General :: Removal Of Windows Without Re-installation?
Oct 26, 2010
So I am a relatively inexperienced user of Linux. I have some experience and have dabbled in linux mint on several occasions, I get what linux is I suppose.
I was running windows XP before, it caught a virus and I rigged up a usb drive to install another copy of XP over that because my disk drive is broken.
I decided yesterday to make a switch to linux, I was fed up with windows and I can do anything windows can do with linux if I actually immerse myself in it with a little work and a little learning.
So I downloaded a copy of Ubuntu 10.10. I tried to make a bootable USB stick install of it and I was successful, booted from it, but it kind of just lingered at a black screen with credits and never began installing, there was no terminal or anything and it wasn't starting on its own.
I chose the next best thing, installing it inside of windows from that wubi.exe thing included in the iso image of ubuntu 10.10. I installed it over that, wired it and got my always problematic (with linux at least) b43 broadcom drivers.
So now when I start my computer there are the two windows xp installations and ubuntu.
Is there any way to, from my ubuntu from the install method stated (installed from inside of windows using wubi.exe), remove both instances of windows XP and make linux the only operating system on my computer WITHOUT having to reinstall linux.
I say again my disk drive is broken and the USB stick method didn't work for me, there is no way I can legitimately install linux and format my hard disk / delete partitions.
I started an upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 and it stopped with the message: Ubuntu desktop is listed to be removed but is on the removal blacklist. Then it restored back to 8.04. I don't know how to resolve this - it would be alright to remove the old Ubuntu desktop.
some info on the drive - it's a USB 2.0 portable hard drive (PQI H560), one partition spanning all 640GB, NTFS. Used almost exclusively on Linux (arch and ubuntu), but initially formatted on Windows 7.The hard drive has quite a lot of hard links on it, as it was a timemachine-like backup system.And now the issue itself:Today I made the mistake of taking out my portable hard drive from my Linux system and plugging it in a Windows 7 box. Everything worked nice, I took a movie from the drive, and it lay dormant for an hour or so. After that I took the drive out (forgot to unmount :/) and put it back in my Linux.
Any idea why did it break so bad? I thought NTFS was kind of durable.Best if there would be something nondestructive (be able to get the data while preserving every bit of the drive in it's current state - just to be sure it doesn't break anything)
i was using windows 7 and started to get sick of windows completely, so i installed ubuntu and was dual booting between the two.. somewhere down the line i had made a mistake (can't remember exactly what) and instead of properly fixing the issue i decided to re-install ubuntu, but in doing so i now have created another partition and another install of ubuntu, so i have 2 ubuntu's an a windows 7. i would like to remove the 2 ubuntus and remove the partitioning to return to just having windows 7 installed and then i intend to install ubuntu studio. i have done some searching on this issue and i am still not entirely sure what needs done and how to do it without messing anything up.
i have read that i need to run fdisk /mbr from a windows command prompt and that this will fix the master boot record and return it to only having the option to boot into windows, but i also read that this can cause problems if the disk has more than 4 partitions (which it does, courtesy of 3 OS's and a couple of storage partitions).
so in summary: remove both ubuntu installations and return the disk to the partitions that were there before i installed ubuntu the first time.
would like to get this sorted out and eventually just get rid of windows altogether. there are a few windows programs that i will miss, but ubuntu studio seems to have most of them covered so after a bit of learning and adapting there will hopefully be no need for the unstable, expensive, non-secure heap of crap that is microsoft windows.
i get this error whenever i update or install/uninstall a package Package operation failed The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_IN.ISO8859-1" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
I just installed ubuntu 10.04 on my spare computer.Everytime I try to install or remove something (through the ubuntu software center) I get to 90% and I get an errormessage. The software seems to be installed, so I'm not sure what the deal is.The programs I tried to install:- chromium- skype- thunderbird- ubuntu restricted extrasThe programs I tried to uninstall:- evolution
I need to determine which package is causing every upgrade installation or removal of software to fail in Ubuntu 10.04 I have had a problem since allowing some non-supported upgrades (not certain what they were for) in 9.10 (FAIL!) I hoped that upgrade to 10.04 would resolve the issue (I know FAIL again!). I am guessing I can;
a) Remove the offending package b) Repair the missing/damaged 10.04 files c) replace the 10.04 OS
I am running a dual boot one drive system with XP and Ubuntu each in their own partition and a 3rd partition where data resides
I am new to Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 I tried to install software (Gmail Notifier) through 'Ubuntu Software Center' I don't know why I am getting following error message :
(Reading database. 95%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: failed to read on buffer copy for files list for package `libtaglib2.0-cil': Input/output error Even if I tried to remove any software I am getting this error. Also when I want to change 'Visual Effects' to 'Normal' or 'Extra' through 'Appearance Preferences'.first it shows 'searching for available drivers' and then the message :
I have couple of USB modules. They are full of unwanted Windows files.I want to remove everything and format it.The message is it is write protected. The command fdisk -l gives the following:
Disk /dev/sdc: 2008 MB, 2008416256 bytes 57 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1228 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3192 * 512 = 1634304 bytes
I now run 9.10 but I used to run 9.04. Accidentally made my 9.10 pretty small, and I was basically being lazy and leaving it, but I now want to free up the 80 GB I left on 9.04. Is there any way to just delete the partition, I have all I need from it.
I need to prevent that the latest kernel update removes the only kernel that still works in my computer. how can i do this? Currently I have 3 linux kernels versions:
But only the oldest works. With the new update there is a new kernel version (2.6.32-24) that possibly will not boot (like previous 2.6.32-* kernels) and also I expect that, as in previous updates, the oldest kernel will become inaccessible, thus rendering my ubuntu unbootable.
PS: unsolved threads on the underlaying problem: Can't boot default kernel after upgrading from 9.xx to 10.04 lucid Upgrade to 10.04 freezes on the Ubuntu screen
We have several HP Thin-Clients of type t5545 in use. We redirect USB-Media to the terminalserver. Because the t5545 runs a debian customized by hp, we can treat it like a debian in some way.First, I'll explain how usb-redirection is configured: automatically mount it to /tmp/tmpfs/media /tmp/tmpfs/media is redirected as disk "Z" via rdesktop-parameter -r disk:sharename=path in case of removed usb-media udev will run a script to umount -l the device and delete the mountpointThe environment:
Thin-Clients run linux: root@mac-addr:/tmp/tmpfs/media# uname -a Linux mac-addr 2.6.26-2-686 1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Terminalserver runs Windows Server 2008 R2
PartedMagic live linux can load to memory and run clamav on a windows drive to check for and remove viruses. However, I need to also find and remove trojans and worms on a windows drive which clamav can not find. Is there any worm and trojan removers for linux or do you need to install WINE and run the windows trojan and worm removers.
removal icon has gone from my toolbar, how do I get it back.I have an acer aspire one notebook.It used to appear in the bottom of my screen and in the window sidebar...but now has gone totally.
I'm working on an app that will authenticate user with a smartcard when the user inserts it in the card reader (this is on Red Hat 5.5). How do I detect a card has been inserted? Is there a daemon service I need to listen to and associated api to get notified etc? .
This is the error I get when using apt-get upgrade or package manager dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--remove): reinstall it before attempting a removal.
In debian/ubuntu I want to: a) Create a list of all the files in one directory tree b) Do the same for a second directory tree c) Compare the two lists such that, only the file NAMES are compared (i.e. just comparing the "file.txt" part so that "/home/folder/file.txt" == "/home/secondfolder/folder/file.txt) d) Output a list of all the duplicates How to do this using scripting languages or regex or something?
I dont know how to put this that somobody would understand my problem but here we go. I have problem like said in title.I am unable to upgrade my kernel. Sunaptics says that I have 2.6.35-28 installed. I tried to reinstall 2.6.35-28 via synaptics but it gives me error.
Thats what uname -a says:
pekka@pekka-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux pekka-laptop 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Tried to install 2.6.35-27 via terminal thats what I get:
Code: pekka@pekka-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-27 [sudo] password for pekka: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree code....
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pekka@pekka-laptop:
Last week I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system in dual booting. I had installed succesfully both but unable to see data files from windows OS. Though I have excercised the options in various resources available on internet/blogs. System takes about 03 hrs during installation process. I am also unable to configure Thunderbird.
System hardware info is as - System ManufacturerVIA Technologies, Inc. System ModelKM266APro-835 System TypeX86-based PC
I removed windows vista from my machine via Gparted. Then used the command sudo update-grub. I noticed the portion of the hard drive that had windows was now unallocated. I rebooted my machine to see what impact that would have and got the following:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v1.05 (071227) CLIENT MAC ADDRF: 00 26 6C 33 96 CE GUID: FCBA3670-D104-11DE-BBA9-00266c3396ce PXE-E53: No boot filename received PEX-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM. It seems that during the boot process my computer cannot find the ethernet controller, or is this an indication that something else is wrong?
So tonight I bought a WD "My Passport" portable HD.Plug it in and KDE says there are two devices...One is the "My Passport" drive, the other one is a CD-ROM called "WD SmartWare" ... WTF?A bit of Googling led me to a Windows/Mac downloads page for a tool which hides, but doesn't remove this unwanted feature.Anyone had any experience with this? want to remove it. It has to go. I've no need for it, and it's taking up half a gig. What a joke.Edit: Some specifics:The virtual CD-ROM is showing up as /dev/sr2, while the main partition shows up as /dev/sdc1.I've tried mounting sr2 with the 'rw' option, but mount reports that this can't be done. fdisk tells me that there are no spare sectors on sdc, and that there are no partitions at all on sr2. What's going on? How do I fix this? In case you can't tell, this is p___ing me off.
I did a d-u today, all went well. Then tried to install dkms, and apt came back with a list of programs it says were automatically installed by no longer required, including several libqt4 packages. I'd like to know what programs would be affected by removing each one.
I have installed the newest version of Peppermint Ice (Ubuntu derivative) on my Eee PC 701's internal HD and would like to get some more space on the drive (2GB total) by removeing packages like hunspell-en-ca, but synaptic warns me that language-support-writing-en will be removed. How can I force removal of this and similar packages like myspell-en-au, without uninstalling English language support?
I've been having problems with AWN's shiny switcher (the desktop switcher app for AWN). On startup it often, but not always, appears as two identical switchers side by side. After changing any of the preferences of the switcher it returns to normal. After restarting the problem continues. I have tried complete removal of the program, deleting any files or folders that look like they have anything to do with AWN settings, and restarting. But after reinstalling it seems that all the settings stay the same. Where exactly are AWN settings saved, specifically the settings for applets? I will try to post a screen-shot of how the applet appears when I restart later.
I have recently installed what I thought was going to be Ubuntu client on to my laptop but it turned out to be server 10.04. I kept meaning to uninstall it and install the client version but have left it so long that I have forgotten the username and password. Is there any way around this and how do I go about uninstalling the server edition to install the client?
I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 with 160GB HD dual booting 11.04 and Vista. I have now got VB working to run the two programmes I only need windows for. So my HD has 90GB for Vista and the rest is for 11.04, what is the best way to remove Vista and leave the HD free for Ubuntu only? Do I just back everything up to an external HD and reinstall?? (But I have a few problems get some things to work) So not sure if this is the right option for me or is there another way?
