Hi, y'all. I have recently tried to make a dual-boot system with Win 7 and Ubuntu, and, well, kinda failed.... *cries*
Well, I 'spose i should explain the problem, instead of standing around bawling my eyes out. Anyways, What I did was burn myself a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit OS to a CD, pop it in my drive, shrink my Windows partition down to make room for Ubuntu, and install it. The installation goes without a hitch, Ubuntu boots up fine, and all is well. Pleased with my work, i restart the computer, and enter into Windows, to fool around with some settings. GRUB pops up, and lets me select Windows. I walk away for a second, and *GASP!*, GRUB is back. Wondering what happend, i select Windows again, watch the startup screen, watch as a bright flash destroys all my hopes and dreams, and sends me back to the dark depths of GRUB. Disturbed, I try this a few more times. To my suprise, Windows only will start up about 1 of every 4 tries, while Ubuntu boots up fine. Dissapointed, I wipe Ubuntu off the face of the earth, and reset everything back to normal. All is well. Later, i install Ubuntu again using Wubi, but grow dissatisfied with the lack of hibernation, and decide to try my hand at partitioning for Ubuntu yet again. Armed with a little more knowledge on how to do such things, i make the windows partition smaller, create a very large partition for shared files, and leave around 40GB for Ubuntu. After another installation without a hitch, I am stuck with the same scenario.
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Does anyone have any idea why this would happen, and how to go about having it not happen? Cuz right now, Windows is .
And whatever anyone says about Ubuntu and XP, I love my Win 7.

Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit
Procesor: AMD Turion X2 RM-75
RAM: 4GB of whatever HP normally throws in their laptops
GFX Card: Nvidia GeForce 8200M

You de-fragged your hard drive before messing with the partitions, right?

Yeah.

computergeek wrote:You de-fragged your hard drive before messing with the partitions, right?

*Laughs immensely at inside joke* He definitely did.

Did you reboot after you shrunk it, but before intsalling UB? And if so, what happened? That should tell you whether or not it's Ubuntu or the partition.

Master_Ben wrote: *Laughs immensely at inside joke* He definitely did.
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Shuddup, Ben.

Nah, i went straight into Ubuntu after partitioning. I was impaitent. I fooled around with the windows partition, and this time it booted into windows fine on the first try, but that might've been a lucky coincidence.

Also, here's the layout i did have, and have now.
Old: [approx.]
Windows partition(75GB-NTFS)
Shared files/programs partition(175GB-NTFS)
Ubuntu stuff(40GB-ext4+swap in extended partition, made by ubuntu installer)
HP backup partition(10GB-NTFS)

EDIT: Windows failed to boot, same problem as last time. I don't think it's the partitioning, though, since the last time this happened, I fixed it by resetting windows' master boot record.
Unfortunatly, that got rid of ubuntu.

New: [approx.]
Windows partition(245GB-NTFS)
Free space(3MB)
Ubuntu stuff(40GB-same as old)
HP backup(10GB-NTFS)