[Wylug-help] Messed up installation. 2

[david powell]

opps ,, if you cannot boot the drive then it may be a good idea to 
put the drive ionto another machine as a secondery drive 
boot the second system from its nomal drive and read the contents accross from 
the laptop drive 

i would recomend though that its usualy a good idea for for laptops to buy a 
hdd drive to replace the original drive before installing linux 

3 main reasons ,, 
1 you then have the original install that can be reverted to at any time 
2 it can be replaced when you decide to sell the laptop 
and also 
3 with some places they will say that installing another os voids the warranty 
of the laptop so you still have the original drive to put in at any point if 
it has to go back 
also it keeps the original windows licence active for it  
it also makes sence as trying to squeze both onto a small standard hdds leaves 
you with not a lot of free space 

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Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Messed up installation.
Date: Monday 05 Nov 2007
From: david powell <achiestdragon at whipy.demon.co.uk>
To: wylug-help at wylug.org.uk

the quick way is to put in the windows install disk 
boot it up into windows recovery console from that 
do :-
fixmbr
and 
fixboot
it will then revert to just booting windows so you can recover the files 
you should also be able to then boot from the linux install disk and mess 
arround with the boot loader settings 
i know with suse you can but not shure about mepis

Dave


On Monday 05 November 2007 01:12:52 Don Magee wrote:
> I would recommend that you back up your windows partition before
> attempting to repair it. You can use dd to copy the entire partition to
> a file on another machine. Then if the repair makes things worse then
> you have a roll back option.
>
>
> Don Magee
>
> Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm hoping someone can help me in a messed up installation of linux
> > on my laptop.  I have a hp presario laptop with an nvidia grahics card. 
> > Out of all the installations of linux I tried simply mepis with opt-in
> > nvideo drivers was the only distribution I could install (un)successfully
> > . During the install, I shrunk my vista partition so as I may dual boot. 
> > I used GParted, which was on the mepis distribution.  Installation seemed
> > to be a success, until I rebooted.  I couldn't boot into windows, or into
> > mepis.  the boot loader wasn't loading.  Only windows was available,
> > which hangs at the windows loading logo.  So I put the mepis cd in and
> > checked the partitions.  I don't know why, but gparted hadn't completed
> > the partitioning as expected.  I still had only two partions, 1 with
> > windows, the other with the hp rescue.  Where previously I had 30 gb of
> > free space (for my mepis dist.), Now I only have 3gb. Windows has
> > obviously become unstable somewhere, I try and use the hp rescue, I just
> > get the blue screen.  I have no backup discs and no factory discs. All I
> > am interested in now is getting some photo's and other bits off of the
> > windows partition, then I can happily format my hard drive.  I have mepis
> > running as root off of the install disc, but I can't see or access my
> > hard drive.  Can anyone recommend a way to view the hard drive?  How
> > would I mount it? Sorry for the long winded e-mail, but I thought some
> > background might help.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
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