ymesch
February 4th, 2011, 02:43 PM
Hi,
I've already searches the forum a few times, but no one seems te have encountered the same problem.
Now for the problem: I wanted to try out Ubuntu without having to format any harddrive partitions on my laptop itself, so i decided to install Ubuntu on an external HDD which seems to work out quite well. The only problem I encounter is the folowing:
When I boot my computer with the HDD connected and External harddisk booting enabled in my boot settings there are no problems at all; I get a GRUB menu with the choices to boot ubuntu 10.10 and various alternatives en as last option Windows 7. Just as it should be I suppose.
But when I want to boot directly to Windows 7 without having the external HDD connected the system boots with the Vaio logo (wich it also does with the HDD connected) but then I get a message saying that a certain drive doesn't exist followed by the message 'GRUB rescue>' (if needed I can write down the code, but I suppose it refers to a partition or harddisk)
This seems rather strange to me since Ubuntu was completely installed on my external HDD and therefor there shouldn't be such a problem (in my logic.. but I'm absolutely not an expert so I am quite shure this is wrong).
Is there anyone having a clue about what is causing this problem and how I possibly could solve this problem so that I have 2 completely independant operating systems; one on my internal HDD and one on my external HDD without affecting eachother?
Kind greetings,
Ymesch
I've already searches the forum a few times, but no one seems te have encountered the same problem.
Now for the problem: I wanted to try out Ubuntu without having to format any harddrive partitions on my laptop itself, so i decided to install Ubuntu on an external HDD which seems to work out quite well. The only problem I encounter is the folowing:
When I boot my computer with the HDD connected and External harddisk booting enabled in my boot settings there are no problems at all; I get a GRUB menu with the choices to boot ubuntu 10.10 and various alternatives en as last option Windows 7. Just as it should be I suppose.
But when I want to boot directly to Windows 7 without having the external HDD connected the system boots with the Vaio logo (wich it also does with the HDD connected) but then I get a message saying that a certain drive doesn't exist followed by the message 'GRUB rescue>' (if needed I can write down the code, but I suppose it refers to a partition or harddisk)
This seems rather strange to me since Ubuntu was completely installed on my external HDD and therefor there shouldn't be such a problem (in my logic.. but I'm absolutely not an expert so I am quite shure this is wrong).
Is there anyone having a clue about what is causing this problem and how I possibly could solve this problem so that I have 2 completely independant operating systems; one on my internal HDD and one on my external HDD without affecting eachother?
Kind greetings,
Ymesch