Harry617
April 29th, 2011, 01:05 AM
Hi all. I wasn't sure where to put this. Sorry for the long title.
Yesterday my brother was pestering me to install Ubuntu 10.10
If it was an ordinary netbook I would have done this without a fuss. His netbook, however, was already dual-booting windows and android. He wanted me to install Ubuntu and remove android.
Here's the model:
http://www.cnet.com.au/acer-aspire-one-happy-339307276.htm
I said no. After much pestering and complaining I gave in. I used Unetbootin to put the ubuntu iso on usb, booted into it, checked everything was working and installed. Here's where my problem starts.
I probably should have went to the forums before installing. When the installer got to the part on partitions I had a long look at it. On the simple partition creator thingo every thing seemed, well, simple. Until I saw the note below the picture depicting the size of the partitions. It said: "Three smaller partitions are hidden. use the advanced partition manager to..." (Can't remember the rest). So I went to the advanced partition manager thingo. There were four partitions there already. Three of them were formatted as ntfs, one was formatted as FAT32. I believe that two of the partitions were windows and android, and the others were boot managing things that were made by Acer.
Confused I went bak to the simple partition thing and went ahead with the option it had as default, which looked right.
Now Ubuntu is installed, but when he turns on his computer it boots directly into Ubuntu, without going to the list of things to boot from which it does on mine. Now he's telling me that he wants to use windows because he had some file on there (What a douche). I said I might be able to retrieve the file from Windows from Ubuntu, by opening the windows folders. But I couldn't find them.:confused:
I need to find a way to get the computer to boot windows 7 and Ubuntu.
Can someone tell me what's happened, and how I can get it to boot windows as well? I'm really confused.
Thanks in advance!
Yesterday my brother was pestering me to install Ubuntu 10.10
If it was an ordinary netbook I would have done this without a fuss. His netbook, however, was already dual-booting windows and android. He wanted me to install Ubuntu and remove android.
Here's the model:
http://www.cnet.com.au/acer-aspire-one-happy-339307276.htm
I said no. After much pestering and complaining I gave in. I used Unetbootin to put the ubuntu iso on usb, booted into it, checked everything was working and installed. Here's where my problem starts.
I probably should have went to the forums before installing. When the installer got to the part on partitions I had a long look at it. On the simple partition creator thingo every thing seemed, well, simple. Until I saw the note below the picture depicting the size of the partitions. It said: "Three smaller partitions are hidden. use the advanced partition manager to..." (Can't remember the rest). So I went to the advanced partition manager thingo. There were four partitions there already. Three of them were formatted as ntfs, one was formatted as FAT32. I believe that two of the partitions were windows and android, and the others were boot managing things that were made by Acer.
Confused I went bak to the simple partition thing and went ahead with the option it had as default, which looked right.
Now Ubuntu is installed, but when he turns on his computer it boots directly into Ubuntu, without going to the list of things to boot from which it does on mine. Now he's telling me that he wants to use windows because he had some file on there (What a douche). I said I might be able to retrieve the file from Windows from Ubuntu, by opening the windows folders. But I couldn't find them.:confused:
I need to find a way to get the computer to boot windows 7 and Ubuntu.
Can someone tell me what's happened, and how I can get it to boot windows as well? I'm really confused.
Thanks in advance!