On 11/11/2011 02:47 PM, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I
rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a
black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system?
Thanks for any help
Brandon Heddy
Possibly; depends on if you had separate partitions prior to the
install, or non-destructively created new ones during the install,
preserving your Windows 7 setup.
If the Windows 7 partition is still intact, it may just be a simplish
matter of repairing the boot process. I've never quite understood all
the ins-and-outs of grub (the GRand Unified Boot Loader), but you can
probably fix that and get things working. However, since I don't
understand all that, I'd boot from the Windows 7 installation CD, and
use it's Repair option to fix the boot process; then I'd retry the
Debian installation.
(CC:ing you just in case you're not on the list)
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