Be very, very careful. I had the same problem and went from a beautifully running dual-boot machine to total catastrophy in about ten easy steps trying to fix my Windows installation.
That...
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Be very, very careful. I had the same problem and went from a beautifully running dual-boot machine to total catastrophy in about ten easy steps trying to fix my Windows installation.
That...
I think I've reached the point where I give up. I can't continue to pour hours into this thing. If I have to start over on a fresh hdd, that means I'll have to reinstall all the crap I had...
I *had* version 7.10. Now I have nothing. It is totally hosed.
Beyond repair? Amazing. Further up in this thread is a screenshot of my partitions before I messed them up completely. Can Gparted be used to reconstruct that?
The error messages from the e2fsck commands are:
No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda3 (I also tried sda1, 2, &4; same result)
The superblock could not be read or does not...
It got through that OK. Then I was going to post a screenshot of the results for you to see and it just virtually ceased to function. I noticed somewhere that ubuntu says it takes 380k of RAM to...
I was at the point of writing the partition table after doing a search to find more partitions.
Then, it just slowed to an absolute, mind-numbing crawl. Either I don't have enough memory to run...
I haven't gotten all the way thru it but can see that my files are still there. Thanks.
Here's what I get:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda4
fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda4
The...
I have quite a bit of valuable data on the ubuntu drive. Or should I say, *had* valuable data on it.
Unbelievable. Ubuntu was running fine yesterday; with the addition of Smart Boot Manager to...
OK, today's results of fdisk -l:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =...
Update:
Now, for whatever reason, I can get the Live CD to run with both hdd's plugged in. So, maybe I can fix ubuntu?
When I go to Places and click on 'Computer', though, I do not see the...
OK. This will involve some typing.
First, the Grub boot options screen comes up normally. I choose ubuntu, and not the recovery mode, just the regular choice I have always made. Then, the...
Don't think its Grub. Grub has already ran and offered it's menu choices at that point. It is the equivalent of a c: prompt in dos, it mentions that by typing 'help' it give a whole list of commands...
Physically, yes, I can plug it in. I wonder how well it will like that.
I can boot up using the Live CD, but only after I unplug my HDD that has ubuntu installed on it.
I only have one CD drive and it works because I was just able to boot up the ubuntu Live CD...but only after unplugging HDD #1. So, I can now boot up, via the Live CD, but the drive I need to work...
Can't boot from any CD, unbuntu or windows. It doesn't even try. The Cd never spins.
I can get to BIOS and see that the CD is the first boot choice. But, before I can ever get the prompt to boot from it, SBM opens up it's own menu with no CD choice on it.
I installed SBM because...
That command resulted in a 'not found' response.
At present, I cannot boot with the CD--it will not even attempt it. If I start the machine with a CD in the drive, Smart Boot Control opens up...
In trying to repair an unbootable xp dual installation, I tried a technique in which I installed something called Smart Boot Manager.
The whole idea was to get it so that I could boot from the...
Nor do I. Now the damned thing won't even boot into ubuntu. I get the ubuntuo logo, but the little scroll bar never fills out.
edit: eventually, it drops into a shell. But I have no idea what...
WTF? BIOS still shows that my CD is first in the boot list, yet it makes no attempt to boot from the CD and Smart Boot Manager does not list the CD as a choice.
Sequence of events goes like this:...
It was great while it lasted but it didn't last long.
Now, SBM injects itself into the boot process (it did not the first time I tried the repair) giving me the boot options of:
Quit to BIOS...
Thank you!!! That does, at least, allow me to boot from the Windows CD.
After booting from the CD, I tried the following "Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands."
The commands are:
from the...