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    Some HDD problems.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by anusthegreat, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. anusthegreat

    anusthegreat Notebook Guru

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    Hello. I used to try to install some Ubuntu, while havin' my Vista.
    Well, I wanted to delete Vista and keep Linux only. So, I decided to format the HDD. Paragon said something about the wrong partition table after the formatting it and I can only use one of the drives, which takes like tiem (about 25 min) to load the fresh installed XP or Paragon up.
    I don't quite know what to do right now, any ideas?

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    WinXP's disk management doesn't see the second drive, lol.
    There is a BSOD sayin' something about unmountable_boot_partition.
     
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Do you have more than one drive your notebook? After you erased the partition did you format it with a file system?
     
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    I do have two HDDs on zee lappy, and I wish I could format it using some partition manager. But it takes ages to load up and I can't actually do anything. I am askin' if you know any way to restore the HHD using some autorun disk or something, like that. I still got my PC so I can burn an ISO only if it would help. Don't think Acer support would help too, lol. :<
     
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    Have you used the Windows diskmanager to see if it is there? I'm thinking since it isn't formatted with an FS, the OS doesn't recognize it or it may not even be initialized. From there you can initialize the disk and format it. Though, you would need to use Gparted to format it with the proper FS for linux.
     
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    Solved the problem, emulation Ubuntu n usin' the partition manager there. Had to format both HDDs though, lol. Lost all anime :<
     
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