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[TyDoesMC]

Hello My Computer With Window's XP Has Broke With All My Stuff, I Am On It Now With a Ubuntu Boot Disk, How Do I Run MC On a Boot Disk Only?

I Am Asking Because I Have Programs I Post That Arnt Tested!
Please Reply If You Know How!

[tvc]

you might be able to im not really sure. However I know for a fact you can fun minecraft off of a usb drive

[TyDoesMC]

Ok Thank You!

[Lyqyd]

Not really Ask a Pro material.

Moved to General.

[Zudo]

It is certainly possible, but you would have to reinstall Java, re-download Minecraft, install Forge (and CC)

As the Ubuntu live CD stores everything in memory, you would probably have a lot of lag trying to do that!

[1lann]

Oh er, this is a bit tricky considering everything you save onto the ubuntu disk is erased upon rebooting. But generally you'll need to install OpenJDK from the software center, and before that you need to add the universal repository, which should be quite simple as the software center will give you a button to do so. Then you'll need to get Minecraft and Forge. If you have programs you need to test from your Windows partition, then access it and get it from there, I can't remember the file tree for Windows XP, probably under /Documents and Settings/Username/AppData/Roaming/minecraft ect.

If your windows partition is corrupted/failed to mount or something, then you can try mounting it as read-only, if so then to save your stuff you'll need to save it to a USB or another working partition. If that doesn't work, you can also try doing a Check/Repair on it (using ntfsprogs), and if that doesn't work you can try recovering the partition with TestDisk, Scrounge NTFS or something.

[TyDoesMC]

No I Think I Got The Blue Screen Of Death!

After The Loading Windows Screen It Goes To The login Area Then It Shows a Blue Screen And Then Reboots! D: I Want a Computer With Windows!!!!!

[TyDoesMC]

And Yes:

C:/Documents And Settings/user/appdata/.minecraft/saves/myprograms/

[Mads]

While on the disk:

$ sudo apt-get install gdisk
$ sudo cgdisk /dev/sda

Then move the "cursor" to the largest "free space", using your arrow keys.

Move to the "New" button with your left and right arrow keys, and press enter.
When you're prompted to enter the first sector, just press enter.
When you're prompted to enter the size of the partition, type 15G and press enter.
Press enter again.
Then write your partition name, and press enter.
Remember the partition location(/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.).
Now, write that to the disk(using the button in cgdisk), and exit cgdisk.

In the terminal, execute these commands. Replace /dev/sda1 with the partition you created:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt

Now, you have a directory which will remain there, even though the computer is shut down. All you have to when you start it up, is this:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt

[1lann]

Toxic_Herobrine, on 07 August 2013 - 03:42 PM, said:

No I Think I Got The Blue Screen Of Death!

After The Loading Windows Screen It Goes To The login Area Then It Shows a Blue Screen And Then Reboots! D: I Want a Computer With Windows!!!!!

My sister had this problem before, it was apparently because the dll for one of the login things was deleted or something. Try googling the problem. You can also try inserting your windows setup disk and run repair, or try booting into safe mode.

[TyDoesMC]

Ok I Googled It But It Said Same Thing, I Also Dont Have a Boot Disk And Also Safe Mode Does Same Thing.

[1lann]

Well your options are to either:
Repair Windows (Requires windows disk)
Re-install Windows (Requires windows disk)
Migrate to Ubuntu (Will delete all your files, and you don't seem to be capable of using Ubuntu properly (No offence, most people around my age aren't either))
Pay some money and send it to a tech repair place, or ask a friend who is does tech stuff (An IRL friend who can get to you physically)

[Mads]

Follow my damn instructions.

[Cranium]

If your computer is within warranty, Microsoft will send you a repair/install disk at no cost to you. If it's out of warranty, well...you're boned. At least you're not a pirate

[1lann]

Mads, on 09 August 2013 - 01:50 AM, said:

Follow my damn instructions.

Not really going to help much since all of the configuration files and installed applications will be gone every time he restarts. Also if his entire hard drive is his Windows partition, shrinking it could cause problems and data loss (if shrinking it is possible at all). It's not such a good long term fix.

[nutcase84]

Mads, on 09 August 2013 - 01:50 AM, said:

Follow my damn instructions.

Lolololol.