Post by Shrouded Wolf on Sept 20, 2009 13:18:24 GMT -5
On my laptop, even when I was running Vista on it, I didn't have a single problem. Then I got the dumb-assed idea do dual-boot ubuntu 9.04 along with my windows 7 RC.
Alright, I know how the drill goes, so here are the specs:
-Intel Core2Duo T6400 Mobile 2.0GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
-4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
-250GB, 5400RPM Serial ATA HDD
Didn't think that anything else was needed, so I didn't bother typing the rest up.
Anyway, I had the Win7 RC running on it with about 50ish GB of free space on the HDD, got bored, d/led the ubuntu 9.04 live CD, burned it, and then rebooted, booting up from it.
There, I decided to make a 15GB partition (I was recommended 10-20), and since I didn't wanna fuck things over, I let the installer do the shrinking of the existing vista/7 partition and creating of the new one for ubuntu.
Install finished without problems in 15 minutes, I rebooted in ubuntu, everything seemed fine, rebooted in 7, everything seemed fine, rebooted back to ubuntu and that's where I noticeda problem.
The updater needed 430ish megs of space to d/l and install the updates for ubuntu, and it said I lacked that (even though I had about 10 gigs of space left after the install). So I did the recommended thing of cleaning out the trash and going to the terminal and running the sudo opt-get clean function. Still didn't work. Then I rebooted back to the 7 partition and went to my computer and it showed the total size of my HDD was a little smaller than it should be.
I'm no genius in math but the 250 gig HDD (well... ~238.4 or so actual space), when it loses approximately 15 gigs of space, it should have 223.4gigs left total. It only had 202.1gigs. I asked on FB, but the only thing that I got from there is that the partition didn't go "smoothly" and I lost a bunch of space.
Now... Is there any way to either
A) Fix the partitions so that I get my free space back and have a useable ubuntu partition or
B) Trash the ubuntu partition and go back to having only my Vista/7RC partition?
Hopefully I'd like to do one of those without having to nuke my HDD...
Oh and one more problem. Vista came pre-installed on my laptop. I have a serial/activation key, but no vista or XP disk/installer.
However, I do still have the recovery disks that I made way back before I upgraded to 7 RC if that help.
Anyway, please help!
Alright, I know how the drill goes, so here are the specs:
-Intel Core2Duo T6400 Mobile 2.0GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB
-4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
-250GB, 5400RPM Serial ATA HDD
Didn't think that anything else was needed, so I didn't bother typing the rest up.
Anyway, I had the Win7 RC running on it with about 50ish GB of free space on the HDD, got bored, d/led the ubuntu 9.04 live CD, burned it, and then rebooted, booting up from it.
There, I decided to make a 15GB partition (I was recommended 10-20), and since I didn't wanna fuck things over, I let the installer do the shrinking of the existing vista/7 partition and creating of the new one for ubuntu.
Install finished without problems in 15 minutes, I rebooted in ubuntu, everything seemed fine, rebooted in 7, everything seemed fine, rebooted back to ubuntu and that's where I noticeda problem.
The updater needed 430ish megs of space to d/l and install the updates for ubuntu, and it said I lacked that (even though I had about 10 gigs of space left after the install). So I did the recommended thing of cleaning out the trash and going to the terminal and running the sudo opt-get clean function. Still didn't work. Then I rebooted back to the 7 partition and went to my computer and it showed the total size of my HDD was a little smaller than it should be.
I'm no genius in math but the 250 gig HDD (well... ~238.4 or so actual space), when it loses approximately 15 gigs of space, it should have 223.4gigs left total. It only had 202.1gigs. I asked on FB, but the only thing that I got from there is that the partition didn't go "smoothly" and I lost a bunch of space.
Now... Is there any way to either
A) Fix the partitions so that I get my free space back and have a useable ubuntu partition or
B) Trash the ubuntu partition and go back to having only my Vista/7RC partition?
Hopefully I'd like to do one of those without having to nuke my HDD...
Oh and one more problem. Vista came pre-installed on my laptop. I have a serial/activation key, but no vista or XP disk/installer.
However, I do still have the recovery disks that I made way back before I upgraded to 7 RC if that help.
Anyway, please help!