I have just got a new Dell inspiron laptop which comes with windows 7. I wanted to setup up a windows 7/ubuntu 12.04 dual boot system. I used a USB stick which has a copy of ubuntu 12.04 64 and booted from the USB stick. It took me through the installation process (which involved partitioning the hard disk o make room along side of windows).
So I wanted to format my old laptop which used to have Ubuntu 10 on it and Windows 7 (32 bit I think).
I downloaded the latest version of ubuntu and set it up to boot from a USB drive.
I have installed Windows7 and ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot mode. after installing i have connected my MTS modem(dial up modem) in ubuntu. It worked finely. Wen I booted my laptop in Windows 7 mode,modem couldnt connect and no website could open.
What can I do to alleviate the situation?
Before, my desktop pc has Windows Xp, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 11.04 ternary-boot systems installed on one hard disk. Last night I deleted whole Ubuntu partition by accident and then messed up Windows configuration files. Nothing could be more terrible!
My laptop is Dell Inspiron N4030. I used to use Ubuntu 12.04 and it was on the entire hard drive. I tried to install windows 7 but my laptop couldn't install it. So, I decided to delete the entire hard drive and do a fresh install of Windows 7. But after deletion I immediately removed the gparted live usb which I was using to delete the partitions of my hard drive.
I got a new laptop(Samsung NP530U3C) which comes with 24GB of a SSD and a 500GB hard disk. I installed Ubuntu on the SSD and made a ext4 partition on the hard disk for saving media files. Boot loader got installed on the hard disk as BIOS doesn't let me to boot from the SSD.
Everything worked fine until I deleted the ext4 partition on the hard disk.
I recently installed Ubuntu on my PC dual-booted with Windows 7. After rebooting it went through the usual startup screens, but the OS selection screen never shows up. I cannot get either system to boot.
I have formatted the partition holding the Ubuntu to no avail and I really don't want to get rid of Windows.
I am currently stuck using the Live session disk to boot.
I had a very hard time to dual boot install Ubuntu 12.04
Apparently, Ubuntu has restriction of 4 partitions and I already had 4, so it just couldn't recognise my partitions. This was something I realised too late, but finally got to install Ubuntu.
Now, even though Windows 7 option is listed when I try to boot my laptop, it doesn't really let me boot and just loops back to begin.
I am trying to install my first linux software, ubuntu 12.04.
I got an iso image of Ubuntu 12.04 from a pc magazine dvd. I first burned it using imgburn on a clean new cd-rw. Then i deleted a 40 gb partition to make it free. I booted from the cd, Ubuntu came up, selected install option followed by install along windows 7 option.
It did not ask me to slide..
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