, the menu giving him a choice of which operating system to boot went away. Now the system boots to Windows 8. He has found a way to boot to Windows 7 but it's inconvenient. I...

HP: Desktop: Can Windows 7 Be Moved From 4 Partitions To 1?

The office of a coworker's wife was getting rid of their old computers and I picked up an HP dual core desktop for $25. It came with Windows 7 on it. I would like install Linux Mint as a dual boot. The problem is, as it was explained to me, is that a PC can only have 4 primary partitions. HP installed Windows 7 across all 4 primary part...

0xc0000225 error due to dual boot that morphed into 0xc0000098 error

This is my first post here. I have a HP laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit preinstalled. Very long story short I tried to dual boot Windows with Fedora 15 and I definitely screwed up my partitioning. My first stop was LinuxQuestions.org (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions /fedora-35/grub-loader-shows-windows-but -windo...

Ubuntu 13.04 no boot after install

hi guys. i have just done a clean install of ubuntu 13.04 on my pc (not dual booting only ubuntu). after the install the pc will not boot anything. it shows the bios splash then continues to a black screen before rebooting itself. i have tried reinstalling a few times. i did the install from a USB stick and tried to install the 64bit vers...

Desinstalar XP do DUAL BOOT

Pessoal eu tinha o Windows XO SP3 instalado na minha máquina e depois eu instalei o Windows 7 64 Ultimate, gostaria de saber como eu devo proceder para desinstalar o Windows XP SP3 e ficar só com o Windows 7 na minha máquina? Estou com dual boot e preciso de mais espaço e já nem uso mais o windows XP SP3, mas tenho medo de fazer uma bela...

Encrypted Dual Boot With XP & 7 Not Possible With TrueCrypt?

Greetings, I've been Googling for almost 2 hours, and all that I find basically is information about a Windows & Linux dual boot. I've found a couple other articles that seem to indicate that an encrypted dual boot with XP & Vista / 7 is not possible with TrueCrypt. Is this true? My assumption was that if someone installs XP, then Vista...

No F8 boot menu and "Windows 8 cannot verify the digital signature for

winload.exe" Trying to test win 8 enterprise on a dual boot system with win 7. Win 7 is on OCZ revodrive PCI SSD, win8 is on a HDD. I get the above error while booting to win8. I can not get to the F8 boot menu to select booting without signatures. win8 boot/install disc repair option does not have 'advanced options'...

F17 RHEL6.3 dual boot retrofit?

I have a dual disk machine. I installed Fedora17 on disk a on 4 partitions (sda1-4 with sda1 as the boot partition) set up with systemrescuecd. I then needed to install RedHat so I installed it to disk b on 4 matching partitions. When I installed RedHat it used the sda boot partion. Now I can boot into RH successfully but I want to set up...

GA-Z77X-UD3h - Cant boot to DVD/CD rom when in Raid mode ???

Hi Guys, Having a few teething issues since ditching my Asrock z77 Ext4 board in favour of a Gigabyte z77x-UD3h. Today I wanted to do a fresh OSD install. However I cant boot from the Windows 7 x64 DVD as my sata mode is set to Raid (for my x2 Crucial M4's which will be set up in Raid 0) The DVD rom will only show up in the boot menu...

Recuperação dual boot Windows 8

Boa tarde. Por favor, tenho instaladao no meu PC, o Windows 7 e o Windows 8. Sempre prefiro o dual boot feito pelo W7 por ser mais rápido. Mas sempre aparece o boot p escolher o sistema operacional no boot do windows 8 que é mais lento. Acontece que acabei excluindo a inicialização do windows 8 pela aba da "inicialização do sistema no "ms...

How risky is dual booting linux and windows?

I have a laptop running windows, last year i tried to install linux mint via usb so i could dual boot either, cant remember much about what happened, but i ended up getting an issue where i couldnt run either OS no matter what i tried to do... i ended up going to pc world whereby one of the douches technicians/staff looked at me like i w...

Dual Boot Backup using win7 image utility

Hello, I have a dual boot system created using sevenforums meathod with xp installed first and 7 second, both on seperate physical drives - (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/80 57-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.h tml) I would like to create a disc image backup of the whole computer (dual boot) My question is, can i use the built in...

Remove Ubuntu from Windows 7 DualBoot

I currently have a dual boot between windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10 (both x64) Before this setup i had windows 7 and windows 8 dualbooting, but i decided to remove win8 and install ubuntu. When i boot up my pc it goes to ubuntus grub bootloader, but in it i dont see a win7 entry. Instead i see a win8 entry(even though i removed it already). H...

Support to HP Color LaserJet CP-1025

I am using Fedora 18 and I bought a printer HP Color LaserJet CP1025 that is recognized by Fedora as a LaserJr 9050MP and printer doesn't print at all. I attempted uses dual boot with Windows 8 with command grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub.cfg, mas after printer worked well in Windows, the Windows 8 disappeared ater an update of Nvidia propri...

Solved Windows 7 wont boot

I have a dual boot system Vista Business/Windows 7 pro 64. The other day it froze while booting into win7. This is a laptop, so i had to remove bat. Then tried to reboot. It wont reboot. I can boot into vista just fine. I can access all files in win 7 partition. HD has tested fine. Win tring to boot into win 7, the windows error recovery...