mirana
September 6th, 2009, 10:59 AM
I've been dual-booting ubuntu with windows 7 (rc) for a month now, and have fallen so in love that i convinced my friend to install it as well (ubuntu).
Yesterday i went to his house to install jaunty jackalope (9.04). he has two harddrives, one main and one for storage (storage one is 1TB). to avoid any risks, we unplugged his harddrive with the windows (xp) partition. We then installed windows on his 20 GB partition on his storage drive. Late yesterday he called me and told me how he could not access his partition, that when trying to boot from it, he got a message saying that the partition was not a windows partition but a "media partition" or something of the like.
He sais that he has tried unplugging the ubuntu harddrive, putting the windows partition on a higher booting priority etc. but that nothing works.
He also claims that he has configured grub, but that this did not work either.
He has tried a windows recovery disk, but says that did not work either...
Does grub change your BIOS in any way?
I mean, i don't see how ubuntu can have changed anything during the installation; if having only the main harddrive plugged in then i thought it should boot like before the ubuntu installation...
I feel responsible for the outcome as it was i who convinced him to install it, and since i didn't do enough research about grub before the installation.
Please help me!
Yesterday i went to his house to install jaunty jackalope (9.04). he has two harddrives, one main and one for storage (storage one is 1TB). to avoid any risks, we unplugged his harddrive with the windows (xp) partition. We then installed windows on his 20 GB partition on his storage drive. Late yesterday he called me and told me how he could not access his partition, that when trying to boot from it, he got a message saying that the partition was not a windows partition but a "media partition" or something of the like.
He sais that he has tried unplugging the ubuntu harddrive, putting the windows partition on a higher booting priority etc. but that nothing works.
He also claims that he has configured grub, but that this did not work either.
He has tried a windows recovery disk, but says that did not work either...
Does grub change your BIOS in any way?
I mean, i don't see how ubuntu can have changed anything during the installation; if having only the main harddrive plugged in then i thought it should boot like before the ubuntu installation...
I feel responsible for the outcome as it was i who convinced him to install it, and since i didn't do enough research about grub before the installation.
Please help me!