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http://askubuntu.com – Hi im fairly new to linux, please dont be too hard on me. Im using Ubuntu 11.10 in a wubi instalation. As im using clementine tu listen to music i have in my partitions, each time i power ubuntu up clementine loses the librarys and has to rescan the partition all over again. a similar thing happens to Transmission bitTorrent client... each time i shutdown the computer and power it up again it loses the location of the files if they are in one of the partitions.... Is there a way to fix this problem? Is it normal? Thank you in advanced. (HowTos)

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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 in a wubi instalation.

As I'm using clementine to listen to music I have in my partitions, each time I power ubuntu up clementine loses the libraries and has to rescan the partition all over again.

A similar thing happens to Transmission bitTorrent client...

Recently i was preparing for a reformat of my computer as i do every now and then to keep the computer running well and... well it's sometimes a little fun to start from the start again.

This time i had a problem. I was backing my important files up to a 1TB hard drive.

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i am a newbie in ubuntu and am having a problem while installing it. installing with wubi, it says no root system is defined and if i try it using live boot it shows my hard drive as an entire free space with no partition while in actual, i have 3 partitions. i even deleted all partitions and created new partitions but it just doesnt work. help me please

So, this is my first time installing Ubuntu on my hard drive, and I'm running into some problems.

Until a couple of hours ago, I had 4 partitions in my hard drive:

XP, Vista and 7 installations, plus a data partition.

I backep up the XP and Vista partitions which weren't of any use lately, and booted a Live-USB with Ubuntu 12.04.

On the "Install 12.04 LTS" partition manager thingy I deleted

So, this is my first time installing Ubuntu on my hard drive, and I'm running into some problems.

Until a couple of hours ago, I had 4 partitions in my hard drive: XP, Vista and 7 installations, plus a data partition.

I have used ubuntu for almost 6 months full time at home while using windows for almost 6 years,so I previously used ubuntu on separate hard drive while I have one attached hard drive with partitions having NTFS file system so I used data from those partitions also. Now I want to again shift to ubuntu as I am a web developer and want to use ubuntu and I have a hp probook.

My laptop came with Windows preinstalled. I shrank the Windows partition and created a couple of new partitions to install Ubuntu in. I've noticed that reading my Ubuntu partitions is much noisier than reading the NTFS partiion.

I am doing a fresh install on my computer so I got a new hard drive and booted off the 32 bit installer cd. when i get to the 3rd screen it does not see any partitions. So i boot into the live disc and use gpartion to create the partitions manually but that still didn't work.

Please see the screenshots below.

I have a 320GB hard disk. I only use either ubuntu or kubuntu (12.04 for now). I don't want to use windows or any other dual boot os. And i need only 3 partitions on my hard disk. One for the OS and remaining two for data storage. I don't want to create swap also.

Now can i create all primary partitions on the hard disk. Are there any disadvantages in doing so.