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| From | "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? |
| Date | 2011-08-18 06:04 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j2irja$vee$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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In news:sdvl4754c3vsqk8v9c1ialishfplutbe79@4ax.com,
AJL wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:39:01 -0700, "ghelf"
> <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what the "live Linux CD" is that
>> you are referring to.
>
> It refers to a Linux OS that is loaded directly into memory from a CD.
> It runs completely in memory and doesn't use the hard drive. But it
> sees the hard drive and can manipulate the files there including
> copying them off to an external device.
Actually that isn't true! As I learned this out the hard way. I heard
that Ubuntu doesn't touch the Windows partition and leaves it alone. But
I don't know what good is Open Source if nobody bothers to read it?
I did some investigating after Ubuntu Live toasted my Windows XP install
three times in a roll back in 2008. I had to restore from a backup each
time. And I believed when everybody was saying Ubuntu Live doesn't touch
Windows.
But that isn't true at all. As Ubuntu Live looks around on the drive
looking for a swapfile it can use. On a Windows system, it grabs the
Windows swapfile for its own use. LINUX SHOULDN'T BE TOUCHING ANYTHING
IN A WINDOWS PARTITION PERIOD! Bad, bad, Linux!
In my case, I was running Windows on a SSD. Microsoft and anybody worth
anything will tell you to turn off the Windows swapfile if you have
enough RAM to run Windows without one. This is to reduce excessive
writes to the SSD. Windows XP runs fine in this configuration.
Although Ubuntu Live isn't happy without a Windows swapfile. So it
creates its own in the Windows partition. So in my case, when you boot
up Windows next time... it loads the Windows Installer and hangs. As
Windows thinks it is supposed to load something, but doesn't know what?
So yes, Ubuntu Live does touch Windows and *can* render Windows in an
unusable state. :-(
Thus I always remove the Windows drive first if I want to boot Ubuntu
Live on a system. That way it can't screw up Windows. And if it is
Windows you want to repair, don't use Linux! Use something that is safe
with Windows like BartPE or WinPE instead.
Monica in the alt.sys.pc-clone.dell newsgroup just last week got burned
by Ubuntu too. As it recently toasted her NTFS and now apparently
nothing can read it. :-(
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3
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Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 14:24 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 22:55 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-08-16 12:16 +1200
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:35 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:47 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 19:40 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 13:49 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 16:22 -0300
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 15:33 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 06:57 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 16:21 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:11 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 23:21 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-16 13:39 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:30 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:35 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 22:55 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:40 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-18 19:17 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:05 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-16 16:47 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:04 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-18 17:23 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:34 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-19 21:26 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-20 11:03 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-08-16 02:04 +0000
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