Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

Hiyas, If you guys and gals capture Alan Bell as your team leader, you have made a fantastic catch. Across all the teams I see him assist on he is the epitome of what ubuntu means. He is caring, thoughtful, considerate and knowledgeable. I know that across the teams we are both involved in that th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

Barry Drake wrote: > Hitachi boot disk with a diagnostic/repair tool told be that the boot > sector had an irrecoverable mechanical error. What, exactly, did it say? Did a google of the phrase turn anything up? > This entire saga doesn't make any sense at all to me. Any thoughts? Can you bo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

Just to make things more interesting it's been pointed out that there is some confusion as to whether or not we have a team lead or a Point of Contact. Having dug through the history a bit, back in the early days of UUK we had a Team Leader, but just before Popey took the reigns this was turned int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

On 18/03/11 18:37, Barry Drake wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +, Rob Beard wrote: You might find it could be an SATA cable. Chances are you're not going to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route of SATA. First thing I did was try a new SATA cable. I fou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:42 +, Rob Beard wrote: > You might find it could be an SATA cable. Chances are you're not going > to find a big IDE drive easily now as everything is going down the route > of SATA. First thing I did was try a new SATA cable. I found a 320 GiB IDE drive at Amazon q

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

On 18/03/11 17:03, Barry Drake wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:40 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over time :) Thanks. There is an update. But rather than risk frying my wife's mothe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

I'd definitely recommend a bios update, and also check for any controller firmware updates. Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Barry Drake Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:03:42 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: bdr.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:40 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: > I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various > drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over time :) Thanks. There is an update. But rather than risk frying my wife's motherboard, I've taken the easy way out fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

On 18 March 2011 12:20, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there .. > > I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a > ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA > ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a > second SATA dri

[ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

Hi there .. I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a second SATA drive (250 GiB) and put Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I also install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Windows dual boot

On 18/03/11 08:41, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: That sort of thing is character building :) But as is different from Windows, pretty quick and painless..:-) -- My Alternative Computing Blog -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Windows dual boot

That sort of thing is character building :) Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Gordon Burgess-Parker Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:59:40 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Windows dual boot

On 18 March 2011 00:08, Rob Beard wrote: > On 17/03/11 21:31, Neil Greenwood wrote: > >> If you really want to convert, you have to delete the extended >> partition and create a new primary partition. >> >> Otherwise, if there's room, you could reformat the ex-Windows >> partition and copy the Ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Windows dual boot

On 17/03/11 13:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have a dual-boot machine - Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I'm looking to remove the Windows part but unfortunately the Ubuntun install is on an extended partition. Is there any way to convert that extended partition to the active partition, or do I