Drax99
June 10th, 2010, 11:48 PM
Please bear with me, as I am a Linux noob, so need small words and big pictures. What I basically was trying to do is, make a bootable partition on my portable HD, for the occasional Linux exploration, and mebbe help with recovering failed windows installs for file recovery. Primarily I use Windows 7 Ultimate on my HP computer, and only started dabbling with Linux at the encouragement of my Linux Guru friend. Things have gone horribly wrong and I really would appreciate any help I can get.
The story:
Back in the day I installed the Ibex release of ubuntu on my drive with no issues, messed with it for a week and then shelved it. I tried loading it up again later, but had forgotten whatever password I put on it, so it went on my todo list for re-installation at a later date
Well now I am trying to reinstall, downloaded the new WUBI installer, and installed without a hitch. Well,, so it seemed. First off, it never noticed my previous install. Both Linux and windows acted as if the previous partition didn't exist. I had to do math to notice I was still missing 10gb. I checked in the disk tool, and disk management, and ther it was, hiding as "10gb space". Not knowing any way to reclaim that space, or format it into one of the other partitions, I used disk manager to delete all volumes and partitions, then format the disk. Worked fine, rei-ran WUBI, and installed Linux again. However every time I rebooted to the drive, I recieved a error 22 from GRUB, and windows didn't even recognize that there was another bootable drive. Had to manually select the drive to boot to it (producing the error). Befor this, the windoes boot manager saw Ubuntu just fine and offered to boot it.
Now, after a brainstorming session and alotta internet searching, me and my friend decided on a plan of action. I created a live CD, booted to it, and used it to reformat the partitions, and reinstall Ubuntu. Worked like a charm! Or so I thought. After playing blissfully with my new toy for a hour, I shut down, unplugged the drive and rebooted. My computer didnt like that. After the POST screen I was greeted with a nasty error that no such volume existed, and the console prompt of GRUB rescue>
So.. seems something ate my windows MBR. If I plug the drive back in, GRUB happily gves me a low-rez option menu for booting, and will let me boot into whatever I want, but without the portable drive, my PC is now a toaster.
Help please?
The story:
Back in the day I installed the Ibex release of ubuntu on my drive with no issues, messed with it for a week and then shelved it. I tried loading it up again later, but had forgotten whatever password I put on it, so it went on my todo list for re-installation at a later date
Well now I am trying to reinstall, downloaded the new WUBI installer, and installed without a hitch. Well,, so it seemed. First off, it never noticed my previous install. Both Linux and windows acted as if the previous partition didn't exist. I had to do math to notice I was still missing 10gb. I checked in the disk tool, and disk management, and ther it was, hiding as "10gb space". Not knowing any way to reclaim that space, or format it into one of the other partitions, I used disk manager to delete all volumes and partitions, then format the disk. Worked fine, rei-ran WUBI, and installed Linux again. However every time I rebooted to the drive, I recieved a error 22 from GRUB, and windows didn't even recognize that there was another bootable drive. Had to manually select the drive to boot to it (producing the error). Befor this, the windoes boot manager saw Ubuntu just fine and offered to boot it.
Now, after a brainstorming session and alotta internet searching, me and my friend decided on a plan of action. I created a live CD, booted to it, and used it to reformat the partitions, and reinstall Ubuntu. Worked like a charm! Or so I thought. After playing blissfully with my new toy for a hour, I shut down, unplugged the drive and rebooted. My computer didnt like that. After the POST screen I was greeted with a nasty error that no such volume existed, and the console prompt of GRUB rescue>
So.. seems something ate my windows MBR. If I plug the drive back in, GRUB happily gves me a low-rez option menu for booting, and will let me boot into whatever I want, but without the portable drive, my PC is now a toaster.
Help please?