[Techtalk] Ubuntu and Windows Vista dual boot problems

[Vid Ayer]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Aneesha Govil <popcorn09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have a dell inspiron 1420. It was running Windows Vista earlier and
>  a couple of days back I installed Ubunru 8.04 RC on it. I did the
>  automatic NTFS resizing since originally there was only one partition
>  with 140 GB. I made a 20GB partition on which I installed Ubuntu and
>  the rest remained NTFS with Vista.

Probably different laptop manufacturers do this differently. Mine has
2 ntfs partitions for Vista.


>  The installation went fine, Ubuntu seemed to run fine. It was mounting
>  NTFS too. I tried downloading some files to the NTFS partition and it
>  all seemed fine.
>
>  Now when I booted into Vista, it gave an error saying that C: needs to
>  be checked for errors. It progressed fine, booted, etc. Now Vista
>  randomly crashes say when I am watching a video or downloading a file.

check for ntfs version supporting writing via linux. if dell has an
older version of ntfs it may only support reading and not writing.



>  Moreover, the NTFS partition would no longer mount on Ubuntu. It gives
>  an error saying that cannot mount NTFS partition because the logfile
>  says that it was not shutdown cleanly. It shows to be still in use...
>  blah blah.

try unmounting again,  sometimes things get strange... on my machine
the device name has changed after the motherboard was changed
recently. Not that it matters but ...


>  Can anyone shed light on what is wrong? Has the resizing messed the
>  partitions? Do I have any recourse except to format, partition, and
>  reinstall everything?

keep the windows rescue disk handy. Also for some reason an upgrade
does not seem to work for me too (ubuntu crashed twice when i tried
it) whilst a CD installation works well.

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