JonathanSchroeder
July 7th, 2008, 10:18 PM
Ok, so I have quite the happy story that ends in having a computer with a dead grub and the inability to install ubuntu with cds that i know are good.
So I had 2 hard drive, one with windows and one with ubuntu, but i got a bigger one so i decided to replace my ubuntu one with it, and use my old one later for an old pc of mine. So I transfer the data over. Its all good and happy. As a note here, i would like to say that a while ago I put root on a separate partition from home, so the majority of my data would be safe whenever i killed my root. However now that i had my 500GB hard drive, i decided i wanted to also back up root. So I added another partition for that.
Now I have been running 7.10 for a while, cus 8.04 has always given my graphics card problems, making me run in low resolution with no special effects. I decided to hope it was just cus i had installed bad things, so I reinstalled ubuntu. Now here is where the red flags should have been going off, cus when the boot loader starts, now their are like 3 coppies of the same ubuntu to start from (below the 1st set of ubuntu and XP their are 2 other sets of ubuntu that have stuff like this (hd1/hda) next to them to signify which partition. Note, that was just meant as an example, i don't know what the actual thing said.
Before upgrading to 8.04 I first install all the very important programs to have, and update my os. This includes installing azureus (bittorrent program). Now i decide to try and solve my NAT errors, and try to foward the ports. This involves adding a file to /etc/init.d/ and info on it can be found here http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/NAT_problem . Now i am stupid, and I accadently delete the /etc/init.d/ folder. Yeah. However my old os is backed up, so i copy that folder onto this hard drive, and hope i didn't kill it.
Finally, I back up root, using a command in the terminal i found on a site. If absolutely necesary i *should* be able to find it agin, but it basicly had me tar all my folders in root except ones like home and media, and it archived them in root.
Now i upgrade to 8.04, and it won't load the os. It has errors right before it should, and things fail. I can't check what, cus i cant' even get there any more, but in the end, i just have a command prompt, and since i am not a god of this, i shut down the computer, and try and reinstall 7.04. This is where i start getting install problems. I now find that partition editor is crashing a lot, and so is the installer when i click continue after i set up the partitions as /home and /root
I have the cd image still and its good, so i make a new cd, and it still fails a few times, but i eventually get it to go past that somehow, but now it keeps on freezing at 88% when it is trying to import documents and settings. I don't know where it would import them from, it didn't ask me about it. It does nothing, no mater how long i wait. So i x out of it, and try an 8.04 cd. Same thing. Now i am sad, and decide to just calm down, wait and think. I try to load my windows os, but the boot loader is shot.
I had backed up everything onto that old hard drive, but when i put it back in my computer, it said all the space was unallocated. I tried to then copy stuff to it, but it needs a label, and partition manager crashes when it tries to give it one.
I have downloaded a kubuntu cd in case that may help, butI really like ubuntu if i can keep it. I know this may seam like a giant mess of stupidity, but i would GREATLY apreciate any help that can be given. If at all possible, i would like to keep the data on my home partition. A lot of important stuff is on there. Though i supose if i had to, i could just save what ABSOLUTELY had to be saved.
So I had 2 hard drive, one with windows and one with ubuntu, but i got a bigger one so i decided to replace my ubuntu one with it, and use my old one later for an old pc of mine. So I transfer the data over. Its all good and happy. As a note here, i would like to say that a while ago I put root on a separate partition from home, so the majority of my data would be safe whenever i killed my root. However now that i had my 500GB hard drive, i decided i wanted to also back up root. So I added another partition for that.
Now I have been running 7.10 for a while, cus 8.04 has always given my graphics card problems, making me run in low resolution with no special effects. I decided to hope it was just cus i had installed bad things, so I reinstalled ubuntu. Now here is where the red flags should have been going off, cus when the boot loader starts, now their are like 3 coppies of the same ubuntu to start from (below the 1st set of ubuntu and XP their are 2 other sets of ubuntu that have stuff like this (hd1/hda) next to them to signify which partition. Note, that was just meant as an example, i don't know what the actual thing said.
Before upgrading to 8.04 I first install all the very important programs to have, and update my os. This includes installing azureus (bittorrent program). Now i decide to try and solve my NAT errors, and try to foward the ports. This involves adding a file to /etc/init.d/ and info on it can be found here http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/NAT_problem . Now i am stupid, and I accadently delete the /etc/init.d/ folder. Yeah. However my old os is backed up, so i copy that folder onto this hard drive, and hope i didn't kill it.
Finally, I back up root, using a command in the terminal i found on a site. If absolutely necesary i *should* be able to find it agin, but it basicly had me tar all my folders in root except ones like home and media, and it archived them in root.
Now i upgrade to 8.04, and it won't load the os. It has errors right before it should, and things fail. I can't check what, cus i cant' even get there any more, but in the end, i just have a command prompt, and since i am not a god of this, i shut down the computer, and try and reinstall 7.04. This is where i start getting install problems. I now find that partition editor is crashing a lot, and so is the installer when i click continue after i set up the partitions as /home and /root
I have the cd image still and its good, so i make a new cd, and it still fails a few times, but i eventually get it to go past that somehow, but now it keeps on freezing at 88% when it is trying to import documents and settings. I don't know where it would import them from, it didn't ask me about it. It does nothing, no mater how long i wait. So i x out of it, and try an 8.04 cd. Same thing. Now i am sad, and decide to just calm down, wait and think. I try to load my windows os, but the boot loader is shot.
I had backed up everything onto that old hard drive, but when i put it back in my computer, it said all the space was unallocated. I tried to then copy stuff to it, but it needs a label, and partition manager crashes when it tries to give it one.
I have downloaded a kubuntu cd in case that may help, butI really like ubuntu if i can keep it. I know this may seam like a giant mess of stupidity, but i would GREATLY apreciate any help that can be given. If at all possible, i would like to keep the data on my home partition. A lot of important stuff is on there. Though i supose if i had to, i could just save what ABSOLUTELY had to be saved.