Cleaning your disk for about 20GB to 60GB takes up to 20-40 min

Hi Tuan,

Happy New Year 2013.

I did not update here… I managed to get Ubuntu on the Macbook but
went on the Windows 8 partition. There are some issues.
Actually after doing something in Windows, I accidentally lost the
Mac partition. I did something else and made it worse.
I panicked for a moment even calling Apple Care (emergency!) :).
After calming down, I managed to go to a hard drive I had made a
Time Machine back up on and was able to recover the Mac OS at least,
then I did a recovery of everything though I back up my data in various
places.

After the Mac side was fine (and not needing an appointment with Apple
for that purpose but I rescheduled it later just to get some keys replaced),
I went back to putting Windows back on maybe after I got some rest then
I just put Ubuntu Linux on the Windows partition running wubi? from
Windows and using the Windows 8 boot loader. It is weird as I have to reboot
twice to get to Ubuntu.

Well enough of that…

I am bored with bootcamp now and I think I may want to play with VMware
(I heard of layoffs there this morning…) so maybe I had wanted to explore
it free, but after hearing about lay offs, maybe I should pay something.
The thing is I have a limited budget since I am not earning anything in
this industry and actually I am losing money on my efforts.

So I just want to know if you think VMware is worth playing with, can I
keep my operating systems in their current states and just add this to maybe
switch the operating systems in real time or have them run in parallel?
This may give me something else to do, but I may not want to have to
reinstall anything and take a lot of time putting Windows 7 back on and upgrading
to 8 and then Ubuntu adding … But I do have time on my hands.

maybe you can send me a private email of your opinions instead of posting here
in public.

Thank you again (if anyone is really monitoring this forum any longer).
Oh and I am not really having any issues with Windows 8 on the Macbook except
the brightness is a bit dim or dimmer than the Mac side. Anyone knows
why and how to fix? Thanks.

Terrance

Though I got behind schedule after a major hiccup with Windows 8 and accommodation
for Ubuntu Linux on the Mac, I have finally installed 3 operating systems on the
Mac.
I lost time by making a mistake (I knew better) in allowing Windows 8 to change
the integrity of the hard drive and I lost access to the Mac OS Mountain Lion
partition (boot sector). Eventually I made another change and lost access to the
main partition even after contacting Apple to do something with Disk Utility
and Command -R and who knows what else.

I won’t explain all I went through and what I did to mess things up.
Fortunately what saved me was that back up I performed late October.
I think I learned more by erasing the Mac hard drive and how to adjust
the partitions to play around with that and perhaps getting 3 operating systems
to show up when you hit the Option key. I tried but Ubuntu Linux’s Grub
was a bit complicated in this environment than on other Windows machines.

After some trials and errors and some scares initially and exhaustion/head aches,
I finally tried to install Ubuntu again on an unallocated partition under
Windows, but Windows allows only so many partitions and the space I reserved for
Linux exceeded Windows’ limit.

I got tired an I was able to have Windows 8 to reclaim the unallocated partition for
use and I decided to just install Ubuntu on the C drive under Windows. This is not
how I had envisioned (I wanted a separate partition), but it works and I am
tired of this until I have more time to explore a better way to do this
(perhaps with playing with the partitioning under Mac and the Disk Utility more).

I am now sending this from the Ubuntu environment. All work, the Mac OS is
back in tact — I have an appointment adjusted from 10AM this morning —
this afternoon as I figured out how to recover my data and the Mac OS. I want
to discuss a better way to make a flash to keep the Mac OS Mountain Lion better
and bootable so I don’t have to use the back up hard drive which saved me last night.
Most of my documents and pictures are recovered but that data are everywhere anyway,
The Mac just consolidated things more conveniently. Actually after the reinstall
The Mac found a lot of the applications and maybe a restore from the Time Machine
hard drive without me having to (or not knowing) anything.

Best wishes and Happy Holidays… I am pretty much done with my testing and
requirements.

Well if you are back… what are your thoughts on Desktops and
that suite of tools from SysInternals for Windows 8.
Initially I thought Desktops worked better without reverting to
the main Desktop #1 while in one of the other 3 Desktops (2, 3, or 4)
in the quadrant.
It was working fine but that behavior of going to the first desktop
reappeared. Maybe it is because I was running something processor
intensive in desktop 1 like WMC.

Also, please send me if you can or want a list of problems you mentioned
of Windows 8 on the Mac. I am not seeing any issues other than the
problem with update errors that does not affect performance. I still see
some old Windows 7 quirks , but that is to be expected as really this
is just Windows 7 with a shell around it?

Feel free to send me email as listed above or currter@msn.com

I would like to see if I can or will have similar problems, but of course
I am running this off a MacBook Pro 17″ and maybe there are different
problems or issues with other Mac products (iMac, other MacBooks …)

Thank you in advance

I am doing another back up just before the reinstall soon and maybe I will
experience problems again as described in the past but we know how to
overcome those.

I have another $40 valued Windows 8 Pro (somehow). I have not opened
it but I am getting closer, very soon perhaps as I revamp the MacBook
and will do a reinstall of everything to make room for Ubuntu Linux
on the Windows partition.

As far as the touch screens, I guess I have 2 clients who got them
integrated with their CPUs and each one spent about the same amount
I did with both touchscreens added and they have less flexibility
(less portable). I will decided if I keep both, one or neither display.
For the prices I got them, maybe I could make > something in their sales?
But you’re kind of right, I am not really touching the screen much
but do just to continue testing. Both Dell and HP touchscreens seem
to work just fine.

Next project: Reinstall fresh on MacBook with/ Ubuntu Linux partition
(if possible) and I should be done — potentially 3 operating systems running
on the Mac Book…. Wish me luck.

Thank you.

No Terrance.
You can’t use that key for Preview version, it works on the Pro version only. Sorry for not replying you promptly, I am drowning in final papers of this semester.
I am never a fan of big touch screens, it even can decrease productivity in my view. Lots of people bought touch screen monitors and hardly get their hands on the screen. Just my opinions so that you won’t waste money.

Of course I am going or I am planning to reinstall everything on the
Macbook to make room for the Ubuntu Linux, maybe I will get to it this
weekend.

(I went to yet another computer (Dell 32bit) running Windows 7 to test a touch screen
monitor HP’s and Windows 7 was so slow and lagged. I am glad I am using
Windows 8 and Mac on the MacBook and on the Sony). I wonder if Windows 8
could be an improvement on the Dell?

I spoke too soon.

I am seeing the same behavior running SysInternals’ Desktops program within
Windows 8 (desktop mode) as I saw in Windows 7 (after all the desktop mode in
Windows 8 looks and behaves similarly as Windows 7?).

When attempting to work in one of the desktops other than the first (1),
it reverts back to desktop 1. Perhaps there was something I was running
that required it to go back to the first desktop (I was playing audio files
with either iTunes or Windows Media Player and that caused it to switch
desktop from another where I was trying to run something else, maybe
Windows Media Center to watch TV).

Another problem I noticed is that when one is in one of the desktops
2, 3 or 4, one cannot move the cursor to the corner or side to invoke
the settings or Windows 8 menu to control things or see the start menu.
I have to always go back to Desktop 1 (the main one) to get the Start
menu or the click in the corner or side to see the other menus
(Settings, Search, Devices, etc.).

It would be nice to find something like Desktops in Mac or Sun Workstation
to separate applications running in different windows to help
prevent clutter. Although I did see I can extend the window and use
the laptop’s main display as Display 1 and the touch screen as Display 2
just have to move the mouse (cursor) over to the left to get to Display 2…
That seems to work and one can get to the Start and Settings menus
that way. I was trying to use one display though mainly the touch screen
as it is 21 or 22 inches.

I hope this is still on subject.

I forgot to add, The Desktops under the systinternals Windows project
seems to work better under Windows 8 than it did in Windows 7.
So if you want to create I think up to 4 (max) desktops like one can
on The Mac, you can do so here and it seems to work better. before I had
problems of I could not stay within a desktop without it reverting to the
main one (desktop 1). You can organize your work into one or all of the 4 quadrants.
I am not sure if one can create more than 4 desktops like you can with Mac.

Windows 8 the desktop (2, 3 or 4) seems to remain static and not go back
to desktop 1 after a certain amount of time.

I am listing a link to the sysinternals website where there are other tools
for example: process monitoring, analyzing tcp/ip and IP addresses attaching/connecting
to computer (network), process explorer and other tools (reminding of UNIX)
(file system tools).
Maybe Windows 8 has integrated some of this but it can be looked into if interested.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062