araiguma2
June 10th, 2014, 09:56 AM
Hi everyone,
i hope you can help me with my problem as i am unsure how to proceed from here.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit about half a year ago (iirc) on my Dell Vostro 3560 by executing the setup from windows and only had some minor issues with Wifi.
For a project i intended to install the graph-tools python module (http://graph-tool.skewed.de/download). I installed all prerequisites with relative ease. However when issueing the 'make' command i encountered major freezing issues (mouse not moving, clock freezing for 20+ minutes). I figured there was no way around that and hard reset the laptop. Rinse, repeat, same error, hard reset. Figured i'd give it another shot before going to bed, fell asleep, next morning: Laptop frozen again, this time with black screen, hard reset.
This time when i started up Ubuntu i got into GRUB (which i didn't know about) and through some research found that i probably killed some part of my boot sector.
I then used the Boot-Repair-Disk (http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/) which produced the following output: Pastebin (http://paste.ubuntu.com/7622019/)
Rebooting put me into GRUB again so i ran a chkdsk as recommended here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Cannot_boot_into_Ubuntu).
This had no (to me) visible effect. And i consequently tried to apply the second advice on aforementioned link to no consequence (i could not find and found.000 or dir0000.chk directories). The C:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk file is still missing.
So now i'm all out of ideas. If any one of you could help me to fix this that would be super good.
Alternatively if you could advise me on how to extract data from the screwed up Ubuntu that would at least let me continue my work on Windows Desktop using a VM.
Edit:Found a proper solution. (http://ubuntu-with-wubi.blogspot.de/2011/08/missing-rootdisk.html)
i hope you can help me with my problem as i am unsure how to proceed from here.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit about half a year ago (iirc) on my Dell Vostro 3560 by executing the setup from windows and only had some minor issues with Wifi.
For a project i intended to install the graph-tools python module (http://graph-tool.skewed.de/download). I installed all prerequisites with relative ease. However when issueing the 'make' command i encountered major freezing issues (mouse not moving, clock freezing for 20+ minutes). I figured there was no way around that and hard reset the laptop. Rinse, repeat, same error, hard reset. Figured i'd give it another shot before going to bed, fell asleep, next morning: Laptop frozen again, this time with black screen, hard reset.
This time when i started up Ubuntu i got into GRUB (which i didn't know about) and through some research found that i probably killed some part of my boot sector.
I then used the Boot-Repair-Disk (http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/) which produced the following output: Pastebin (http://paste.ubuntu.com/7622019/)
Rebooting put me into GRUB again so i ran a chkdsk as recommended here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Cannot_boot_into_Ubuntu).
This had no (to me) visible effect. And i consequently tried to apply the second advice on aforementioned link to no consequence (i could not find and found.000 or dir0000.chk directories). The C:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk file is still missing.
So now i'm all out of ideas. If any one of you could help me to fix this that would be super good.
Alternatively if you could advise me on how to extract data from the screwed up Ubuntu that would at least let me continue my work on Windows Desktop using a VM.
Edit:Found a proper solution. (http://ubuntu-with-wubi.blogspot.de/2011/08/missing-rootdisk.html)