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Anyone? Thanks!

Btw, more on my friend's situation in case you're wondering why I don't simply reformat and reinstall the os partition.

I am swapping his mobo and cpu (his mobo's USB controller is problematic - a...

Hi,

A friend is having issues with his Windows 7 desktop (stopped booting normally & safe mode, keeps trying and failing to repair with Windows Repair), so I booted Ubuntu 12.04 via CD and can see...

Hi all,

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on someone's desktop a while back (WinXP viruses, yada yada). They just bought an Epson Stylus NX420 printer last week and asked me to install it. I managed to...

srs5694,

That was my original suspicion. I had set the raid flags myself (thinking gparted might need to be told this to work properly), but it is, in fact, a RAID 1 (mirroring) array of two hard...

Here's a screenshot of gparted, just ran it again. It retained the raid flags I set, but the red exclamation points are back, and clicking Information on each partition produces the error message in...

Hi Hedgehog1,

The SMART status of all partitions (under Peripheral Devices) and the disks themselves (under SATA Host Adapter) is "Not Supported," when Disk Utility is run either from the...

Hi mr_luksom,

Okay, unstable and strange behavior going on now. I got a red circle icon with an exclamation point next to sda1, sda2, and sda4, and ditto for sdb1, sdb2, and sdb4. Right-clicked...

New guy to Linux here again. I found some helpful advice here for resizing partitions, but it's just not working for me.

I have Ubuntu 10.10 and just upgraded my RAM to 8 GB (from 4 GB). Did...

That's what I do, though you definitely do need better quality hardware to avoid poor quality resolution and skipping.

Signed. However:

"It is also unfair that the only supported browser is Internet Explorer. Firefox has a considerable market share and is a viable alternative for Internet Explorer users."

This...

Hi Azdour,

Hmmm, I don't see anything that refers to Thunderbird or Firefox in the Update Manager. I can understand why Firefox is not in there (I have 3.1.16, the latest version of 3.6... 4...

Huh, is it my imagination or is Thunderbird supposed to autoupdate like Firefox does? I could swear it did this when I was using Windows, though I am not 100% sure. I cannot find any update...

Hi collisionystm,

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks cool, but I've grown very fond of Thunderbird and it's working fine now.

Btw, I'm actually using Thunderbird version 3.1.8, not 3.1.9. For some reason, I cannot find the update settings... no time to try this now, but I'll try updating Thunderbird and see if all is well.

f1r3br4nd,

Thank you! Works perfectly. All my calendar data came right up, no need to do anything but install the add-on in 5 seconds. I got VirtualBox to run correctly last night (nothing a...

Hi All,

Hope this is a good place for this. Mozilla's support forum... leaves much to be desired. So I thought I'd ask here first.

So I finally bit the bullet and installed Ubuntu 10.10 as my...

Well, I realized after I posted that if I removed BootIt NG, I'd lose access to my drive image on DVDs. So I managed to find an online help article that covered using BING with Ubuntu 7.04,...

Thanks Mark, I'll search for those, give them a try and report back. BootIT NG claims to work with many operating systems, including Linux distributions, and it does in fact recognize the ext3 and...

I'm still open to suggestions. But if I don't get Ubuntu up and running soon, I will need to abandon it and make alternate plans (which is unfortunate because I was looking forward to it). Anyone...

I tried setting the ext3 partition to active (my WinXP partition was active), but it made no difference; I still get a message stating the partition is not bootable, even after I restarted the pc.
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Anyone? I'd appreciate any help about possible causes from boot managers in general, or any other advice related to the problem. Or even just tell me what boot manager you use for your Windows /...

After three attempts, I finally got Ubuntu 8.10 installed without apparent error. I received a display error each of the first two attempts, one was a blue screen with text saying something like my...