Eddievanzant
May 4th, 2010, 03:38 AM
so I installed ubuntu in an attempt to begin my life as a hacker or programmer, unfortunately I've had some big problems.
I cut 25 gb from my XP partition and installed ubuntu 9 and since then, whenever I choose to load xp from grub, all I get is a flashing cursor. Ubuntu runs fine but I tried to use ms-sys to fix my MBR and it said it worked but now when I boot a get "a disk read error occurrd press ctrl alt delete to restart". So I couldn't even boot ubuntu
so I put the ubuntu disk in and reinstalled on the same 25 gb partition and it ran fine (xp still doesn't), but I tried fixing the MBR again and this time, not only does xp and ubuntu not work, but my cd drive won't even boot the ubuntu or xp disc!
I'm finally at the point where I have no idea what to do. I do not believe that there is any hardware problem. I just think I've messed with my pc too much and I just need to format my drive and reinstall everything, but now my disk drive seems to not work either so crap.
I press esc when my pc is booting and select boot from cd, the screen says boot from cd, the cd spins for a few seconds, then it just goes to the hard drive and says disk read error press ctrl alt dlelet to restart.
If anyone can just help me get the cd drive working, I'm just going to format my drive.
Please help!
I cut 25 gb from my XP partition and installed ubuntu 9 and since then, whenever I choose to load xp from grub, all I get is a flashing cursor. Ubuntu runs fine but I tried to use ms-sys to fix my MBR and it said it worked but now when I boot a get "a disk read error occurrd press ctrl alt delete to restart". So I couldn't even boot ubuntu
so I put the ubuntu disk in and reinstalled on the same 25 gb partition and it ran fine (xp still doesn't), but I tried fixing the MBR again and this time, not only does xp and ubuntu not work, but my cd drive won't even boot the ubuntu or xp disc!
I'm finally at the point where I have no idea what to do. I do not believe that there is any hardware problem. I just think I've messed with my pc too much and I just need to format my drive and reinstall everything, but now my disk drive seems to not work either so crap.
I press esc when my pc is booting and select boot from cd, the screen says boot from cd, the cd spins for a few seconds, then it just goes to the hard drive and says disk read error press ctrl alt dlelet to restart.
If anyone can just help me get the cd drive working, I'm just going to format my drive.
Please help!