I’m dual booting Ubuntu 7.10 and I just reinstalled Windows XP. GRUB is gone, so it only lets me boot into XP. It also won’t let me view my linux partion on XP, just the windows partion. when I boot the live CD, I can still see all my files, but I can’t edit them because I don’t have permissions. any help?
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I recently installed Linux Ubuntu on a external laptop hard drive to keep vista on my internal drive. Ubuntu worked fine but there was one problem, the external hard drive had to be present in order to boot windows using Grub. In order to save myself from a future frustration (external drive being damaged or missing).
But my problem is this: now every time that I connect my external HDD (with Ubuntu installed) it doesn’t even show up on “My computer”. So I want to format it to the way it was (clean)
If not through windows, Can someone tell me how to format it throu the Live CD?
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Ok, so we have a Dell Optiplex running Ubuntu and Windows on two Hard Drives (XP on one, Linux on the Other) Well, it was working beautifully, well, me and my friend decided that we were gonna try to make our own linux using Linux From Scratch, well, that wiped the Hard Drive (the Linux one) so we gave up after having difficulties, well, now when we try to boot into windows, we get the Grub screen, and it says “GRUB Loading stage1.5.
“GRUB loading, please wait…..
Error 15
then nothing happens, we don’t have a Ubuntu live CD anymore, and i think i can get a windows recovery CD, we also have a USB stick running Slax Linux that we could use, how do we fix this problem?
I actually found a windows 98 recovery cd lying around and got it fixed using the fixmbr command, thanks though
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Hi,
I installed uBuntu last week. All was fine, rebooted fine etc. Until i turned on my pc today. It just stopped at the “loading GRUB Page”. Heres what it said..
”
GRUB loading..stage1.5
GRUB Loading, Please wait.
Error 15
”
As i said it’s never, ever done this before, just when i turned on my pc today. The last time i shut down uBuntu i didn’t tell it to shut down, i said to hibernate. Could this have caused it? And i’ve done some research on Google. It says GRUBS looking for a file and can’t find it///// Well i hav’nt messed with any files anywhere on the hard drive with linux on it , nor have i messed with the root of my WinXP Hard Drive.
Specs:
> WINXP Dual Boot With Ubuntu
>512Mb RAM
> (The usual!)
NB: I’m using the Live CD to post this becauase I Cannot boot to WINXP OR LINUX!!!
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!
Hmmmm.. UPDATE!!!: In this LiveCD i’m trying to access the drive with linux on it. It goves back an error.
”
Cannot mount the volume
Unable to mount the volume
Details>
Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try dmesg | tail or so
”
(!!) Are these people aliens or summat?!!!!!!
1nce again – PLEASE HELPP!!
what could be the cause? what should i do? i dont want to lose all of my important data. i recently removed a partition that contained the linux installation but windows seemed to run perfectly fine after that. but now it just wont start up! i badly need your help! my pc is currently running on a live cd of a linux ubuntu.
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