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linux, vista, and 7 = nothing boots?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I’ve been meaning to install windows 7 on my laptop which was dual booting vista and ubuntu no problem. My end goal was to have vista, 7, and ubuntu next to each other. I decided that I also wanted a clean install of ubuntu. So I started out today by deleteing all the linux partitions and installing 7 on it. When it restarted I only had a blinking line. So I fixed mbr and fix boot. I fear that installing 7 in the free space beside vista and using a 7 install disk to fix the mbr it has damaged my vista partition. When I run a live cd it looks like all my files from vista are there but when I restart and try to boot it tells me I have a disk read error, please press ctrl+alt+del. ubuntu sees my vista partition as a windows 7 (loader) and it sees the 7 partition as just a nfts filesystem. Any ideas on how I can get vista to boot again?
Thanks for the help, but I figured it out a diffrent way.
1) I used gparted to remove the boot flag from the dead vista partition.
2) Installed 7 on a new partiton
3) Used the repair option on the vista disk, which automatically added the “recovered” vista partition to the boot loader and it boots.

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Make free space into D: drive! Help please!?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

Due to messing with Linux installations and partitions, I have deleted my D: partition.

My D: partition was on my computer when I bought it, and I thought it was another hard disk. Now, I accidentally deleted the partitions, and I have a 69 GB partition for Windows Vista, a 10 GB partition of WinRE, and about 220 GB of free space.

Since im such a beginner at partitions, I want to know how I can make that free space into a big D: partition, for storing movies and stuff, no OSes.

I booted a Linux Mint live cd, and went into the partitioner, Gparted or something. But there are several “modes” a can choose, including ext2, ext3, ext4, switch space, among others. Then theres the option of primary or secondary partition. What do I need to choose to get another partition just for storing data?
arou42, just to correct you… I didnt delete my WinRE partition. And I’ve downloaded a recovery cd anyways.

The rest: Thanks, ill try :D
one more thing, i remembered as I read through the answers.
I want to be able to see the D: partition from My Computer (Vista)
should I put the root directory thing to “/”?

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My computer crashed and I cant load windows…can someone help with a good Live OS (CD) and some options?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

The other day my computer suddenly ran VERY sluggishly so I restarted it and it immediatly booted into the windows Checkdisk…ran through and said there was at least one problem but then windows loaded. Once windows loaded, I started getting pop-ups saying this couldnt load, that couldnt load….and I had to restart. Checkdisk ran again and this time a bunch of files I’ve never seen started being deleted…”M$01″ or something like that. Once about 50 files were deleted, it then started “restoring” 50 more “Orphan” files but before it finished, it said there was “insufficient disk space”. I have a 640GB Western Digital HD with only 100GB used on it so I had plenty of free space.

The next time it tried to load, it didn’t even make it to checkdisk, it said something along the lines of can not load windows, can not find file “c:windowssystem32configsystem”.

Soooooo…I spent 15 hours trying to use the windows restore disc and run the restore option through the dos prompt and when trying to reload an old restore point, it kept telling me the information was invalid. I then tried to get a LiveOS (Knoppix and also MEPIS linux LIVE OS CD’s) but knoppix wouldnt even load and MEPIS had about 15 errors but would eventually load. I could get into MEPIS but not see my C drive or D drive. (although it did show C drive but did not show how much space there was or anything else…and the only option I had was to “mount” the hard drive.) I did not try mounting the drive because I am afraid I would erase the information I am trying to recover.

I have a second hard drive running now with XP home (SATA) and the old hard drive with the information I want is disconnected because it too is a SATA drive and my CD rom is a SATA and I only have 2 SATA connections on my MB.

Can anyone help!?!? I really need the pictures off my old disk as they are all of the pictures of my 9 month old child and I’d hate to lose them. I tried calling a “professional” service but he didn’t even know about a LIVE OS cd so I am skeptical to spend $300 for them to say it’s fried. I am looking for software of some idea of how to get my information back and then I will re-format the drive. Thanks and I know it’s a long post but I would really appreciate any input.

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Urgent! GRUB Error 22!?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

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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I do not have a Vista Os CD

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

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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.

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How much space do you suggest I partition to dual install Linux and XP?

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I am currently running Windows XP and I plan on installing Ubuntu from a Live CD. I have 15GB’s of free space on my C: drive, don’t worry I have two drives if you think that’s to little. I was wondering how much space would you suggest I partition to install Ubuntu on?

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