Is it possible to make a partition when installing ubuntu so that I can dule boot xp and ubuntu without being able to get into xp first as my xp wont start due to bsod, so if I can make a partion on my hard drive I can access the xp partition and take out the files I need. then reinstall xp
View 9 RepliesMy computer recently crashed, and I am going to put ubuntu as my operating system rather than windows. When I got my computer, I had to reinstall the driver for the wireless card. Will I have to do that? If so how, and where do I find the driver? I have a driver recovery cd that came with my computer, however I don't know if that will work with anything besides windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAlright, here?s my deal (I hope ya?ll can help..):The Bottom-Line (Short-Version): I bought a couple PC?s with Ubuntu (Linux) installed. I need XP on it. My XP Install disc doesn?t work (error pops up), if I tried to partition the drive, I?ll mess it up for sure; what the hell do I do?What I?ve Done (Detailed-Version): I recently bought a couple computers (Dell Optiple X GX150) that originally had the XP OS on it; currently, Ubuntu (Linux) resides as the OS (which is a bad thing, in this case).I would like to uninstall/delete ?Ubuntu? and put ?Windows XP? (or any other version for this matter) as my main & ONLY operating system. I have a ?Windows XP Installation Disc? that I TRIED to use and install. I downloaded ?Wine? & ?Crossover?, each opens the .EXE on the disc and allows me to explore. In ?Setup?, it asks: ?What do you want to do?? When I click, ?Install Windows XP?,
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt might sound rather strange, but I need to install Win XP Pro over Linux Ubuntu. I plan on setting-up a dual-boot, but I need Windows to be installed first. When I try to boot from the Win XP Pro install CD (not OEM version, but complete Windows OS), I boot to Ubuntu. How can I launch the Win install and overwrite Ubuntu? Should I use http://dban.sourceforge.net/ to erase Ubuntu and then install Windows?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried using Ubuntu, uninstalled it, now i still see the .ini at start up
How do i remove it?
At boot there is an option that says" Pleas select operating system to start: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 27, 26, 25 secs....Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition There is only one, ONE partition on the drive. There is no other CDs present. I can only assume that Windows saw that CD in the drive & saw it as another OS. how do I remove the option for the non-existent XP? & how to I lower the time from 30 secs to 5 secs or eliminate this selection screen?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAt boot there is an option that says" Pleas select operating system to start: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 27, 26, 25 secs....Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition There is only one, ONE partition on the drive. There is no other CDs present. I can only assume that Windows saw that CD in the drive & saw it as another OS. how do I remove the option for the non-existent XP? & how to I lower the time from 30 secs to 5 secs or eliminate this selection screen?
View 3 Replies View Relatedinstalled linux on my hp mini 1010nr and erased the little partition that had sp 3 behind it. i bought an external drive to reinstall my win xp os but it says it can't install because it needs sp3, how do i fix this.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi tried to reinstall windows Xp and a error came up saying unable to start the partition . then when i press ok on the error it reboots my computer. i cant reinstall my computer
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a pc which is running with ubuntu i want to change my os to xp i thought it would be as simple as just getting an xp disc and getting it to boot up and write over ubuntu but i have seen xp advertised on ebay and the guy says i have to format my hard drive before i load the cd could anyone advise me how i go about this so i can get to the stage where i insert xp disc and install
View 11 Replies View RelatedI put Ubuntu on my computer along with XP Pro. I've run out of space for XP, so I'd like to delete or uninstall Ubuntu.
View 7 Replies View Relatedcan i run these two os at the same time on mz pc , i wanna switch between like i switching between my ie and firefox.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm currently running Ubuntu 7.04 and wanted to install Windows XP to play games on it but when I ran the installation cd, after everything loaded I got the blue screen. I tried formatting my hard drive and it didn't work either so if anyone could please help.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anybody knows a good way to install xp without loosing Ubuntu
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a dual boot system, XP loads from IDE (drive C), Ubuntu installed on another SATA HDD(drive D).
The problem I have is that the XP cannot connect to the internet but when I load Ubuntu, the system can connect to the net.
I installed Ubuntu (a popular Linux distribution) a few days ago. I had Windows XP. It was fine but I had very little RAM: 256 MB (-32MB of which is shared with the video card) with which Feisty Fawn (the version 7.04 of Ubuntu is called this - it is the latest) would run really slow. So my friend suggested I use a live CD of GNOME Partition Editor, create the partitions and turn the swap on before I started installing Ubuntu. I created 3 partitions of ext3 format on my 160GB Hard disc for Root, Home and Swap which were 20GB, 10 GB, and 1 GB respectively. I had not yet installed Ubuntu.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am currently using Ubuntu 9 as my Operating System. I want to load Windows XP instead. Do I need to format the HDD or will Wndows XP load over the top. Thank you in anticipation of a correct answer.Bigpom My Email is 81143@lizzy.com.au. Feel free to reply to that address
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 and want to delete it out of my computer. I Installed into windows xp. So i went to add/remove progs and uninstalled it. but when i restart my computer i get to the boot screen an have chose from xp or ubuntu? why is this? please help. I have partitioned 5 Gb for ubuntu how can I get it back and use it for xp? can i got to the file "boot.ini" found in C drive and erase the text where it says 'C:wubildr.mbr = "Ubuntu"' and change the value of partition from 1 to 0 in that file?
View 11 Replies View RelatedMy computer is really dragging after installing my new earthlink dsl can someone take a look at my hijack log i doubt all this is needed
View 14 Replies View Relatedhow do i go about installing windows xp on a machine that wouldn't even start. it says cannot find operating system and stays there with the underscore cursor flashing. i inserted the disk anyway an tried to run it usind DOS commans, but it says that the setup file can't run from the command window. is there any other way to do it or that's it the machine is gone.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to solve this for a few days now and I'm not having any luck. I don't have access to a PC running a windows OS or I'd just set up the flash drive there.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to get help with the following problem.I have a Toshiba laptop with Linux(UBUNTU) in it. I do not have any of those CD's and now I want to install Windows xp in this machine by removing UBUNTU.Is this something possible with out UBUNTU CD's??I have a Win Xp cd.Please help me out and let me know if I need to download anything to make this happen.If its not possible to remove UBUNTU please advise me if I can have Winxp along with that and have Dual OS.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi had Ubuntu (dual boot with XP), and i got both partions on 15GBs each, now that Ubuntu its gone, i thought that my XP would have back the 30GB it used to have but it doesnt, it still says it has the 15GB the partion used to have, and i deleted Ubuntu by using my XP disk and Repaired the computer doing the fixmbr thingy and i thought it was going to make it the way it was before, also, my floppy drive doesnt seem to work, it lights up, when i log in it seems like its trying to scan a floppy or something, and when i try to open up a floppy disk it freezes the window and doesnt let me work or anything.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi was having sum problems with ubuntu when i installed it onto my second hard drive(d).on my (c)drive i have xp pro installed and on the (d) drive i had nothing until i installed linux ubuntu so i decided to remove it and i messed up because before i uninstalled it i formatted that hard drive(d),and thought that should be ok coz it must have removed it,and i'm sure it did,but now every time i turn on my pc it gives me a choice of choosing a operating system either XP or UBUNTU,how do i get rid of the ubuntu on the startup i just want it to go into xp and not give me a choice,i have looked into it and every body says i should use the fixmbr in command in recover with the xp cd running and i did that but it still doesn't remove it
I tried to install Ubuntu onto my HD yesterday, and i ran into an issue during the install (i received a message that said the optical disk or hard drive had an error and that the instal would be aborted). So the Ubuntu install was aborted, and i tried to boot back into windows but received this message:
Quote: Load needed for kerenl:
ntoskrnl.dll
hal.dll
kdcom.dll I have tried to boot into safe mood with no luck. So i tried to do a repair from the XP disk i have, but then i received this error message:
How do I make the second partition, which includes all files from another hard drive, pretend that it is the main partition? I want to simulate the second partition being my main one for a while.
OR
How do I resize system partitions?
I have my Windows format disc and I want to create another partition with it. I tried to create one, but it said something like "You have no more space to create another partition because you used up all your space on your Windows primary partition". See, when I reformatted my computer a while back I just created 1 partition for Windows and applied all the space onto that partition.
If there is a way I could remove some space off of my Windows primary partition and create another partition with the space I removed. I want to do this so I can put general things in my other partition such as documents, music, etc. and just leave the other partition for Windows and programs.
What are the steps needed to access one of my partitions, delete it, then use 1/2 the space and apply to system drive and the other 1/2 to another partition?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI bought a new computer.It appears to have been partitioned into a NTFS format and FAT32 format.The default drive for my documents & my pictures etc is the NTFS which I have been using happily. It is Media Centre Edition so I also have a few large files (>4GB) - though I dont keep them long term.NTFS partition has fulled up - but I cant move my large files to other partition to free up space
I've done a little bit of reading but my question is "Should I reformat the FAT32 to make it more of use to me?".I cant really see the need arising to access older OS files, except .JPG's (photo's I had on my old Windows ME Comp) or "Should I move all my smaller files (documents and photo's) to the FAT32 partition and use the NTFS drive for the bigger files?"
My hard disk arrangement is C(primary partition FAT32)for Windows XP
D(extended logical FAT32) for non-os data (movies, pictures etc..)
F(primary NTFS) for Vista..
I am formatting F: and then C: through XP installation CD
(and C->NTFS from FAT32)
is this ok???
will D: be accessible after installing XP on C???
I would like to know if it´s possible to take free space from an extended partition and redistribute it to a primary partition using partition magic 8.0..both partitions are NTFS
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