Ubuntu Installation :: Alongside Windows Vista And Now Cannot Reboot Windows?.
Feb 2, 2011I just installed Ubuntu alongside windows vista and now cannot reboot windows
View 3 RepliesI just installed Ubuntu alongside windows vista and now cannot reboot windows
View 3 RepliesI had 9.10 installed and I did an upgrade to 10.04. However I cannot see anymore my Windows Vista partition with grub.. I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite p305.This is my boot script output:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in [code].......
I have been using ubuntu for about a year while still allowing mself to boot into Windows if I wanted to. Now I just want to switch over to Ubuntu completely. If I do the normal isntallation process, will that wipe off all my current ubuntu and windows stuff? I just want to clean up my computer and don't mind about losing all the files, because I have them backed up. I just wanted Vista off my computer!
View 2 Replies View Relatedfirst of all I am a casual PC user so I apologise if this is a stupid question. I was using Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit alongside Windows, choosing between them each startup. It was easy to install and all, but Ive recently found out I was using 32bit version, unlike my 64-bit Windows. Therefore, I guess I didnt get all the performance I could. So I downloaded the 64bit one, butned it to a CD and rebooted PC (I formatted all before so now I have only Win). However, when trying to install Ubuntu64 there was no option to install it side by side and choose on startup. So I went to advanced and there was the partitioning thing. Now I have C and D, each by 120GB for windows and I had left 240GB for Ubuntu. It is disk E, however when I chose to install it there it says there is no root file. I want the whole E disc to be used for Ubuntu and I dont know what mount point and the root thing to choose.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I get to the "Allocate Drive Space" section, I have only 2 options, namely "Erase and use the entire disk", which alarms me because I want to install UNR alongside Windows XP on my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA. The other option is "Specify partitions manually (advanced)". For obvious reasons, I am reluctant to try this. I have a C Drive (Windows) and a D Drive (mainly for Backup of Windows). Each drive is about 72GB with about 60GB free on my D Drive. Obviously, this is where I would like to install UNR, but will I have to clear my D Drive completely? I still have about 27GB free on my C Drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm not very experienced in working with Ubuntu. I did try it using Wubi to install and that I liked very much. But now with the latest version (10.10) the wubi installer isn't showing every option. How do I get the old interface where you can install it alongside Windows? The first attachment is what I get when opening wubi.exe and the second one is what I would like. That is a 10.04 version.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just downloaded the Netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10, and created a bootable USB disk as per the instructions on the website.
I open the OS through my USB, click the "Install Ubuntu" button, click forward, and then comes my problem.
I don't have an option to "Install alongside other OS"
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium on an HP Mini 210..
I installed 11.04 to dual boot alongside windows 7. I have a toshiba laptop with 2 125gb hdd. I'd like to split the space between the two os's. However, I have a wubi partition and some other ones I'd like to be rid of. When i boot i get four different ubuntu options, a window loader, the grub again. How do I clean this up?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a single hard-drive on a spare computer and I decided to try out Ubuntu on recommendation from a friend. I really like it now but at first I just dual-booted it, and now I want Vista gone. I know it's unnecessary to have just one OS but my hard-drive isn't particularly big and I'd prefer to have Ubuntu by itself. Can anyone tell me how to eliminate vista and leave Ubuntu as my sole operating system (I've all my files from computer on another computer so I don't have to worry about losing anything).
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy pc is custom made with the following config:
MOBO: Asus p7p55d-e pro BIOS 1502
GPU: Asus GTS 450 1 Gig
CPU: i7 860
8GB RAM
2 1TB HD, one dedicated to Windows 7 64bit Ultimate
Connected to my LG 42" LCD TV
I asked my friend who is a contributor to ubuntu, and runs a cyber security company to install it on my computer and he said that he will charge me $375 to do this. And then he said that it is not such a difficult thing, however, it will need a lot of tinkering with ubuntu before it works flawlessly. I didn't know what he meant and didn't want to get into it with him. I was wondering if you could direct me to the threads that discuss installation of Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 already installed and on a separate hardware. I don't wanna pay him that money and I'm very new to this. Also, I hope someone could explain what kind of tinkering is done before it works flawlessly.
i heard this can be dual booted easily alongside windows 7 how do i do this and can it also be done with XP. i would like to keep XP and windows 7 on hand for games and other thing i know i wont be able to do on linux.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have recently started my masters degree program and i have to install fedora 11 for one of my courses. The problem is when i try to install fedora 11 on my laptop, it wipes out my windows vista installation. I want to keep vista. I have a sony vaio laptop model VGN-FW340D. 4GB RAM and 400 GB HD. i first shrink my hard drive to free up around 100 GB. Then i run fedora 11 DVD and let it make the partitions on my free space.. I have tried everything.. I chose use free space the first time, but i didnt work, it wiped out my vista, next time i chose custom layout and defined boot, root and swap partitions , but again it wiped out my vista.. I have read many guides to dual boot vista and fedora and have carried them out step by step, but nothing works.... Also i dont have vista installation DVD, i just have the recovery CDs, so everytime it wipes out my vista, i have to do system recovery, ive been trying for a week now, and its driving me crazy, i asked a friend of mine to help me out, he has dual boot system, and he tried it and it did the same thing, wiped out my vista... i just have one drive C: with two partitions, one small partitions which contains recovery files, and the rest of the partition has vista.......
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to install ubuntu and have boot up option. Do I need to partition before downloading ubuntu? Will I be able to access my face book and other chrome pages when I open chrome in ubuntu?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've just installed 11.04 on a new machine, to be dual booted with Windows 7. The installation process completed, popped the disc back out, but when booting up I get no boot menu and just load Windows 7. I don't get any error messages or any sort of feedback. If i go into BIOS, I only have Windows 7 as a bootable option. I presumed grub or an equivalent would be installed as part of the installation.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to replace Windows Vista with Windows XP without uninstalling my Ubuntu partition. I use ubuntu 90% of the time, but would like to have XP for games and for my printer. Is there a way to just overwrite Vista and not Ubuntu? I booted my XP disk and it came up with many different partitions, 4. I wasn't sure what my Vista one was named or which one I should overwrite.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to install Ubuntu Netbook Edition alongside Windows 7. My netbook has a manufacture partitioned drive. I deleted the second partition and it is now free space. When I go to install Ubuntu, I am only given one drive: /dev/sda. What partition is this. I want to install this on the free space area that was originally the second partition. I originally tried to do this, before I deleted the partiton, however, I still had the same issue.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't seem to find any definitive instructions. What I'd like to do is pop a new hard drive in one of my Ubuntu PCs and install Windows XP on the new hard drive. (Don't worry, I'm not going back to XP... I just wouldn't mind playing some old games again.) This machine originally had one hard drive with Windows 98 SE installed. When I starting using Ubuntu, I just added another hard drive and installed to that. Now I boot from the Ubuntu drive and have Windows 98 as an option in the Grub menu. If I add another hard drive and install Windows XP, how can I update the Grub menu? I realize that it's possible to manually edit the menu.lst file for Grub, but I didn't have to do that in order for Grub to recognize my Windows 98 drive. Would running update-grub as root do the trick?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI believe i no longer have Vista. I had installed 10.04 side by side with Vista. Now that we have 10.10 i wanted to do a fresh installation on my laptop. I wanted to do the same thing, install it side by side so what i did is i installed gparted and tried to erase/delete ubuntu 10.04 and leave windows on it. From what i remember, i did just that. I restarted my laptop and windows didnt come up...i got a grub error...i decided then to install ubuntu 10.10. i selected to install ubuntu side by side again with vista. During the installation, i received an error about a partition...i made a few clicks...after it was installing and it went smoothly.
Now when i restart my laptop...it does not give me the option for windows....how do i know if i still have windows on my laptop? According to Gparted i dont have it anymore...
Specs:
Dell E1505
2 gigs
80gb
I am unable to install ubuntu on my system. Lines of installation logs are. P.S if thread has been posted in wrong section.
[code]...
I downloaded and installed Ubuntu (most recent version) today from the website to run alongside my Windows 7 operating system. I restarted as requested, and chose Ubuntu, and it said, "Finishing installation" (or something to that effect), counted down from 5, reached 0, hovered at 0 for a minute, then the screen went black.
After waiting a very long time, I pressed ctrl+alt+delete twice and it rebooted the computer. This time, after doing everything like before, it went into Ubuntu and everything worked normally (as if installing properly) and performed a mandatory reboot. Now whenever I try to boot Ubuntu, it gives me a list of things to do on boot (I can't remember them but off the top of my head it is something like
-Ubuntu
-Ubuntu (recovery)
-Windows 7
-Windows 7 Recovery [the ones with windows 7 take me back to the page where I can initially choose which OS to run]
Choosing either of the Ubuntu ones causes a very fast string of words to fly across the screen (too technical to understand and too fast to read, but the word 'failed' jumped out a lot) and then the screen goes black. The computer remains on but the screen remains black until I (regretfully) force off my computer.
I noticed that in the past, someone mentioned that I could install Ubuntu inside of Windows 7, so if I wanted to get rid of Ubuntu, all I would have to do is go to the Windows control panel and uninstall it. How do you do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI found this to be interesting reading for comparing Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 within Windows Vista to try it out I have since tried to uninstall it but the uninstall fails with a message saying it is unable to find the file it is attempting to delete - sysout=. The process has produced a fairly large text log of the procedure and the error but none of it means anything to me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI supposedly installed ubuntu 10.something into a dual boot with windows vista but now windows vista won't load. It says partition can not be found... and from reading other forums I think it is looking in the wrong place... but i got this document. Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #4 for /boot/grub.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
[code]...
I have Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. If I wanted to reinstall Windows Vista over the top of Ubuntu 10.04, do I just install Vista normally, as if I was reformatting the hard drive?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if I should install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 7 64-bit. I have a few options, I guess.I could install it on my D: drive (apparently a Local Disc partition of my physical C: drive), install it in a partition on my C: drive,or just try and buy an external hard drive and install it on there.
My C: (main partition) has 225GB free space; my D: (Local Disc) has 7.87GB free space (out of 8.23GB).I also heard that installing it with Wubi can sometimes cause problems for Windows users and the best way to install Ubuntu is in an actual partition than with Wubi.
My specs:
Laptop
Windows 7 64-Bit Professional
256VRAM
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3470
Realtek HD Audio
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I have previously installed Ubuntu on my older PC (which is crap, btw), and it worked fine on it, but I really liked it, so I got the idea to try and install it on my laptop, too.
I want to install ubuntu 11.04 from cd alongside windows 7. I get to the choose partition screen, which looks like this.
Size Used
dev sda
dev sda1 ntfs 314 MB 105 MB
dev sda2 ntfs 301501 MB 39823 MB
dev sda3 ntfs 16106 MB 13282 MB
dev sda4 fat32 2142 MB 32 MB
When I click Install Now, I get this error message. No root file system is defined
I had partitioned my dell inspiron 1525 to have Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.04. I upgraded Vista to Windows 7. Now whenever I start the computer it goes directly to Windows 7. Is the Grub been deleted? How do I get to my Ubuntu. I have the Ubuntu Live CD with me
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy windows vista stopped booting so I had re-install vista. Now that I have done that Vista automatically boots every time I turn on my computer. I can still see that the Linux partition is there but I do not know how to boot it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had Ubuntu 9.10 and windows vista on my laptop and both systems boot normally throw grub but after I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS windows is shown on the grub loader but if I selected it all I get is blinking cursor, Ubuntu boots just fine.
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