My computer will not boot up windows xp. I was having problems with a few days before. It was turning off randomly. I tried to reinstall windows and the problem did not stop. Now i cant load up windows anymore. All i get is the logo that appears when i boot my computer up the the screen goes black. I have tried a live cd of linux and it works fine. What do I do to fix this.
I dont have an xp cd but a restore cd
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I have a Toshiba A215-S7422 and I’m having trouble with linux. I tried to use BackTrack2 a few months ago. When I tried to boot from the live CD, i was able to log in, but when i used starx (i think thats what it was) i started to try to boot, and then it got stuck in a some sort of loop. Today Idecided to try to play aroung with Ubuntu, and when I select the start/install option, it just sits there. My guess is that it is stuck in a loop again, but since it doesnt show the progress like the BackTrack does, im not sure. The CD drive seems to be making the same noise over and over. For both of them I let them sit there for a long time (20 min) It isnt the CDs because they both worked in my desktop, and a friends Dell laptop. Any ideas?
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I want to make a live disc of a Linux operating system, so I downloaded the “ISO” of Ubuntu 7.10. After downloading I used “ISO Buster” to extract the files. Then wrote them on to a disc. But, when I tried to boot form the disc the computer goes ahead into my second boot option which is the hard drive, skipping the CD. I tried both the x86 and x64 versions. And even tried it on another computer nothing seems to help. Am I doing something wrong or is it just the disc?
Thanks.
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ok heres what im doing. i’ve just downloaded linux and ran the live cd and im gonna stick with it. so i want to install it and i just bought a external harddrive (320 GB simpletech harddrive) because i dont want to partition my drive and i want to install it on the external harddrive, but i dont know if its bootable or not so everytime i boot my machine and the usb cable is plugged in it’ll boot up in ubuntu and vice versa. but if dosent work then i’ll just have to transfer my data to the external and partition my disk with majority of the space. i dont know if i eplained it well enough. i hope you get my point. thanks.
i have windows xp by the way.
ok i checked my bios, and i dont have the usb option, what do i do? should i backup my primary hdd to my external and partition my primary and install linux.
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So i downloaded two different kinds of Linux, Ubuntu and openSUSE both are live CD’s. The problem is that they freeze when i try to boot them. Is something wrong with my hardware?
Here are some spec about my pc:
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz
graphic card nivida Geforce 5500 fx
1gb of ram
The pc i have is HP pavilion a1240n with was produced in 05 i think….
And I’m also running windows vista ultimate but i dont think thats a problem
So i downloaded two different kinds of Linux, Ubuntu and openSUSE both are live CD’s. The problem is that they freeze when i try to boot them. Is something wrong with my hardware?
Here are some spec about my pc:
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz
graphic card nivida Geforce 5500 fx
1gb of ram
The pc i have is HP pavilion a1240n with was produced in 05 i think….
And I’m also running windows vista ultimate but i dont think thats a problem
@edit, dont know how to post again so ya im putting it here lol
Well no, the booting screen of linux (where you choose the booting more) opens normaly, Than there is this loading screen and than it get stuck
