My restored system set-up
I own a Lenovo C3000 N100. It’s not that new and I’ve been dual-booting Windows XP Home (it came with that) and Ubuntu Linux since I got it. Over time, I’ve installed Windows apps which I couldn’t uninstall and for some reason or another, my directory containing the shared files of all users became inaccessible. On Linux, I’ve messed up the device settings for the sounds. I think it must be when I tried to fix the problem about the sound channels. To cut the long story short, it’s been one huge mess which was usable but I’ve been experiencing pain points. One of them was about not having enough space when working on Windows (because I gave my Linux home the bigger partition) and the fact that I had no more sounds on Linux.
The Lenovo laptops issued at work had no installer discs. We all had Windows on the hard drive itself. Bleh~ I know. That is one reason why I didn’t wipe it out. Anyway, I backed up all my files to an external hard drive which had a capacity waaay bigger than my hard drive. Then I booted up my laptop and had to select the system restore option. System restore took quite a while (I opted to make it go back to factory settings).
Problem encountered: Windows XP Home didn’t load after system restore. Ack!
But it wasn’t so much of a problem. I had to fix the Master Boot Record by booting up via a Windows XP installer and selected that option. I had to reboot and then Windows XP Home booted up nicely and it seemed to continue the rest of the system restore stuff.
After an additional hour or so, Windows XP Home on the Lenovo was restored to its factory settings. It was then that I booted up with the Ubuntu installer disk. I had to resize the NTFS partition of Windows and allocated space that will be shared by Linux and Windows as well as my home partition, the root partition and swap.
Note: Lenovo users must be careful about that. You might end up wiping out the installer!
Anyhow, the Ubuntu install took roughly one hour. And there it was. A fresh dual boot system! Maybe some of you who have Lenovos have such dilemmas too. Please feel free to comment and email to me and we could share tips with each other. :)
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