dual booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/05/13 23:22, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 05:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 28 May 2013 06:11, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> As the OP states above:
>>>
>>>
>>> "I bought a new box with the Intel DB75EN motherboard that uses the
>>> UEFI standard and DPT partitioning for the hard drives.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, that is the problem. There is no such thing as DPT that I know of.
>>
>> -- 
> Sorry for the typo -- it's GPT, not DPT.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
> When it comes to booting, things aren't quite as simple as they used 
> to be.
>
> My original post on this matter probably included too much fdisk and 
> gparted data and was ignored -- so I simplified the story slightly 
> before posting again. Another mistake, as a detail I left out turned 
> out to be important.
[pruned]

Providing all details as accurately as possible makes solving problems a 
heck of a lot easier :-) .

BC

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