Selecting Ubuntu 8.10 Installation Partitions

[John/Pat Heinen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Sun, 11/30/08, W. D. Allen <ballensr at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>> From: W. D. Allen <ballensr at roadrunner.com>
>> Subject: Selecting Ubuntu 8.10 Installation Partitions
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 1:12 PM
>> Removed Ubuntu 8.04, which had been installed within Windows
>> XP, before 
>> installing Ubuntu 8.10 in a separate partition. Using the
>> partition 
>> slider the two partitions shown were Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu
>> 8.10 with no 
>> Windows XP partition. I suspect the Ubuntu 8.04 partition
>> is actually 
>> the Windows XP  partition but do not want to erase Windows
>> XP.
>>
>> If anyone has had a similar experience some guidance would
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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> How did you remove ubuntu from windows XP. Using the add/remove programs menu as one normally does in windows, I hope.
> You might try fdisk to see what's on your HDD.
> >From ubuntu;
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> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda    usually it's sda but could be hda or something else. If you've partitioned then you know. The output will show all the disk usage including free space. Partitions marked NTFS are usually windows partitions and ubuntu partitions default to ext3 file systems. Perhaps you have already deleted the windows partition when you made the 8.10 partition. Can you boot into windows?
> Is the 8.04 ubuntu still there? In my HDD fdisk -l gives:
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>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1        1410    11325793+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2   *        1411       13568    97659135    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3           13569       20023    51849787+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4           20024       60801   327549285    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           59673       60801     9068661   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6           32959       39530    52789558+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda7           20024       26445    51584652   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8           26446       32958    52315641   83  Linux
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> Notice that there is no mention of $windose in the output, only under system you have 
> HPFS/NTFS, Linux and swap. The HPFS/NTFS partitions are Vista and Vista recoveru in my case.  HTH,
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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I have a similar problem, I reinstalled kubuntu 8.04 and windows xp is 
gone, it complains that "registry cannot load the hive file