| 2007-03-22 11:02:57 |
Dean Moreton |
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I tried to install Edgy on a new laptop (Compaq Presario F503au) that came preloaded with Vista. I figured I would do my usual thing and just shrink the NTFS partition during install so I can dual boot. I don't remember getting an error message but it seems the resize rendered my Vista partition unbootable, it would just hang halfway through booting, and I couldn't even get into Safe Mode etc.
I smuggly grabbed my recovery DVD I made before the install thinking this would save me, but even that would hang during boot. Grub picked up the recovery partition but also no dice booting that. Couple that with the fact that HP/Compaq dont give you the Vista install media and xorg on Edgy now couldnt detect my screen after the install, I was left with one dead new laptop.
In the end I managed to to get the recovery parition to work by using the edgy live cd to delete the corrupted vista NTFS parition and recreating a new clean NTFS partition - I figured it would need a working partition to restore to.
Anyway after some quick forum searching I found these threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=386850
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383132
I thought more people might've experienced this - is it possible to confirm that resizing a Vista NTFS partition during install with Edgy will kill Vista? If so there really should be a warning on the download page for Edgy as more and more people will be getting Vista with their new machines (although Im aware this might help fix Bug #1 ;) ). Im hoping the new version of ntfsresize shipping with Feisty mentioned in Bug #86231 with a similar problem will fix this. |
I tried to install Edgy on a new laptop (Compaq Presario F503au) that came preloaded with Vista. I figured I would do my usual thing and just shrink the NTFS partition during install so I can dual boot. In hindsight I was quite naive, as no doubt NTFS has changed a lot under Vista. I don't remember getting an error message but it seems the resize rendered my Vista partition unbootable, it would just hang halfway through booting, and I couldn't even get into Safe Mode etc.
I smuggly grabbed my recovery DVD I made before the install thinking this would save me, but even that would hang during boot. Grub picked up the recovery partition but also no dice booting that. Couple that with the fact that HP/Compaq dont give you the Vista install media and xorg on Edgy now couldnt detect my screen after the install, I was left with one dead new laptop.
In the end I managed to to get the recovery parition to work by using the edgy live cd to delete the corrupted vista NTFS parition and recreating a new clean NTFS partition - I figured it would need a working partition to restore to.
Anyway after some quick forum searching I found these threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=386850
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383132
I thought more people might've experienced this - is it possible to confirm that resizing a Vista NTFS partition during install with Edgy will kill Vista? If so there really should be a warning on the download page for Edgy as more and more people will be getting Vista with their new machines (although Im aware this might help fix Bug #1 ;) ). Im hoping the new version of ntfsresize shipping with Feisty mentioned in Bug #86231 with a similar problem will fix this. |
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