• Trying to dualboot Windows 7 and Ubuntu
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So I shrunk my Windows 7 partition. Now I have a 450GB partition with Windows 7 on it and a 50GB partition for Ubuntu that is unallocated space currently. So when I go to the setup for Ubuntu, booted into using my USB flash drive, it doesn't recognise that Windows is there. It thinks that the hard drive, all 500GB of it, is free space. According to tutorials online, this shouldn't be happening. It should recognise the two different partitions. So I went into Computer in Ubuntu (Live) just to double-check and indeed all my Windows files are there and I can still boot into Windows just fine. So what's the problem now? [editline]3rd January 2011[/editline] Going into GParted, it also seems to think that the 500GB partition is just unallocated free space.
How did you shut down the computer when you booted into Ubuntu/GParted? NTFS hates being shut down from the power switch, and Linux is like herpderp it hasn't been unmounted properly I hate you.
I shut it down properly. Been trying to get this working for the past hour and it's pissing me off. fdisk will differentiate between two partitions only if I make a simple NTFS partition out of the 50GB space, but not GParted nor the Ubuntu setup. Otherwise it's just a big blob of unallocated space. Then I tried the usual fixes like w in fdisk and Partition Magic (which won't work anyway.) There's pretty much no chance that there's something corrupted unless shrinking this partition fucked everything up. Otherwise, this is a pretty new install of Windows so I didn't have the time to fuck around with anything major yet. Why does this shit always happen to me? :( EDIT: Fuck it, I'm going to just remove Windows. This is my laptop, so Linux will have to do. EDIT2: Unless there's some magical way to install Windows 7 after Linux is already installed.
Try Wubi
[QUOTE=Hookerbot9000;27214092]Try Wubi[/QUOTE] Thought about it but Ubuntu would run faster if I installed it normally.
Maybe your partition table got corrupted. Since resizing involves fucking with the partition table it might be the problem.
Indeed it was probably because I resized. I guess resizing is like Russian roulette because there are lots of people like me who got fucked over and lots who had no problems. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu. Got Steam and Wine working as well as Bluray through MakeMKV and VLC. But I feel like it's running not so quickly. I was always under the impression that Ubuntu was uber fast. So why does Windows load things faster? Why does the Software Center app take at least 5 seconds to start up? Chrome is instant on 7, why does it take a few seconds on Ubuntu? But meh, it's still pretty cool and it's a blast working with the terminal. Installation was weird. I installed using ext4 I think and the installation failed at like 90% but Ubuntu still booted and everything works. I'm still early into it so I can reinstall if necessary, so which filesystem would you guys recommend I use?
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;27222756]Indeed it was probably because I resized. I guess resizing is like Russian roulette because there are lots of people like me who got fucked over and lots who had no problems. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu. Got Steam and Wine working as well as Bluray through MakeMKV and VLC. But I feel like it's running not so quickly. I was always under the impression that Ubuntu was uber fast. So why does Windows load things faster? Why does the Software Center app take at least 5 seconds to start up? Chrome is instant on 7, why does it take a few seconds on Ubuntu? But meh, it's still pretty cool and it's a blast working with the terminal. Installation was weird. I installed using ext4 I think and the installation failed at like 90% but Ubuntu still booted and everything works. I'm still early into it so I can reinstall if necessary, so which filesystem would you guys recommend I use?[/QUOTE] I was having the same problem. Chromium fixed it. Check in the Software Center.
Chromium? Didn't a member from FP make that? Or am I thinking of something else?
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;27223230]Chromium? Didn't a member from FP make that? Or am I thinking of something else?[/QUOTE] That's the OS. There's an open source version of Chrome called Chromium as well.
Hahaha don't use Wubi.
Right, so an update: I've decided to go back to Windows 7. :/ Here's why: Bluray. It doesn't work on Ubuntu that well. Streaming with MakeMKV and watching given a network URL in VLC isn't a proper experience. RAR. Tried to install functionality, for some reason it got stuck on "Applying Changes..." which pissed me off. Creative MB drivers. Pretty much useless under Ubuntu because of lack of support. Mouse drivers. Pretty much useless under Ubuntu because of lack of support. Can't connect to University's Wi-Fi without manually installing certificate. Overall user experience. Everything is about workarounds and getting things to sort of work. It's difficult to use an OS that has next to no public recognition and thus very limited support. Speed. Believe it or not, Ubuntu seems to be quite slow on my laptop. Maybe I installed it wrong but that's how it's been for the past week. I've noticed that earlier versions of Ubuntu, whilst quite less user-friendly, ran a ton faster. I fear that maybe the devs behind Ubuntu are starting to load it with a ton of stuff, making it slow. I mean for fuck's sake, the built in mail app takes 12 seconds to start up. Seriously? Maybe OpenSUSE is the next big thing? Or maybe, again, I just installed it wrong and am bitching for the wrong reasons. Mostly though, I'm not trying to say that there's a problem with Linux. But a problem with myself. I just really tried to like it, but my very limited knowledge of it and generally being clueless about how to perform x left me pretty impatient and annoyed at my laptop. It's just not for me, I guess.
I find all of this surprizing, ubuntu is supposed to be the newb distro. It has a ton of commercial support and is supposed to be very compatible with pretty much any computer out of the box. In terms of speed though, I see where your coming from. Ubuntu is going in a very poor direction unfortunately. Although it runs okay on most computers it's not the speed-beast like most linux/unix distros. I recommend you use an equally popular distro, your next best bet is linux mint. It has all of ubuntus software and driver libraries along with a nice smooth and speedy flavor to most(Hell I run a full mint 10 distro on my netbook, it's awesome). Plus mint has alot of derivatives, along with a debian-only version. [url]http://linuxmint.com[/url]
It's not so much that I didn't know how to do things (and if I didn't, there's always Google,) but that doing things is slightly more annoying. And some things can't be done at all, like seamless Bluray. Again, it's not a problem with Linux, but a problem with my strict requirements not being compatible with what Linux has to offer. As for Linux Mint...what about OpenSUSE? Any opinions on it? I got a magazine here and they're fucking praising it as if it's the second coming of Christ.
did you use wubi or something?
[QUOTE=SA Spyder;27324897]It's not so much that I didn't know how to do things (and if I didn't, there's always Google,) but that doing things is slightly more annoying. And some things can't be done at all, like seamless Bluray. Again, it's not a problem with Linux, but a problem with my strict requirements not being compatible with what Linux has to offer. As for Linux Mint...what about OpenSUSE? Any opinions on it? I got a magazine here and they're fucking praising it as if it's the second coming of Christ.[/QUOTE] Hm, haven't really investigated fedora-based distros that much(Me being a debian/arch fan myself) but it's foundation is solid and earned it's praise. If you want to try it go ahead. [editline]10th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ButtsexV2;27331511]did you use wubi or something?[/QUOTE] He said he knows wubi's a bad choice.
UPDATE: Holy fuck openSUSE is the second coming of christ EASY CUSTOM DISTRO HELL YEAH
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;27344546]UPDATE: Holy fuck openSUSE is the second coming of christ EASY CUSTOM DISTRO HELL YEAH[/QUOTE] I've always been an openSUSE fan, but it's surprisingly neglected by desktop users. Perhaps the connection with SLED puts people off, even though (as you have seen), they are completely different.
May give OpenSUSE a spin on my desktop. At least I already have a few different partitions there so I don't have to shrink anything.
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