Selecting Ubuntu 8.10 Installation Partitions

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, John/Pat Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: John/Pat Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Selecting Ubuntu 8.10 Installation Partitions
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:00 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 11/30/08, W. D. Allen
> <ballensr at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> 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,
> >>
> >>     
> > 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;
> >
> > 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:
> >  
> >    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
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> I have a similar problem, I reinstalled kubuntu 8.04 and
> windows xp is 
> gone, it complains that "registry cannot load the hive
> file
> 
> 
I'm not familiar with the message and as said I'm no expert. But the same questions goes to you also. Does fdisk -l show any NTFS file systems. If so, you may still have a windows partition that could be saves. You might try sudo update-grub to see if it's picked up again. New users and people not experienced with partitioning software and the ubuntu CD need to pay attention to what the install process is telling and asking them or you can easily repartition the whole HDD. You wont know for sure what's on your HDD re partitions unless you look using fdisk or some other like gparted. If you want help on this, it's the first thing to post with your question.  HTH.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net