gencive
October 7th, 2009, 12:48 PM
Hello everyone,
here comes the sad story of the old fujitsu siemens amilo pro, centrino processor, windows XP on one partition (20 G) and I had ubuntu hardy heron on the rest of it.
I downloaded the latest ubuntu (9.04 i think it is) and installed it.
I used the old partitions but changed the sizes of both swap and /. Swap I gave 2 g instead of one.
/ I gave 8 instead of 6.
I reduced the /home accordingly.
that probably was my stupid mistake, anyway, I rebooted and everything worked fine, I had some adjustments to make, but the windows part and the new ubuntu part worked. grub and all.
that was yesterday. today, my computer won't start. the screen stays black, the lights show: little light bulb (so it receives electricity I guess) and then the little hard disk symbol light turns on and ... immediatly off and stays that way.
so the hard drive is broken ?
has it something to do with my lousy install skills ? (my computer is probably as full as an egg)
why did it work and suddenly fail me ?
this computer is my work tool, how deep in *** am I ?
any kind of advice is welcome, thanx in advance !
here comes the sad story of the old fujitsu siemens amilo pro, centrino processor, windows XP on one partition (20 G) and I had ubuntu hardy heron on the rest of it.
I downloaded the latest ubuntu (9.04 i think it is) and installed it.
I used the old partitions but changed the sizes of both swap and /. Swap I gave 2 g instead of one.
/ I gave 8 instead of 6.
I reduced the /home accordingly.
that probably was my stupid mistake, anyway, I rebooted and everything worked fine, I had some adjustments to make, but the windows part and the new ubuntu part worked. grub and all.
that was yesterday. today, my computer won't start. the screen stays black, the lights show: little light bulb (so it receives electricity I guess) and then the little hard disk symbol light turns on and ... immediatly off and stays that way.
so the hard drive is broken ?
has it something to do with my lousy install skills ? (my computer is probably as full as an egg)
why did it work and suddenly fail me ?
this computer is my work tool, how deep in *** am I ?
any kind of advice is welcome, thanx in advance !