+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 26, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted February 26, 2013 I had my 1TB drive formatted in ext4 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I used Gparted and resized the drive, I added 130GB NTFS partition and installed Windows 7 on it. I now boot directly into windows, no options to select Ubuntu. What happened? Shouldn't windows or Ubuntu have installed a menu to choose? How do I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 The Windows installer overwrote your old bootloader. Usually a pretty easy thing to repair as long as you have a live CD handy. For example: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Karl L. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 26, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 26, 2013 Oh good, so just get into a live Ubuntu, run boot repair? Nice and simple, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted February 26, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted February 26, 2013 i'd stick with the windows boot loader and use EasyBCD to at Ubuntu to it (download link at the bottom) makes things overall easier to work with IMO. especially if you want to get into windows safe mode for whatever reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 here you see fine that windows really behaves like a virus :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted February 26, 2013 Moderator Share Posted February 26, 2013 And yet billions of people still use it. Your claim is moot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitmz Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 you can use any bootloaders you want... but i do recommend reinstalling grub as the guy said above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 26, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 26, 2013 Oh I'm staying away from the windows bootloader, never liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted February 26, 2013 Moderator Share Posted February 26, 2013 EasyBCD is very simple to use. I used it in the past. +longgonebn 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 28, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 28, 2013 Now that I have both running I have an issue accessing a drive. I am using a program called Ext2Fsd to allow me to access my ext4 drives in Windows, works great. Though, I installed Plex Server and it does not work. I add a folder from those drives, and nothing happens. Ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Did you install Plex in Windows or Ubuntu? If its in Windows, its possible that Plex is trying (and failing) to get extended attribute information about the files in the folders you added. Although its just a guess (since I have no experience with Plex specifically), many media servers try to read extended attributes from files. Most of the time this works great. Unfortunately while Ext2Fsd works reasonably well, it is still somewhat incomplete (hence the reason it doesn't support the full EXT3 or EXT4 feature sets), and Windows stores file attributes very differently than Linux, leading to extra work that needs to be done by Ext2Fsd to make extent file systems moutable in Windows. articuno1au 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Eloquently put. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 28, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 28, 2013 Yes installed on Windows (well windows is the one with the issue). So what exactly are you saying, nothing can be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Since I'm not very familiar with Plex I'm not going to outright state that nothing can be done, but that is likely the case if my conjecture is correct. If you have a drive (or partition) with only media, it might be a good idea to format it as NTFS as long as you are sharing it with Windows. Linux has much better NTFS support than Windows does EXT2+ support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 28, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 28, 2013 Yea they are all ext4 because I had issues getting Plex on Linux to access those drives lol Now that I am using Windows for some Games, I need temp usage of Plex on Windows, and don't work lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noir Angel Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Windows bootloader doesn't play well with Linux. Install Windows first if you ever do it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 28, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 28, 2013 Windows bootloader doesn't play well with Linux. Install Windows first if you ever do it again Thanks, but that's dealt with now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted February 28, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted February 28, 2013 you could try having the drives as exFat you'll need to install the exfat driver for linux as it isn't installed by default by most distros yet https://code.google.com/p/exfat/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted February 28, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted February 28, 2013 Basically at this point, it's a big hassle to re-format all the drives, have to move around too much data. So I am either stuck figuring out how to get it to work perfectly with windows, or deal with how it has been. Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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