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markers
September 29th, 2008, 10:30 PM
Hey guys. Just tried installing Hardy on my old PC and am having a problem. While I was trying to install Hardy on the PC everything was going fine until it stopped and said that there was no more room left on the HDD I was installing it to.
I have XP also installed on the computer but I cant access it anymore because it doesn't boot to the OS selection screen. All I get is the GRUB error 15. Any one have any suggestions on how to boot to XP so that I can wipe the HDD?

Sef
September 29th, 2008, 10:39 PM
From the Live CD:


sudo fdisk -lsmall L that will tell us your partitions. Paste the results here.

markers
September 29th, 2008, 10:51 PM
Disk /dev/sda: 10.1 GB, 10141286400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1232 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x554ba1b2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1232 9896008+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdb: 2192 MB, 2192891392 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 266 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf15d0ecd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 247 1983996 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 248 266 152617+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 248 266 152586 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fdfe06

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 38913 312568641 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


I thought that I would be able to install Ubuntu on a low end PC?

markers
September 30th, 2008, 08:11 AM
Solved my problem. Used livecd and was able to clean the HDD with the unfinished installation of Hardy through gparted.