*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 449597 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449597
command promt the two lines above and got --- NOTE: If you had not scheduled check and last time accessed this volume using ntfsmount and shutdown system properly, then init scripts in your distribution are broken. Please report to your distribution developers (NOT to us!) that init scripts kill ntfsmount or mount.ntfs-fuse during shutdown instead of proper umount. --- ALL I want is to have Windows Vista at sda1 and Ubuntu at sda2. there is unallocated space at sda3 and HP_RECOVERY at sda4. i want Windows to boot FIRST, with the option of booting Ubuntu. i want the unallocated space added to Windows Vista partition (70G worth) i dont care what HP does with its 12G of recovery files. though 12G sure sounds like a memory hog to me ;-P i initially used gpart to mess up my MBR and was stuck in my LiveCD for a day reading web help and messing with command prompts in a language i am not familiar with. now i have managed to get Ubuntu9.x on my a 5g partition (stolen, err... liberated from the unallocated partition). i have un-installed GRUB, GRUB2 and re-installed them twice. with enough progress to get to a chainloader menu that will log me into Ubuntu automatically, but when i select Windows, i get afresh blank screen and the following text: GRUB _ the underscore just sits there and blinks at me... NB: i bought a laptop without any boot CDs and was arrogant enough to think i wouldn't need a windows boot cd. help me please ;-) -- cannot change label on a ntfs file system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs