jason17
November 13th, 2013, 11:50 AM
Hello All,
I am somewhat of a newbie to this kind of stuff, so I apologize if I don't provide all the necessary or correct info for my problem. On an HP g60, I reset windows vista to factory using the recovery partition. Everything worked fine. After resetting vista, I installed Ubuntu 13.10(64 bit). Btw, vista is 32 bit. After looking around for the right graphics driver, Ubuntu seems to run fine, though I have not used it extensively. However, when I try to boot into vista, it will make it to the screen with the loading bar and then reboot. This happens about 9 out of 10 times. The other time, it will boot up as it should. I have done all the things I could think of and find with google and in these forums. I tried to repair startup in windows and I think every other option that was there. I also tried updating grub. None of these things worked. I am now to the point where I am about to start over the whole process, which is quite long, namely because of windows and its updates. If someone has any idea other than the usual which has already been posted, I would greatly appreciate it. I don't think using 64 bit ubuntu and 32 bit windows should be a problem, but I could be wrong. Outside of that, it seems to me that something got modified in the wrong kind of way windows boots up. I don't know. Again, thanks. One more thing. Getting rid of windows is not really an option because it is a friend's computer.
I am somewhat of a newbie to this kind of stuff, so I apologize if I don't provide all the necessary or correct info for my problem. On an HP g60, I reset windows vista to factory using the recovery partition. Everything worked fine. After resetting vista, I installed Ubuntu 13.10(64 bit). Btw, vista is 32 bit. After looking around for the right graphics driver, Ubuntu seems to run fine, though I have not used it extensively. However, when I try to boot into vista, it will make it to the screen with the loading bar and then reboot. This happens about 9 out of 10 times. The other time, it will boot up as it should. I have done all the things I could think of and find with google and in these forums. I tried to repair startup in windows and I think every other option that was there. I also tried updating grub. None of these things worked. I am now to the point where I am about to start over the whole process, which is quite long, namely because of windows and its updates. If someone has any idea other than the usual which has already been posted, I would greatly appreciate it. I don't think using 64 bit ubuntu and 32 bit windows should be a problem, but I could be wrong. Outside of that, it seems to me that something got modified in the wrong kind of way windows boots up. I don't know. Again, thanks. One more thing. Getting rid of windows is not really an option because it is a friend's computer.