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Linux broke Vista :(!!!!!! need help!

thespeakerbox

thespeakerbox

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I installed kubunt, and let it partition windows to 60% of the drive and itself on the 40% left.

Linux installed fine, but now when i try to load up vista, it just gets stuck on the loading bar 🙁

What should i do.
 
I'd make a full backup of any important data, then see if you can use partition magic or something to fix your partition problems. Vista is pretty fragile, so there's no guarantees of anything here.

FWIW, best results = multiple OS = multiple drive using bios to select which drive/os you want to load.

Multiple OS on single drive is problematic very often 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Arkaign
I'd make a full backup of any important data, then see if you can use partition magic or something to fix your partition problems. Vista is pretty fragile, so there's no guarantees of anything here.

FWIW, best results = multiple OS = multiple drive using bios to select which drive/os you want to load.

Multiple OS on single drive is problematic very often 🙁
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rule of thumb, always install windows first, then install linux.
 
Vista changed how it boots up, I wouldn't be suprised if the Linux distros haven't figured how to work it. Although it could just be Vista being retarded.

I don't know how to fix it though as I don't have Vista. :/
 
Originally posted by: drag
Vista changed how it boots up, I wouldn't be suprised if the Linux distros haven't figured how to work it. Although it could just be Vista being retarded.

I don't know how to fix it though as I don't have Vista. :/
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Lucky you 😉 I wasted several days of my life installing and testing Vista Ultimate on my C2D box, god I wish I had those hours back. At least I can troubleshoot for my shop now.
 
Originally posted by: drag
Vista changed how it boots up, I wouldn't be suprised if the Linux distros haven't figured how to work it. Although it could just be Vista being retarded.

I don't know how to fix it though as I don't have Vista. :/
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Linux and Vista dual booting works just like XP and Linux dual booting. I am booting Linux and Vista now. I was booting Linux and XP, I installed Vista clean on the XP partition, which them booted up into Vista only. Shut down, Use the Suse DVD to boot into Suse, reinstall the bootloader ( without editing anything ) into the MBR of sda. My GRUB Config file looks just like it did for XP.

Dual booting isn't hard or dangerous, you just have to do your homework first and keep back-ups just like not dual booting.

I think Vista is gagging because of the resized partition. I would try a repair installation of Vista. Then you will have to reload the boot loader GRUB or LILO.

pcgeek11

 
If you resized the partition, you could have messed something up.
Last time I resized a partition, I lose 4GB of mp3's because they got corrupted in some way (using Partition Magic to resize).
 
I just decided to make my laptop LINUX ONLY. 😀
I am so amazed by suse that i dont think i'll switch back to windows.

I'm pretty sure the error occurred when i let linux resize the partition vista was on.
 
Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
I just decided to make my laptop LINUX ONLY. 😀
I am so amazed by suse that i dont think i'll switch back to windows.

I'm pretty sure the error occurred when i let linux resize the partition vista was on.
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:thumbsup:

Awesome 🙂 And you don't have to worry about the damned thing deactivating you 😉
 
If you've ever seen a Windows machine defragging, you've probably realized that Windows doesn't align data in a very logical order to the hard disk. So having Linux resize the partition probably overwrote some files Vista needed. Once, my friend and i installed and configured NetBSD to a disk. We made that disk a slave and proceeded to install Windows XP on the IDE master. Somehow, Windows XP found the other drive during the install and formatted it NTFS without asking us. Not cool
 
Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
I just decided to make my laptop LINUX ONLY. 😀
I am so amazed by suse that i dont think i'll switch back to windows.

I'm pretty sure the error occurred when i let linux resize the partition vista was on.
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I've resized Windows partitions on more than one occasion and haven't had a problem like this. Unless Vista does something completely stupid that other versions haven't before (it wouldn't surprise me...) then you were just unlucky. A repair install probably would have done it.
 
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