I've been trying to boot ubuntu 12.10 and keep receiving error messages. I have tried boot-repair and got this link as a result. http://paste.ubuntu.com/1334606/
Can anyone help?
I've been trying to boot ubuntu 12.10 and keep receiving error messages. I have tried boot-repair and got this link as a result. http://paste.ubuntu.com/1334606/
Can anyone help?
I'm sort of having the same problems. I started using Ubuntu at 4.10 but it's been a few years since I've had it.
I used the option "install alongside Windows" and now for some reason I am not able to even see the GRUB menu. And I can't remember how to fix it.
For whatever reason, the screen won't show anything at boot up, it's like the screen isn't connected to the computer at the time the GRUB is showing so I don't know what to do to get back to my Windows partition.
Windows 7 is no longer on that machine. Basically at first I used the 'something else' option to install ubuntu alongside Windows 7 which didn't work at all. Grub wouldn't boot and Windows 7 kept giving an error message about not finding the operating system. I tried boot repair and everything which didn't work so I deleted the windows 7 and the ubuntu partition using the live CD and tried installing just Ubuntu which got me to here.
Your script is showing SFS partitions which is dynamic Windows partitions. Dynamic partitions are Windows proprietary, does not work with Linux and does not even work with some Windows repair tools.
Dynamic volume is a Microsoft proprietary format developed together with Veritas (now acquired by Symantec) for logical volumes.
You may be use a third-party tool, such as Partition Wizard MiniTool or EASEUS to convert a convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk without having to delete or format them.
I've never used any of these and so I can't be sure they will work.Be sure to have good backups as any major partition change has risks.
Microsoft's official way to undo dynamic partitions is total backup, erase drive create new basic partitions and restore data.
SFS converting:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...asic-disk.html
Post 96 using sfdisk - must have only 4 partitions
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...c-disk-10.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044
You get dynamic partitions by using Windows partition tools to create partitions when you already have the 4 primary partitions. Best to only use Windows partition tools to shrink the Windows partition and use gparted for creating extended and logical partitions.
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i was in a similiar situation with one of my laptop. it had a similiar kind of partition scheme, what i did was as posted by 'oldfred' .
in simple terms-
took a backup of everything , installed EASUS partition manager,
erased disk and created a partition for win7 at the beginning of disk as a primary partition.
booted through ubuntu live cd and created an extended partition after the win7 partition with ext4 fs and other logical partitions inside it for different mountpoints /, /home, swap etc.
shutdown and reboot with win7 disk and installed win7 on the first ntfs partition.(win7 created another partition for boot, automatically.
after win7 was successfully installed booted ubuntu disk and installed it with option 'something else' and selecting the extended partition and its mount-points for installation . i also selected the 'device for bootloader installation' normally 'sda' if you want to install both the OSs on the same primary disk.
at the end it was succesfully set-up as a dual boot.
The main problem is I can't get access to either operating system so can you use the EASUS partition manager from a live CD and do it all from there?
I have never used it, but I believe it has a full CD/ISO download on it software page.
It seems both vendors are converting to only having the dynamic conversion in the paid upgraded versions, not the free version. There may be other places that still have to older free version available for now.
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The .exe version is intended to be installed into Windows. You need the full ISO or liveCD version.
It looks like you have to get the Full Edition of the current version they offer.
If you are sure you have everything backed up, and your logical partitions still match your physical partitions, test disk may work. I would delete any unused partitions or if just a little data back up and delete as the fewer partitions you have to convert the more likely it is to work.WinPE bootable disk and Linux bootable disk are only available in Full Edition. Check WinPE bootable disk VS Linux bootable disk.
Posts by oldfred & srs5694
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1705481
SFS converting:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...asic-disk.html
Post 96 using sfdisk - must have only 4 partitions
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...c-disk-10.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044
Also used testdisk
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1675420
Used testdisk but see caveats in Post#7:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1669418
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