Posts Tagged ‘partition linux’

I am running Linux (ubuntu) on its own partition. I have the windows partition mounted and can read and copy files from it. However, it is read-only. I want to be able to modify files in it and copy files into it.

What open-source software is there for ubuntu linux that will do this? How do I install it and make it work so that the NTFS partition is editable and mounted?

I am running Linux (ubuntu) on its own partition. I have the windows partition mounted and can read and copy files from it. However, it is read-only. I want to be able to modify files in it and copy files into it.

What open-source software is there for ubuntu linux that will do this? How do I install it and make it work so that the NTFS partition is editable and mounted?

I’m trying to delete a partition on my Linux and i totally forgot the Authentication key or code or whatever.

I’m not familiar at alll with Linux.
I totally forgot what it was though! :<

I installed Linux and during the installation i left windows 7 in a different partition for transferring my stuff.Now i want to know how to make a single partition for Linux.Help me PLEASE.

How do I find out which partition number linux is running on?
I have five partitions, i found out with command prompt on windows.

On Windows Vista, i deleted the partition which contained linux. Now when I restart, I used to get a screen that allowed me to choose to boot linux, or other. I would choose other for Windows to load.

However, now I just get a command prompt from grub, and do not know how to get it to load windows. How would I tell this grub program to boot the OS (windows vista) on the machine.

Note: I barely used linux, so I’m a noob with that, and need some noob friendly instructions on what to do, thank you.
Thanx guys, from the other info i got, that appears it will work, also as a alternative to not having the vista disk, i found that I can type

root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

and that forces grub to boot my windows.

I’ve installed both XP and Mandriva on my laptop. The D: driver had 100G overall and I gave 80G to linux. Now I wan’t to install Ubuntu and remove mandriva. How can I restore the space to XP? I tried partitionmagic, Acronis and a bunch of other tools, but didn’t work.
I know ubuntu recognizes the linux partition but I want to restore it to XP then give it to ubuntu.

I am going to make a dual boot system and i was wondering what linux distribution would offer new things that windows dosent. It would be nice if the distribution was free. I was also wondering how much i should partition off for linux

I just installed Fedora on a separate partition from my Windows one. How do I boot from the other partition?

And if there is another way to boot from Windows back to linux, please tell me as well. Thanks in advance.

I’ve had a partition with a linux distro on about every computer I’ve owned. I will install the OS, do the updates, run into some compatibility issues and not bother any longer. How can I solve this?