it has ubuntu 9.10 with linux and i have no clue how to work it at all. i want to install windows xp pro but it wont read the cd. i dont know if its just my disc drive because it wont read any disc. how to delete the partitions or anything. and it also has a password on it so i cant install any programs.
View 8 RepliesI've installed Ubuntu on my Pavilion dv4. I did not, when doing it, delet the other partitions. But now I want to. How can I do it without reinstalling it all?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Edgy on hda1, Mepis on hda2, and Hardy on hda 5 in extended part 4. Right now I can't back-up to any external drive because they won't mount. My file system on hda1 can't be checked ( i believe because of a bad UUID which I have not been able to resolve). I have been using hda1-edgy as my main system and mepis-hda2 as a back-up. But when I installed Hardy I lost my UUIDs. My resolve for this is to try to delete Hardy (hda5) leaving hda2 and hda1-edgy so that I might at least be able to mount a removable to backup hda1. then I'll reinstall edgy, Hardy...and so on until I get to something that is current. At least that's my plan thus far. But before I do any of this I need to find out where GRUB is loaded. It is not with hda1 but would like to put it there. (Is this what- Active- means in Gparted?) Any suggestions on how not to loose my current files on hda1-edgy while reinstalling?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed GParted Editor on Ubuntu. I'm looking at it. There's 4 partition selections, all apparently deletable. The problem is... I don't know which partitions are Windows. Therefore, I don't know which to delete.
None says Windows. There's the word label at the top. I do see DellUtilty and DellRestore under label on two partitions... and pretty sure my computer is a dell. Are the latter two windows and therefore can be deleted? The two remaining partitions, are Linux?
I installed Ubuntu using Wubi alongside Windows 7. There were some updates that screwed things up because I didn't lock some packages and Grub or something get deleted. Anyway that got screwed up so I went into Windows and ran Wubi again. It went fine, someone told me to lock certain packages, so updates what cause issues again.
The problem is when I turn on my computer I have the choices of Windows 7, Ubuntu, Ubuntu. The first Ubuntu that got screwed app still apears there and I believe is still using the 18 gigabytes I allowed.I really like Ubuntu and I would like to install it for real with a my Flash Drive.I understand the instructions but did not do it yet because I don't know how to remove all these previous installations. Here is a link to Gparted and Disk Utility showing paritions:
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Can I delete the ext and swap partitions from disk management on windows 7 ? Because I want to install a fresh new copy of ubuntu 10.10 . I know it would affect windows 7 boot up.I can handle it by system restore Anyway can I do it or not ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have F14 live on a USB stick and the PC boots fine from this.Now I want to install to the HDD but I need to get a handle on the existing partitions.I don't need too much space for linux, can I delete the 3rd and 4th partitions (D drive and EFI partition) and add my linux partition in this space?Investigation so far suggests that the EFI partition is not used and the D drive is empty.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi just installed ubuntu yesterday (dual boot) and ive finally decided i wanted to wipe windows xp off my hard drive first of all i know how to delete partitions and such but then i went to g parted and saw all this crazy info (screenshot posted) im really confused and down wanna end up ruining my installation.
But what i want to do is remove my xp installation merge the empty partition with my linux partition and then rebuild the grub2 config file.
i want to boot windows from grub loader and delete linux .Is this possible?or can i keep only /boot partition so that windows boot from grub prompt i want to boot windows from grub loader and dont want any linux partitions on my machine.Is this possible?or can i keep only /boot partition so that windows boot from grub prompt and delete rest of the linux so that i can get all free space.it is not possible for my system to get windows boot loader hence i want only grub boot loader to load only windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a windows box running w2003 server on 1 volume with 2x ntfs basic partitions. c: = the windows bit, d: = the data bit for user data.I have cloned (clonezilla) the volume to another and deleted the data (d bit and want to extend the c: into the freed space.I'm booted from a partedmagicv5 cd and using gparted to attempt this.I can't see a way to do this with gparted but then, I could be thick. Maybe I clone off reformat and copy back?Is there a better way or even is this the correct forum (please don't refer me to Microsoft website:-) for this type of question?This is a test box so not worried about breaking it, but the test is to try to solve a live problem at a school I support which is running out of hd space.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have vista and opensuse 11.2 on my computer, the problem is i can't open ext3 partitions from vista but i can the other way. I tried Ext2fsd but the linux partition is always in a read only mood even when i change this option. Also, all folders are empty I downloaded the program as admin and compatable with XP SP2.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI tried to search the internet for this, a program that deletes files in the computer. However, I can't find one.What happened to me is, I clean up folder files individually. I was hoping that a program where, if there is a file that should be deleted in a lapse of a particular time, it will automatically do so.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Fedora 12 x64 on my 27" iMac 10,1. I have tried both the installation dvd and the gnome live cd (both x64 i did not try the x86). On the installation dvd I get as far as the menu giving me the boot/install options - I have tried to install both with a basic video driver and the regular install/upgrade option - both times it begins loading components for the installer program (/sbin/loader) etc. After it loads sbin/loader and mounts the partitions it freezes with half the screen being the terminal txt beforehand and the other half being just a standard fedora logo w/blue background. It is not much different when I try the live-cd the only different is it does the exact same thing when the timer for automatic login is done. Any possible command line arguments that I could use to stop the graphical corruption?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've just installed 11.4 and then updated to gnome 3. I've noticed that Nautilus doesn't appear to mount my windows NTFS partition. I find this odd because both Ubuntu and Fedora detect and mount it just fine in Gnome 3 (I've been trying all 3 this week).
View 7 Replies View RelatedI used Ubuntu before, without problems but since the 10.04 version it won't recognize my partitions. I formated my laptop and partitioned it, installed Windows 7 64bit, which I need for my work, and wanted now to install Ubuntu 10.04/10. I then used GParted to check my Harddisk and it is having troubles to recognize my partitions, too while Windows finds them. GParted is giving me an error message saying my partitions are oversized. I am still in the beginning of my Linux experiences and so I don't know what to do. I have two 250GB harddisks (how Windows recognizes them),
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Xubuntu 9.04 installation CD not detecting any of the current partitions. This all started when I reinstalled windows XP a few days ago.After, the computer wouldn't boot into GRUB and would boot directly into windows.Other threads have dealt with a similar issue, that of overlapping partitions causing libparted/parted/gparted to detect the whole drive as unallocated space. The problem in these threads seemed to be a corrupted partition table, in which the partitions overlapped with each other. So of course I checked the output of fdisk -l for overlapping partitions, but I don't see any obvious overlapping partitions. I've noticed that the partition that used to be linux swap isn't showing up in the partition table at all. I might just be missing something simple here and would like another set of eyes to help me figure this one out. Does the problem have anything to do with the partition table being out of order (ie. not in order of what regions they cover on the drive)? From the liveCD I've run
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sudo fdisk -lu
sudo sfdisk -d
sudo parted /dev/sda print
and have received the following output:
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ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo fdisk -lu
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
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I am installing Ubuntu on the same hard drive as Windows 7. The partitions of Windows 7 have already occupied the left part of the hard drive. From left to right, the Windows partitions are one partition for Windows booting, one for Windows OS and software installation, and one for data which is planned to mount on Ubuntu. I was wondering how to arrange the order of partitions of root, home and swap, i.e. which is on the left just besides one Windows partition, which is in the middle and which is on the far right?
View 1 Replies View RelatedInstead of moving to trash, how can i make the delete button delete? Delete is already enabled on the right click menu.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSO after using Testdisk to recover some images, the folders recup_dir.1 & 2 have saved in my FIle System area, when ever I try to press delete noting happens. I have also tried rm -f -rrm -f -fIt still dont delete, I have also deleted my user account and made a new one, but the files are still there.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use an old box as backup server. I have tried a couple of possibilities along the lines of:
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rsync -a --delete --progress --log-file=/home/$USER/info.txt -e ssh /home /etc root@192.168.0.106:/mnt/back
The problem is it does not delete files that has been removed from my local system?
I run the command as root on the local system.
(I realize I should properly not ssh into the server as the server's root but I'm having trouble with the permissions and I want to make sure everything else works before messing around with it)
I'm running WIN 7 and trying to dual boot with 11.2--the install goes fine until I get to partitioning. Then I get this message: Del windows partition /dev/sda1 Resize impossible due to inconsistent FS try checking FS under windows.Del/dev/sda3 Del Windows /dev/sda5.Then it wants to install extended, swap and root. I tried to resize the partition prior to intalling SuSE with paragon partition manager which failed.Could someone tell me how I should be setting up the partitions on install please.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to migrate from Ubuntu but I'm stuck at partitioning part of the installation... The problem is that the partitions are not recognized (I have NTFS + EXT3). I see only /dev/sda and it says it's unpartitioned When installing Ubuntu I had similar problem and I was solving it by removing dmraid.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhy is there no Delete when I right click like there is with Windows in ubuntu? Pretty much everything else is there like new folder and so on Is there some way to add it? Also why when i delete something does it not ask me if I am sure that i want to delete that file?
View 6 Replies View RelatedAlright, so I've been reinstalling OSes quite a bit lately, mostly Linux distros. I decided I wanted to play a game that I had that only worked in XP, so I cleared a partition for it and installed it there. I figured I'd be able to reinstall GRUB2 later and get back into my Ubuntu install - and even if I couldn't, my home folder was stored in a separate partition so it wouldn't be lost...
...well whoops, that was a mistake. When I booted up the live CD, GParted showed that entire hard disk as unallocated space. Disk Utility's output shows everything but the Ext4 partitions (and displays some ridiculously large amount of unallocated space near the end). Fdisk gives me this: code...
From what I've read while searching about this, the Windows install screwed up my partition table... but I haven't yet figured out how to fix this. My two Ext4 partitions are missing (though my one Ext3 partition is still there)... does anyone have any advice?
I can still read my Ubuntu partition (/dev/sda5) in the terminal, but not through file managers, and the partition where my home folder was stored is just missing altogether - exactly the opposite of what I intended when I created it. =/
I want to install ubuntu 9.10 on my HP nx9420. I left 48GB of unallocated space in between of windows and hp recovery partition. I attached screenshot of GParted. I need to make /dev/sda7 the home partition.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my Desktop and I am unable to see any partitions when trying to install I also checked to see if the partition manager would be able to see them and no luck there either.I already have windows xp and OpenSuse installed on the hard drive.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi am now downloading the ubuntu 6.10 iso file its gonna take a hour i would like to know how u install it i know how to use disk utiltity to burn the iso file i just need to know how to install it My mac is a emac - 1.42GHz - 512Mb ram - 3 partitions in hd - 80gb mac tiger - 60gb - mac leopard -20gb Ubuntu I just need to know how to install it
View 6 Replies View Relatedhow to partition. I was getting sick of having to backup my data every time I had to reinstall Ubuntu, so someone recommend that I partition my hard drive so that I could store all my personal files ( documents, music, and vidoes ) onto the seperate partition. However I don't know how to do this. Furthermore when a new version of Ubuntu is release I always pick the install on the entire hard drive so the partition i installed would end up being deleted. How do you install Ubuntu by manually specifying the partitions.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to duel boot win 7 and ubuntu 10.10. I have been dealing with this all day and cant figure out what's is going on. I create the partitions in windows and then reboot using a CD but when I go to select a oartition ubuntu do sent see any partitions its a totally blank drive. I have even wiped the drive totally and tried fresh install of windows and then creating partitions', even booted into the live CD area and it still dosent see any partitions just a blank drive. What am I doing wrong, or what is going wrong to cause this?
Running windows 7 x64 trying to install 10.10 x64
I may have asked this before on ubuntuforums but I got no reply, can I delete all the contents of my iPod Nano 5g and install a Linux OS capable of playing music and videos onto it?
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