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I recently partitioned my hard drive to create an empty 43 GB drive on my Windows 7 64-bit Compaq Presario.

After the partition was complete, I used the Windows Installer from the Ubuntu website (wubi) to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit.

With my Dual Boot configuration complete, I restarted my computer and chose the partition with Ubuntu installed on it.

The first time it seemed okay until the login screen, where it froze on the login screen with a dotted purple background and a continuous animated drum sound playing.

I rebooted it and the same thing kept happening.

On around the fourth time, Ubuntu booted correctly.

Then, I messed around with it for a bit when I decided I should install Adobe Flashplayer from the Software Centre. It gave me an “unmet dependencies” error.

So I have two problems :

  • Ubuntu only boots about one out of every four times correctly
  • I cant download certain software from the software center, as i get an error message saying the dependecies are not met.
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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  • if you partitioned ur disk then why go with wubi? you can install it as a seperate os alongside of win7. it'll b less buggy – Meow Feb 16 '14 at 03:44
  • Would I just go to ubuntu.com, dowload 12.04 lts, and simply place the file i downloaded into my partition? Would it boot that way? – BenCavTww Feb 16 '14 at 08:47
  • nope you need 2 delete the partition in windows then make a live usb or cd then reboot the pc with that live usb/cd and then select install ubuntu alongside windows thats it ubuntu will take care of everything else – Meow Feb 16 '14 at 09:29
  • Will this also work for 13.10? – BenCavTww Feb 16 '14 at 19:55
  • Do I make a live USB drive with unetbootin? – BenCavTww Feb 16 '14 at 20:10
  • yep it can be used and the method works for too – Meow Feb 17 '14 at 05:35
  • in order to delete the partition in win7 u need to go to disk management present in computer management(press start> right click on "computer" select manage) and in bios (or during startup) select usb as 1st preference for boot up to begin the installation – Meow Feb 17 '14 at 05:39
  • At the boot prompt, choose “memory test”. Let it run for at least one full pass. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mar 03 '14 at 01:53

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Tell us what kind of graphics are you using? If you are using widely used nvidia, then the driver needs to be updated.Give the following command in the terminal

$sudo apt-get <drivername>-current

Here driver name will be nvidia. Now you need to configure the driver from additional driver in dash home by activating them. And for the second problem.Give the command

$sudo apt-get -f install

And then give

$sudo apt-get update
saptarshi nag
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