Ubuntu :: OS Didn't Hose Windows - Fix XP?
Dec 24, 2010
I have a dual boot with Win XP which I rarely use. I went into XP and used a program which became unresponsive, so I ALT CTRL DEL to get into Task manager and tried to end the process. Anyway the computer froze and I had to do a hard shutdown (with the power button). Now XP will only boot to Safe mode. If I try to go into normal mode it just goes to the XP screen before login and shows and endless bar timer. I am afraid to use my XP disc to repair XP as I might lose my Ubuntu partition. How do I safely fix XP?
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Feb 28, 2011
I just installed Debian and when it was almost done it asked me something about GRUB installtation. It said the only loader in the main boot loader file or something was Vista but I don't even have vista installed on my laptop. It didnt list my Ubuntu or Windows 7 installation so I picked to set the boot location (or whatever) manually to (hd0,2) .. just to be save. Now when starting up the computer it only gives me Ubuntu and Windows 7 as options. Ubuntu starts but when I try to start Windows 7 it gets stuck at the 'starting windows' logo. Another thing I wasn't sure about in the installation was the format of the partition.. I just picked Ext4 (I read somewhere it was good ).
I installed the thing on an empty Logical partition (not primary.. couldn't figure out how to do that without formatting my disks). I wish to get my W7 back up and the Debian to show up in my boot list.. Right now I can only access my Ubuntu so you'll have to guide me through here
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Apr 2, 2010
i have recently installed ubntu 9.10 and u wanted to dual boot it with xp that i already got installed i have installed it and than i didnt know how to get two my windows back becuse the grub menu didnt show and it had bugs . so i formted the ubunttu partion (to ntfs) with the live cd of it and now wiil now boot windows it showes me "grub recovery>" commend line somthing like that what to do to boot my windows back i am now with the live cd of ubuntu wrting you this.
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Nov 27, 2010
ive got a windows partition and a ubuntu-10.10 partition. i just tried to reinstall windows on the first one - but things didn't work out properly. after the first restart the pc just hung in the first boot screen - it wouldn't boot from the windows cd or the harddrive. every time i restart the computer it just hangs in that screen. i can't even choose to boot from cd/usb to use a livecd and rescue my files on the ubuntu partition. its like the keyboard doesn't work anymore. ive tried both a usb keyboard and one of the old kind with the prongs. so i cant get into ubuntu.
here's the screen, it pops up a second after i restart. usually the pc just boots up a couple seconds later and i can choose beteen win/unbuntu; or i can just press 'esc' and choose to boot from usb. but now nothing is happening, the keyboard doesn't seem to work, and it wont go passed this screen.*edit* actually the keyboard is working, because ctrl-alt-del restarts the computer, but thats about it..
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Mar 4, 2011
On my notebook there was a preinstalled OEM Windows 7 Home Basic (disk C, sda1). I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on disk D, and was not using Windows 7 any more, although the "seventh" was present n main loading menu and in grub menu. 2 days ago I discovered, that in grub menu appeared "Windows Vista (Loader) - sda1" ! I didn't install it, and I'm sure that nobody else had access to my notebook. "Windows 7 (Loader)" now links to sda2.
When I try to run this strange "Windows Vista (Loader)", appears the Windows loading screen, than the empty Windows desktop background, and than the system reboots. How can Windows Vista (Loader) appear in grub, if nobody installed it? Can it be an imitation of Vista loader, made by some malware? How to remove this item from grub?
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Mar 12, 2010
I was seaching for a particular file (WAV) and using Applications>Places>Search for files resulted in finding none of the files I was supposed to haveHowever I then used Gnome Do and bingo there was one of them, then used the "reveal" option and there were all my files.Does anyone know why the ubuntu file search facility could not find them , but the Gnome Do could? By the way in the system search facility I sued *.wav and found other wav files, and then used DA* (DA being the first two letters of the file) and found all sorts of data labeled files etc, but none of the ones I was looking for. In 'Gnome Do' I typed 'DA' and there it was. I would really like to know the answer for future reference.
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Jul 10, 2011
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04, and it doesn't seem like there is much diffrent, shouldnt I have a desktop like this:
when mine looks like this (the same it was for 10.10):
Do I have to enable something? I went to System>About Ubuntu. And I am running 11.04 so I'm not sure why it is like it is.
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Apr 4, 2010
What does it do?? Can i remove it??i tried apt-get remove dnsmasq. it didn't work
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Apr 30, 2010
When is the 10.04 upgrade going to show on my update manager? I have been running the update manager since yesterday and the 10.04 upgrade hasn't shown up yet. It is still showing an upgrade to 8.10. I have been waiting to upgrade while exploring and using the 8.04 LTS Hardy. Now that it has been released it isn't showing on the update manager.
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Jun 26, 2010
i was installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. But when the installer reach step 4, i cannot see my partitions on my computer that i has previously made. I already enter the manual partition editor sectin, but the list show that my harddisk has no parition no it. The weird thing is that i can normally access my partition on ubuntu live-cd's file browser, but it didn't appear on my installation wizard. Here is a screenshot of my desktop:
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Jul 20, 2010
i did it to mount my hd in the startup but id didnt work, so i want to undo it, and if somebody can tell how to make my hd to be mounted since the startup
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Feb 11, 2011
My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6 3078-tx. It is was a great laptop when it was running windows 7 but when I tried installing Ubuntu, I slowly began to hate it more and more. The issue is with the ATI and Intel switchable graphics card. Ubuntu installs fine and things seem to be great but I cant use the better graphics effects in ubuntu. I installed the driver that ubuntu provides for ATI and it didnt work and ubuntu booted into a terminal etc.. and I had to put it back to the way it was before. After sometime researching on the internet I know the problem is with the swtichable graphics.
Unfortunatley there is no option to turn off switchable graphic in my bios and hp arent much of a help. I dont know what to do now ? Is there any way to get switchable graphics to w ork with linux, is there way to get version of the bios that lets me disable it ? any variations of ubuntu or linux that it works with. I would prefer to use the ATI if i have to disable one or the other cause Im usually running on ac power anyways.
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May 24, 2011
I just installed ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) on my system. I mounted / on my SSD and /home on my HD. The installation proceeded for a while and then I suddenly got a message that the installer crashed. Nevertheless the installed linux seems to work and I can boot in Ubuntu. Not sure what exactly is wrong now that the install didn't complete. Any way for me to check what went wrong and what exactly I can do to make sure my system is ok? All appears ok but appearances can be deceiving.
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May 31, 2011
I've never liked unity much so I've been using classic. However, out of curiosity I decided to give it a try. However, when I tried to load it, my login sound played, but the dock and the taskbar didn't load. I've been using compiz in classic, so would that have anything to do with it?
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Jun 7, 2011
I'm using a system which is based around 9.04 and yes I know this is not the latest and greatest however the softwares in question hasn't been confirmed on the newest version of ubuntu. However I was doing a new build and noticed when I went to do and apt-get install there didn't appear to be any repo's I'm just wondering have the repo's for 9.04 been turned off??
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Jul 29, 2010
My laptop is sony vaio VPCEB190X. I was installed ubuntu but it didn't recognize sound driver.
This ouput lspci's command: [URL]
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Feb 12, 2010
It's possible I just did something wrong...Anyway, I don't have any sounds, and haven't since installation.
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3059
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May 18, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu this afternoon, and it has been working perfectly until i tried to install the flash plugin. My laptop froze and i had to unplug it to restart. Since then, whenever i try to log on, an error message appears saying that Gnome Communications (? i think thats what it said) center didn't configure properly and to contact the computer administrator.
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Jun 9, 2010
Wine didn't show in Application menu after installation is completed but it's name was shown as installed package in Application tab already(System > Preference > Main Menu)How to bring it to the list in Application menu?the name of package is wine-1.2_1.1.42
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Jun 12, 2010
Maybe saying Ubuntu is getting worse is unfair. I'm not a big user I have to say. I use it more out of curiosity than anything else. I first used 8 and it was brilliant. I told all my mates about it. Everything work great. I had all desktop effects. I could use a KDE session. Then I upgraded to 9 and lost KDE ability but still had all desktop effects available. Upgraded to 10 a few weeks ago and now no desktop effects. Non of the above is a problem but I feel like, for me, it's going backwards.
I use an old AMD 2600 machine with a Radeon 9600. I used to be able to use ATI Catalyst but that didn't work after the upgrade to 10 and I can't seem to find a solution. Ubuntu is still brilliant but I don't like things being taken away from me.
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Jul 2, 2010
and I've been using windows alone until now. There is something I don't quite understand in ubuntu and that is where do you install programs (something similar to the Program Files folder in Windows perhaps) and is there something similar to registry, because I installed JDK from a downloaded binary and when I installed Netbeans it didn't see the Java installation, and where exactly are the system files?
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Aug 14, 2010
My touchpad stopped working, so I rebooted, but It didn't help. The touchpad works right up until I login.
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Aug 26, 2010
Wow -everything works with alpha-3 version with a fresh install. Sound, wireless modem, processor speed scaling, sound controls, touch pad, all cores running,power management, battery, fans, etc. NVidia driver is also working. I tried multiple other distro installs - opensuse, Fedora, and ubuntu 10.04 - none worked. Also tried upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 which didn't work either. also tried upgrading to 2.6.35 kernel which didn't work either.
I'm running a toshiba satellite a505-6030 with an i7 core, nvidia graphics gforce 310M. i didn't have to pass any arguments to grub either . First boot seemed to stall, rebooted machine, and it's been working perfectly since.
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Sep 7, 2010
So I was testing to see what would happen if I tried to open a root shell in recovery mode, WITHOUT having first activated the root-user account (I only installed the system two days ago). I used my ordinary password and was expecting to see something like "Invalid password" or some such message. To my surprise, I got a root prompt. Thinking that this may just be how it works with recovery mode, I tried logging out of my X session and logging back in as root, thinking (or at least hoping) that it wouldn't work. But it did.
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Oct 22, 2010
i'm running ubuntu 10.04 x86 on my laptop and the following problem occured recently; i made a mistake and tried to remove the monitors icon by finally removing more than i hoped for :/ BUT that didn't disappear the whole notification area...i was left with the wireless icon and the input language switcher so i can't restore the battery icon and the sound icon and the mail/chat envelope icon.
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Dec 1, 2010
I did this whole process, [URL] It worked, but I have missing pixels. I thought it didn't look as sharp as it should, but when I went to facebook which uses small fonts, I could see part of the letters missing. (@ 100%)... 1440x900_60.00...
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Dec 10, 2010
I've installed tucan on my HP Pavilion dv2800t with ubuntu 10.10.Megaupload download didn't starts or start later. If I try cut and paste link on Firefox I recives a message from Megaupload sites for more request by my ip adress and wait for download more minutes.The other downloads from rapidshare, hotfile ecc with tucan works fine.
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Jan 12, 2011
I am newbie in Linux and Ubuntu. Need qualified help I've installed Ubuntu on my first drive. And I have Windows 7 on second drive. At the begining the problem was that GRUB2 didn't see Win7 loader. I red GRUB2 manual and find solution which says to add some text to the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom. So I did this and here is my 40_custom content:
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#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
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Jan 15, 2011
I took a video of my laptop screen as I was trying to boot it. I've tried turning it off and on several times but still same thing happens. Will I be able to recover my files in there?
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Jan 27, 2011
i have openssh on my box with kubuntu 10.10, i didn't install it and would like to know it's purpose being on here
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