General :: Dual Boot Class Project Failed
Mar 19, 2010
Our A+ project was to set up a dual-boot using XP Pro & the Linux download of our choice. What we did:
1- We formatted a 38GB HD using the NTFS file system.
2- Two equal sized NTFS partitions were created.
- Partition 1 was a Primary.
- Partition 2 was an Extended.
3- Used Ubuntu CD.
4- Install Ubuntu choices were to format the HD, install side-by-side, use the the longest continuous space, etc. We chose side-by-side.
5- After the install there was no evidence of the 2d 18GB partition (which we planned to use for XP Pro).
When we booted to the XP install disc that program booted to another HD (C.
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Jul 5, 2011
The problem is this: I have a 320gb HDD splitted in 4 partitions. When I first installed Windows XP I formatted the HDD in 3 (Windows system partition, Media partition and another one I left for Linux). However Linux requires another partition for swap. Everything was just fine. One day Windows stopped working and I tried re-installing it. After the system was ready to start, Windows failed to boot with "NTLDR is missing" message. I tried to recover the Master boot record, even replaced NTLDR manually - nothing worked. I read that in order a HDD to be partitioned in more than 3 parts the so called "extended" partitions must be created. I think this may cause the problem but I don't want to wipe out everything (I have more than 100 GB of books most of which are not available anymore in the same locations I have downloaded them)
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Jul 25, 2010
i do not get this i have a computer here that i installed ubuntu 10.04 on it side by side with windows using the ubuntu installer now windows will not boot at all it just restarts every time we try to boot into it now im not stupid i tryed reparing the os many times with the disk no luck when i was exploring in the windows cds command line it showed that his intire os was moved to the d:/
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Oct 18, 2010
I have tried to install ns-allinone-2.29.....i followed the process given on the net....everything got installed properly except tcl and i got the following message tcl8.3.2 configuration failed! Exiting.... Tcl is not part of the ns project
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Jul 8, 2010
I have a netbook running Windows XP as standard. There is also a recovery partition which came from the factory.
In the past I installed Ubuntu (I think 9.something) from USB key and all worked fine. However my XP became corrupted and I needed to do a repair on it. After this, Ubuntu became removed from the boot select menu.
Since then, Ubuntu has become updated to 10.04, which I now cannot install.
The Live CD tells me there is a "file IO error" and simply stops installation at around 70%.
I did manage to get into Ubuntu from a Live USB using Wubi. However when I chose to install Ubuntu to a Harddrive, the option to "install side by side" was missing.
After reading on the forums, I did a chkdsk /f on Windows and tried again. Now my liveUSB does not show a boot menu!
When I select to boot from USB stick, the screen goes blank with a flashing cursor. Ctrl+alt+dlt reboots.
I'm really lost here! It seems when I fix one problem, another problem arises!
Also when trying to instal Ubuntu within Windows, the process goes through to 100% and asks me to reboot. When I do so, the option for Ubuntu does show in the boot menu. However when I select it, I get an error "Windows boot failed: file wubildr.mbr and status: 0xc00000f - something is corrupt".
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Dec 27, 2010
I've been googling and couldn't find solution to my problem. In the past I was able to get around dual boot with Win XP but that Win 7 seems to be more resistant to dual boot. I have a Toshiba Portege T110 that came with Win 7 home edition. I parted the hdd using gparted and put Linux on extended partition. It was OK up till then. After installing Opensuse 11.3 and installing Grub in extended partition, grub came up but when I chose windows, I got error from windows boot manager saying it couldn't find winload.exe. I tried to manipulate the grub by typing:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
That didn't work at all. So I reinstalled Win 7. After Win 7 back up, I again tried to fix grub by doing this:
find /boot/grub/menu.lst (this gives hd0,5)
root (hd0,5)
setup(hd0)
quit
After rebooting, grub came back but when I tried to access win 7, I again got the black screen saying my winload.exe is missing. I'm reinstalling my win 7 for the 2nd time now. But I'd still like to get the dual boot with Opensuse 11.3 to work. What have I done wrong? Should I put grub in MBR or the mount point / ? or should it be left alone in extended partition? And how do I move grub to different place?
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Mar 15, 2011
I install windows XP and then unix centos. But again when I reinstall Windows xp then my unix centos not shows in boot menu. It automatically goes in windows xp. Now how can I recover my Unix centos.
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May 27, 2011
I had Ubuntu 10.10. Now in the free space remaining in my hard disk, I installed Fedora 15. But unfortunately, Fedora failed to detect ubuntu. Now when I start my computer, grub automatically loads fedora and also doesnt display the boot menu. How can I boot ubuntu and let the grub display a menu of operating system choices?
My /etc/grub.conf file in fedora is as follows:
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Apr 9, 2010
My buddy has a computer with a problem and hes asked me to see if I can retrieve the data documents from the computer. The subject computer is a COMPAQ PRESARIO SR5030NX with a Pentium 4 cpu, 3.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, running Windows Vista Home Basic.
His goal was to create a dual boot computer UBUNTU and Vista. What he did was to install UBUNTU, partitioning the computer in two partitions. The computer is now giving an error code of 21 when GRUB Loader starts up. Is there a restore disk or some kind of utility that can undo what was done to the computer. He has no backup disk.
I tried Recovery Commander Ver. 3 made by Avanquest but as their website indicates it�s for XP. They never updated it for Vista and Windows 7. Is there a utility that can undo some of the changes that were made to the machine when UBUNTU was installed, albeit, unsuccessfully.
(1) I have an HP PC running XP professional and I was wondering if I take the hard drive out from the COMPAQ and rig it to my HP via a SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter device would I be able to see the contents of that COMPAQ computer that had Vista and now UBUNTU.
(2)What about attaching the COMPAQ internal hard drive and attaching it to my HP as a slave drive.
(3)Can the UBUNTU disk going to help?
Were just after the data files and not software programs.
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Dec 4, 2010
I just tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my windows machine. Unfortunately there was an installation error and now the computer will not boot up in windows anymore (I get grub error 17). I had Ubuntu 7.04 before, but when installing 10.04, I deleted the 7.04 partitions. Is there a way to recover the ability to boot into windows?
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Jul 20, 2011
Dual boot PC, boot disk and WIN XP are on good disk, Ubuntu was installed on failed disk. (I prefer separate disks for each OS).
I know I will need to reinstall Ubuntu later, and of course, GRUB2 now crashes without the Ubuntu disk.
Confirm that the only thing I need to do when I get the new drive installed and partitioned is to boot my XP disk in Recovery Mode and type "fixmbr", (then reboot to confirm clean WIN operation on the existing disk) then install Ubuntu as normal on the new disk.
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Jan 7, 2010
I wanted to start exploring web development and perhaps hosting my own server as well as learning about linux and all the things that go with it so I downloaded the ubuntu 9.1 Server edition and burned it to a CD. I thought to put it on my Dell laptop as it is newer than my main PC and I could bring it to and fro between class. It had Vista installed and I definitely wanted to keep that in the meantime until I got more familiar with Ubuntu. The laptop has a 320GB hard drive with a 10 GB recovery partition. I went ahead and formatted the 10GB to make room for ubuntu. Also I was able to "shrink" the main windows partition by 16GB to make even more room. I could not combine the two small drives but alas. I had hoped to use the 16GB partition for the main install and the 10GB for a necessary swap drive (I am completely new to all this).
So I reboot on the server CD and get to the partition section. I was following this guide here: [url]
It seemed I did not want to do anything "guided" or "automatic" because the options were listing the entire drive and again i wanted to keep my vista untouched. So I go to manual partitioning and although the guide didn't go into enough detail I went ahead and assigned an "ext2" filetype to the larger partition and a "swap" to the smaller partition. Then I went to write changes to disk and after completing one of the two successfully the installer failed to configure the swap drive. I don't know why. I restarted to make sure windows was OK and surely it was not, as I got the dreaded "missing operating system" screen. I ran the windows recovery CD and lo and behold it could not find any drives at all, much less repair them. The data I had on the vista partition were not particularly vital, but it would be nice to have it back.
So my questions are, is there a way to recovery the windows partition? And how is the correct way to configure a dual boot system with Vista and Ubuntu 9.1 Server edition?
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Jun 19, 2010
i am trying to install opensuse 11.2 to my vaio laptop i have win7 pro 64 bit already installed so i'm trying dual booting i have followed the below steps1- on windows, shrink the c partition and create a new unused volume for suse2- install the suse 11.2 on the new unused volume with hdd config like sda4 swap 4 gb sda5 20 gb / ext4 sda6 120 gb ext43- selected custom packages and started the installaton4- installation started smoothly and after installing packages it tried to reboot the machine at the end. But after this point the reboot operation has failed and gave a blank screen.
At the end the installation failed.I started the machine vaio boot logo comes and stops. i can't even enterbios setup or change boot options.I have unplaged the hd reset the partions, pluged it again and recovered win7So i think the installation damaged the file system.i have tried the above steps 2 times and came up with the same result.I have installed fedora 13 before with no problem.
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Mar 12, 2010
I have a problem with compiling vdrift-2009-06-15 using scons. As the source that i obtained only supports scons i cannot use make. the error that i get when i try to compile it in GNOME Terminal is: scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: warning: The Options class is deprecated; use the Variables class instead.
File "/home/mohit/Download/vdrift-2009-06-15/SConstruct", line 9, in <module>
scons: warning: The BoolOption() function is deprecated; use the BoolVariable() function instead.
File "/home/mohit/Download/vdrift-2009-06-15/SConstruct", line 13, in <module>
Checking for C++ header file asio.hpp... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file boost/bind.hpp... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file GL/gl.h... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file GL/glu.h... (cached) yes
Checking for C++ header file SDL/SDL.h... (cached) yes
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Jan 31, 2010
I have just installed Fedora 12 on a 10GB partition separate from the pre-existing Windows XP partition. My problem is that when I turn on my aspire one ao751h it doesn't give me the option to boot Windows XP even though when I mount the partition with XP on it the files are all still there. I think it has something to do with GRUB which I have never dealt with before or the way I set up the partitions when installing Fedora 12. How would I change the start-up screen to allow me to boot from my XP partition as well?
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Aug 2, 2011
Hi,I had a Windows 7 installation and I decided to install ubuntu 11.04 I tried several times but every time soon or later something with grub goes wrong.Most times I get the error "no such partition",once it just halted after "verifying DMI ... " .I fixed windows mbr with "bootsect /nt60 C:" and then tried to reinstall grub with boot-repair .It showed no errors but after reboot I get "no such partition" again.
My scheme is something like :
/dev/sda1 -> the windows 7 system partition NTFS
/dev/sda2 -> partition for windows programs etc NTFS
/dev/sda3 -> partition for files(images/music/videos) NTFS
/dev/sda4 -> extended partition
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Apr 4, 2010
I am almost brand new user of Ubuntu 9.10 loaded using Wubi. After an update I can no longer boot from the highest version (-20-generic), but have to start from a previous version (-14-generic). How do I clean up the boot image/configure grub (v 1.97 beta which I believe is Grub 2)?
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Dec 15, 2010
I cannot boot into the Windows 7 partition, which I guess is /dev/sda1. I have Slackware installed on /dev/sda2 which boots fine, my /etc/lilo.conf looks like
Code:
/etc/# Start LILO global section compact
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Jun 24, 2011
I am working on another's Dell Inspiron 530 with Vista 64-bit; see below:
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wanting a dual-boot, 500GB hdd was formatted as above, Win Vista x64 Recovery CD was created, and antiX-M11 (as Swift Linux 0_1_1) installed. Now, at startup, machine boots to antiX and not Vista. User wants it the other way around. I think I should have reordered the partitions and not installed GRUB in MBR. EasyBCD is the preferred boot loader for User. This is a learning experience but due to time constraints and not being at my home where references are available, EasyBCD is on a USB stick -- should I boot to the Vista Recovery CD and then try to install EasyBCD to sda3 from it, uninstall antiX (but this will not fix the MBR problem, will it?), or edit fstab or what
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Sep 7, 2009
I have a PC with three HD's. My primary hard drive has a single partition and contains Win XP SP3. I have a second hard drive which I use to store junk (pictures, movies, etc). The third, 60GB HD, I just put into my PC and I wanted to install Fedora 11 onto it. I want to have a dual boot system with WinXP being the default boot. I downloaded the latest build of Fedora 11, created a LiveCD out of it and I tried to install the OS onto this third new hard drive. I installed the OS, I told it to use the entire third HD and to have a dual boot setup and make the WinXP OS be the default boot. The installation seemed to go without any problems. However, after restarting the PC, the PC stops booting right after the DELL screen. It gives me a cursor and that's it. It just sits there. I have tried redoing the install about 4 different times now and no matter how I change the different installation options, I get the same result. Now I can't even boot into XP even after I disconnect the third drive. I am guessing that the dual boot got screwed up; I just don't know how to fix it and more importantly, how to install Fedora, dual boot.
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Mar 28, 2010
Old Boot drive in new PC (XPPRO + Ubutnu) Run the XP repair BUT still have Error 21, used XP repair console to repair MBR still have problems.
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Feb 3, 2010
I currently have fedora 10 installed and want to set up the hdd to dual boot xp. If anyone could give a guide or suggestion on the best way to do this it would be great. I prefer to not start over even though it would be easier to dual boot linux into an xp host.
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Mar 6, 2011
Haven't been browsing for long, so this may have been covered already. I'm sure it's a common question but which distro would you prefer for a dual boot on a laptop, running alongside Vista? I've shrunk my Windows partition and opened a 10GB space for new business. I don't know a lot about different distros but boot Ubuntu 10.10 and XP on my desktop. Would this be the best choice?
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Sep 23, 2010
I have downloaded linux mint using a USB followed all instructions and removed the USB stick as requested but it failed to boot on restart. it boots ok with the stick connected. i have changed it to boot from the hard drive and still no joy. i can access the terminal when the stick is on and all i need are the instructions to enable it to boot without the usb stick.
Samsung N210 10.1 inch notebook
1GB Ram
250 HDD
Came with windows 7 and i selected to use the whole disk when i installed Debian on it, the same when i installed mint and removed debian.
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Feb 23, 2010
how to uninstall linux on dual boot with win XP ??
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Dec 29, 2010
I am going to install the newest version of Ubuntu on my computer. I am currently running Vista. I would like to be able to dual boot. I understand the whole partitioning deal and booting from the cd but i am worried that doing so will overwrite my Master Boot Record for windows. Do I need to modify the GRUB2 after installation. Read many writeups but was hoping for some input.
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Nov 21, 2009
Now that ive finally got XP and Ubuntu on my system, i thought id try to get rid of that DOS looking boot! :s
To explain my situation (probably default) when i start up after bios a black screen appears with a list of options:
1. ubuntu
2. ubuntu recovery
3. xp
4. xp recovery
something like that not sure the exact order or titles...
What i wanna do is make it have a GUI where i select which OS i want.
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Jul 3, 2011
I have one hard disk partitioned into four logical drives.
1.20gb for red hat 5 //installed after installing window xp
2.40gb for Win xp //Installed first
3.40gb not formatted yet
4.more than 50gb for data storage.
After all the installation,I can just boot Red hat 5 but it shows the prompt for window xp also to boot in boot selection screen.When I entered for window to boot,I have this message-
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Feb 19, 2010
How do I erase windows completely and just run puppy. Also how do I download and install damn small linux.
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Oct 24, 2010
I have an OSS 11.3/WinXPPro dual boot system. Unfortunately, Windows is a mess because of a botched restoration. I guess I need to start again from scratch. I assume if I attempt to reinstall Windoze that the whole dual boot system is going to get botched up anyway.I would like to know what would be the best approach since I am going to start by installing Windoze to the HD. Here is a readout of what I currently have from gparted:
Partition / File Sys / Mount Point / Flags
/dev/sda1 ntfs /media/sda1
/dev/sda2 extended boot,lba
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