found it the Windows

decibel.places — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:36:11 +0000

found it

the Windows filesystem is in the Ubuntu "host" directory...

using v 8.04 "Hardy Heron" installed from CD as a "file" in Windows, not a partition.

decibel.places wrote: In

greg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:31:27 +0000

decibel.places wrote:

In Ubuntu I don't think I saw the Vista filesystem, only Ubuntu files

What drive setup do you have? Two drives with an OS on each? One partition? If partitioned what partition order are they?

Generally, you can run into problems if Win isn't on the primary partition (or the very least its boot files (NTLDR etc)) or if it's on a slave drive.

Linux, on the other hand, isn't that fussy at all. In fact, I'm sure it would run from thin air if you tried

Ubuntu should automatically

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:32:57 +0000

Ubuntu should automatically detect & mount your filesystems. I can see my WinXP & Vista partitions.

The only problem I've ran into with mounting NTFS drives is if they wern't properly unmounted by Windows, Linux is afraid to mount them for some reason.

I'm just curiuous... In

decibel.places — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:19:58 +0000

I'm just curiuous...

In Ubuntu I don't think I saw the Vista filesystem, only Ubuntu files

So to install the driver for my Broadcom wifi I emailed the archive and downloaded the attachment in Ubuntu (yeh I could have downloaded it from the web in Ubuntu but I already had the library I needed)

Maybe I'm just too green at Ubuntu..

Ubuntu doesn't have the Aero

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:09:54 +0000

Ubuntu doesn't have the Aero theme...

That's OK, I'm content with Compiz Fusion.

I'm about to reformat my

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0000

I'm about to reformat my laptop, and need to copy all the files from it over to my server....However, if you have ever tried to copy a ton of files, and you start it and walk away, you know what a pain in the rump it is to come back in a few hours to see a message on the screen telling you it couldn't copy a file...

Yeah, well it would kinda of suck that whenever I need to copy a file...

Yes, I wouldn't recommend rebooting your computer into an alternate OS to copy a few files, but your original question involved a full backup.

Yeah, well it would kinda of

Greg K — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:52:06 +0000

Yeah, well it would kinda of suck that whenever I need to copy a file, I have to close out everything I am doing, put in a cd, and reboot to copy some files, then reboot back to windows to finish working. and in the middle of this, I can't work in my applications....

-Greg

Ubuntu doesn't have the Aero

decibel.places — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:56:18 +0000

Ubuntu doesn't have the Aero theme...

I have Ubuntu as a dual boot and wish I had more time to set it up

I always just use

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:42:53 +0000

I always just use Ubuntu...and I'm saying "switch to Linux". It doesn't have to be installed on your computer to use it. Just boot it into the Live CD, and copy the files on the hard drive to a remote computer. It's better on two counts. 1) You have the option to skip failed files like your copy software, and 2) since you are not in Windows, you don't have to worry about locked files, so the odds of a file failing to copy is slim.

Nice find! "Free for home

greg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:46:00 +0000

Nice find!

"Free for home users" is a great thing and more companies are doing this now. When they make enough profit with commercial sales they can release it free for non-commercial users. Not greedy!
Shame MS don't feel the same way

It's those companies that I wouldn't mind paying money to, but that's one of those weird catch 22's. Because they very kindly give me it for free I would happily pay