Here is my two cents: I had a XP installation working just fine. When I decided to create a dual boot system with XUBUNTU (I am not too familiar with the release number) it turned out to be a bad decision. The XP installation had their latest Service Pack #3 and the Hard drive was formatted in NTFS one 300GB partition. So I needed to resize the partition to squeeze Xubuntu ontot the second one. Since I have/had a number of documents on the XP partition I used the Import documents feature. At 88% (well the progress bar was saying that) the system remained for about an hour and I lost my patience. Thinking that the XP installation should be in good shape I tried to re-install Xubuntu again. It got worse and hung up at various stages which could be related to a hosed partition. Anyway I can't get any more information regarding this failed installation because the entire hard drive seemes to be hosed pretty good, although the file system seems to be intact. Before I investigate more I need to recover what I can recover. Microsoft's (TM) repair tools failed all miserably to recreate what originally was there. I believe that the Master Boot Record in conjunction with the partiton table got royally screwed. Neither Operating system has a clue where to go and what to start. Worst of all.... there was no error message at all. To the user everything appeared to be just dandy. Nothing that would have indicated an error nor failed installation. Oh well, I added a second hard drive that I don't care much for and have failed installations on a clean drive too. I am using a Live boot to write this because I can't get any Operating System to start nor can I install another one to recover my files. All I know so far is that the XP files show up in this live boot. So I will focus on getting them onto another media before Xubuntu gets any ideas.
This is the first time I had problems with an Ubuntu install which explains why I was rather feisty to proceed with the dual boot. Hope they'll get that fixed soon. Regards, Norbert -- Serious Data Loss resizing partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/45543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
