For the past several months, our support forums have been plagued on and off with a number of weird and inexplicable failed attempts at installing Ubuntu by many users. We’ve finally pinned down the cause of the problem, and it isn’t pretty. Ubuntu (ever since version 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog) will not install properly on a [...]
Tag Archive for 'grub'
Ubuntu’s Buggy Support for non-ext3fs Partitions
Published by January 28th, 2008 in Linux, Software 10 CommentsThere’s a section of the EasyBCD documentation/user manual/wiki that contains more than just information on how to use the program. If you’ve corrupted your bootloader, run into one or more bootmgr-related errors, installed Windows XP or Linux after installing Vista, or otherwise managed to fry, crack, melt, or break the Vista bootloader, then here’s how [...]
EasyBCD 1.7 Released & Up for Download!
Published by September 5th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 11 CommentsGo and grab yourself a fresh, hot, right-out-of-the-compiler copy of EasyBCD 1.7 before your old bootloader realizes what hit it! Another release of EasyBCD is now available after months of beta testing and - in true NeoSmart fashion - brings dozens of new features and innovative ideas to the table; this time with even more versatility than [...]
Wikia’s Outrageous Exploitation of the Human Race
Published by July 28th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, SEO 14 CommentsIt’s official, Jimmy Wales has gone too far. The founder of Wikipedia is famous for tapping into users to generate content and traffic, building the internet’s largest chain/web of user-generated content and information. From the million+ articles written by users to the billions of incoming links that have given Wikipedia its super-human search result rankings, [...]
Don’t unplug your boot drive before installing a new OS! Please!
Published by April 4th, 2007 in Guides, Operating Systems, Software 4 CommentsPlease, please, we beg you, don’t do it! Even if it seems logical, like it’s the right thing to do, we urge you not to change the boot/primary drive, or otherwise disconnect other drives when installing another OS!
Seriously, we had no idea so many people engaged in this activity until EasyBCD started spreading like wild [...]
EasyBCD 1.5: Multi/Dual-Boot Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, & BSD!
Published by October 16th, 2006 in Linux, Macintosh, NeoSmart Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 145 CommentsImportant! Upgrade immediately and read the docs to make it work!!!
We’ve done it! NeoSmart Technologies has built a better mousetrap, and it’s a beauty. EasyBCD 1.5 is the first and only application to allow users of Microsoft’s new OS complete compatibility with any other OS they might be using! It doesn’t make a difference if [...]
If I seem a bit happy today, here is why: two days ago we started and finshed our ‘Repairing the MBR without Formatting’ Whitepaper. Basically it tells you the only way (never before discovered) to repair a FUBAR’d MBR without losing any data.From there we went on to discovering our next project: a bootable Grub [...]
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