*goes to the presentation thread to post*
*comes back*
My new hard disk arrived and I have tried to install
Ubuntu on it but it's just too many obstacles. I have run out of patience for this time.
First I used the
ISO Recorder and burned 6 or 7 different versions of
Ubuntu but they all ended up not passing the
Check integrity CD-ROM test you can preform before installing. They all failed at the beginning of the test albeit not at the same point. Finally I switched to
InfraRecorder and passed the integrity check.
When trying to install
Ubuntu with this good copy I run into other problems.
I have dual monitors and the
Ubuntu install seems to switch preferred monitor during the early phase of the installation process so suddenly the process stops and it's probably waiting for some response that I can't give as I don't see anything. Switching monitors physically on the back of the graphic card doesn't help either. The only remedy is to disconnect one of the monitors and that becomes a drag as I need both of them in my two
Windows environment.
Vista can see my new hard disk but
Ubuntu can't.
It might have something to do with the fact that it's a 1 TB disk but I have tried so many times now that I'm just tired of it.
As a last resort I installed
WUBI to see it that would help but
WUBI can't see the disk either.
I would now like to remove the
WUBI. I tried on my own with
EasyBCD but can't get it right.
I have managed to remove the
WUBI option from
EasyBCD's boot options (but I haven't uninstalled
WUBI yet).
Vista boots fine but
XP doesn't. These are the present settings:
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 30 seconds.
Default OS: Vista
Entry #1
Name: Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: XP
BCD ID: {9a731d18-71df-11dd-8c91-002185115b92}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
This is the boot error message I get with the XP option.
Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because the Following File Is Missing or Corrupt: <Windows-rot>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
I'm not sure if this referes to the file in the
XP or
Vista installation but they are both there although the Vista file is named with lower case
hal.dll while the
XP one is with upper case
HAL.DLL.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Oh, and one more thing.
The charm with the excellent
IReboot is that you can leave the boot process unattended. A small problem which I'm sure is not
iReboot's fault is that the setting I have in
Tweak UI for
XP to bypass the login procedure altogether loses the setting all the time. Any ideas?