Help on Lubuntu/Vista Dual Boot

[coolsonyeh]

i have a fresh install vista on an hp pavilion dv5 laptop.then i made a partition for ubuntu (which is drive D:). i just wanna try it out,and then uninstall it. now the problem is that when i delete the partition of the ubuntu using vista my vista wont boot,instead i get an error and the grub rescue terminal appears. so i restart the lappy went to system recovery and then the grub rescue terminal appears saying that my vista partition doesnt exist. so i reinstalled ubuntu just to boot and use vista. now ive googled for tips and solutions (i dont have a vista cd but it is embedded in my hd) and the best thing to do was to have a super grub disk. now the problem is i dont really know how to work around this. can anyone with experience in super grub disk fill me out on what to do first. i still have the Vista/Ubuntu dual boot.
thanks!!!

[coolsonyeh]

aw.the supergrub i dl'ed is not working hmn....

[coolsonyeh]

i just installed karmic and i think im gonna dual boot until lucid is out. consider this thread solved though i still cant figure out the way to work on the problem.googled everything i tried but nothing seems to work.

[Samhain13]

Doesn't the lappie come with the option to burn a copy of the Vista recovery disk?

[coolsonyeh]

doesn't come with burn option all it does is backup files.

[sasayins]

try here, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508927

[coolsonyeh]

thanks sir sasayin for the link...im gonna keep the dual boot until lucid release then im planning to use the entire disk then have it partitioned for windows.is it ok to install ubuntu first or should i rather reinstall vista and install ubuntu?

[cocoy]

For win + ubuntu dual boot.
I install the windows first then ubuntu.:)

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[coolsonyeh]

thanks sir cocoy.

[gariang]

hello there coolsonyeh, currently i am using vista/ubuntu dual boot. i think there is an option to install ubuntu inside windows wherein you don't need a dedicated partition for ubuntu. this is what i like about the feature in ubuntu. i have used ubuntu 5 or 6(i think) but i was not able to explore these feature, just the live cd. i am also a newbie in ubuntu but i have tried using ubuntu release 5 and 6 but did explore it well. so i think you should try using ubuntu inside windows.

[badrra]

I got rid of my XP and installed Jaunty sa ext3 Its the best. 2x ang bilis sa NTFS using WUBI.

[coolsonyeh]

hello there coolsonyeh, currently i am using vista/ubuntu dual boot. i think there is an option to install ubuntu inside windows wherein you don't need a dedicated partition for ubuntu. this is what i like about the feature in ubuntu. i have used ubuntu 5 or 6(i think) but i was not able to explore these feature, just the live cd. i am also a newbie in ubuntu but i have tried using ubuntu release 5 and 6 but did explore it well. so i think you should try using ubuntu inside windows.

thanks for the insight sir gariang. but i really want to have ubuntu on separate partition so i could really explore it.

[coolsonyeh]

I got rid of my XP and installed Jaunty sa ext3 Its the best. 2x ang bilis sa NTFS using WUBI.

paki explain further po.di ko na gets ahihi!:lolflag:

[badrra]

Dati kasi dual boot with XP using wubi. NTFS pa sya so what I did was install ubuntu and deleted XP partition all together. So ext3 na sya.

[coolsonyeh]

i see. im just waiting for lucid release then ill wipe vista out.thanks