Thanks for the ideas. Wine won't work. Says something about 7zip not handling full names or something when I click on setup.exe.
Installed VirtualBox but no luck. The drive is NTFS formatted, so Windows should run on it. Before the Live CD started working but got to the loading screen and then went BSOD. The error relating to the lack of SATA drivers on the installation disc. So I'm downloading the driver to reconfigure it. To prepare it I formated the driver to NTFS and made it bootable as well as enabling wrote to external and internal but the disc won't recognise again. So back to waiting for the torrent to download. Huge pain in the backside HP not providing the OS discs, so I've had to resort to illegally downloading the software so I can then legally own it by inputting my original Windows Serial. It's the Adobe Master Suite I require for work. Quanta Plus is good, as is GIMP. But I don't have time for the learning curve after professionally using Adobe for years. AS for the Windows Live CD. There's a few ways to do it. Google it :). Dino T. > > > Hi guys > > >full > > > About a week ago I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP Presario laptop. I > did > > > this because the laptop wouldn't boot up due to a corrupt dll file. I > have > > > since upgraded to Lucid Linux, however I want to install Windows 7 as > well > > > to dual boot. The instalation will be on my laptops separate drive. (2 > x > > > 250GB). > > > > > > I have made a Windows Live CD and tried doing what I did top install > Ubuntu. > > > No luck after booting the disk drive first. Just a black screen with > "Remove > > > All Media and press control + alt + del". > > > > > > I then downloaded EP and installed it to a USB using Unetbootin after > > > formating the USB with FAT32. Again, l same thing happens. > > > > > > I need a Windows OS because of work software that are not Linux > compatible. > > > > > > Anyone have any idea what to try next? Thanks. > > > > > > Dino T. > > > > > > > Run Windows in a VM? KVM (if your laptop supports the virtualisation > > extensions) or VirtualBox are both good. > > > > I've never heard of a Windows Live CD. > > > > You could do a standard installation of Windows and then restore the > > Ubuntu bootloader. There are instructions on the web: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows > > > > > > HTH > > Neil >
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