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Hi there, everything was running fine until yesterday when I started my PC and got a message “error loading operating system.”
I checked the BIOS settings and its detecting my hard disk.
I tried reinstalling windows but at the step where it asks to select the drive,there are no drives in the list.
Now I’m running Linux Ubuntu from the live CD. (I’m running it from the cd cause I cannot install it as I can’t detect my hard disk).
Can anyone tell me what can I do ? Is there any way I can do this on my own ? Any way to access and repair the hard disk from Linux ? Or any boot options or anything ?

So…I’m very familiar with Linux and I’m a big fan. But the one problem I always had was the installation. When I get Linux, I have to use Wubi, because I don’t trust GRUB. When I did a normal install of Ubuntu 8.04, I got GRUB error 17…and couldn’t boot Vista. I’m not willing to give up Windows, I want to dual boot. Here were the steps I did to installing:

1. Shrunk the main hard disk and made a new simple volume out of it
2. Got my Live CD, booted it up and installed 8.10 on the new partition
3. When it finished, I couldn’t boot Windows! GRUB error. so i had to restore my pc to factory setting using a recovery cd

Here’s my question now: Since I have Windows 7 now, and Ubuntu 9.10 has some changes, will I still have all the boot problems, or should I just forget it and use Wubi?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

PS: My specs are a NEW sony vaio vgn-ns laptop running windows 7 ultimate, 3 GB ram, 250 GB hard drive

i had two hard drives in my computer one with win xp on it. i wanted to put linux ubuntu on the other from a live cd so i installed but after i installed it i didnt want it any more so i tried aborting the installation but now it says erroer loading operating system plz help it sukaz badly.ps i cant reinstall xp cuz dont have cd. pps i tried taking out one of the hds and it said “loading grub please wait” then “error 21″
also it wont let me finish installing ubuntu at all it stops like at 79% and shows bakground

Windows keeps displaying the stop error “PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED” when booting. Ran chkdsk several times with no luck. While using a Linux live CD, Linux can not mount the drive. Has my hard drive definitely gone bad?

Ok so i was just uninstalling Ubuntu Linux cause my GPU has no drivers that linux can use. So i went onto vista then to disk management, and i deleted the Ubuntu partition and merged the free space with Vistas partition.

I restarted and tried to boot up but i got an Error message that says:
Grub error 22
(or something along those lines)

I do have the live CD (thaats how im here)
I also have Acer Factory Recovery CDs but they didnt help AT ALL!

Im panicking rly badly right now!
what do i do to get Vista back up!

Idc about Ubuntu i just want vista back!

My computer is an Acer Laptop
Windows Vista Home Premium
250GB HDD

Idc if it erases everything, whatever it takes,

THANKS!!!

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Additional Details
I do not have a Vista Os CD

I herd something about SuperGrubDisk but i have no clue how that works…

2 minutes ago
I cannot Acess vista, or control pannel, and the Live CD of Ubuntu from what i know, cannot help me very much other than give me a Temporary OS to run off of.