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How to remove the GRUB loader from my computer?

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

I have an HP dv7 laptop that came with vista ultimate 64-bit preinstalled, which I want to keep. I recently used an Ubuntu LIVE disk to make a partition for Ubuntu, because I needed linux to run a certain program. I got it all installed perfectly, but then I realized that my wireless card on my laptop wasn’t compatible with Ubuntu, so I removed the Ubuntu partition. Now I have only a 295 GB (formerly 285 GB, because I deleted the pretty much useless recovery partition) vista partition, which is what I want. However, when I turn on my laptop, it goes into the GRUB boot loader and says there’s an error, so it is unable to boot vista. I read some articles about how to fix it with a vista recovery CD, but unfortunately, I don’t have one.

I was wondering if anybody knows a way to either completely remove GRUB through windows, bios, etc. or how to set it to automatically boot into vista….maybe a code i can type into the GRUB loader or something? Please help.

Thanks so much to anybody who has something to contribute!

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How do i fix this on my Laptop?

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin| Leave a comment

OK right now i have a HP Dv2000 (dv2125nr to be specific) and it is giving me some problems. When it starts up it will not read the hard drive and flashes “Operating System Not Found” I try to install windows and the setup cannot find a hard drive. However its not entirely not there because when i run a live Linux cd (ubuntu) it can find my hard and let me look at everything that is there. I rewrote the MBR to try to fix it and that doesn’t help. How can i fix the fact that my laptop bios will not read my hard drive unless there is a live linux cd running on it?

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will ubuntu linux run good on my old laptop?

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I have an old HP laptop running windows XP that I want to install linux on. I am thinking of installing Ubuntu on it but it seems to run really slow using the live CD even though my specs meet the minimum requirments (but not the recommended). I want a linux distro that will run at least as fast as my windows XP hopefully faster. I tried Xubuntu but I don’t notice a big difference. My main question is should I install Ubuntu on my old laptop, if not what distro do you recommend?

Here are the specs for my laptop:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon XP2500 519MHz
448MB RAM
37.2GB HD

Thanks.

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which linux live cd to access hdd in vista?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

i have a hp laptop dv 6000 series with vista which linux live cd would access my hard drive on live cd mode i triead ubuntu,kubuntu,opensolaris none of them accessed my hard drive mode
please help soon!!!!

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Is it ok to leave a live CD running?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

I don’t want to turn of an hp laptop with1gb memory hooked up to an ac adapter, since it has no hard drive and must run from a live CD, and i already have the configuration I want (in case you’re wondering, it’s Linux Mint Daryna). But I don’t know if overheating would be cause for alarm. I’m not talking about a few hours. I’m talking about a few days (maybe tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, and maybe the next day). But if it’s a bad idea to even leave it running overnight, then I kind of don’t want to to do that.

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