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OK you have some good ideas. I'm wondering if I can even get a video card for a regular PCI slot - I've seen some high powered ones that may outpower my MB. They've got HDMI and stuff. (Just need a...

I thought Linux could run on old stuff.

Can this card work?:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/GX2 (rev 04)

(It actually is more unstable!!)

Thanks for your help.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

BTW, I have another card if that helps. The nVidia has cooling fins. The other one does not (Cardex)

Have installed Ubuntu 11.04 next to XP. Video is balky - system is slow. Mouse conflicts too?

How to configure card and monitor? Don't even know how to decipher chipset.
Using Acer flat screen...

OK,good idea -- change the title.

I marked the thread as 'solved' because I have learned so much about what is possible with Ubuntu and the forum. I believe my hard drive is damaged, and have not restored windows as I had hoped, but...

Whew !

My odd-ysey continues...

Thank you for pointing out my mistakes.

YannBuntu, You are patient in directing me to the correct procedure. This was after having a failed boot and...

Thank you for your help in all this.

YannBuntu, thank you for suggesting that option, but I do not know how to install the file ending in .deb
Correction: somehow it is already installed. I did...

Still trying to mount windows partition rw:

I got some code from killerbees -- he suggested umask


dave@dave-desktop:~$ sudo umount /media/windows
dave@dave-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o...

Sorry,

I'm having difficulties:

Here is fstab: (not there)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for...

I need to make the windows partition writable.
I understand that I need to unmount it and remount it rw.
Now, I can't do either - "not in fstab" or "busy" or "already mounted"
When I umount...

I tried gksu nautilus and terminal hung -- reboot, back to normal.
When this command was invoked, my home folder only showed one folder (desktop)...
I discovered that the ntldr file on my windows...

Thank you,

Oldfred, when I typed that, strange things happened. Terminal showed hash table warnings and that table still has one element at quit time. 'Eel-warning'
My GUI home directory only...

I've had a chance to try your ideas:

WIn98 fdisk /mbr did not work. Nor does safemode.

After testdisk boot sector 'fix', I almost lost the ability of my Linux to see the windows partition. ...

OK you guys are great!
That looks like a lot of fun, trying to replace those boot files. Thanks for all the good advice.
I'll keep you posted in a couple of days.
Thanks alot. It's nice that you...

Thanks oldfred,

Testdisk was, needless to say, a little difficult to navigate the first time.
Where are you suggesting that I access these three files?
boot.ini I have seen, and it looks like it...

Thank you for that info. But testdisk just finished analyzing and it said:
"Hard disk seems too small! Check HDD size, jumpers, bios ETC."

tHEN IT SAID
The following partitions can't be...

Well, I finally am trying testdisk. It is reporting so far that:

"Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 240 (NTFS) != 255 (HD)

It is continuing to analyze cylinders....

If this means...

BIOS says one HDD. (WDC WD2000BB-00GUA0)
I have DVD drive as secondary slave

I think what may have happenned is when I was trying to increase the size of the linux partition during an install,...

OK you guys - thanks for keeping this going.
I really do have only one HDD in there, after removing the 10GB slave. The fact that there is an sdb there (in fdisk) is what makes me think that this...

Oldfre,

This falls under the category of beating a dead horse....

I removed my 10 GB HDD and here is the fdisk output. There is only one disk in there. I'm pretty sure that the cause of my...

Oldfred, or any other contributor --
Maybe you can decipher this output of fdisk, now that I learned I had to be root:
sda1 looks like it has a near duplicate partition named sdc1, but since it...

Thanks oldfred.
So if I want to pursue the problem of accessing XP on this drive, I would try one of those methods, then that would destroy grub, at which point I would run the ubuntu CD again and...

Thank you for the reply - my troubles started because I only had a PowerSpec recovery disk - not XP startup. The disk did not recognize my system. Alternative methods did not work either like...

Thank you all for your help. It will take me a while to absorb this info - as of now, I cannot answer these last questions.

I do have good news though. When I attempted the Ubuntu install, I was...