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I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if I have a major problem,
similar to yours, I always use an M$-DOS boot disk. The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does return volume labels (where they exist) on partitions. The thing is, without knowing which partition is which - you might be deleting the netbook's recovery partition - should it have one. My best guess would be : -: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB = RECOVERY PARTITION C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = UBUNTU PARTITION D: Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE ......so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB ....(unless you know different - that this is NOT the UBUNTU partition!) My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged in to C:\Windows while you are running Recovery Console, the partition before it must have been there before or at the installation of the C: partition - it has no drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a hidden partition - usually this means the recovery partition. That just leaves Partition3 (E So, as I said, unless you know differently, delete Partition3 (E using DISKPART then reboot back into the Recovery Console and check it has been deleted using DISKPART again. Then try : FIXMBR FIXBOOT C: ....once more...... At the end of the day, since I am 99% sure you have a (intact) recovery partition, as you are booting you should be seeing a message at the bottom of the screen, something like "Press F10 for recovery options " . However, should this be the case, and you use the NetBook's in-built recovery option - it will copy the factory-state Windows installation back to the C: drive - over-writing your old XP and all the data (music & videos) you may have stored there. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Carl" wrote in message ... On Apr 27, 5:25 pm, John John - MVP wrote: Carl wrote: Hi Tim - Back home. Started the netbook with the Windows Recovery flash drive. At the prompt typed FIXMBR C; and hit Enter No text appeared, it simply brought me back to the prompt You didn't do it right, FIXMBR uses the device name rather than the drive letter, for example: fixmbr \device\harddisk0 Note the double "dd" in the device name (hard+disk) To get a list of devices use the MAP command. If the syntax is correct you will get a warning message and you will be prompted to confirm the action. If you answer Y (yes) to confirm the action you will receive a message stating that a new master boot record was successfully written. If the syntax is incorrect you will be returned to the prompt without any message of any kind. You can also run the FIXMBR command without specifying any device and the MBR will be written to the boot device, here again you will receive a warning message and be asked to confirm the action. Fixmbr will surely dislodge the GRUB loader from the MBR, you just have to use the proper syntax. John Hi John - Thank you for weighing in. The MAP command returned this: ? NTFS 6150MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 C: NTFS 68653MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 E: NTFS 39621MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3 D: FAT16 963MB \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 What's the next step, gentlemen? Many thanks, once again, for your time and patience. Carl |
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On Apr 28, 1:20*pm, "Twayne" wrote:
PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. * *Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Thanks for weighing in, Twayne - You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD. Haven't had to copy that clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors. Carl |
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Carl wrote:
On Apr 28, 1:20 pm, "Twayne" wrote: PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Thanks for weighing in, Twayne - You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD. Haven't had to copy that clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors. What do you mean "you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD". We create clones and images all the time here and restore them back anytime without any problems. Of course, Windows PCs are much more varied than Macs, PCs come in a mutltitude of hardware configurations so moving clones or restoring images to different computers is not generally supported, whereas a Mac is a Mac is a Mac, so moving a clone or restoring an image to another Mac might not be a problem. John |
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Tim Meddick wrote: I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if I have a major problem, similar to yours, I always use an M$-DOS boot disk. The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does return volume labels (where they exist) on partitions. The thing is, without knowing which partition is which - you might be deleting the netbook's recovery partition - should it have one. My best guess would be : -: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB = RECOVERY PARTITION C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = UBUNTU PARTITION Begs the question of why would Ubuntu be installed on a proprietary NTFS partition? D: Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE .....so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB ....(unless you know different - that this is NOT the UBUNTU partition!) My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged in to C:\Windows while you are running Recovery Console, the partition before it must have been there before or at the installation of the C: partition - it has no drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a hidden partition - usually this means the recovery partition. That just leaves Partition3 (E I think that at this stage finding the Active status of the partitions might help. Carl (or Bob) would need to create a Windows 98 Startup disk on USB and use Fdisk to see what is going on with the active partition flag. I haven't ever made a W98 bootable USB stick but a quick search on the net leads to sites like this with all the information and downloads for the necessary files: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key You should be able to toggle the active partition with Fdisk but I would also stick PowerQuest's (Symantec} 16-bit PtEdit utility on the stick: http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/tools.htm John |
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On Apr 29, 9:44*am, John John - MVP wrote:
Carl wrote: On Apr 28, 1:20 pm, "Twayne" wrote: PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. * *Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Thanks for weighing in, Twayne - You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD. *Haven't had to copy that clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors. What do you mean "you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD". *We create clones and images all the time here and restore them back anytime without any problems. *Of course, Windows PCs are much more varied than Macs, PCs come in a mutltitude of hardware configurations so moving clones or restoring images to different computers is not generally supported, whereas a Mac is a Mac is a Mac, so moving a clone or restoring an image to another Mac might not be a problem. John John - Lest my misuse of terminology confuses the situation, let me explain. What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/ S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external USB hard drive. I have a Seagate external HD. I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external USB HD. If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen. The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not allow you to boot from an external HD. I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor. Was I misinformed? Carl |
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On Apr 29, 10:23*am, John John - MVP wrote:
Tim Meddick wrote: I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if I have a major problem, similar to yours, I always use an M$-DOS boot disk. The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does return volume labels (where they exist) on partitions. The thing is, without knowing which partition is which - you might be deleting the netbook's *recovery partition - should it have one. My best guess would be : -: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB *= RECOVERY PARTITION C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = *UBUNTU PARTITION Begs the question of why would Ubuntu be installed on a proprietary NTFS partition? D: *Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE .....so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB ....(unless you know different - that this is NOT the UBUNTU partition!) My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged in to C:\Windows while you are running Recovery Console, the partition before it must have been there before or at the installation of the C: partition - it has no drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a hidden partition - usually this means the recovery partition. That just leaves Partition3 (E I think that at this stage finding the Active status of the partitions might help. *Carl (or Bob) would need to create a Windows 98 Startup disk on USB and use Fdisk to see what is going on with the active partition flag. *I haven't ever made a W98 bootable USB stick but a quick search on the net leads to sites like this with all the information and downloads for the necessary files: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key You should be able to toggle the active partition with Fdisk but I would also stick PowerQuest's (Symantec} 16-bit PtEdit utility on the stick:http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/tools.htm John Gentlemen - I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!! It worked! I cannot thank you enough. Here's what I did: I deleted the E partition. I ran MAP again Returned: ? NTFS 6150MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 C: NTFS 68653MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 F: NTFS 39621MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3 D: FAT16 963MB \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 I removed the USB flash drive and restarted, and it booted normally, into Windows and all appears fine. If you two would bear with me, I will summarize all of the guidance, step by step, that you give me and post it at the end of this thread plus post it on the Samsung Netbook site for others having this problem. I know there are many others with the problem because when I Googled the GRUB problem, I got multiple hits but none of them worked for me and most relied on an external HD and booting from a Windows CD. Tim said it could be done w/o an external HD and he was right. I'll try to write my summary this weekend and post it back here. BTW, just to be sure, shut down my computer and started again and again, all is well. My deepest thanks, Carl BTW, when I start up , I am offered the choice of booting up in either M/S Windows XP Home Edition or Ubuntu, so there must be something on the HD that I need to get rid of in order to weed Ubuntu entirely from my HD, no? |
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Carl wrote:
On Apr 29, 9:44 am, John John - MVP wrote: Carl wrote: On Apr 28, 1:20 pm, "Twayne" wrote: PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Thanks for weighing in, Twayne - You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD. Haven't had to copy that clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors. What do you mean "you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD". We create clones and images all the time here and restore them back anytime without any problems. Of course, Windows PCs are much more varied than Macs, PCs come in a mutltitude of hardware configurations so moving clones or restoring images to different computers is not generally supported, whereas a Mac is a Mac is a Mac, so moving a clone or restoring an image to another Mac might not be a problem. John John - Lest my misuse of terminology confuses the situation, let me explain. What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/ S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external USB hard drive. I have a Seagate external HD. I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external USB HD. If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen. The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not allow you to boot from an external HD. I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor. Was I misinformed? This has nothing to do with Microsoft's licensing, it' a technical limitation of the Windows operating system. What happens with Windows is that the USB stack is initialized well after the Windows session manager has started, so in essence Windows can't boot off a USB drive because Windows has to initialize the stack before it can use it, a catch 22 kind of situation. If you search the internet you will find information on how some have hacked the stack drivers to make them boot devices which in turn allows the ntldr boot manager to load the stack before the session manager is started. This is unsupported by Microsoft, they have never bothered rewriting the boot up routine to have ntldr load the stack so Windows can't boot off a USB drive. John |
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I am so pleased! (told you that you'd get there in the end!)
Concerning the bogus menu entry on startup..... When you ran the FIXBOOT C: command, on your merry travels, Windows re-wrote your BOOT.INI file that deals with the start(up) menu (which lives in the root of your [C:] system drive) adding any valid operating systems it could detect at the time. When you did this, the UBUNTU partition STILL EXISTED, but now does not, so if you did selected this option at boot now, I very much doubt you'd get anything but an system error. To get rid of it, either : 1). Goto "Control Panel" - "System Properties" - "Advanced" tab - "Startup and Recovery" (Settings button). ....and in the "System Startup" [top] section, press on the "Edit" button. Highlight and delete the ONE line containing the word "Ubuntu" and save / close. - you won't see the "Ubuntu" menu item on startup any more. 2). Type MSCONFIG into the "Run" box on the start menu and click on the BOOT.INI "tab". Press the button marked "Check all boot paths" This should result in all invalid entries in the menu to be removed. Press [ok] to save and exit. 3). Open a command prompt, and type the following command[s] : attrib -r -h -s c:\boot.ini notepad c:\boot.ini ....then edit the file (as in 1), removing the line that contains the word "Ubuntu" and then "save" and exit. Again, the offending menu entry will be gone.... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Carl" wrote in message ... On Apr 29, 10:23 am, John John - MVP wrote: Tim Meddick wrote: I rarely use either the MAP or the DISPART command and if I have a major problem, similar to yours, I always use an M$-DOS boot disk. The difference being that the DOS command FDISK - does return volume labels (where they exist) on partitions. The thing is, without knowing which partition is which - you might be deleting the netbook's recovery partition - should it have one. My best guess would be : -: Partition1 EISA Utilities 6150 MB = RECOVERY PARTITION C: Partition2 NTFS 68653 MB = WINDOWS PARTITION E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB = UBUNTU PARTITION Begs the question of why would Ubuntu be installed on a proprietary NTFS partition? D: Partition1 KINGSTON [FAT] = YOUR USB DRIVE .....so, you could try deleting E: Partition3 NTFS 39622 MB ....(unless you know different - that this is NOT the UBUNTU partition!) My evidence for this is that as you are actually logged in to C:\Windows while you are running Recovery Console, the partition before it must have been there before or at the installation of the C: partition - it has no drive-letter associated with it, so it's probably a hidden partition - usually this means the recovery partition. That just leaves Partition3 (E I think that at this stage finding the Active status of the partitions might help. Carl (or Bob) would need to create a Windows 98 Startup disk on USB and use Fdisk to see what is going on with the active partition flag. I haven't ever made a W98 bootable USB stick but a quick search on the net leads to sites like this with all the information and downloads for the necessary files: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key You should be able to toggle the active partition with Fdisk but I would also stick PowerQuest's (Symantec} 16-bit PtEdit utility on the stick:http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/tools.htm John Gentlemen - I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!! It worked! I cannot thank you enough. Here's what I did: I deleted the E partition. I ran MAP again Returned: ? NTFS 6150MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 C: NTFS 68653MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 F: NTFS 39621MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3 D: FAT16 963MB \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 I removed the USB flash drive and restarted, and it booted normally, into Windows and all appears fine. If you two would bear with me, I will summarize all of the guidance, step by step, that you give me and post it at the end of this thread plus post it on the Samsung Netbook site for others having this problem. I know there are many others with the problem because when I Googled the GRUB problem, I got multiple hits but none of them worked for me and most relied on an external HD and booting from a Windows CD. Tim said it could be done w/o an external HD and he was right. I'll try to write my summary this weekend and post it back here. BTW, just to be sure, shut down my computer and started again and again, all is well. My deepest thanks, Carl BTW, when I start up , I am offered the choice of booting up in either M/S Windows XP Home Edition or Ubuntu, so there must be something on the HD that I need to get rid of in order to weed Ubuntu entirely from my HD, no? |
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In message
, Carl writes: [] You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Yes, you can. [] What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/ S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external USB hard drive. As another has said, it's technical rather than licencing reasons (and there are people who've hacked it so that it can be done). I have a Seagate external HD. I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external USB HD. Very wise. (Not wise not to be sure how to restore it, though.) If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen. The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not allow you to boot from an external HD. I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor. Was I misinformed? [] You can clone your HD (to all sorts of things - USB, DVD, external HD). You can copy the clone back to your HD, for example after a corruption, and it will restore a system that works as it did when you made the clone. You cannot boot from whatever it is you cloned to - only the original (or a replacement) HD after you've done the cloning-back. Whatever software you used to make the clone should have offered to make some boot media that would be able to do the cloning-back. (I suppose it is still valid to claim it's a cloning utility if it doesn't do this, but it's not a lot of use without it.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. -Max Weinreich, linguist and author (1894-1969) |
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On Apr 29, 6:18*pm, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message ,Carl writes: [] You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Yes, you can. [] What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/ S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external USB hard drive. As another has said, it's technical rather than licencing reasons (and there are people who've hacked it so that it can be done). I have a Seagate external HD. I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external USB HD. Very wise. (Not wise not to be sure how to restore it, though.) If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen. The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not allow you to boot from an external HD. I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor. Was I misinformed? [] You can clone your HD (to all sorts of things - USB, DVD, external HD). You can copy the clone back to your HD, for example after a corruption, and it will restore a system that works as it did when you made the clone. You cannot boot from whatever it is you cloned to - only the original (or a replacement) HD after you've done the cloning-back. Whatever software you used to make the clone should have offered to make some boot media that would be able to do the cloning-back. (I suppose it is still valid to claim it's a cloning utility if it doesn't do this, but it's not a lot of use without it.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf **http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htmfor ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. -Max Weinreich, linguist and author (1894-1969) Thanks for that explanation, J.P. This weekend, I will make another clone using the Seagate software and watch carefully to see if there is any offer to make some sort of boot media that will enable the clone to be copied back to the internal HD. Perhaps I missed it on my first clone; I am very new to Windows. Carl. |
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On Apr 29, 3:01*pm, John John - MVP wrote:
Carl wrote: On Apr 29, 9:44 am, John John - MVP wrote: Carl wrote: On Apr 28, 1:20 pm, "Twayne" wrote: PS re the Subject line: You do not "clone" XP to a drive. A "clone" IS a hard drive that contains the operating system. What you do is replace a bad drive with a "cloned" drive, and in theory it will start right up. * *Your problem could be in your understanding of what you're trying to achieve. Whatever it is, it is not "cloning ... back to your HD". HTH, Thanks for weighing in, Twayne - You are right; I used the wrong terminology. One of the big surprises and disappointments of my introduction to Microsoft Windows was to learn that, after making a clone of your HD, if you have trouble, such as I am now having, that you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD. Macintosh allows this and instead of backing up each week, I use SuperDuper to clone my OS to an external HD. *Haven't had to copy that clone back to my internal HD since Apple came out with OSX, but I did have to do so once or twice under OS 9 and its predecessors. What do you mean "you could NOT copy back the clone of your HD to your internal HD". *We create clones and images all the time here and restore them back anytime without any problems. *Of course, Windows PCs are much more varied than Macs, PCs come in a mutltitude of hardware configurations so moving clones or restoring images to different computers is not generally supported, whereas a Mac is a Mac is a Mac, so moving a clone or restoring an image to another Mac might not be a problem. John John - Lest my misuse of terminology confuses the situation, let me explain. What I should have said was I was told, that for licensing reasons, M/ S will not allow you to boot your machine from Windows on an external USB hard drive. I have a Seagate external HD. I used Seagate's free software to clone my Netbook's HD to an external USB HD. If I connect that USB HD, boot up, change the Boot Device Priority to list that USB HD first, then exit and save the configuration, I get nothing but a blinking white cursor on a black screen. The first time this happened, I asked on this forum, I believe, and was told that what I was doing was not possible because M/S did not allow you to boot from an external HD. I just tried it, and I am looking at the blinking cursor. Was I misinformed? This has nothing to do with Microsoft's licensing, it' a technical limitation of the Windows operating system. *What happens with Windows is that the USB stack is initialized well after the Windows session manager has started, so in essence Windows can't boot off a USB drive because Windows has to initialize the stack before it can use it, a catch 22 kind of situation. *If you search the internet you will find information on how some have hacked the stack drivers to make them boot devices which in turn allows the ntldr boot manager to load the stack before the session manager is started. *This is unsupported by Microsoft, they have never bothered rewriting the boot up routine to have ntldr load the stack so Windows can't boot off a USB drive. John BTW, shame on Microsoft for not bothering to rewri |
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Carl,
BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the startup-menu? == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Carl" wrote in message ... Thanks for that explanation, J.P. clipped |
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On Apr 30, 4:35*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
Carl, * * * * BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the startup-menu? == Cheers, * *Tim Meddick, * *Peckham, London. * *:-) Yes, I did Tim, I just have bee so terribly busy at work that I have not had time to do it. I will do so this weekend and report back. I cannot tell you how pleased I am at solving this problem. All thanks to your patience and good advice. Carl |
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On May 1, 8:06*am, Carl wrote:
On Apr 30, 4:35*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote: Carl, * * * * BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the startup-menu? Hi Tim - I followed your instructions, restarted the Netbook and it booted directly to the Windows log-in screen. Ubuntu is 100% gone. Thanks very much. Carl |
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I am just very glad to know it!
and... thankyou for re-posting that your problem was resolved. So many don't bother, and it can be mildly frustrating. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Carl" wrote in message ... On May 1, 8:06 am, Carl wrote: On Apr 30, 4:35 pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote: Carl, BTW - Did you read my reply on how to stop the unwanted "Ubuntu" entry on the startup-menu? Hi Tim - I followed your instructions, restarted the Netbook and it booted directly to the Windows log-in screen. Ubuntu is 100% gone. Thanks very much. Carl |
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