Dc'1 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Well, first of all, my quit button to shut down doesn't work... When I click the button in the top corner, or "System>Quit...", all that happens is my top and bottom bars vanish. To get them back I have to restart X. Also, nothing seems to update/download, not even my history saves... I'm sure I haven't ran out of space (my System Monitor says I have 0bytes free space) because the last time I looked I had over 4gb left, since then I've installed 3 updates lol. Finally, I installed XP again (not because I hate vista, but some games aren't working, and I wanted to try XP), I still had Vista installed, and I got my GRUB loader back, (before it would only load XP), it has all the options that were there before (Vista, Ubuntu 8.04, Debug, Memtest). So I wanted to boot Vista, and XP starts up... (they are on different HDDs), so I decide to check my menu.lst, and it directs Vista to my first HDD (where Vista is installed), so I try so add an entry for XP, I save it, restart, my XP entry isn't there, and Vista still loads XP. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dc'1 Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 Edit: I managed to get Vista and XP working side by side! Had to do a repair install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown_97784568745 Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Edit: I managed to get Vista and XP working side by side! Had to do a repair install. All you had to do is boot the vistadisc and do a "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and "bootrec.exe /fixmbr", then add xp to your vista bootloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 30, 2008 Veteran Share Posted May 30, 2008 Ok, your multi-boot is fixed. That leaves a shutdown that doesn't shut down, and history & settings not saving and reporting 0 space free. I am going to guess that if you really have run out of freespace, it might cause these other problems. Can you open a terminal and post the output of a df command? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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