On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Narendra Diwate <narendra.diw...@gmail.com> 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 if it cant find the Win boot loader.
I have no idea why too ?? > If he can get into BIOS, he should change the boot sequence to HDD if not > already done. Got into BIOS and changed the order back to HDD first and CD 3rd did not change the problem > > Last - may not be suitable for this case now but important for any other > cases that happen in future. Once you partition a Win machine and change the > > > > > partition map, always boot into Win once. did that too, to both the usable C:/ and the reovery > Also if possible do the partitioning using Windows tools from within Win. Of > course it may not format to ext, but at least the basic partitions can be > done and > then reformatted during the installation. This applies to Vista > and Win7. This is what i remember having read. This i did not do however recently had the opportunity to partition another win 7 machine, a lenovo thinkpad and did that in Linux and every thing damn well works fine ** what about a linux reinstall - would that kind of work to show up the lost partitions -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
