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Install inside windows as separate partition?

Asked by Willrandship@gmail.com

What I want is not WUBI. what I want is an installation that runs in windows, installs grub and everything, and I can boot into and remove windows. The reason for this is that I have an SATA drive that the live cd doesn't detect.

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#1

Did you checked https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM and if it is O.K check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/CDIntegrityCheck?action=show&redirect=CDIntegrityCheck
Maybe you can try http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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Willrandship@gmail.com (willrandship) said : 		#2

No, you misunderstand. The disk is perfect. I already installed it on another computer. Ubuntu 9.04 just has problems with SATA hard drives.

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#3

Try to change to AHCI in BIOS.

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Willrandship@gmail.com (willrandship) said : 		#4

There is no AHCI. I looked everywhere in bios and all I found was:

Legacy or native in ATA/IDE Does Nothing
S.M.A.R.T. Does Nothing
Enable SATA Makes it so windows can't see it either
Primary Channel Disables DVD drive.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#5

Simplest thing to do is use a virtual machine like this one :-

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox

Regards

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Yes, brilliant. Shankar's advice neatly deals with almost all the problems here. Also in this particular case i would consider using the Wubi at least until the mysteries of the partitioning could be solved. A Wubi is easier to migrate onto a separate partition than a virtual machine and also means that Windows wouldn't be hogging so much of the Ram. This makes it sound like i am saying the Wubi is a better answer which is not my intention, it's just another option worth considering in unusual circumstances.

Neither Wubi nor vmware would allow you to remove Windows and since Windows is the only OS that currently works well on your machine i would consider keeping it until you have had more chance to explore Ubuntu or other linux distros.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Willrandship@gmail.com (willrandship) said : 		#7

Yay, I found another workaround to my problem.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#8

Brilliant, nicely done :)
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)