[ale] Fought Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.10 (resolved)

[Charles Shapiro]

Best form of payback.  Now someone else with similar troubles will get a
clear explanation of what happened and what do do.


Not that I'm _advocating_ installing Winders..

-- CHS


On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
wrote:

> For what it is worth, this is by way of "Thank you" to the list. If you
> are not actually interested, delete and feel good about this online
> community.
>
> Short story - as per something mentioned months ago on this list, when
> dual installing Windows and a Linux, Windows first with ___lots___ of disk,
> let Windows resize things, and then Linux. Great pain seems to follow any
> other procedure.
>
> The school I'm currently at is (aren't they all?) mired in Windows. As
> part time, not a problem for me, but some of the handouts for the students
> "could be better". In any event, I find myself on occasion having to
> "support" students with Windows issues, along with the ever popular seventy
> bazillion different calculators. Since I haven't used Windows since the
> days of 3.17 (??), and Word even longer (Word 1 on an 8088 - sheesh!), if
> I'm to function quickly I need to get some practice. Hence, back in January
> purchased 8.1 and MSOffice to instal on my laptop, already running a
> completely screwed Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Getting Windows 7 repaired using
> the manufacturer's disk so that video hardware acceleration worked did not
> seem possible unless I shelled out $$$$, and I wouldn't learn anything in
> the process.
>
> Took my installation supplies, and dropped 8.1 onto the machine simply
> accepting the defaults. This worked for a while (3 weeks?), and the system
> started throwing Windows errors, complaining about being out of disk space.
> Tried a reinstall with no success, so I needed to wait a bit so I had time
> to blow away everything. Tried installing Windows on a prepartitioned
> system, giving it 250 GB of disk space, Ubuntu on the other 250 GB
> partition. Windows complained (and I managed to lose my credentials for the
> MS login - that is another irritation). Tried another reinstall giving
> Windows the whole disk, then using Ubuntu to shrink the partition. Windows
> worked for a day or two - then developed the habit of freezing I/O _before_
> I could get logged in, requiring a power cycle.
>
> I'm not sure what triggered the memory, but I think somebody here
> indicated that Windows 8.1 does not like anybody else resizing its
> partition, and to size the partition with Windows. Since the system seemed
> to whine about disk space at 250 GB, I installed 1T disk. Told Windows to
> use 500 GB, which it split into two partitions for reasons known only to
> Microsoft. Ubuntu sits on the other 500 GB, and I've had a useable Windows
> partition for four days now. Now to attempt to not foul it up again!!
>
> All of which is to thank somebody whose offhand comment I can not find for
> somehow giving me a clue when it was needed!
>
> Thank you to one and all for help over the years, and the use of your
> bandwidth for this! It was and is appreciated.
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