installed ubuntu now no windows

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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hey - a mate told me that if i installed ubuntu and selected the 'guided' installation then i would be able to keep my windows partition and the disk would be partitioned further to allow ubuntu to install - now it seems that i cannot dual boot into windows. Im guessing the windows partition has been overwritten?
 
It is possible, what partitions and filesystems are listed if you "sudo fdisk -l"?

Also is Windows listed on the GRUB bootscreen? If so what happens when you select it, any error message?
 
i did the fdisk thing and all i got was something like

system
linux
extended
linux swappable


There was no windows in it or no windows in the grub menu either!
 
just my luck - im forever wrecking this thing! couldnt get my nvidia drivers to install on it anyways so im giving up for now! Will give it a blast sometime again when i have more time.

Now to reinstall windows....
 
Ack, that sucks... I hope you didn't have anything important on that partition.

Sadly it's not the first time I've heard that the automatic part doesn't work. I think it's an area that needs looking at, because when it goes wrong it's bound to really nark off the person installing it, and not really creating a good first impression.

The thing is the manual process ain't that difficult to use once you've got your head around what partitions you'll need to create. Give your friend a slap for suggesting you use the guided version ;)
 
If your planning on dual-booting at some point then my recommendation would be to create an empty partition in Windows for Linux to go onto- there is an option in the Guided install to "install onto free space" which should see this and use it and hopefully avoid accidents like this one :)

Unlucky dude, we've all done it at some point though so chin up!
 
The Ubuntu installer does need work, but it is getting better.

Manual mode is pretty good and didn't take me much time to work out, although if you don't know anything about partitions it will of course be a complete mystery :p

In future I would suggest installing Ubuntu to an entirely different HDD.
 
I second what SiriusB said, your better off with a separate drive for each. Also I don't think ubuntu is brilliant in setup, I've heard a lot of people overwriting the mbr even when the installer was instructed to install grub on the linux partition. Although that isn't a major prob.
Bad luck though mate it's all part of the learning curve. If I had a pound for every daft thing I'd done..... well I be pretty minted.
 
Bizarre, I set up dual boot on my machine with ubuntu/windows (mostly for WoW) and it worked perfectly first time, and I have never even messed with partitions before...

Seemed fairly logical, it had two partitions, one unformatted, one windows, then I selected the second one, it split into some crap (swap disk etc and main linux) then it just installed.

Then I just looked online for a quick script that mapped my windows disk in ubuntu, and I can use wine for all my windows applications, no problemo.

The only thing that was an issue was some episodes of an anime I had which were in real player format... not quite solved that yet.
 
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