What is the REPAIR disk? Is there any manual about the REPAIR disk? If there is, have you read the manual?
If the REPAIR disk can recover Windows by using itself (and only /dev/sda4), it may work,...
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What is the REPAIR disk? Is there any manual about the REPAIR disk? If there is, have you read the manual?
If the REPAIR disk can recover Windows by using itself (and only /dev/sda4), it may work,...
Thanks QIII for explaining that the OP made the mint installer overwrite the Windows system partition.
:(
I hope that nobody do such a bad and wrong thing in future.
Please calm down. :)
You might have installed grub2 code onto the windows system partition. I hope your windows partition is not corrupted.
Can you boot any live linux such as boot-repair ? Please...
How about installing debian to a partition in an USB stick similarly as to a partition in an internal HDD using netinst (without using squashfs filesystem)?
But, debian (after version 3.1) does not...
For persons answering to the above post:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=104602#p499871
I think that Super Grub(2) Disk works good for BOSS Linux on PCs with MS-DOS partition table.
I am not sure if Super Grub(2) Disk works correctly for (U)EFI and secure boot. I hope it works...
If your laptop can boot from USB media, raw-write Super Grub2 disk or boot repair to some USB media such as an USB thumb and insert the USB media to your laptop and boot from it.
Super grub2 disk:...
I guess that the CPU is i586 or later because clock rate of i486 is under 100MHz according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_486, although I am not sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80586
...
Write more concretely what you need.
FYI, http://distrowatch.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
Do you have empty part and/or empty partition which you can format in some media?
If you have, select "manual partitioning" at partitioning step. You can select something like "use empty part"...
I am sorry to hear that.
Read installation manual for mint before installing mint so that you will not lose your important data in future.
What did you do? Especially I cannot understand...
Debian.
You should not install bloat desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, at installation. Start network install with minimal business card iso or so and check OFF ALL at the tasksel (package...
Do not write anything onto the partition which contains your important files.
First, confirm that the partitiion you think to be the partition which contains your important files is really the...
Replace "testing" with "wheezy" if you want to stick to debian 7 = wheezy.
Otherwise, your system will be debian testing.
Refer http://www.debian.org/releases/
and...
Is there any HDD or internal media detected in BIOS screen?
What is the boot loader and where is the boot loader installed?
If you can not know the situation, Boot Repair will make a report and...
I am interested in grub2 on UEFI system. I am looking forward to your report. :)
You should manually copy the new kernel (vmlinuz-***) and initramfs (initrd.img-***) in /boot directory to the partition where BIOS can recognize and deal the files in and you should manually...
+1 (I agree with the above idea.)
Usual Live USB does not change the contents in internal HDDs, unless you manually try to modify them.
Newbies tend to do wrong thing without knowing what they...
Although, many persons pointed out...
Is [Alt+SysRq]+REISUB better than [Alt+SysRq]+RSEIUB ?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509765
I hope PmDematagoda edit the first post of his.
Have you got root privilege?
Execute
su -
and then, type root password.
Can your installed debian access to internet?
apt-get update
Unless you use some kernel loaders on some bootable media such as CD/DVD, instead of USB.
You mentioned that your PC cannot boot from USB media, although I am not sure whether your PC can boot from...
The reason why you could not install Windows 8 from ubuntu 12.10 with the proposed ways may be that you did not do correctly or that the ways are not applicable to the situation of your PC.
Write...
With Aptosid and Siduction, which are based on debian, you can use newer kernel than 3.5.
EDIT AT Sun Feb 24 12:43:49 JST 2013;
I confirmed that the generated USB flash (dd'ed by http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_5.5_i386.iso) boot successfully and show graphical...
I do not know trisquel-modified.iso at all.
But I know dding to partition (/dev/sdb1 or so) usually fails.
Do not dd to partition, but dd to whole media, in order to boot by using the MBR of...