tommyguns
July 6th, 2012, 01:51 PM
Hi, My E-system 1201 running vista recently developed problems, my recovery disks said it was a corrupted boot manager issue & after a few steps failed the remaining option was a 'destructive recovery'. That process failed at the same point 3 times reporting that the recovery image was missing. The people who sold me the pc said I would need to buy a new copy of windows off them, which I wasn't happy with, given that if computers still included windows OS disks I could have fixed the problem without extra cost.
Anyway I remembered Linux and thought I would switch over, I saw a few sources that said Ubuntu worked on the widest range of hardware and had the easiest install. My e-system puts up a screen which allows you to load up bios or boot order and then if nothing is pressed moves on to trying to boot from HD. Because of the failed recovery disks it's now unable to boot into windows at all. The pc I'm using to type this is a friends. Before burning my ubuntu cd I checked the md5sum & that was fine i'm trying to install 12.04 32bit. When I put the cd into my e-sys it comes up with
Loading bootlogo.......
And sticks there, I've left it for some time but nothing else happens. I tried the cd in my friends pc while windows was loaded and the ubuntu logo came up, I ejected it at that point. When trying the usb on my esys I ensured that usb options were ahead of cd and hd in the boot order....but it would simply freeze up at the point where the sys would give the option to bring up bios and would not move from there or actually load bios with the usb in the machine.
Could the state the failed destructive recovery left the HD in be the problem? I'm guessing at the stage it failed, my data was wiped but fragments of vista may remain in other words it is not cleanly formatted.
I'm massively frustrated at this point. Could it be a problem due to compatibility with the latest version of ubuntu, do people think an older version may work?
I'm just reaching and guessing at this point.
Anyway I remembered Linux and thought I would switch over, I saw a few sources that said Ubuntu worked on the widest range of hardware and had the easiest install. My e-system puts up a screen which allows you to load up bios or boot order and then if nothing is pressed moves on to trying to boot from HD. Because of the failed recovery disks it's now unable to boot into windows at all. The pc I'm using to type this is a friends. Before burning my ubuntu cd I checked the md5sum & that was fine i'm trying to install 12.04 32bit. When I put the cd into my e-sys it comes up with
Loading bootlogo.......
And sticks there, I've left it for some time but nothing else happens. I tried the cd in my friends pc while windows was loaded and the ubuntu logo came up, I ejected it at that point. When trying the usb on my esys I ensured that usb options were ahead of cd and hd in the boot order....but it would simply freeze up at the point where the sys would give the option to bring up bios and would not move from there or actually load bios with the usb in the machine.
Could the state the failed destructive recovery left the HD in be the problem? I'm guessing at the stage it failed, my data was wiped but fragments of vista may remain in other words it is not cleanly formatted.
I'm massively frustrated at this point. Could it be a problem due to compatibility with the latest version of ubuntu, do people think an older version may work?
I'm just reaching and guessing at this point.