pjstock
November 20th, 2018, 01:30 PM
so this was weird
I have finally succeeded (it seemed) in dual installing 18.04 UEFI with Windows 7.
Yesterday I was happily working away.
but this morning I rebooted and ....nada. No Bootable Devices. No windows, no Ubuntu.
But before I shutdown I installed and ran Gparted (because I had mislocated /home in that install and wanted to see what the partition structure looked like) and instead of several partitions (75Gb for windows, 30gb for Ubuntu, 140GB for data) the entire 250gb was showing "Unallocated"
what happened?
I don't expect that running Gparted would have affected anything.
the only other move I'd made yesterday was to use Gdisk to "recover" from an apparent GPT error. I used.... I forget which command. e? to rebuild the backup GPT from the primary.
might that bave blown things away?
I guess I am back to Square 1. reinstalling Windows and then reinstalling 18.04
given I had those GPT errors when I did Verify with Gdisk, are there any steps I should take to really verify my HDD before I start again?
I have finally succeeded (it seemed) in dual installing 18.04 UEFI with Windows 7.
Yesterday I was happily working away.
but this morning I rebooted and ....nada. No Bootable Devices. No windows, no Ubuntu.
But before I shutdown I installed and ran Gparted (because I had mislocated /home in that install and wanted to see what the partition structure looked like) and instead of several partitions (75Gb for windows, 30gb for Ubuntu, 140GB for data) the entire 250gb was showing "Unallocated"
what happened?
I don't expect that running Gparted would have affected anything.
the only other move I'd made yesterday was to use Gdisk to "recover" from an apparent GPT error. I used.... I forget which command. e? to rebuild the backup GPT from the primary.
might that bave blown things away?
I guess I am back to Square 1. reinstalling Windows and then reinstalling 18.04
given I had those GPT errors when I did Verify with Gdisk, are there any steps I should take to really verify my HDD before I start again?