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**Bartender** · 05-11-2007, 04:45 AM

Well, sluggo, I think we're making progress.
Maybe.
I had to put my reading glasses on to read the fine print on your screenshot (good job, by the way, getting one) and I still wasn't sure I got all the details.

In the gray area that should be a map of your HDD, it says "76.33 GB unallocated". Under that, it says "Maxtor 5819, 76.33 GiB, dev/hda" All of that indicates a screenshot of a Maxtor 80GB HDD. You'll never see the full 80GB, by the way, so don't worry about that part.

It sure looks like the HDD is completely blank, at least according to GParted. No operating system or formatting at all.

Oh, hey, sorry, I sent you a link for dual-booting Vista. I forgot you have (well, had) ME.

I don't know what went wrong but it appears that the HDD has been wiped clean. The Ubuntu LiveCD deleted all data. It didn't re-format to ext3, the Linux file system format. Do you want to re-install ME and try again? If you have your original ME CD and broadband it shouldn't take too long to re-install, find latest drivers for your components, and update it. Download anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware first, and load those programs before going online.

This isn't necessary, but it's something you might want to think about...when I built a dual-boot from scratch, I had Windows make a second partition during the process of installing it. Then, when I put in the Ubuntu LiveCD, the partition was already there. I just pointed Ubuntu at that blank chunk of HDD and it did its thing. That was with Ubuntu 5.10, so the details wouldn't be very helpful to you.

Or do you want to install Ubuntu and take it out for a spin?

Oh, yeah, it's good that you have 512 RAM.

05-11-2007, 04:45 AM	#6 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	Re: dual boot ubuntu/windows ME Well, sluggo, I think we're making progress. Maybe. I had to put my reading glasses on to read the fine print on your screenshot (good job, by the way, getting one) and I still wasn't sure I got all the details. In the gray area that should be a map of your HDD, it says "76.33 GB unallocated". Under that, it says "Maxtor 5819, 76.33 GiB, dev/hda" All of that indicates a screenshot of a Maxtor 80GB HDD. You'll never see the full 80GB, by the way, so don't worry about that part. It sure looks like the HDD is completely blank, at least according to GParted. No operating system or formatting at all. Oh, hey, sorry, I sent you a link for dual-booting Vista. I forgot you have (well, had) ME. I don't know what went wrong but it appears that the HDD has been wiped clean. The Ubuntu LiveCD deleted all data. It didn't re-format to ext3, the Linux file system format. Do you want to re-install ME and try again? If you have your original ME CD and broadband it shouldn't take too long to re-install, find latest drivers for your components, and update it. Download anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware first, and load those programs before going online. This isn't necessary, but it's something you might want to think about...when I built a dual-boot from scratch, I had Windows make a second partition during the process of installing it. Then, when I put in the Ubuntu LiveCD, the partition was already there. I just pointed Ubuntu at that blank chunk of HDD and it did its thing. That was with Ubuntu 5.10, so the details wouldn't be very helpful to you. Or do you want to install Ubuntu and take it out for a spin? Oh, yeah, it's good that you have 512 RAM.