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3 Hours Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Error when trying to access hard drive in Absolute Beginners Section

That's a bad thing to do, as that can lead to filesystem corruption in Win7 and Win8. What you will need to do now is run CHKDSK on your Win8...

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1 Day Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Ubuntu 12.04 or 13.04? in Recurring Discussions

Others have already mentioned this ... but I will emphasize this -- one major factor is the graphics chipset you have in your PC. Why? Because...

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1 Day Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread how to recover partition that got wiped in Absolute Beginners Section

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Mark Phelps replied to a thread Steam Performance -- AMD Drivers -- Ubuntu 12.04 in Absolute Beginners Section

My guess, since it does show that you are using the fglrx drivers, is that when you first installed the post-release drivers, that's when things got...

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2 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Can't Adjust Resolution on my Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller in Hardware

And we're just supposed to offer up suggestions and have you tell us you already tried them and they failed?? How about at least telling us WHAT...

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2 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Installation of drivers in General Help

Those are Windows drivers, and even if you COULD install them, they would not work (not would the utilities on the disk) -- as this is Linux.

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2 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Unable to load windows through grub in Absolute Beginners Section

IF you used the Ubuntu installer to shrink the Win8 OS partition, then you likely ended up corrupting the filesystem. Boot-repair MIGHT be able to...

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3 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread is there any good way to install iTunes with wine + vineyard ? in Wine

You'd be going to a lot of trouble essentially for nothing. iTunes doesn't work well with Wine -- even if you CAN get it installed: ...

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3 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread "Missing Operating System" in Installation & Upgrades

An alternative, which I personally use, is the Universal Installer from PendriveLinux.com. When you run it, choose the bottom-most option -- generic...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Wubi can't find my linux partition? in Installation & Upgrades

My advice is to stay away from Wubi at this point. Ubuntu 12.10 is the LAST version that will even support it, as it has been dropped from. You'll...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Error when installing ubuntu 12.04 in Installation & Upgrades

Are you trying to install to a PC that has Windows installed -- and is hibernated? In that case, it would most likely be using sda1 and won't let...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Is 30Gb the largest option during dual-boot install? in Installation & Upgrades

If you're going to dual-boot, then you need to do the following: Confirm that you don't already have the 4 Primary partition limit. To do this, open...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Ubuntu harder and harder to work with in General Help

Couple of comments ... I recently installed Linux Mint 15 on an SSD and can attest that presents no problems. Since that is based off Raring...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Linux Mint on an Acer netbook help in Other OS/Distro Support

First of all, you should probably post this in the Linux Mint forums -- because although Mint is BASED on Ubuntu, it is not the same --especially...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread easy way of d/l a bootable ubuntu 13.04 distro to DVD-R in Installation & Upgrades

First off, 12.04 is too large to fit on a "CD". So, trying to burn a CD is fruitless. Second, I've tried myself to burn a DVD of it, and every...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Win7 unable to boot after Ubuntu 13.04 installation in Installation & Upgrades

Did you mistakenly use the option in the Ubuntu installer to shrink Windows using the SLIDER? IF so, that most likely corrupted the Windows...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread have certain parts installed on separate drive? in Installation & Upgrades

If the suggestions so far don't work, you can force the Windows partitions to mount read-ony (by adding "ro" to the fstab mount parms). At least...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread how to restore the system to an earlier date? in General Help

Can't be done. There is no "time machine" or "roll back" capability built into Ubuntu. Sorry.

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Dual Boot Question in Absolute Beginners Section

You would think that the Replace option would only overwrite a single OS, or a single partition associated with an OS -- but posts here have...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Amd radeon ?HD 8750m? Grapics card Driver installation fail + NETGEAR WNA3100 in Absolute Beginners Section

I know you are new, but you would do better to keep each thread to a single problem. You will get better responses that way. As to the video...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Ati Radeon HD 6450 / Wine in Hardware

I wasn't aware that Wine installed any drivers, in fact, from what I knew, Wine was not able to install drivers. Lubuntu is not going to install...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Dellocating space from HDD in ubuntu. in Installation & Upgrades

I would not attempt to install Win7 to the FAT32 volume, as it requires an NTFS volume for installation. Plus, it's best to let the Window installer...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Ubuntu 12.04 and 13 are not installing with Windows. Help needed!! in Installation & Upgrades

If you're attempting to use the Slider in the Ubuntu installer to shrink the Windows OS partition to make room for Ubuntu -- STOP! Do NOT do that. ...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Should I dual boot or partition to run Ubuntu? in Absolute Beginners Section

Since you're serious about dual-booting with Win7, and appear to need to be able to still use Win7 afterward, be sure to read through the ENTIRE post...

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4 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread I no longer wish to support Microsoft by using their products in Absolute Beginners Section

Not only would you have to use it, more importantly, you would have to REINSTALL it, along with all your apps. VB is just an empty container, it's...

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5 Days Ago

Mark Phelps replied to a thread Intel graphics driver for Dell dimension 2400 in Absolute Beginners Section

I've been messing around with installs lately, and a parm that I found worked well with difficult video situations was "xforcevesa". You could try...

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