[Techtalk] Ubuntu and Windows Vista dual boot problems

Ricardo Dalceno rddalceno at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 22:11:11 UTC 2008


Try booting Windows , check the disk and restarts it...
It *may* works. But look.. Vista is not famous for its stablility

2008/4/25 Aneesha Govil <popcorn09 at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Aneesha
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