A silly question, involving a partitioned hard drive
@ElaineSpencer (152)
United States
October 9, 2010 8:50pm CST
Hello everyone. My laptop is an eMachines E627, and I have partitioned the hard drive. This allows me to either boot Windows 7 or Ubuntu 10.4.
Recently, I've been having .dll errors when I load Windows, and I'm afraid I may need to restore my hard drive (I don't know if anyone else uses the term "reloading", so I thought restoring would be best to describe this). I was wondering, if I do this, is it going to affect the Ubuntu partition, or will it only take care of Windows? I'm sorry if this question doesn't make any sense, so if you need me to clarify anything, please let me know!
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2 responses
@adamgray1337 (147)
• United States
10 Oct 10
Hey Elaine =[ im sorry to hear you are having dll errors. I am running a dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu 10.10. If you dont want to have to fix a whole lot of problems with windows such as ethernet or wireless problems or dll erros, dont partition your drive! instead use wubi.exe to install ubuntu, you wont have to partition your drive and it installs ubuntu as a dual boot through windows just like you would install any other program for windows. It will give you the option in the setup.exe to allocate space (GB) to your ubuntu, and choose between ubuntu,kubuntu,xubunty,fedora and etc.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
10 Oct 10
I think you should reformat the hardisk after doing fdisk. Most probably some of the dll files are missing and that is one of the reason that we get dll error. I do not much about Ubuntu. I will try to know about the software. I have heard that when some files are missing then it shows dll errors.
