candtalan
November 19th, 2011, 08:38 PM
I am starting with an XP laptop and aim to install Ubuntu 11.10 dual boot. However, the live CD 11.10 does not recognise the existing XP.
In Ubuntu live session, XP and its files are not indicated, and when I proceed to the install process, the option is offered as 'This computer has no detected operating system, what would you like to do' (then, erase?, or something else?)
Maybe there is something about this XP installation which is odd (or something about ubuntu 11.10??)
I am using only XP and no other OS on the machine initially because previous installs of ubuntu 11.10 on this machine have led to problems with the grub menu (XP missing.....) as used from the ubuntu 11.10 in what was at that time a multiboot machine, this xp and also ubuntu 10.04.3 (and then also 11.10, when problems were seen). No grub menu or xp recognition problems were seen when using Ubuntu 10.04.3 on this machine. Only with Ubuntu 11.10
Lubuntu live CD 11.10 does the same thing, does not see the XP os.
Ubuntu 11.04 live CD works ok, the live session mounts XP with no apparent problem and the install process offers to install alongside 'XP' so it is evidently recognised.
Has anyone installed 11.10 on an XP machine and found that XP is recognised for them?
I can find little about this apparent issue. I find it hard to believe that there are possibly so few XP-Ubuntu 11.10 situations or alternatively so few 11.10 installs on machines with XP existing that nobody has bumped into this. Or is something odd about my own machine or XP whatever?
tia
In Ubuntu live session, XP and its files are not indicated, and when I proceed to the install process, the option is offered as 'This computer has no detected operating system, what would you like to do' (then, erase?, or something else?)
Maybe there is something about this XP installation which is odd (or something about ubuntu 11.10??)
I am using only XP and no other OS on the machine initially because previous installs of ubuntu 11.10 on this machine have led to problems with the grub menu (XP missing.....) as used from the ubuntu 11.10 in what was at that time a multiboot machine, this xp and also ubuntu 10.04.3 (and then also 11.10, when problems were seen). No grub menu or xp recognition problems were seen when using Ubuntu 10.04.3 on this machine. Only with Ubuntu 11.10
Lubuntu live CD 11.10 does the same thing, does not see the XP os.
Ubuntu 11.04 live CD works ok, the live session mounts XP with no apparent problem and the install process offers to install alongside 'XP' so it is evidently recognised.
Has anyone installed 11.10 on an XP machine and found that XP is recognised for them?
I can find little about this apparent issue. I find it hard to believe that there are possibly so few XP-Ubuntu 11.10 situations or alternatively so few 11.10 installs on machines with XP existing that nobody has bumped into this. Or is something odd about my own machine or XP whatever?
tia