Help! I've been dual booting windows vista and ubuntu linux, and it runs smoothly most of the time, but sometimes windows just decides not to boot. It gives me a loading bar with the fancy vista logo, and after that, instead of going to the login screen, it goes to a black screen. This has happened twice before, but the tools in the system recovery thing promptly fix it. But this time is different. I boot in to windows system recovery, it loads, i briefly see a command line window, and then just a blue screen. The system recovery wizard is coming up! I even tried booting in to the system recovery cd i got from hp.
specs: compaq presario v6000, vista home premium, ubuntu feisty fawn.
help please!
2007-09-09 13:47:11 · 5 answers · asked by toomuchcaffiene 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The best place to receive assistance of this magnitude would be a Windows Vista Newsgroup. Just go to the Microsoft website and then do a quick search for Vista newsgroups. I haven't installed my Vista Premium yet and have never used Ubuntu, so I am not a good choice for figuring out what could be causing this particular problem. If it were a Multi-boot system with Windows XP and Windows Vista I could help.
Anyway, I am sorry I can't help more, but please do check out the newsgroups. The people who help out there do so on their own time and dime, they are not employees of Microsoft.
Also, as they are volunteers, please be patient while waiting for responses to your posts. Be as detailed in your request as possible and also list all the steps taken thus far taken to solve the issue. These folks really are great people, but sometimes they get a bit disgruntled when a person askes a question by stating, "Hey, anyone know why my system won't work?", and then don't list anything informative. lol
Good luck and I hope you get your issue solved soon.
Microsoft HAS released a service pack, service pack 1. Or, is set to do so very soon, but I believe it is already released. There isn't any new features in this first service pack, basically increased drivers and other various fixes.
2007-09-09 13:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by Serenity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like there is something either wrong with your vista install or the grub settings.... I'd try the ubuntu forums for the booting parameters of vista.
2007-09-09 13:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your best solution to this problem is to completely uninstall vista and either only use ubuntu *great OS* or dual boot with xp/ubuntu.
Then wait until microsoft releases a service pack for vista and try again then. ;)
2007-09-09 13:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by cnc333 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What version of Ubuntu do you run? you could simplify the GRUB menu somewhat some strategies, yet 9.10 does it in a diverse thank you to 9.04, which does it in a diverse thank you to eight.10. whether, why no longer purely do what I do. If anybody desires to apply my computer, they use Ubuntu, or they do no longer use it. My computer is virus unfastened, and that i desire to maintain it that way.
2016-10-04 07:13:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try running an in place repair install of vista, that will leave you data in tact and not touch your bootloader. What ever you do, do NOT remove vista then try to install it after Linux, you will enter Linux hell if you do.
2007-09-09 13:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋