Help - please

vixen1500

its installed on the hard drive - as once I took the disc out I got the ntldr missing message again.

But with both on I don't have any spare disk space

Need to clear up some space

Will sort out the screenshot shortly

Thanks

hardpowered

Okay then,

Do you know if you installed Ubuntu on a seperate partition, or the same one as Windows? e.g - Windows would generally be on C:, and so, Ubuntu will either be on the C: with Windows OR on another drive letter.

vixen1500

hardpowered wrote: »

Okay then,

Do you know if you installed Ubuntu on a seperate partition, or the same one as Windows? e.g - Windows would generally be on C:, and so, Ubuntu will either be on the C: with Windows OR on another drive letter.

how do I check on that???
:beer:

hardpowered

vixen1500 wrote: »

how do I check on that???
:beer:

Berr! Without seeing the computer I can't really say. :mad:

Load up Ubuntu WITHOUT installing it and then check the local hard drive. Lemme know what's there.

hardpowered

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

At post # 3 the OP stated:



I suspect the reassurance that the temporary use of Ubuntu to go online without an AV/firewall whilst trying to solve the problem of restoring XP would have been of benefit to the OP.

BTW



Ubuntu will not be on C: or any other drive letter for that matter, as Linux doesn't use drive letters, in the way you are implying. Nor will a Linux partition be allocated a drive letter when booted into Windows, which the OP can't do anyway, as Windows does not recognise ext3/ext4 partitions.

Accept my sincere apologies - I recently lost a pair of socks.

vixen1500

Hope this is what you are after

Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd9ebd9eb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2372 19053058+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 2373 2990 4964085 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 3648 3648 8032+ 1e Hidden W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda4 2990 3647 5278721 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 2990 3219 1839545 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3612 3647 282624 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 3219 3587 2951168 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 3587 3612 198656 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

vixen1500

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

BTW one of the benfits of using Ubuntu is you don't need to worry about Anti Virus and firewall if you are behind a router.

by the way thanks for that - it is reassuring to know

We are now getting used to Ubuntu also the office software that comes with it

vixen1500

this is what I see on Gparted and if I click on device




Hope you can see it clear enough as I ended up having to take a picture of the screen :rotfl:

vixen1500

are the above details - not what you asked me to do?

vixen1500

Thanks for your reply - had hoped it was the right information

I would of chosen option 1 - but as I have not got any available disk space left, I assume that I wont be able to save documents, pictures etc. Nor load any further programmes.

Options, 2,3, & 4 - I dont know how you wipe the disk

I know that I could re-install Ubuntu from the cd that I downloaded - would I be able to re-install windows from the system and recovery cd's?

googled Testdisk - but it does not mention Ubuntu in the list of operating systems - so would I be able to run it?

Once again thanks for your help

Vixen1500