First of all, hello everyone. First post and first topic. I've played around with Linux before, but this is my first time using Kubuntu, and I'm having some issues with the initial install.
First of all, let me explain what I'm doing. I'm hoping to install Kubuntu within windows in order to use it as a test to see how my PC will perform in a Linux environment, as I've never tried Linux on this specific PC, but I don't want to risk doing any damage to the data on the existing hard drive. Budget constraints won't allow me to install a second hard drive, which is my ultimate goal, and install Kubuntu onto that, so I wanted to try this way about it. The issue occurs after installation. Everything goes awfully smooth to the point where it tells me that I have to restart windows. I let it do it for me, and it seems to refuse to do so as it just sits there. No big deal, I thought, but it's best to report it as an issue because when I manually restart windows, everything starts up as normal, no boot selection, no new icons, no nothing. I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be looking for, but I can tell you right now that if anything changed, I sure didn't notice.
Thankfully, I can still uninstall Kubuntu and try as many times as need fit, but the problem happens the exact same way every time, and it's urking me because I really wanted this to work. So, I'm taking suggestions and asking for help: What am I doing wrong?
As a side note, which might be somewhat important, I'm currently mounting the image on a virtual drive on the install, in order to avoid using costly disks, as I've already had one faulty burn thanks to my POS cd drive. I believe I'm going to start my trouble shooting with DAEMON tools and see if perhaps this is my problem while waiting for a response.
Thank you for your assistance.
Edit: Well, troubleshooting failure on my part. I tried all kinds of options on DAEMON tools and all produce the exact same results. The real reason I decided to edit my post, however, is because I forgot to mention: I'm running Windows XP 64 bit, which could very well be my issue, knowing how the most random things seem to fail on 64 bit XP when everything else works fine.
First of all, let me explain what I'm doing. I'm hoping to install Kubuntu within windows in order to use it as a test to see how my PC will perform in a Linux environment, as I've never tried Linux on this specific PC, but I don't want to risk doing any damage to the data on the existing hard drive. Budget constraints won't allow me to install a second hard drive, which is my ultimate goal, and install Kubuntu onto that, so I wanted to try this way about it. The issue occurs after installation. Everything goes awfully smooth to the point where it tells me that I have to restart windows. I let it do it for me, and it seems to refuse to do so as it just sits there. No big deal, I thought, but it's best to report it as an issue because when I manually restart windows, everything starts up as normal, no boot selection, no new icons, no nothing. I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be looking for, but I can tell you right now that if anything changed, I sure didn't notice.
Thankfully, I can still uninstall Kubuntu and try as many times as need fit, but the problem happens the exact same way every time, and it's urking me because I really wanted this to work. So, I'm taking suggestions and asking for help: What am I doing wrong?
As a side note, which might be somewhat important, I'm currently mounting the image on a virtual drive on the install, in order to avoid using costly disks, as I've already had one faulty burn thanks to my POS cd drive. I believe I'm going to start my trouble shooting with DAEMON tools and see if perhaps this is my problem while waiting for a response.
Thank you for your assistance.
Edit: Well, troubleshooting failure on my part. I tried all kinds of options on DAEMON tools and all produce the exact same results. The real reason I decided to edit my post, however, is because I forgot to mention: I'm running Windows XP 64 bit, which could very well be my issue, knowing how the most random things seem to fail on 64 bit XP when everything else works fine.
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