My computer restarted the other night and afterwards I got a “DISK BOOT ERROR PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRES ENTER” message. I loaded up a linux live cd and I’m able to access the hard drive and salvage my data but I am not able to format the drive. When I attempt to format it doesn’t start, then gives me an error message.
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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 ?
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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
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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
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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?
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Tagged chkdsk, dead windows, drive, error, Hard Drive, INITIALIZATION, Linux, Linux Live CDs, luck, Process, Ran, several times, stop, windows
