<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:20 AM, David Curtis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcurtis@uniserve.com">dcurtis@uniserve.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
wikiOn Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:13:12 -0700 (PDT)<br>
<div class="im">Bruno Diaz <<a href="mailto:b_d_r_i@yahoo.com">b_d_r_i@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> Hi,<br>
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> I had a problem on Xubuntu installed with Wubi and I don't know why this happened because I wasn't doing anything related to the partitions when the computer crashed. I was using the pc, it was running slowly and then I was not able to close any window because the desktop was not working... Thus I was forced to reboot the pc using PC off button.<br>
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> Then was impossible to boot neither Xubuntu nor Windows XP. I used partition magic to check error and noticed: "Partition improperly dismounted", but partition magic could not fix it. I tried to open the partition to save the data with Knoppix and Ubuntu but were unable to mount the partition. Then I tried to recovey the data but also was impossible. Finally I delete and format the partition, but I was not able to reinstall Windows Xp beacuse noticed hard disk damaged....<br>
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> What can I do? <br>
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</div>Sounds like the drive is toast.<br>
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> And for the future... Is there any way to close a window in Xubuntu when the desktop is not working? Like a reset Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows. <br>
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</div>In user space, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will immediately restart xorg, but only in Hardy and Interpid, this will be deprecated in Jaunty.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Will it? Aw... :( Why?<br><br>But anyway, the reason this happened (not the hard drive crash but not being able to boot WinXP nor Xubuntu) is because both were installed onto an NTFS drive (which is Microsoft's filesystem format) which isn't very good at handling this. The Wubi website warns for this - exactly because when something like this causes Windows to crash it will take Xubuntu down with it when installed using Wubi.<br>
<br>Thus, installing Xubuntu directly has preference because it can use Linux filesystem formats which are generall more tolerant to this. But of course, Wubi is a lot easier and since such a failure will take down Windows you'll be screwed anyway ;-).<br>
<br>Do, by the way, not take my word on this because filesystems really aren't my thing.<br><br>As for the actual question: Ctrl+Alt+Esc, if that doesn't work Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (as long as it isn't removed) and if that doesn't work the Magic SysRq key are great :)<br>
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But if xorg is really frozen and won't respond then a magic-sys-req [1] key sequence is needed, which talks straight to the kernel. Namely Alt-Sysreq-k.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key</a><br>
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David Curtis <<a href="mailto:dcurtis@uniserve.com">dcurtis@uniserve.com</a>></font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent<br>