On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>
did say windows had a critical update that was incomplete. But am not
> sure windows could have touched grub.
>
There's your answer. Windows is trying to complete the update, but is
failing. Updates are normally applied before shutdown
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Narendra Diwate
wrote:
>
> If things worked and did not after a forced reboot in WIndows, then it could
> be hardware or something that a normal shutdown of Win should do, but is not
> because of a Forced shutdown. Look at the task manager to figure out what if
> a
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
> Sounds like a problem with boot sequence in bios or grub not properly
> working.
>
> Did you ensure changing the boot sequence again to HDD.
yes, currently the boot sequence in HDD first
>
> Oh but you say even f2 and f12 keys are also not
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> I did a reinstall, and it worked, it recovered everything, then we
> first went into windows and guess what happens, windows does not
> shutdown, we do a forced shutdown and try and restart, so its back to
> square 1.
>
> am thinking
> a>) ha
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:07:48AM +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recenty i helped a friend install Ubuntu 10.04 on his Dell Inspiron machine.
>
> The OS already on board was Wincedows 7 Home Premium. There were 3
> partitions 1 small one for Dell Utilities, the second was C:/ and the third
the exact same thing happened to me. even my friend is also complaining
about ubuntu.
really felt bad.
when we installed ubuntu every thing was working fine until my friend boot
into wincedows. when rebooted from wincedows the exact same error occurs.
the same problem is occurring with the new ins
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Narendra Diwate
wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Ramnarayan.K
> wrote:
>
> | what about a linux reinstall - would that kind of work to show up the lost
> partitions
>
> Might give it a try. IF your friend allows you to try. It really feels bad
> when su
>From the link in your first post:
"this is to do with the laptop not being able to find the bootable part of
the hard disk or the hard disk at all..hence if the hitting and removing din
work for u then fix ur hdd..use a windows installation disk and get to the
part where it says repair windows..s
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
| what about a linux reinstall - would that kind of work to show up the lost
partitions
Might give it a try. IF your friend allows you to try. It really feels bad
when such things happen. You more or less feel guilty of f*cking up a good
machin
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Narendra Diwate
wrote:
>
> My Opinion:
>
> I don't think Linux crashed this machine.
> I cant understand why the system is accessing PXE boot. Am sure you know what
> PXE boot is. The trick to recover this machine lie here. May be its is a >
> fall back option
My Opinion:
I don't think Linux crashed this machine.
I cant understand why the system is accessing PXE boot. Am sure you know
what PXE boot is. The trick to recover this machine lie here. May be its is
a fall back option if it cant find the Win boot loader.
If he can get into BIOS, he should chan
Hi
Recenty i helped a friend install Ubuntu 10.04 on his Dell Inspiron machine.
The OS already on board was Wincedows 7 Home Premium. There were 3
partitions 1 small one for Dell Utilities, the second was C:/ and the third
was Wincedows Recovery.
I changed the boot sequence to make the optical d
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