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[ubuntu] No longer boots after trying to partition- going over to the dark side

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http://ubuntuforums.org – After 2 years of running Ubuntu I am about to format my drive to install Windows XP to run Ableton Live. I have tried Jack audio first but after a week of messing around trying to get my UA-4fx to work with Jack Audio, I scrapped that. I was hoping to dual boot Ubuntu 12 but when I tried to begin to format my partition using my old Ubuntu 11 live CD , fdisk failed. "error creating partition table" with a bunch of the output that I didn't copy and paste because I had not setup internet on the machine. gparted now read everything as unallocated space. Could no longer mount my har (Hardware)

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I had Windows 8 installed with 2 Ubuntu parititions in dual boot, everything running well. I hated Win 8 so I installed Win 7 over it by deleting my 80gb Windows partition and installing it in there.

But now I can't boot Ubuntu up, since obviously Windows has overwritten Grub.

I have a machine running ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 on dual boot.

Hi there!

I am attempting to dual boot Windows HPC Server 2008 on my existing Linux(Ubuntu) HPC machine. I know that Windows will wipe the MBR and I have the Ubuntu LiveCD to restore GRUB when that happens, but I am having some trouble with my disk partitions.

As of right now, when I boot into the Windows installation, it shows no disks available to install onto.

I have an extended 52-gigs partition that I can't seem to see from Linux, I can't mount it, delete it nor format it. How can I reclaim that drive back, I want the space.

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I installed F16 on a dual boot with W7. When I installed it, I shrunk my W7 partition down 100gb and installed F16 on that free space, giving 50gb to root, 40gb to home, and 10gb to the swap partition. Now, I just want to get rid of Windows.

Hello,

I have a partition that I resized using gparted from my ubuntu and after that I installed windows 7 on that.

partition 1: ubuntu partition 2: windows partition 3: unallocated

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partition 1: ubuntu partition 2: windows (bigger)

Now theres a bit of freespace left and I would like to resize my windows 7 partition to use that free space.

If I partition it from ubuntu with gparted, t

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