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vicky3p
May 22nd, 2012, 08:31 PM
Guys I've installed windows 7 with ubuntu 12.04 lts and both are working good.... the only issue i have is that whenever i boot into ubuntu...at booting it says...
The disk drive for /windows is not ready yet or not present. continue to wait ,or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.
After pressing S it boots n works great....but it shows the windows system reserved partion and if i click on it....it mounts...
what i want to do is get rid to that annoying message and hide my windows system reserved partion...
I know it has to do something with fstab but i'm new to ubuntu so don't want to go messing about things..
THANKS for your help in advance This is my fstab...




# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=8e5b0c69-2c42-4e11-9991-73da7a7aae3c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f074d97f-2309-44e7-a397-25a5f7e98e3b /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /windows was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=FECA-7D83 /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=0ad1446c-5d05-490a-9aea-e6dbf0ac2019 none swap sw 0 0

oldfred
May 22nd, 2012, 08:39 PM
A # will convert a line to a comment, so lets do that first.

# backup current version
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
# edit fstab
gksu gedit /etc/fstab

Add # to front off the line with the /windows entry and save


# /windows was on /dev/sda6 during installation
#UUID=FECA-7D83 /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1


If Windows 7 it has to be NTFS not fat so that may be part of the problem.

Post this also
# Find your UUID:
sudo blkid -o list

darkod
May 22nd, 2012, 08:40 PM
This line in fstab seems to be mounting a FAT32 partition:
UUID=FECA-7D83 /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

If you don't want to mount it at boot, simply delete it or put # in front. The # sign makes it non-executable, that way you can still keep it in fstab in case you want to enable it again in future, but temporarily it will not be executed.

Morbius1
May 22nd, 2012, 08:50 PM
but it shows the windows system reserved partion and if i click on it....it mounts...
what i want to do is get rid to that annoying message and hide my windows system reserved partion...Excuse the interruption but there are 2 different issues here.

** Something is wrong with the vfat line.

Wrong UUID ?
No /windows directory created?

** The System Reserve partition is showing up in Nautilus as mountable.

Create a line in fstab for that partition and make sure it doesn't mount at boot:

UUID=200C11850C1156DE /mnt/SysRes ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0Run the following command to get the right UUID number:

sudo blkid -c /dev/nullAnd create the mountpoint:

sudo mkdir /mnt/SysRes

vicky3p
May 22nd, 2012, 08:50 PM
ok i added # infront of #UUID=FECA-7D83 /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

it got rid of the message at startup but system reserved partion is still there n i want to hide or not to be shown in ubuntu...

vicky3p
May 22nd, 2012, 09:15 PM
OK added the line UUID=7C7C735D7C7310DE /mnt/SysRes ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0
and it worked...system reserved is now not shown in ubuntu...Thanks guys..