Recent content by paulfxh

Yeah, that error is a real pain as it is soooo persistent! Also, it doesn't seem to give any clue as to how to resolve it. I'm really not a Windows user at all so I'm not sure if I can really help. However, a few things come to mind: When you said were you really saying that you are trying...

Just an update to what I wrote in my last post. I blogged about my success in getting W7 installed and mentioned about the problems I had. Somebody kindly commented that they had exactly the same problem and overcame it by unplugging an external usb HDD. Now, as it happens, I have a 500 GB usb...

Well, installing W7 on the first partition (primary) didn't make any difference. Still got the same error message. :frown: So, the only thing left was some kind of incompatibility with Grub. I tried "fixmbr" (after booting to the WinXP install disk and choosing Repair) but nothing changed...

@crazy_cjenkins Thanks for your thoughts. Actually, I'm not worried about the Windows 7 bootloader seeing Ubuntu or not as, once I get Windows 7 installed, I'm going to go back to Grub as my "universal" bootloader and boot everything, including XP and Windows 7 with that. Your idea to put...

Thanks for the reply. During the attempted install, after I first got the error message, I did actually delete the 75 GB partition I had assigned to Windows 7 which made an unallocated space. I then created a new partition and formatted it to ntfs using the Windows 7 installer. However, I...

I downloaded the Windows 7 Build 7000 Beta today with the product key and I'm trying to install it on a Dell E520 desktop. Just to complicate matters, this machine already has Windows XP (installed on a primary partition) and Ubuntu Linux (installed on an extended partition). I created a 75 GB...