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An HDD developed this bootup problem nearly 2 years ago. Resolving the problem, despite the lapse of time, is still very important to me, to recover some data on it before I do a fresh installation....

Ok thanks for this info ibjsb4.

So those help notes above should be modified (for the benefit of poor beginners like me!) and say burn a DVD / CD.

Let's hope I'll be as lucky! I'll report back to you...thanks again :)

BACKGROUND

I've decided to try Lubuntu, in the end, as I've realised that my computer is getting old, even on Ubuntu....! And when I've seen that it works ok on this machine, I'll resurrect a...

Many thanks Impavidus, mörgæs and pqwoerituytrueiwoq for this very useful, encouraging information above. :mad: I think I'll try out Xubuntu 14.04 first and I'll report back to you soon......

Hello there, ref MY COMPUTER SPECIFICATIONS:

HPPavilion 700. Pentium 4. CPU: 2.66 GHz. RAM: 1536 MB (DDRSDRAM). CPU cache RAM: 512 Kb

On upgrading to 14.04 Trusty,the upgrade manager warned...

Thanks for your help again oldfred. I'll try chkdsk whenever I get the opportunity to do so, as that's your recommended option.

I think the Windows repairCD will have to wait till I get back to...

@ oldfred

Thanks for your detailed advice! Although my XP installation is authentic, alas I don't have a CD for it...(but I dare say I could get hold of one eventually, if need be).

After...

To update my boot problem, thanks again for your help Yannbuntu (and oldfred), your boot repair tool has worked perfectly! I've been able to recover my missing data and upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04...

So I've just done that. The dialog box says "Boot successfully repaired".
Here's the URL:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1398026/

It looks better to me...what do you think :)? Just to remind you it's...

Many thanks for your help again YannBuntu and oldfred!

So I entered all the above commands (manually because for some reason I couldn't get access to ubuntuforums.org on my live CD! but no...

@greenewbie: as OldFred said, you have a broken filesystem. Boot-Repair will automatically try to fix it via fsck. I recommend you don't use Boot-Repair-Disk (which includes an old version of fsck),...

YannBuntu

The URL for my BootInfo summary is:

http://paste2.org/p/2526480

I've just looked at it and my goodness it looks complicated! I don't understand why there are so many partitions on...

[QUOTE=YannBuntu;12372665]@greenewbie: your may have a file system problem. Please run Boot-Repair --> Create BootInfo, and indicate the URL that will appear.

Many thanks for your reply. I'm...

This link looks promising, so would somebody tell me please if
YannBuntu's boot repair CD is a likely quick-fix solution to my problem below?

My problem HDD has 2 partitions: one using UB...

Many thanks srs5694 for your detailed reply. I liked the fact that it catered for the option of installing XP on one of my partitions.


I've now installed Gdisk 0.7.1-1. I'm confused...

Thanks very much guys.....I really hadn't counted on all these replies so fast! Back in 90 mins

Many thanks forestpiskie!

You're talking to a real Tech dummy.....the only bit I really understand so far is that my posting needed more white space (so I've done that now....I think I've mastered...

I want to install 11.04 Nutty Narwhal in a separate partition on my HDD (for testing purposes) so that it doesn't affect my 10.10 Maverick partition. I've read up on the basics of making partions in...

Thanks very much for your help guys......BTW when I've got something in my sights I don't take prisoners! :)
I'm DELIGHTED to tell you that my HDD seems to have made a full recovery and has been...

Apparently not, no! :( Nothing ventured, nothing gained I clicked on File - Reload; I also found in the help menu, restoring the "Graphics output" (it looked potentially promising to me) with the...

Thanks very much for your reply. I've looked time and time again for anything to do with a clipboard in my Open Office menus and toolbar, including hunting in the customize button and I can't find...

Ok Matt, thanks very much, but it looks like it'll be easier for me just to redo my work. I do CTRL + V every day....I could have sworn my PC will memorise the last thing I've pasted into the...

A day's work of mine has just gone missing from an Open Office Text document, after doing a CTRL + X to paste it to a new document. I stupidly closed (saying yes to save the change) the original,...

Things didn't go according to plan in my first post above. I wrote everything in a text document, then planned to paste it all in my post. But it wouldn't take the screenshots and doesn't like...