On 14 May 2012 20:41, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Many thanks to those who went to the trouble to help and guide me. I am
> now a little older and a lot wiser. Without doubt, the easiest way to do
> what I wanted is to open the box, disconnect the second drive, install
> the OSs, test, reconnect t
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Many thanks to those who went to the trouble to help and guide me. I am
now a little older and a lot wiser. Without doubt, the easiest way to do
what I wanted is to open the box, disconnect the second drive, install
the OSs, test, reconnect the second drive and close the box.
Norman
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ubuntu-u
On 14 May 2012 18:13, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 14/05/12 13:41, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> That is true and correct, AFAICS, but to be honest, it would probably be
>> easier just to reinstall. Norman: at a minimum, you need 2 partitions. I
>> suggest you shrink the Windows partition by about half and
> space on your windows drive. If it is vista or win7 then I would
> consider first asking windows to shrink ITSELF, you may get fewer
> subsequent problems in windows then.
>
this probably was already mentioned but i would defragment windows first. As it
doesn't need to fragment in ubuntu i o
On 14/05/12 13:41, Liam Proven wrote:
That is true and correct, AFAICS, but to be honest, it would probably
be easier just to reinstall. Norman: at a minimum, you need 2
partitions. I suggest you shrink the Windows partition by about half
and use the rest of the space for an Extended partition.
On 13 May 2012 21:20, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 13/05/12 21:03, Bill Baker wrote:
>>
>> Norman, please wait for further advice before trying my suggestion; but if
>> this was my machine I would now boot directly to Ubuntu from the live CD &
>> from there I would try "grub-install /dev/sda" [or sdx w
