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**Bartender** · 12-12-2007, 01:48 AM

What happens if you go back to BIOS and set it to boot from the original HDD?
Does Windows still come up OK?

You could try unplugging the Windows HDD, install Ubuntu to the second drive, then plug them both back in and see what happens. What you describe sounds like it shoulda worked...

12-12-2007, 01:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	Re: Cannot mount selected partition. What happens if you go back to BIOS and set it to boot from the original HDD? Does Windows still come up OK? You could try unplugging the Windows HDD, install Ubuntu to the second drive, then plug them both back in and see what happens. What you describe sounds like it shoulda worked... Last edited by Bartender; 12-12-2007 at 01:51 AM.