Hard Drive won’t boot but detected by BIOS?
Arnold asked:
I just installed xubuntu to a partition of my hard drive but during installing it took 2 hours and a power failure happened so it shutdown without finishing installation. Now after that I turned on my computer and it does not boot anymore, all the partitions are gone even if i hit f5 and select my boot device the partitions to boot in the harddrive are gone. Then i go to the BIOS and i can still see there the physical hard drive is detected but the problem is i can’t boot even on my Xp windows (it is dual booted OSes). And I connected another physical drive and booted in to windows, now i can see the partitions in the old (corrupted) hard drive are still intact and my old files in the other partitions are still there and i can use the device for storage but still i can not boot from my old OSes there. Is there anyway i can still boot from the ‘corrupted’ hard drive? Is there any settings i must configure?
08.27.08How can I dual boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu 6.06 on a computer that had Vista preinstalled?
Derrik S asked:
I want to set up a dual boot with said OS’s. I believe I have two drives, as there are two listed (C:\ + D:\) but when I pull up computer information, It lists the total memory on both (both hold 60GB, and it lists 120GB total) But I am willing to partition my main drive, as I can divert storage to the other. I have the disk for Ubuntu. I am good with computers, but have NO experience with programming, etc. So in essescence I need:
A (free, hopefully) partitioning program
A VERY detailed tutorial
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Will my storage drive show up in ubuntu?
goobergump asked:
Usually I use ubuntu, but I have recently accumulated a lot of files I have saved and so I partitioned my HD to c and D(storage), will the storage drive show up in ubuntu?
03.17.08Disk Read Error, please help?
Jason asked:
Okay heres whats going on…
I have been trying to set up a dual boot with Vista business and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I removed an old harddrive that was IDE and I was only using it as storage for data, nothing replaced it. I have two SATA drives connected and before Windows worked great on one of them. I have been trying to install Windows again, fresh install onto this drive that had windows before. I havent even started with Linux yet.
Windows Vista wont install on it, Windows XP will, but after the install it reboots and tells me Disk Read Error. BIOS shows the drive and its at the top of the list of drives to boot from. Bios is up to date. The harddrive worked fine earlier today, but now it won’t.
The only thing I did was remove the old IDE drive that was for storage, and I moved the drive from SATA 4 slot to SATA 3 slot so that BIOS would choose to boot from this drive first. The drive shows up correctly in BIOS.
What can I do?
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