Lachinchon
September 2nd, 2008, 02:50 PM
The background: HD#1 has Vista and a recovery partition; hd#2 is a data disk. I added hd#3 to be exclusively Ubuntu. Fearful of something messing up my data drive, I physically removed it before installing Ubuntu on hd#3. All went well. I then reinserted my data drive and the world came close to ending. Grub refused to load, citing numerous errors, the last one being error 21 (which I believe is drive not found). I could not boot into anything except a black error screen. After much gnashing of teeth, I recovered the mbr on hd#1 using the fixmbr command in the vista console. Unfortunately, my other drives were unrecognized. I recovered hd#2 by resetting my cmos (removing the battery!). So now I am back to more or less normal - I can boot into Vista and my data drive works as normal. HD#3, containing Ubuntu, is only recognized in device manager.
So, here is the question: I want to get Ubuntu back up on hd#3 without f%*king up my Vista install. I think my options are these:
1. reinstall Ubuntu using the install cd, but somehow keep Grub on hd#3, NOT on my Vista disk, then use EasyBCD to add Ubuntu to the Vista bootloader. Or,
2. reclaim hd#3 through Vista (I am not quite sure how, yet), then install Ubuntu onto essentially a Vista drive (reclaimed hd#3) using WUBI.
Please give me your thoughts and suggestions before I impale myself again.
Lachinchon.
There are some things it is impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.
So, here is the question: I want to get Ubuntu back up on hd#3 without f%*king up my Vista install. I think my options are these:
1. reinstall Ubuntu using the install cd, but somehow keep Grub on hd#3, NOT on my Vista disk, then use EasyBCD to add Ubuntu to the Vista bootloader. Or,
2. reclaim hd#3 through Vista (I am not quite sure how, yet), then install Ubuntu onto essentially a Vista drive (reclaimed hd#3) using WUBI.
Please give me your thoughts and suggestions before I impale myself again.
Lachinchon.
There are some things it is impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.