- Aug 18, 2002
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Hey,
I'm not sure about making a bootable Windows, but I know Linux can do it. I'm talking about a fully operational OS environment and not a bootable installer. I can run Windows inside a VirtualBox VM within Linux, so any software that needs to be run that can't be done in Linux, can be done that way. So by having a portable bootable Linux USB with Windows in a VM, I can run virtually anything I need on virtually any computer on the go.
So I use unetbootin to install Ubuntu to a USB. It will boot up into the OS just fine, and I have the option to install it to the computer if I want. When I created the USB with unetbootin, there was an option to set aside a certain amount of space that wouldn't change across reboots. It wouldn't let me do anything more than 9999MB (I have a 64GB USB).
Once booted into Ubuntu, it sees a 4.6GB drive, and then my main 240GB SSD and two 1TB Blacks. I can't access any of them. If I click on them on the main vertical menu thingy, nothing happens. If I open a folder like "Home", and then try to click onto one of the drives from there, I get an error message saying that the operation is not allowed or something like that.
Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to get everything working and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.
I'm not sure about making a bootable Windows, but I know Linux can do it. I'm talking about a fully operational OS environment and not a bootable installer. I can run Windows inside a VirtualBox VM within Linux, so any software that needs to be run that can't be done in Linux, can be done that way. So by having a portable bootable Linux USB with Windows in a VM, I can run virtually anything I need on virtually any computer on the go.
So I use unetbootin to install Ubuntu to a USB. It will boot up into the OS just fine, and I have the option to install it to the computer if I want. When I created the USB with unetbootin, there was an option to set aside a certain amount of space that wouldn't change across reboots. It wouldn't let me do anything more than 9999MB (I have a 64GB USB).
Once booted into Ubuntu, it sees a 4.6GB drive, and then my main 240GB SSD and two 1TB Blacks. I can't access any of them. If I click on them on the main vertical menu thingy, nothing happens. If I open a folder like "Home", and then try to click onto one of the drives from there, I get an error message saying that the operation is not allowed or something like that.
Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to get everything working and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.
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