my notebook cannot start after installing win.7 home basic
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my notebook cannot start after installing win.7 home basic
Hy. My Toshiba notebook had win.7 ultimate. I then installed win.7 home basic. The problem I'm facing now is that it can longer boot. I'm completely lost. Please help me
(IMHO) Never install any "Home" (or "Basic") version of Microsoft Windows!
That doesn't mean that you need to pony-up many hundreds of dollars for something aimed at professional software developers, but you do need the administrative tools that the cheapskate editions conveniently omit. You also need to prudently set up a secure, and securable, configuration ... which these editions (purposely??) make it quite difficult to do.
Buy the middle-of-the-road edition (not OEM ...), and do a "clean install" from the media onto the chosen partition, after erasing that partition. Then, immediately apply all security updates.
(If you find that, now, your Linux cannot be reached, it simply means that Windows' installer overwrote the master boot record, as it is designed to do. You'll have to go back and reinstall grub, configuring it appropriately.)
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