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need some help?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

ok heres what im doing. i’ve just downloaded linux and ran the live cd and im gonna stick with it. so i want to install it and i just bought a external harddrive (320 GB simpletech harddrive) because i dont want to partition my drive and i want to install it on the external harddrive, but i dont know if its bootable or not so everytime i boot my machine and the usb cable is plugged in it’ll boot up in ubuntu and vice versa. but if dosent work then i’ll just have to transfer my data to the external and partition my disk with majority of the space. i dont know if i eplained it well enough. i hope you get my point. thanks.

i have windows xp by the way.
ok i checked my bios, and i dont have the usb option, what do i do? should i backup my primary hdd to my external and partition my primary and install linux.

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Hello guys,any help would be so much appreciated!?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

I have windows xp preinstalled on my dell laptop in disc ‘c’,I have enough space on my disc ‘d’ and want to install linux there,so how can I do it? Do I need to partition? Is it automatically gonna be installed there (on disc ‘d’) when I boot with Ubuntu live cd? Am I going to lose my data and files on disc ‘c’ and ‘e’ if I install ubuntu this way?
Thanx lots.

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Hello guys,any help would be so much appreciated!?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I have windows xp preinstalled on my dell laptop in disc ‘c’,I have enough space on my disc ‘d’ and want to install linux there,so how can I do it? Do I need to partition? Is it automatically gonna be installed there (on disc ‘d’) when I boot with Ubuntu live cd? Am I going to lose my data and files on disc ‘c’ and ‘e’ if I install ubuntu this way?
Thanx lots.

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What and how do I install Linux on my old Gateway solo 2500 laptop?

Posted on April 14, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

I have an old laptop, it has no cds with it besides a “boot directory” floppy disk. When I turn on the laptop to boot from whatever is on that floppy, it say “loading windows 95″ then it says “no operating system found”. So I’m guessing I better try a different OS on the old lappy. So, I want to install linux, not just a live run version, full install, but 1.) What version of Linux would install onto the computer and 2.) How would I partition my hard drive if I can’t get into windows? All I’m at when i turn on the computer is the bios settings. BTW, only reason I’m doing this is to win a bet with a friend. I wouldn’t trade my Dell XPS for anything.

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How to repair the Partition Table of my Laptop?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

I have a HP DV9500 Laptop. I have 2 HDDs on it, but I can only boot from one.
I have Windows Vista on it. The initial partition table was something like that:
~140 GB – WIndows Vista
~8 GB – Recovery Partition

I split the 140 GB partition in 2 with the Kubuntu 7.10 partitioner. There was enough free space on that partition. I then proceeded with the instalation of Kubuntu. When Grub was installed it didn’t detect Vista. The problem is that Kubuntu doesn’t start-up and when I manually boot Vista it stucks at boot. It doesn’t boot from the Recovery DVD either…
Somebody suggested that the Partition Table is broken. I don’t have a physical bad on my HDDs, so the question is: How do I repair the partition table?
P.S.: I have access to my HDDs via Back|Track Linux Live CD. I can also access the terminal. Can I repair the PT with fdisk?(and how)

Thanks in advance.

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