Dogzilla1000
December 27th, 2011, 06:28 PM
I installed UBUNTU 11.10 on a new system with Win 7. I installed for a dual boot, everything in the install went fine. When I re-boot, the computer starts up in Win 7 every time, no boot menu, with an error message about the changed configuration. I tried several times, same results.
It seems that the MBR is locked. There is no help for this on the install disk that I can find. How do I fix this?
Also, the UBUNTU install CD doesn't give me a way to restore my hard drive back to the same configuration as before. I can use the Windows 7 tool to delete the Linux partitions, then convert those back to a second NTFS virtual drive. But if I can't install UBUNTU, I would like my drive to be in the original Windows configuration.
I'm not please that the install disk doesn't work, plus it doesn't give me a way to restore my machine. I've used UBUNTU for a long time, and I've really liked it, but this experience is very unpleasant.
It seems that the MBR is locked. There is no help for this on the install disk that I can find. How do I fix this?
Also, the UBUNTU install CD doesn't give me a way to restore my hard drive back to the same configuration as before. I can use the Windows 7 tool to delete the Linux partitions, then convert those back to a second NTFS virtual drive. But if I can't install UBUNTU, I would like my drive to be in the original Windows configuration.
I'm not please that the install disk doesn't work, plus it doesn't give me a way to restore my machine. I've used UBUNTU for a long time, and I've really liked it, but this experience is very unpleasant.