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My Computer is not booting up after a failed install of Mac on my Windows 7 and XP Dual booting pc.
It says please instert boot media in select boot device…. I believe the reason is because the Boot loader was overwritten. My question is how can I get another boot loader or something. I have tried installing linux but the grub install part failed (5 times) I have also tried to repair Windows XP with a live cd which also repairs or installs a boot loader but it still said the same thing. Please help.
WOW! it was iPC which is a modified version of the Mac OS X meant to be installed on a Windows Computer. You leave out one little detail and everyone thinks your the typical retard.
I do not have the windows 7 cd. I am using iPC x86. I was wondering if there was some sort of custom boot loader or thing of the sort. Why is grub failing to install? I have BartPE is there anything II can do with that?

okay, here’s the deal, my brother had several partitions on his hard drive:
C: win xp partition,
D: and E: data storage partitions
and an ubuntu linux partition with its swap partition

so, basically what he did was that he, using windows xp, deleted all the other partitions (D:, E:, the linux one and the swap partition), creating one big unpartitioned space, which he then formatted into ntfs.

now the idea was to format the C: drive and install a fresh copy of win xp, however, when he restarted the computer, and inserted the windows xp cd, the installation DID NOT FIND ANY HARD DRIVES ON THE COMPUTER… how is that possible??? the computer couldn’t load the existing win xp on the C: drive as well…

he later then tried formatting that big partition into fat32 filesystem via ubuntu live cd, but that didn’t help as well…

now we found some old 20gb hard drive, that we inserted in the pc, and we’re currently installing xp on that one, hoping that we’ll be able to fix the first hard drive

do you people have ANY IDEAS on how this problem might’ve occurred and do you have any possible ideas or solutions?
please, if you do, post it here, or drop me an email to ivan.lesh.85@gmail.com
i am also available on facebook. just search for ivan lesh from croatia
in addition: the new windows xp on the smaller hard drive (the 20gb one) doesn’t recognize the first, big, hard drive at all… is there a cure to that at all?

@ blackwhite – yeah, it could easily be that, but i don’t have an idea how to fix it… do you? is there some kind of an application that can find the missing disk?

@impauls – not cool dude.. what you think i am? a desperate housewife? maybe i should try plugging it in and out until it works, huh????

@mike – sounds like a good idea, but how can i install kill disk if i can’t even load the existing win xp on that disk, let alone find that hard drive from win xp installed on the other disk?

please, people, write me an email if you have any further ideas, i really have to find a way to fix this…

fedora and ubuntu, I want to put both on one DVD. i dont want to waste room on a whole dvd on one distro

Hi,

I have a virus that does the following:
disables the internet(browsing, downloads are working)
disables the sound manager
…

I tried restarting the Firewall/Internet connection service but i get an error message something like i am not the owner/i don’t have privileges

This i what i tried so far:
I reinstalled win Xp a couple of times
scanned the system with avira avast bitdefender and a couple of live cd anti-viruses(BART…)
i scanned the win partitions from linux with f-prot clamav
ran malwarebytes and about 20 or so trojan spyware removals + fixes

The system is up to date.

Please advise me!

I’ve never run into this problem, but my sister supposedly has a virus on her XP box, and I’m really not sure how to help her. The bootloader works fine, but upon selecting a user, does not display any icons or any sort of interface. Pressing the power button seems to call up the ’shut down’ display on xp.

What virus, if any, might this be? What are some possible solutions that don’t involve me manually backing up and reinstalling everything? (I can run a live linux cd and mount the HD)
NOTE: there is NO anti-virus installed on this machine.