On 7/29/07, thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello fellow linux users > > I just tried to install ubuntu 6.06 on my partners laptop to run with > its vista system.... but now no vista... How sad, but it might well be that you haven't got a way to boot into Vista rather than having lost all the files.
> when is the next gathering so maybe I could get help to redeem my self. We meet on the Second Tuesday of every month. It's the 14th. Your're in luck, 'cos it's a social-cum-fixups evening. > as with compaq install files fo vista are on the computer or was on the > computer... with my current success I may never install again.. AHHHH.. Many modern machines, particularly laptops, are equipped with a so called Windows Recovery Partition so that it's possible to recover Windows when it suicides ( or meets with an unplanned episode of some kind ). Using a console in ubuntu issue the command sudo fdisk -l ( that's a lower-case ell letter, not a one digit ) That command will tell you the size of the disk and the partitions thereon. If the size is about 3, or so, gigs smaller than what you'd expect so see if you were to believe the sales hype about the size of the hard drive then you can recover windows that way. You might care to post the output of the fdisk -l command. I will bring my System Rescue CD. http://www.sysresccd.org/ Just in case the worst has occured has anybody got a 'Doze Vista rescue disk set? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
