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I am using Ubuntu after a BSOD error. Ubuntu is awesome, I can access all my windows files, however, I need to access my programs on windows.
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- 06-21-2011 #1Just Joined!
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I am using Ubuntu after a BSOD error.
I am using Ubuntu after a BSOD error. Ubuntu is awesome, I can access all my windows files, however, I need to access my programs on windows.
Here's what happened-
I accidentally changed permissions after getting a virus. I then tried to do a system restore and during that process the computer crashed. When I try to boot to windows in every possible mode, I am always left with the dreaded blue screen of death.
Can anyone please help me resolve this issue?
- 06-21-2011 #2
Hello and Welcome to the Forums.
Please continue this discussion here only, your other thread has been deleted as a duplicate. You might have better luck with your problem on a Windows forum.I do not respond to private messages asking for Linux help, Please keep it on the forums only.
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- 06-21-2011 #3Hi and Welcome !
Originally Posted by rocinante
Its not possible to execute installed Windows executable files in Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. You can access Windows Partitions and manage files in those partitions but can't execute installed programs.
As MikeTbob suggested already, try Windows OS Forums. If you have any Linux related problem, we will be glad to help you.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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- 06-21-2011 #4Linux Guru
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You might be able to install some of your Windows programs on Ubuntu using Wine, but as DC said, you cannot execute the copies that reside on the Windows partition. Some of the simpler executables can be copied over to Ubuntu and executed after you have given them execute permissions, and Wine will try to run them for you, but most won't work this way unless you install them from scratch using either an installer exe or msi file.
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