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| Thread ID: 114793 | 2010-12-17 07:26:00 | Moving to Linux | ubergeek85 (131) | PC World Chat |
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| 1162876 | 2010-12-22 03:33:00 | I'd love to help but afraid I can't. I suggested to my Uncle that he try Ubuntu, but once I realized his Dell had a recovery partition I gave up on the idea in case it destroyed something. Going by what just happened to you, I'm glad I didn't. That obviously doesn't help you, though. But I'm sure someone else will be able to.... At a guess I'd say the Recovery partition program removed part of GRUB, and has caused it to fail. Reinstalling GRUB from the live CD might work. Don't try it though until you get confirmation from someone else! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1162877 | 2010-12-22 04:01:00 | ok its all turned to custard now. i think i've toasted grub, can't boot anything off of the hdd, but still can boot to the live cd. on bootup i get the following text error: no such partition. . Sorry But I cant resist this :p -- may I quote part of Post #53 I'm reminded of an old joke, all windows error messages, prompts, etc etc, can be suffixed with 'you idiot'. Ex; "Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin you idiot?" "The device can now be removed safely you idiot" "This option is recommended for Advanced users only, are you sure you want to continue you idiot?" :D :lol: ---OOPS! |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1162878 | 2010-12-22 04:27:00 | Long story short, you partition and install windows first, leaving some space free. Then, you install Linux afterwards. Linux plays nice with Windows Windows doesn't play nice with anything. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1162879 | 2010-12-22 05:11:00 | Mine looks similar to yours and my menu.1st has this in it for booting Windows off the second partition first HD. title windows root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 The first partition is (hd0,0) |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1162880 | 2010-12-22 07:09:00 | You can only have 4 primary partitions on the disk and those are what is listed in the MBR. device boot start end blocks id system /dev/sda1 1 1274 10,233,373plus 12 compaq diagnostics << ???? /dev/sda2 * 1275 10383 73,162,752 6 fat16 << WAY TOO BIG for fat16 /dev/sda3 10383 19457 72,888,321 5 extended /dev/sda5 18959 19457 3,998,720 82 linux swap / solaris Can't see an NTFS partition there anywhere. Does 7 put it in an extended partition? Looks like it has been merged with the FAT16 Win7 boot partition (did it have one before?) If not it may simply require changing the partition type (back) to NTFS Boot the live disk and use testdisk to attempt recovery of your Windows partition. If it's not already on the disk you should be able to install it with synaptic (or whatever package manager ubuntu has in the live image). Did you choose the layout when installing ubuntu or did you let it do it itself? If it was the ubuntu installer, that would be a big fail on their part. If it was you .... :) If Win7 requires the 100MB boot partition, you will be limited to having all of your linux partitions inside the extended one, including swap. There is no problem with this though, it will run exactly the same. EDIT: I'm pretty sure ubuntu uses grub2 by default, so you won't have a menu.lst, it's a bit more complicated than that. :) Howerver your issue is with the MBR not the bootloader. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1162881 | 2010-12-22 09:29:00 | bah, its not worth the effort to get windows working again. i'm backing up all data now, then once thats all done, bam, ubuntu all the way baby. if worst comes to worst, i can always get a windows vm set up. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1162882 | 2010-12-24 11:02:00 | Well, it turns out that most of my Linux partitions vanished into thin air. root, home and boot had gone poof, but swap was still there, along with Vista and its recovery partition. Not sure why that happened, but I'm up and running again, and grub was kind enough to rebuild itself with the option of booting to vista and the recovery partition. Haven't booted Vista yet, as I'm a little confused; when grub offers its boot menu, it shows 'windows vista' on /dev/sda1 and 'windows vista recovery environment' on /dev/sda2. In ubuntu, /dev/sda2 is my old windows C drive. Is grub getting confused as to what's my recovery partition and what's my vista partition? It would explain why, when I went to boot vista, it launched into the recovery partition. |
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