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Go with what NikTH says.

Unplug 500Gb Windows drive.
Install Ubuntu on other drive. It will install Grub automatically.

Reconnect Windows drive.
As has been said Windows will not see Ubuntu...

No - you're good to go as you are

I'll just throw in my thoughts here.

If you are going to dual boot and get another hard drive. I would install ubuntu on one drive and windows on the other.

I think this way you will minimise...

Only thought I had (after the reinstall) was if you can run ccsm from terminal and check unity ubuntu plugin is ticked as working.

It might just get things working again.

I had exactly the same problem.

Had to do fresh reinstall in the end!

Same here with the post release update on the ATI / AMD driver

I'm sure this doesn't apply to everyone but if you have an ATI / AMD graphics card I suspect there is an issue with the driver.

I say this as my desktop is connected to my screen via a HDMI...

Have a look at the link below. A fairly comprehensive post installation guide to useful / useless software!
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Best go to 12.04.

Answer to second part of question depends on what software you have installed.

I'd go with a fresh install of 12.04. If your home is on its own partition then that might save...

Here's mine


00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard
Flags: bus master, fast devsel,...

Exact same issue here - would be grateful for any workaround - if there is one!

This is what I was looking for - I will try it when I get home

I will try this when I get back home. Looks like it wasn't as simple as I thought.

No wonder I couldn't get it to work! Thought I was being a bit dense.

I'm sure this is really simple but how do I configure my standard firewall using UFW to allow samba to communicate with my network hard drive.

If I turn off the firewall the network works just...

I've been using Handbrake Snapshot on 10.10 for a while without any issues but having not used it for a couple of weeks, yesterday when I went to rip a DVD it started the process but after a couple...

Odd thing about this problem is that initially when I installed 10.04 all worked well until one day when it didn't and I have no idea why.

Now I can't even see the login page I just get flashing...

Default nouveau driver and even that doesn't work on versions after 9.10!

Very happy to take any help.

Yes - boots with nomodeset and quiet splash but then get pushed into low graphics mode when reboot.

Graphics card is Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT

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For some reason my laptop will not play ball with Plymouth. I have managed to get it to work with 9.10 but without any graphics driver. If I install a driver all I get is vertical lines all over the...

Thanks for all your help. Found exactly what I was looking for here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1490708

For a while now I have done a separate root and home partition whenever I do a fresh install. This has worked well but I wanted something cleaner.

After some thought and reading around I would now...

I have a separate /home partition which has worked well with fresh installs but I have now also got a separate Data partition which I can mount on which ever flavour of Linux I choose to install.

Thanks for this solution

Thanks
This works for me!