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by **cornleader** on Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:31 pm

I had a miserable fail trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Mint on an Inspiron 7720SE. See previous thread HERE. I haven't used linux in years and wanted to give it a try again however I have no choice to use Windows for work and I like to play games from time to time. Thanks to srs5694 for all your help dealing with my stupidity on the previous thread.

I am about to wipe the machine clean instead of fixing it. I May have erased the cache info on the SSD so my windows install is a mess and I think I installed Mint to the wrong partition. So I want to take what I learned and start from scratch and do a fresh dual boot install. First some general questions.

I want to be able to have windows installed and take advantage if the iRST, if I am not mistaken this requires me to have the SSD set up on a RAID. I want to have MINT installed alongside. In a nutshell I want Win7 with iRST using the SSD and Mint to show up in my boot screen.

The machine came with WIN8 and in EUFI mode. No idea what any of this meant but it caused some major issues for me and now I'm at a point to start fresh. I changed from EUFI to Legacy mode. I'm going to wipe the hard drive and create 3 partitions to start, 2 primary's 250GB and 500GB, (1TB drive), and the rest I will leave alone for Mint. I will install Windows to the 250GB, and have the 500GB for storage. I will install Mint to the unpartitioned space that is left over. I will do this all via legacy mode.

I'm not asking for any windows assistance here but is there anyone else out there who has done something similar or know if this is possible?

by **cornleader** on Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:35 am

well i have reinstalled windows and set up iRST, for the most part. Back to where I was. When I try to install Mint, It doesn't recognize my windows install. No partitions are displayed on /dev/hda.

Here is my bootinfoscript output.

Code: Select all: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda. => Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb. => Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdd. => Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M7529. sda1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy sda2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy sda3: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext2 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy mount: unknown filesystem type '' sdd1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ntfs Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75291: __________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75292: __________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75293: __________________________________________________ File system: Boot sector type: Unknown Boot sector info: Mounting failed: fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy fuse: mount failed: Device or resource busy mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' mount: unknown filesystem type '' ============================ Drive/Partition Info: ============================= Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS /dev/sda2 206,848 524,290,047 524,083,200 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS /dev/sda3 524,290,048 1,572,866,047 1,048,576,000 6 FAT16 Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0 GB, 32017047552 bytes 251 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3954 cylinders, total 62533296 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/sdb1 2,048 16,386,047 16,384,000 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive Drive: sdd _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sdd: 8235 MB, 8235515904 bytes 63 heads, 21 sectors/track, 12157 cylinders, total 16084992 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/sdd1 * 5,472 16,084,991 16,079,520 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS Drive: isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M7529 _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M7529: 1000.2 GB, 1000200470528 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders, total 1953516544 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75291 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75292 206,848 524,290,047 524,083,200 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75293 524,290,048 1,572,866,047 1,048,576,000 6 FAT16 "blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________ Device UUID TYPE LABEL /dev/loop0 squashfs /dev/sda1 FA6A83446A82FD1F ntfs System Reserved /dev/sda2 26A23CB5A23C8AF7 ntfs /dev/sda3 23cc74fe-ab23-46d5-9ddf-b20764579d5c ext2 /dev/sdd1 F88A89FE8A89B9A0 ntfs /dev/sr0 iso9660 Linux Mint 14 MATE 64-bit ================================ Mount points: ================================= Device Mount_Point Type Options /dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime) /dev/sdd1 /media/mint/F88A89FE8A89B9A0 fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime) ======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ======================== Unknown BootLoader on isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75291 Unknown BootLoader on isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75292 Unknown BootLoader on isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75293 ========= Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive: ========= sdc =============================== StdErr Messages: =============================== hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75291: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75291: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75292: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75292: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75293: No such file or directory hexdump: /dev/mapper/isw_bbcejiijdf_WX81A72M75293: No such file or directory No volume groups found

by **cornleader** on Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:28 pm

I guess the big issue is my raid 0 array being used for my iRST in windows. I confirmed that the SSD was not using GPT and I have all the features of iRST set up. Also I installed windows in Legacy mode, not EUFI. So this means that the following drives are using raid 0.
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb

So my question is as follows... Can I install Mint as a dual boot system on a partition on /dev/sda that is part of a raid 0 array?
The Mint live CD does not recognize any partitions on my machine during the install.

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