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Last night I had decided that I'd put those Ubuntu Linux CD's to good use and I installed it. I had first opened partition magic and clicked on the "Install a new operating system" and created a 15 gig partition at the end of my drive. It told me that I should put that as my primary partition, so I did.
I then restarted and PT did its work and I put in the Ubuntu 64 bit cd. I played around with it for a while and it ended up not working. I did not touch the xp partition during installation, but Ubuntu said that it failed to install the primary components for some reason (error code 1). I then tried it with my x86 version and it worked all good. Then came the part that happened exactly the same when I tried using the live cds for both 64 bit and x86 versions. It gave me this error message about it not being able to start xserver because it could not find any graphics card (I'm thinking this is because it is older than my graphics card, a 7600gt). So I then restarted and went into windows XP.
Now this is sounding like it's supposed to be in the Linux forum, but it is really not because I don't care about the linux, I care about my XP.
I had forgotten to mention that it asked me if I wanted to install some kind of boot manager, and that if it had found all my installations that it would be a good idea to, so I clicked ok (winxp was there). That was during the installation of Ubuntu.
So when I restarted and clicked on XP on the funky boot manager. Windows was starting up as normal la de da until it came to a screen which I would assume was going to be for check disk, except it came up with two errors. It said that it could not find XMNT2002 or autochk. It then flashed a BSOD, too quickly for me to see what it was, and then restarted.
So I then proceeded to pop in my xp cd and go into a recovery console. I ran a chkdsk and it said that it found a few errors. Restart, no change. I then tried to do a repair install, but it came up with this.
partition C: (inactive OS/2 Boot Manager)
And when I chose that partition to install XP on, it says that it cannot install there because it does not recognise the partition. The Linux partition is in some weirdo format as well that xp doesn't recognise so when I'm in the recovery console I can't access the drives information.
If anyone knows how I could fix this problem, that'd be really cool. I'd like to at least get my XP partition back, because I REALLY don't want to have to reinstall everything after backing up onto my brothers computer, that would just suck.
Last night I had decided that I'd put those Ubuntu Linux CD's to good use and I installed it. I had first opened partition magic and clicked on the "Install a new operating system" and created a 15 gig partition at the end of my drive. It told me that I should put that as my primary partition, so I did.
I then restarted and PT did its work and I put in the Ubuntu 64 bit cd. I played around with it for a while and it ended up not working. I did not touch the xp partition during installation, but Ubuntu said that it failed to install the primary components for some reason (error code 1). I then tried it with my x86 version and it worked all good. Then came the part that happened exactly the same when I tried using the live cds for both 64 bit and x86 versions. It gave me this error message about it not being able to start xserver because it could not find any graphics card (I'm thinking this is because it is older than my graphics card, a 7600gt). So I then restarted and went into windows XP.
Now this is sounding like it's supposed to be in the Linux forum, but it is really not because I don't care about the linux, I care about my XP.
I had forgotten to mention that it asked me if I wanted to install some kind of boot manager, and that if it had found all my installations that it would be a good idea to, so I clicked ok (winxp was there). That was during the installation of Ubuntu.
So when I restarted and clicked on XP on the funky boot manager. Windows was starting up as normal la de da until it came to a screen which I would assume was going to be for check disk, except it came up with two errors. It said that it could not find XMNT2002 or autochk. It then flashed a BSOD, too quickly for me to see what it was, and then restarted.
So I then proceeded to pop in my xp cd and go into a recovery console. I ran a chkdsk and it said that it found a few errors. Restart, no change. I then tried to do a repair install, but it came up with this.
partition C: (inactive OS/2 Boot Manager)
And when I chose that partition to install XP on, it says that it cannot install there because it does not recognise the partition. The Linux partition is in some weirdo format as well that xp doesn't recognise so when I'm in the recovery console I can't access the drives information.
If anyone knows how I could fix this problem, that'd be really cool. I'd like to at least get my XP partition back, because I REALLY don't want to have to reinstall everything after backing up onto my brothers computer, that would just suck.
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