Ubuntu :: Updating Windows Vista Under Virtual Box?
Jan 20, 2011
Ubuntu noob and a noob question. I have Ubuntu 10.10, Virtual Box OSE 3.2.8, which I've used to install Windows Vista. Why you ask? Believe it or not the intranet system my work uses doesn't run properly under Ubuntu. Warning message pops up saying so.
My question is, as I need the copy of Vista to run Internet Explorer (may download the Windows version of Firefox as I'm already fed up with IE) I don't need any of the extras like Office etc. So do I need to update Vista? Is it worth downloading the secuirty updates?
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Oct 31, 2010
I am using virtual box with Guest OS Linux Mint on Host OS Windows Vista.I want to log in as 'root'.I typed 'su' at the terminal, then it asked for a Password
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Mar 18, 2011
I 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).
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Nov 18, 2009
i 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.......
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Jan 14, 2010
I got windows 7 32-bit on my laptop (While having kubuntu 9.10) and I've been using microsoft virtual pc for 2 years now and I got 7 on my desktop and it runs like it did back in vista but why can't i run it inside 7 on my laptop?
It didn't work before on my desktop but eventually did
I tried windows virtual pc but neither of my computer will run it!!
every time i click it it says this program is blocked due to compatibility issues
According to the compatibility center from microsoft, it say it's compatible and requires no action.
see for yourself: [URL]
PS: I use virtual pc to run windows 3.1, 95 and 98
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Feb 3, 2010
how to use CTRL-ALT-DELETE on a virtual Windows machine on my Virtual Box?
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Aug 14, 2010
Can I copy my virtual box VM windows XP virtual-machine files to another Linux computer and run the machine on that computer while I keep on running it on the original computer?
This question is about technical possibilities, not licences.
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Dec 1, 2009
I installed fedora 12 as second os along with ulimtate vista on 64 bit machine.
I was able finish the install and boot to fedora first time. but after updating the software , i am unable to boot into fedora but am able to boot in to vista.
I am using a HP Pavilion HDX9000 notebook series. it has 2 100gb hdd. vista is on c and fedora is on d. boot info was written to MBR on C drive.
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May 7, 2010
I 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].......
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Oct 14, 2010
I 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
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Feb 2, 2011
I just installed Ubuntu alongside windows vista and now cannot reboot windows
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Feb 14, 2009
I am an inexperienced Linux user, I have tried Knoppix and Ubuntu in the past. Since we use Fedora servers at work I have wanted to try Fedora for some time and I tried running it in a virtual machine.My virtual machine is Sun VirtualBox and my OS is Vista Ultimate. Everything worked well until it was time to decide where Fedora is to be installed.Alright, screenshot time yet? This is where I hit the wall, the screen where you select installation drive/partition. The field is greyed out as you can see.
I have prepared a partition, at first I formatted it in FAT32 but because I didn't see it in the installation screen I just re-formatted it in NTFS.Installing with virtual machine should be working? Why is the field grey? What to do? Is it because I have mounted the dowloaded disc image instead of burning it?
I have a 64-bit architecture AMD processor with 2GB RAM and have tried Ubuntu 64-bit in the past, is there a 64-bit version of Fedora and would that be better or worse for me than 32-bit version?
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Apr 10, 2011
I have a problem. Today I updated from 10.10 to 11.04 and it looks really cool. However, I also have Windows 7 on a different partition. When I restarted after I updated, GRUB looked different. Also, when I tried to boot to Windows 7, the screen would go blank (like it was restarting) and it would just bring me up to the GRUB menu again. I really need to get back onto Windows 7.
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Sep 10, 2010
I 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.
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Jun 2, 2011
My goal is to install Windows 7 on a virtual machine running on Ubuntu. The Lenovo machine came with Windows 7 installed, but did not come with a boot disk. What are my options? Should I ask Lenovo for a disk? Will I need to purchase Windows just for the virtual machine?
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Jul 7, 2011
I have currently have a PC with 16GB of RAM. I will be running multiple virtual machines using VirtualBox. Would I get the best performance from running the VMs on a Linux host, or a Windows host?
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Jun 22, 2010
Windows won't boot on Grub after I just updated Ubuntu. I tried to follow the solutions to other people who have had similar problems, but I can't get them to work for me. I am assuming you will want to see this code...
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Jan 7, 2010
I currently have this laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 installed on it. A buddy of mine wants to buy the laptop from me but doesn't want Ubuntu on it instead he wants Vista on it. I have a 4GB USB stick and want to use it to do a clean install of Vista instead of the preconfigured Vista that is on a Recovery partition on the harddrive.
How to install Vista from USB but unable to find one with directions on how to copy the DVD or source files for Vista onto the USB within Ubuntu and still make it bootable.
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Jan 23, 2010
I want to install ubuntu but before I install I want to know if I can keep my old windows vista or if I want to get my old windows vista back if I can.
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Jan 23, 2010
Does ubuntu use less resources than windows 7/vista? what exactly does this mean? when i'm using ubuntu, my laptops gets somewhat hot, but when i'm on windows 7, it doesn't.
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Mar 9, 2010
I found this to be interesting reading for comparing Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP.
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May 3, 2010
when i was downloading for more than 5 hrs. of ubuntu netbook direct in my dell inspiron 1525 ...after installing ubuntu in my laptop dell 1525..when i uninstall it..the message appeared like this
ubuntu uninstaller
error exucting command >>command=c:windowsystem32cedit.exe/delete {8dc828b3-0aa7-11df-b760-001d09417130}/f
>>retval=1
>>stderr=an error occured while attempting to delete the specific entry.
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May 31, 2010
I messed up my computer and now I can't boot into Windows Vista or Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (I have yet to acquire a 10.04 Lucid Lynx disc, my connection's too slow to download and I'm apparently ineligible to request any more CDs through shipit). I think I accidentally deleted Grub 2 as I get the grub rescue> prompt and my 9.10 LiveCD no longer works properly (it says "Authentication Error" and then goes to the log-in screen).
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Jun 19, 2010
can i install windows vista on a pc that has ubuntu 10.04 on it already. ubuntu takes up the whole disk. do i need to do a partion and then install windows on that? what would be a good program to do the partion, and are there any tricks to doing it. thanx in advance.
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Jan 21, 2011
I want to switch back to windows vista for a while and how do i do this will a windows vista home premium upgrade disk work?
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Feb 24, 2011
What is the Windows Vista (loader) when you start your computer and have to choose the ubuntu or the other operating system your running. There are some other chioces too like ubuntu safe mode. But whats the loader? Ive never tried to use it since i have no idea what it does.
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Apr 5, 2011
Can I install ubuntu and turn it on and off to use windows vista on a 64 bit system?
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Aug 19, 2010
I have ubuntu 9.10 & windows 7 on my laptop. I have one 40GB Primary partition (C & 60 GB logical partition on my windows. I have given another 20GB for ubuntu.
I hibernated my windows7 & then started ubuntu 9.10. Then I copied a folder containing some PDF files from my ubuntu to that 60GB (D on windows. Then I rebooted the machine & choose windows from GRUB. the windows came up from hibernation but nowhere I was able to see that folder which I copied.
Since ubuntu supports (understands) NTFS file system it means when I copied that folder it should have updated the Directory Tree of NTFS on that 60GB (D but that folder is not shown.
When I restart the windows the folder appears (ofcourse because windows checks the file system again for consistency while in hibernation it does not).
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Mar 3, 2010
In trying to fix Windows suddenly not booting, I have arrived at the point where it does not even appear in Grub, and I cannot even begin to start it.
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May 5, 2010
I got this laptop today and decided to dual boot Linux, as I've been using it for a bit on an older laptop. I downloaded and installed Ubunutu 10.04, using the first install option to have it install next to Windows, and afterwards on startup I get 6 options: Whenever I try to boot with either of the Windows options, it goes to the Windows loading bar, then the screen goes black and the computer resets. I didn't make recovery disks. I already had Vista recovery disks and I did try that, but it said I wouldn't be able to restore the system with them. F11 on startup splashscreen does nothing.
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