RikkiUW
January 25th, 2009, 04:38 AM
Hello all. I decided I could not call myself a computer geek without some sort of Linux experience, so installed Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop.
I didn't have any problems with my laptop, it resized the partition and installed perfectly, but it didn't recognize the existing partition on my Desktop. I ended up using Acronis PartitionExpert to resize the partition and install Ubuntu on the newly created free space. Ever since I have trouble logging into XP. It starts loading and explorer freezes when my AV program (NOD32) starts loading. I end up having to stop and restart explorer.exe, often multiple times, before it unfreezes, then I have problems because not all of the processes/startup programs have started. The wireless service not starting is the biggest problem/inconvenience. This happens every time I try to log in. I have performed a repair of XP and done a disk check in case PartitionExpert messed up my partition, and am still having problems. Ubuntu works perfectly fine, it's just XP that's screwed up. Does anyone have any suggestions before I reformat XP? Doing that would be really, really inconvenient.
Microsoft really aught to learn how to play nice. Thanks in advance for any help.
--Rikki
I didn't have any problems with my laptop, it resized the partition and installed perfectly, but it didn't recognize the existing partition on my Desktop. I ended up using Acronis PartitionExpert to resize the partition and install Ubuntu on the newly created free space. Ever since I have trouble logging into XP. It starts loading and explorer freezes when my AV program (NOD32) starts loading. I end up having to stop and restart explorer.exe, often multiple times, before it unfreezes, then I have problems because not all of the processes/startup programs have started. The wireless service not starting is the biggest problem/inconvenience. This happens every time I try to log in. I have performed a repair of XP and done a disk check in case PartitionExpert messed up my partition, and am still having problems. Ubuntu works perfectly fine, it's just XP that's screwed up. Does anyone have any suggestions before I reformat XP? Doing that would be really, really inconvenient.
Microsoft really aught to learn how to play nice. Thanks in advance for any help.
--Rikki