george olson <grglsn765@gmail.com> wrote:
That is where I am now. I can get into the rescue system but not much else. I can't imagine that my hard drive has failed, as it is only 1 week old. I think that when I installed windows xp on it, microsoft did something to prevent me from installing another system over the top of xp, and now I can't access anything.
More than likely you accepted the defaults when installing Windows, allowing XP to do as it pleased with the HD, overwriting all that was
there.
That is exactly what happened. I used the default options when installing Windows. I think it erased the master boot record or something.
I now recall that this happened to me before, about 2 years ago, when I
was trying to install a dual boot system. Windows erased the grub loader at the time, and whoever helped me get my system back had me do something in a terminal with adjusting the grub loader. It has something to do with the grub loader.
So anyone have any ideas? I need to get the new system I installed back, and then I will be able to worry about fixing the video driver. I am right now making a live cd for kde and for gnome, to see if booting from either of those will help me get access to the hard drive and fix the master boot record, or something like that.
But I have no idea what to look at when I get there.
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Download ultimate boot cd and that can fix your grub automatically or if you download the opensuse install DVD that also has repair options but ubcd is smaller and will restore grub. Windows knows no other operating systems and if you do dual boot becareful because it displays all your Linux partitions as uknown or corrupted partitions and so if you delete them or format them you will loose your grub again and have neither Windows or openSUSE. If you want to dual boot Windows and openSUSE you must first install Windows and then do Linux it must be in that order to avoid the situation you are in now. -- Kind Regards Mr Stuart Tanner Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Heaton Bolton BL1 4SA United Kingdom TEL:+44(0)1204410474 MOB:+44(0)7868028028 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org