On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Narendra Diwate <narendra.diw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > <Snip> > | 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 > machine. > > On a unrelated note, i have heard that PC's that come with a recovery/hidden > partition are the worse problem givers when installing linux for dual boot > using GRUB or lilo. So best to allow the Win boot loader to be the one to > dual boot.
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>) hardware issue b) wincedows - is screwing up big time am going to a 2 re-install , after which we will run the recovery - wincedows wallah and then see that what happens ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
