My Linux Mint and Windows7 got problem

I'm not sure where the problem came from but recently I'm having problem in using both of my Mint and Windows7. I can't also access my 3rd Hard drive, 1 TB which contain my backup copies of all the important files.

In Mint, the processor seems busy handling something from the moment I logged on to Windows until now, it's been 10 minutes ! I suspected the problem is coming from my 3rd HDD.

I'm scheduling a backup using rsync everyday, my Mint will automatically backup the important folders set from Home to HDD2 and HDD3. Not sure what is wrong, the loading time now is more than the normal.

If I unplugged the HDD3, everything seems okay....

POST boot delay

Recently, I reinstalled Linux Mint 9 after previous installation got corrupted. Since then, it really takes time from the POST screen to boot, it takes about 20 seconds. I'm getting more stresses when it also takes time before I can see the desktop after the login page. The error message said that Power Management in running, but luckily I can click on the "Cancel" or the "Logout Anyway" buttons.

After a few search, I found out it suppose to be because of the usb device connected to my computer. Later on, I unplugged my usb bluetooth, and then start the computer. Wow, the 2 problems above solved. Yeehaa !! :)

I didn't tried to plug back the usb bluetooth, but I'll try that later.

Can't boot into Windows7 after deleted primary partition.

Recently, I installed another OS (Linux Mint). Before installing this Mint, I deleted primary partition (sda1) and created entended partition from the earlier primary partition sda1. Since that, I cannot boot into my Windows7 anymore (received error message something like "no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key"), but I've no problem in booting into both Linux Ubuntu and Mint.

I've tried a few things, but seems like the luck is not with me. Below are the things that I've tried:

1. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and done the Repair Startup many times (more than 5 times), still no luck.

2. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and chose Command Prompt to use:
Bootrec /scanos - The Windows is listed.
Bootrec /fixboot - No element found,
Bootrec /fixmbr - Completed succesfully.

3. Boot Recovery Disc Windows7 and chose Command Prompt to use Diskpart, everything seems okay for the list disk, select disk, list partiton, select partion, except the "active" command. I've been prompted with something like "Virtual Disk Service Error: the specified partition type is not valid for this operation".

I've installed back grub for me to log in into Linux Ubuntu/Mint. From Linux Gparted, I can see this windows partition is flagged as boot.

Here is the solution:

Using Gparted I can't create primary partition from the unallocated partition inside extended partition. I can only created another primary partition by shrunk my sda4 partition (last partition in Gparted) and use the 'just unallocated partition' as the primary partition for the 200 MB partition required.


1. Use Gparted to make an ntfs primary partition. Mark it Active (right click and Flag On)
2. Boot 7 dvd go to command prompt, type diskpart, lis vol, select the new primary with sel vol, ass ( to assign next available drive letter). Exi ( to leave diskpart).
3. bcdboot <7volumeletter>:\windows /s :
4. bootsect /nt60 : /mbr

Yeah at last, I managed to boot into windows7. I also reinstalled Grub, using Linux Mint Live-CD. Everything seems okay just that I can't see Windows bootloader upon start although I can see it is listed when I've done the 'sudo update-grub'. I edited file 'grub.cfg' manually, changed the (hd0,1) to (hd0,7) in Windows7 menuentry (my Windows installation is in sda7). I then run again 'sudo update-grub' and restart, this time Windows bootloader really listed in Linux Mint's grub. Hooray !!

I posted this problem in sevenforums.com.

Cannot access Gmail & YahooMail on Ubuntu 10.04

Earlier, I cannot check my emails through Gmail and YahooMail. I tried a few things, but still this issue didn't solved. Today, I googled again, trying to find some other clues, and yes... I managed to get this issues solved.

I can now check my emails on Gmail and YahooMail, and I can also logged in into Facebook. Just before all this things happened, I read somewhere, that someone suggested to disable all Firefox's addons installed, and then test to enable one by one those addons back. I really did it. I finished tested all those addons, all enabled as earlier, and the best thing is I can still check my emails. Emm... don't know what happened.

To confirm everything is okay, I restarted my PC, and still I can logged in happily to those 3 websites. :)


Hooray !!

Windows7 bootloader missing from Grub

Recently, I upgraded my Ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04, I chose to upgrade the grub, and then later I found windows7 bootloader missing from Grub. I tried a few things, trying to recover the bootloader, but ended failed. Whenever I fix windows using Windows Recovery Disc, my windows went back to normal, but unfortunately I lost the Ubuntu's grub. When I tried to recover grub, I lost the windows boot loader.

This is the command to recover grub, by using live-CD (my ubuntu installation is in sda3):

sudo mkdir /media/sda3

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda3 /dev/sda

I tried some other tricks suggested by others to recover bootloader through Windows Recovery Disc (as below),  but this doesn't worked for me. From the repair disk, choose "Command Prompt", then type below command:

bootrec.exe /fixboot

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

 At last, I found a solution here (by Aklem):

1: Run Gparted in Ubuntu

2: Right click on partition with windows, and set flags as "boot"

3. Run windows recovery to fix any other errors using startup repair 

4: Restart

Upon restart, I still can't see Windows7 bootloader in the grub's menu, but when logged in, in Ubuntu, I just run "sudo update-grub" in terminal to update grub, and finally Windows7 bootloader listed in grub.

Yeahaaa, I'm very happy now, problem solved !! :)