I’ll start up by stating the situation.
On a new (3 month old) packard bell imedia 5020 i had two partitions. The first one being ubuntu feisty , the second one being vista home premium. I loved both. Because i screwed up ubuntu I booted into vista. Installed acronis boot manager, formatted the first partion to ntfs and rebooted. Grub bootmanager gave me error 22 (logical, since I deleted ubuntu ) I usually use super grub disk to repair windows mbr. However i was unable to boot any cd’s (yes the bios was set up to boot from cd and i used f8 and choose cd to boot more than once). No cd’s would boot (including ubuntu feisty, linux mint cassandra, plos2007, gparted live cd, super grub disk, xp).
I then installed another cd-rom from an old computer. This time instead of ignoring the cd and going straight to the hard drive thus giving grub error 22), the screen remains black. When i pull out the cd, the hard drive loads and gives the grub error.
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However, xp home will load. When i need to choose a partition, i choose and it says the partition isn’t xp compatible. I found something on a forum here:
http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=198&threadid=1054958&pagenumber=1&subpage=1
But i don’t understand the guys solution. And i only have one hard drive.
Any help guys?
