Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
Ok, here's the deal:
1. My hard drive had to be replaced cause it crashed, so Hp sent me a set of recovery Cd's and a new Hard drive.
2. My computer won't boot from the hard drive and must always have their Applications and Driver's Recovery DVD in the cd try to boot up. The following messages occur:
"Operating system not found."
Insert the DvD, then i hit any key.
"CDBOOT: CAN'T FIND BOOTMGR."
3. Ok so I called Hp and they quickly came to the conclusion that their is something corrupted with those cd's they sent me so I got a new pair, the same problem presists. I even tried the guide where a clean instal of vista that too did nothing.
4. On top of all that with those 3 different installs of vista I still can't see my secondary HD.
P.S. Before my computer crashed I had Ubuntu 7.10 on my computer and that was running fine even with the crashed hd I was able to boot into Ubuntu and not 7.10. Once I got the HD and did the recovery is when I this issue started.
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Discamer: I am a Kubuntu distro newbie. You should really ask this question on the ubuntu absolute beginner forum, the answers are quick.
Looks you have two NTFS partitions on device sda or two drives and a NTFS partition on the device sda1 but it is not formatted, hence the reported: Unused (I think.) Ubuntu and Vista report drives differently.....
Insert the M$ recovery disk and see if you can get in and view the partitions. Format the drive partition in sda1, it will be different in Vista probably drive C:\, this should get you back to a usable drive. After that look in your bios setup and see which drive is active for boot. Then re-install windblows on the boot up drive you have chosen.
DO NOT choose to install it on the Ubuntu drive/partition.
After the re-re-re-install of windblows you will have to re-do the grub loader to get ubuntu back as vista will overwrite the information on the boot drive
Go here for instructions.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...reinstall+grub
Just went through something similar with a crash of the M$ Vista OS after a update(?)
Only saving grace was Kubuntu was still available. We saved everything on the Vista partition prior to the re-installing of Vista.
Afterthought:
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You installed your windblows OS on partition number 2 or drive number 2, the used portion of the drive. Check the BIOS to see which drive/partition is active for boot. It is the setup that starts up with the computer. You will have to press an F? key on startup to activate the BIOS editing functions. If you switch the drive to the device that is used it just might come up.
I used to be a big iron systems manager / programmer so my confusion results from the 29 OS's and programming languages that are still in my head, plus old age.
Boot and HD issues.
Discussion in 'HP' started by the moses, Jun 4, 2008.
