Hi folks,
I've been trying out Ubuntu lately which I installed on my laptop which came with Windows 7 installed but had the downgrade to XP option (which I had to have done as some of my work systems are not compatible with Windows 7 yet).
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and used the partition tool to take 100GB off my Windows and reallocate it to Ubuntu.
Everything has been running fine as I got to grips with how to use Ubuntu to build android ROM's.
Now comes the time I have done what I wanted with Ubuntu and I want to remove it from the dual boot. I have read about 5 different guides how to do this and nothing is working.
As I understand it I need to fix/rebuild my MBR after I remove the Ubuntu partitions, but anything I have tried; including XP installation disc, XP Recovery Console disc, Windows 7 disc.....does not let me press 'R' to repair the system as the guides illustrate.
All the discs designed for XP result in a blue screen of death after it does an initial setup of hardware.
The Windows 7 disc gets further than that and asks me if I want to install 32 or 64 bit and gives me the partition/format options but there is no option to 'Repair'.
When I deleted the Ubuntu partition I was left with the GRUB error and my XP would not boot. After trying about 5 different things to repair the MBR (and failed) I decided re-installing Ubuntu would bring back the GRUB and allow me to dual boot XP again (which worked). But now I have 4 different partitions and I just want to merge them all back to my XP and have a working MBR.
Any ideas guys?
Screenshot of my partitions is attached.
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Perhaps you could try Parted Magic or System Rescue CD which can both be burned to either a disk or a usb via Unetbootin. Parted Magic should help you edit/fix your partitions and System Rescue CD should help you repair your system from reading their quick descriptions. I have not used either, but I have used Unetbootin and it works fine for me and those disks are at least worth a try.
Just a btw, but you didn't have to create a new thread for this... you could have posted your question in the Desktop and Laptops thread... that thread + Google should be helpful for all your future endeavors.
Good luck with your computer!
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Thanks for the tips. :good: Shall have another go when I'm feeling lucky.
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Whatever you do, do it carefully. I used to dual boot w7 and Ubuntu and I removed Ubuntu and somehow corrupted grub, which then caused a hard drive failure
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There is a dedicated labtop and desktop thread stickied in this forum, please use that
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We moved: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777724
What works is:
synaptic package manager
apt-get
vncserver
ssh
flashplugin WORKS FULL
I am taking a little longer with lingks and development help because I want it to work well.
Ok I have seen to many people saying that they dont know why ubuntu wont install, but want it. I have here some pictures of the ubuntu 10.04 maverick running very smooth. I started the thread here, because I will soon move to development area with a download and maybe some native boot. As of right now it is only a chroot enviroment and it works great, you can do it threw ext3 partition or img. I have tried both, you can create them on your sdcard. here are some pictures
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These images are of me viewing xda-bionic's forum/mypage from my bionic on vncserver pocketcloud running ubuntu maveric 10.04
photos takan with Screenshot UX Trial download from market
vncserver is pocket cloud free download from market
That is great news for me, will finally see use for my lapdock.
Where can i find detailed instruction on how to do it? I have already tan webtop2sd and created the partition.
Thanks
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Ok I have seen to many people saying that they dont know why ubuntu wont install, but want it. I have here some pictures of the ubuntu 10.04 maverick running very smooth. I started the thread here, because I will soon move to development area with a download and maybe some native boot. As of right now it is only a chroot enviroment and it works great, you can do it threw ext3 partition or img. I have tried both, you can create them on your sdcard. here are some pictures
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Link and/or directions please?
COMING... I am getting it all setup so its easy. By tomorrow I will have a thread with download link and a flashable.zip for install and mounting.
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COMING... I am getting it all setup so its easy. By tomorrow I will have a thread with download link and a flashable.zip for install and mounting.
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Great news -- please let us nkow if we may help in any way!!
here is a couple more teasers, Talk about an apt for thar
androidifyme said:
here is a couple more teasers, Talk about an apt for thar
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Any update on this?? Or has it died like so many others
Tim
You just want a download it has been updating well i have but i still havnt given out a download
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What VNC app are you using?
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Pocket cloud free from the market. New sit updated with instructions
Hey ! as this is off topic forum i need help of pc not phones
So here's d problem
I have 2 motherboards
1 is on XP sp2
Another one has Xp sp 3
rite now i m running on motherboard with sp2
So i wanna switch motherboard from sp2 to sp3
Both of the motherboards have diffrent chip sets and all
So any way to Switch motherboards without changing windows ???
Wut?
Windows in on the Hard Drive. Sometimes when you boot windows on a different HD it will work, other times it won't. Try it. If it does boot up, install the drivers and register windows. But to tell you the troth, I really don't understand your OP
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OP meanS?
I wanted to switch motherboards !
I have 2 boards
Other one was of office nd i brought home coz dad took new motherboard
If i switch board it will boot ? Nd how to update drivers nd register windows ?
I think I'm starting to understand now. And OP stands for original post in this case.
Go to the manufacturer's website, go to support, type model name, download the necessary ones.
Put in the new mother board. Try booting up, if it doesn't try Safe Mode by pressing F8 when you boot. If one of those works, install the drivers from a USB stick. If they don't work, take a windows CD and try doing a repair, or reformat the whole system. Also, if you have no idea how to do any of that, give it to a professional.
i was going to call profesnal but he is out of stations ! Nd i dont noe model no. nd even winows inside is of duplicate cd
Every thing is of dublicate cd
Windows is not stored on the motherboard.
But what about drivers and all ??
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But what about drivers and all ??
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Everything is on the hard drive
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NOOBS + WINDOWS O/S = Punch!
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You should be asking this question on a Microsoft forum.
Hello just wanted to ask if it will be posible to install RemixOS on Asus me176cx as the Android RemixOS is ready for x86? I think it wold be great to get rid of the Stock OS from Asus. I will try to make some more research on this topic but if some one will be testing this option please share your findings
So last night i made some testing whit the stock image of RemixOS. I have used the UEFI image for testing and a 8GB USB drive.
After some minor changes in the me176cx BIOS the OS booted up OK. The problem part are the drivers, no WiFi, touch screeen and so on. But what was amazing was that the OS wasnt laging (if i dont count the slow loading from the USB drive) Multitasking was great, the usage of windows instead of full screen apps was somthing i could get used to
Im not a DEV so cant get more to work but i wold love to see some one port RemixOS fot the Asus Memo Pad 7
Jurasek88 said:
So last night i made some testing whit the stock image of RemixOS. I have used the UEFI image for testing and a 8GB USB drive.
After some minor changes in the me176cx BIOS the OS booted up OK. The problem part are the drivers, no WiFi, touch screeen and so on. But what was amazing was that the OS wasnt laging (if i dont count the slow loading from the USB drive) Multitasking was great, the usage of windows instead of full screen apps was somthing i could get used to
Im not a DEV so cant get more to work but i wold love to see some one port RemixOS fot the Asus Memo Pad 7
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It's not BIOS. It's UEFI. People talking about switching off UEFI (actually enabling BIOS compatibility module, which is not always present) are really irritating me..
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It's not BIOS. It's UEFI. People talking about switching off UEFI (actually enabling BIOS compatibility module, which is not always present) are really irritating me..
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basically BIOS and UEFI are the same the diferenc is how the firmware handles the booting of the OS. Im not a expert just a beginer so i dont go into details. The point of this post was to share my expirinec whit RemixOS on this device and thet it can boot not to be technically accurate.
Hi, he is porting Remix OS to our tablet, maybe someone ask to him about ROM and help him .
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Hello just wanted to ask if it will be posible to install RemixOS on Asus me176cx as the Android RemixOS is ready for x86? I think it wold be great to get rid of the Stock OS from Asus. I will try to make some more research on this topic but if some one will be testing this option please share your findings
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You read my mind, I was just about to ask the same thing! ?
Hi guys,
as we know, Teclast release its tablets with Windows 10 in chinese and Android international (but with bloatware), that's why I decided to format it and reinstall all OSs..
You can apply this guide to ALL Teclast dual boot tablets with the XML repartitioning file in the ROM package.
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This is how we could get a native Windows 10 installation in your language:
1) Install Android custom roms made by Mirek190 (thanks a lot for your work man) using Intel MFT by selectiong full repartitioning XML (it erases all partitions and leave an unallocated space to install Win10):
- Teclast x98 Air II & Air 3G KitKat by Mirek190;
- Teclast x98 Air II & Air 3G Lollipop by Mirek190;
2) With a PC, download Microsoft Media Creation Tool and create a bootable Pendrive;
3) Change your tablet to 100% (it is not a joke);
4) Using an HUB USB plug to your tablet:
- USB Pendrive with Windows 10;
- Keyboard;
- Mouse;
5) Switch on your tablet and press ESC to enter Bios, go to the last TAB and select the pendrive as BOOT Override;
6) The installation of Windows 10 in your local language will start;
7) When asked, select Expert Mode and install Windows 10 the the unallocated space by creating a Primary Partition;
8) Ok, you are on the right way...Installation will take some minutes..
At the end, you need to download drivers and install ALL "*.inf" files available on Double Driver Backup zip you can find here:
- Driver Pack by Maxximo88
I made a video (Italian language) about this procedure, it is a low quality video guys:
Click THANKS and have a nice day!
Thank you Maxximo88 for taking the time to write this up!!
There is some other good guides out there but a little outdated like TecKnight's Teclast Tutorials and sadly I've not seen much activity on the Windows front...YES Mirek has done a excellent job on the Android side and I am hoping there will be more progress and maybe a jump to 6.0 Marshmallow?? I'm no coder so I do not know what's invloved but hats off to these guys!! :good:
I am waiting on mt OTG hub so I can reflash and use my own windows 10, see here for more ways to customise your windows 10 iso build and add in all the drivers for Teclast installs which I am trying to do
As for me I recently only discovered these units and will have an X98 Air 3G and a X98 Pro hopefullt by the end of the week :victory:
Looking forward to more developers and the XDA team to contributing making this a real Ipad killer :laugh:
PEACE
Kosti
Hi!
I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a M5C5 Air III running Guznos rom, I can't get it to boot on the USB drive.... Check the video, the sceen flashes and goes back to the bios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAi7mh-g1Q
I've tried:
- making the USB bootable with Iso2Disc and Rufus, using GPT uefi
- on 2 different tablets
- with 2 different USB drives
- with 2 different ISO files of Windows 10 x86
- flashing bios with 2.05 version found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65166671&postcount=87
- using OTG hub and OTG cable
Anybody have an idea what I could try?
Thanks!
After a little research, I figured my UEFI is in x64, so it couldn't boot on the usb drive because there was only the bootia32.efi in the Fs1:\EFI\BOOT\ folder. So I download Windows x64 and coppied the bootia64.efi file to efi\boot folder and it booted!!
But now I'm getting the following message.... I guess it expected the rest of the files to be x64 too. But I read on many threads that installing x64 Windows on the Air III M5C5 would brick the device.... So I'm kinda confused now :/
Anybody has an idea??
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Or more simply: did anyone install x86 Windows on a x64 uefi Air III ?
I realise this is a dead thread, but for posterity's sake :
do NOT try flashing an x64 iso (or an AIO windows iso), it will hard brick your device without exception.
Before installing Win10 x86 and Android, you need the M5C5 dual boot bios v1.00, there is no decent step-by-step on how to do this.
This should get you started : https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63984637&postcount=18
I know this is old but do you remember how did you solve the problem? I can't install the dual boot either.
i followed the instructions to which i linked in my previous post.
But, tbh, Win10 on this device isn't worth it.
I reverted back to Android-only.