Installation :: How To Install Ubuntu 11.04 With Windows 7
May 31, 2011
I am new to Ubuntu, i have tested this software 6 month back Ubuntu 10.10 version, dual boot with Windows 7. I liked this OS, however for a Windows user its looks difficult initially, i know after spending some time and learning with this OS, it will be easier day by day. I want to install its 11.4 version in my another Laptop, but afraid to loose the data as i encountered this happening just a week before with my friends Machine. I have three partition in my Laptop, C has Windows 7 (70GB) than D Partition has 70 GB Space and E partition has 160 GB space, I need step by step guidelines to Install 11.04 in my Drive "E" Where i can make another Partition for Ubuntu using Windows 7 Shrink Volume utility. I need installation guide from experts to not loosing data as i do not have any other portable hard drive to take back up.
Please Guide me what will the best for me, if i have Total 80 GB (Allocated Drive) space for Ubuntu, i.e /root, / Home, Swap (I have 2GB RAM) etc , Waiting for some Expert guidelines.
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Jul 22, 2010
Now however its not letting me resize the Windows partition, mounted or unmounted. It currently occupies the whole disk. I would rather not reinstall the whole thing over again, but I will if I have to. Isnt there an easy way to shrink a Windows partition? I swear Ive done this before and it wasnt this hard. Could it be a problem with the Mint installer that now asks me if I want to unmount my disks before it goes into install mode? On this PC I would like to have
Windows XP
Mint
Ubuntu-Studio
Edubuntu
One of the E17 OSs
Puppy Linux (to create a remix)
I am probably going to put most of the linux partitions on the second laptop drive but I want to install files on a non WIndows NTFS partition.
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Sep 6, 2010
When you install inside windows it refers installation size???
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Mar 9, 2010
Have live cd & download, windows will not open files.
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Jul 28, 2010
I just bought a new lap top, and I can't get the Ubuntu install to work. I've installed Ubuntu on other computers about 6 times or so, but always over a Windows XP or Vista operating system, this is the first time I've tried to install it over Windows 7.I tried using a CD and a boot stick, but it still boots into Windows rather than booting from the device. I've checked the boot setup and it's setup right, to boot from the USB/CD depending on which one I attempted, but no cigar, still loads up Windows instead. I'm at a loss.The computer is an Acer Aspire 5251-1513AMD processor V120 2.2GHz2 G DDR3 RAM
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Oct 23, 2010
I installed Ubuntu because I "accidentally" formatted my originally Windows 7 Dell Inspiron 1545. After I formatted this laptop, I tried to install Windows 7 again using the CD that came with the laptop, but an error kept coming up. I asked around on Windows 7 forums and they told me that it meant that the CD was corrupt and a possible solution was to install it using a USB thumb drive. I got impatient and installed Ubuntu instead. Now, I want to install Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu. How do I do that?
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Aug 7, 2011
I just installed Linux, but could'nt manage wine to work with .exe files, the problem is that when i open up a .exe it shutsdown 2 seconds after it opens.Well i decided to uninstall Ubuntu and install Windows 7 again, but then again i got a problem. I plugged in my Windows 7 disk and restarted my computer then getting the boot cofnigure up, i changed the boot settings to "boot from CD/DVD" but it wasnt able to boot from the pc. I tried to read some guides and they all said that i should reboot with some "floppy" linux cd type in "fdisk" in a command prompt, witch i have no clue what is. I tried to put my Ubuntu cd in my computer and boot from that but that did'nt work. Am i stuck with Ubuntu? I won't give a da** if i could fix the wine problem.
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Jan 14, 2010
I want to know that can we install Ubuntu OS like ghosting in windows.In windows if we install through ghosting then we do not need to install drivers and application software.Is it possible in Ubuntu? if possible then what is the process?
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Jan 26, 2010
I have a quad core box with Windows 7 64 bit installed on it. When I try to install wubi I get an error box immediately after clicking on the exe file that says pyrun.exe at the top of the box and the text says no disk in drive insert disk into drive deviceharddisk2dr2 I have to use the task manager to close that window in order to do anything else. I can't get past this error. I would love to use wubi to put ubuntu on my system.
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Mar 9, 2010
I am using window 7. I want to get Ubuntu. I have the download & CD but windows can't read the files. What now?
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Mar 18, 2010
I want to know if it is possible to install Windows XP inside of Ubuntu 9.10 and delete Ubuntu. I want to make this netbook dual boot and I know I need to have XP installed first to make the process easier.
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May 1, 2010
I'd like to install the 10.04 32-bit inside a Windows7 VirtualPC.Got the cd burned, and my virt-pc set up (1 GB RAM, 16GB fixed size virtual disk).I started up the virt-pc, and it automatically booted up from the cd, getting as far as asking me what language I'd like to use, but after selecting English and pressing enter, the virtual-pc window just blinked away.Subsequent attempts to start the virt-pc result in a window popping up, listing some text (free memory, can't read the rest -- too fast), which then blinks away almost immediately.
I was using these URL... directions as a guide.Anyone know if this should work? Or should I go with VirtualBox?The host pc is running 64-bit-win7-pro, amd quad-core, 4gb ram, lots of free disk, in case any of that matters.
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May 12, 2010
If its possible to install Windows XP using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, i want to install it to my second Partition cause i need it to play games.
I already tried Nlite, Unetbootin and WinSetupFromUsb and nothing did work for me.
I can only install it with my USB because i dont have a CD Drive.
I got my WindowsXP at my Harddrive as an .ISO file.
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Jun 28, 2010
I installed Ubuntu on my HP Laptop. The laptop had 4 partitions, one of them called HP TOOLS. I thought i didnt need this, so i simply deleted it so i could install Ubuntu. I had not made any system images so i couldnt restore it if i had any problems. After I had installed ubuntu, i just wanted to boot into windows to make sure everything was right..IT WASNT..It failed to boot at the Starting Windows screen, and it took me to an "Insert a Windows Repair disk page"So i downloaded a windows 7 repair disk, and popped it in to the machine. The system repair didn't recognize any problems, and it just said restart the machine and everything would be fine.
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Jul 23, 2010
I hope this is the right sub-forum for a question like this. It seemed like the best match from what I could find, but my issue stems from installing Windows 7 after I already had Ubuntu installed. I don't know what details are important, so I'll be as thorough as I can. I was running Ubuntu 9.10 on a machine with two SATA hard drives. I was only using one since Ubuntu kept complaining that the second drive was having some issues. The drive with Ubuntu had only two partitions, one tiny one for the swap and the rest of the hard drive was the second partition.
I needed to install Windows for my work, and since I was not very familiar with the whole partition thing (which is the reason why the hard drive was basically one huge partition) I decided to follow this guide: [URL]... I backed up my important data, I used a live CD to create a new partition for windows, I backed up my MBR using the command given, and installed Windows 7. Everything went pretty smoothly. Now, whenever I boot up I don't get a choice of what OS to boot, it just goes straight to Windows, as expected.
I used the same live CD to restore the MBR using the command given on the guide, but I get this error:
dd: opening `/media/sda/mbr.bin': No such file or directory
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Jul 27, 2010
I have a system with RAid 0 with Windows 7. I want to load Ubuntu on a stand alone disk. I have two disks obviously for my raid o, two storage disks and an extra disk for ubuntu. I have tired to install unbuntu but upon start up I get an error on the disk. I than had to use grub to repair my mbr. My question is how do I make this work where I can have a dual boot system. I have been running ubuntu on my laptop .
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Aug 2, 2010
I am having an issue where i can not seem to figure out how to install windows 7 on unbuntu. I have a netbook and it has no cd drive so what i did was copy all the windows 7 installation files over to my desktop in a new folder and just ran the setup.exe using 'Wine'. That goes ok and it pops up saying install windows 7. After hit that it tells me"."Windows installation encountered an unexpected error. Verify that the installation sources are accessible, and restart the installation.
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Sep 9, 2010
I'm an experienced Ubuntu user and thus far avoided the need to ask too many questions, but this one's a bit of an odd one.. I want to run 10.04 on my XP pro SP2 box at work so I thought perhaps I could run it via Windows by using Wubi - usually I dual-boot or run independently. However due to several factors this isn't possible in this instance, so rather than intall VMWare and all that palava, I figured Wubi would do the trick. Not used it before tho
The installer starts ok, but once it starts to download the install files it interferes with my network connection to the point where all my connections suddenly drop, and the install fails. I don't know wtf it's actually doing at this stage, because my SSH sessions to other machines seem to persist but I can no longer browse the web, IM loses connection (both MSN and Skype) - which could indicate it's interfering with my DNS? Even after closing the installer I just can't do anything without having to reboot the machine.
I just grabbed the latest installer from the site and ran the install. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything wrong - but for some reason this clearly does not work on this machine. Am I missing something before I give up and try another tactic? It's turning into an awful lot of effort just to use one piggin' app...
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Sep 16, 2010
1. I have an ubuntu 10.04.1 lts installation iso image...2. I burned it to a cd and restarted my computer..3. When i reached to the partitions menua. There was not "install side by side" option.b. 70 gb of windows 7 part (which is OK)and a 249 Gb of free space were shown in-spite i have this space partition in 2 drives of 100 and 149 gb in windows.4. I wanted to install ubuntu in my F: drive (of 149 gb) but there was no method due to the above reason.What should i do? should i download it once again.I dont want to install with WUBI as someone told me it is not good because it slows down the computer(Is it so?)..
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Oct 1, 2010
I have two hard disks: 160GB and 1TB. I had Ubuntu 10.04 installed on the 1TB drive (sdb). Then I installed Windows Xp on the 160GB drive (sda) following which I could no longer boot into Ubuntu (as Windows XP boots straight away). I have already tried to repair GRUB2 using the Live CD using the commands:
# fdisk -l (shows sdb5 to be the 'Linux' partition)
# mkdir /media/sdb5
# mount /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5
# grub-install --root-directory=/media/sdb5 /dev/sdb
The above procedure shows success but I still don't get the GRUB menu.
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Oct 28, 2010
when i try to install ubuntu 10.04 inside windows xp from inside running windows XP by pop up windows screen which run automatically when i put CD into CD rom drive , I find message appear to me that the installer will download the iso file and take time (as downloading time ) although that I install the ubuntu 10.04 from official original CD that I got it via Post and its size about 699 mbs.
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Dec 16, 2010
I had Windows 7 installed on a 640GB Hard Drive and was using Wubi to try out Ubuntu , I tried to install Ubuntu as a dual boot option but I am now unable to boot into Windows .The output of sudo fdisk -l is
#Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Feb 1, 2011
when it comes to Linux with little to no understanding of the command lines and what they mean.
Issue:I currently have a dual boot Windows 7 PC (Toshiba Satellite A100-756 with 250GB HDD and 3GB RAM, 32-bit).What I want to do is format the HDD (removing both partitions) and make a clean install of Ubuntu only.I tried for several hours last night to achieve this using Ubuntu 10.10 and Pendrive, but with no success. System would not boot from USB stick.
How do I: 1. Format the HDD and remove the partitions using only Ubuntu on a USB stick?
2. Install Ubuntu and partition the HDD ready to copy over my backed up files?
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Feb 4, 2011
Recently my moms computer crashed and I'm trying to fix it I'm pretty much finished but, I installed Ubuntu via live CD, I thought that would be fine with her but, no, she hates Ubuntu and she wants windows back.
The only problem is her CD-Rom drive is now broke and none of her usb ports work. So I'm wondering if there is a way to install Windows 7 without a USB or CD from inside Ubuntu?
I've found ways to do it from inside windows, but never from inside Ubuntu, any ideas?
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Apr 29, 2011
I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 and wish to do a clean installation since it has become very cluttered with programs (I had the ooh, that looks like a cool free program I can download and then never use it again syndrome for a while). Since I've been doing some sound stuff with my computer, I decided to try Ubuntu Studio. Anyway, I am at college and do not have any cds available to be able to burn the image on. Is there a way to install Ubuntu onto my current partition (yes, I want to back everything up and erase what is on this partition) without burning the .iso to a disk. I have a Ubuntu 10.04 live disk and a Windows 7 partition on my hard drive. Is this possible with what I have and can anyone give me instructions or link me to something showing how? (I googled for a bit, but must have been missing the magic keywords if it's out there.)
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May 18, 2011
I have been trying for a week now to install ubuntu on my windows 2000. I have followed both the usb and cd install to the t with no prevail. it seams that it wont boot to disk or recognize and boot to usb. I have test this on both of my windows 2000 computers and i gotten the same problems.
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May 4, 2010
Can I install the netbook remix without windows? All the instructions talk about putting it onto a flash drive and using Windows. Can I just use an external CD drive and install onto a new partition? If so, will it handle all the GRUB dual-boot stuff on installation or will I have to do something special for that?
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May 4, 2010
I have to install Windows XP on another partition which already has Windows Seven installed.. but I want to preserve my GRUB2 installation without going through that GRUB reinstall process. Can I copy my /boot/grub that works fine and then paste it again through the live CD?
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May 23, 2010
I Installed Ubuntu 9.10 on perfectly working dual boot computer (I have Win7, WinServer 2008 & Mac OSX). After Installation, GRUB consolidated Win7 & WinSer 2008 and just put WinServer2008. Windows 7 totally disappeard. I'm sure it did't go any where, but GRUB did some consolidation and put just WS 2008.
Before Ubuntu 9.1.0 Install my Dual Boot OS are
Win7
WinServer 2008 &
Mac OS X
After Ubuntu 9.1.0 Install my Dual Boot OS are
Ubuntu 9.1.0
Windows Vista Loader - This is WinServer 2008 &
Mac OS X
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Jun 13, 2010
I was trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my windows xp. dowloaded and installed wubi. All worked well and system asked me to restart. After restart ubuntu was showing on multi boot screen, selected it. Then the system asked me to ESC installation or not, i didn't Esc. The Ubuntu screen was showing, but all of a sudden an error message saying INSTALLATION FAILED occurred.
My system
Processor: Intel pentium IV
Ram 1 GB
Harddisk:- 160 gb
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