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phenomenal

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My Laptop doesnt work....
« on: April 28, 2008, 11:47:05 PM »
Well, i think i might have broke it, basically, i dual booted with ubuntu and xp, but ubuntu kept giving me problems and the internet didnt work on it, so i uninstalled it by deleting its partition via windows xp, but now grub keeps looking for itself when starting up, so I cant boot into windows and when I run recovery console using the xp disk, it says an error that the hard drives are not detected

Could anybody help me????

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Re: My Laptop doesnt work....
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2008, 05:22:17 AM »
save what you need if you can, format and reinstall

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Re: My Laptop doesnt work....
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2008, 05:59:13 AM »
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this classic scenario....

well if it makes you feel any better i did the same thing from vista x64 (please dont start on vista flaming people)

anyway.... i can help you out (i think) there is a high likely hood you will lose any unbacked material unfortunately

now

whats your current setup?

(number of hardrives, partiotions and whats on each one)

eg:

Hard Drive X
-Partition Y = <Operating System>
-Partition F = Empty

Hardrive Z
-Parti....

etc etc etc

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Re: My Laptop doesnt work....
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2008, 07:27:10 AM »
Thanks guys, im going to format and re-install windows now :)

also, the good thing is, the only thing that i actually need to be backed up, is my portfolio, which i backed up last night (i back it up every few weeks)

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Re: My Laptop doesnt work....
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2008, 11:41:14 AM »
SuperGrubFixer.

Google it, download, burn to disc.

Its an essential tool when dualbooting.
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