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Linux Knoppixs Problem!!!!!?

Posted on November 17, 2012 | 3 Comments

I put the cd in my computer (the one that has the iso of knoppixs) and when I press enter to boot from cd the computer freezes after “starting cardmgr” is displayed also I am using a HP dv5250 notebook with windows xp media center edition please help.
i boot into the knoppix screen but when i press the enter button like it tells me then after several min i get the error

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URGENT – GRUB 1.5 will not boot Windows, just installed Ubuntu Linux 8.04. Help!?

Posted on July 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

I am completely new to anything that is Linux. I just installed Ubuntu Linux 8.04 from a Live CD to my computer a few minutes ago. Now, I wanted to boot back into Windows, and GRUB 1.5 will not let me. This is what happens: I restart my computer, I choose Windows XP Media Center after GRUB 1.5 lets me pick which OS to boot, and it says “Loading” and nothing ever happens after that. There is never even an error message that pops up. Only Ubuntu will load. How do I fix this problem? I installed Linux on the same drive where Windows was. Is it still there? You don’t know HOW much I would appreciate it if somebody could tell me an easy & understanable way how to fix this. I still have my HP Recovery discs, can I use those? Please PLEASE help. I’ll give more details if it is necessary…
Everything seems to work fine with GRUB 1.5, then I select Windows XP Media Center (which is the Windows OS I have), and *correction to what I wrote earlier, It says “Starting Up” but It never does. Should I just do an HP Recovery, please help I feel like I really screwed things up please be on the line.

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Troubleshooting a hard drive. Keywords: XP, repair, Symantec, drive letter, shutdown, NTFS, live CD.?

Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment

I tried to troubleshoot a Dell computer with the Windows XP media center edition. Windows appears to be starting up, but it reaches the welcome screen and stays there. I tried booting from a Symantec recovery disc from a Norton Systemworks Premier package in hopes of restoring the most recent settings, but the software couldn’t see the hard drive. I tried to repair the installation with a Windows XP OS CD, but it didn’t seem to see the hard drive, either. I thought I could at least leave an Ubuntu Linux live CD so the owner could access the Internet, and after it loaded, it could see the hard drive. I tried to click on the main partition, and the following error message was displayed:

Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume.
Details
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda2′: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.

There was more, but I’m running out of space. Is there any way to get back into Windows as it was?

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How much room for a partition with kUbuntu Linux 9.1?

Posted on July 28, 2010 | 3 Comments

I have an old HP Pavilion dv5000 with Windows XP Media Center ed, with an 80Gb Hard Drive. I would like to install kUbuntu on it. My questions:
-How much room would the Linux partition require, considering that I might add a few additional programs to standard kUbuntu?
-Does anyone know how kUbuntu handles the blue “fn” function keys from the Pavilion?
-Does S-Video out work properly with kUbuntu? I tried with the Live CD version and there was no way to put it to work.

Thanks all.

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