Reboot and select proper boot devide

[tk175672]

I acquired a windows 8 computer motherboard and power supply a month or so ago and just got around to firing it up.

This: http://www.findlaptopdriver.com/iibtdl-borg/

Is the only info on the motherboard i could find.

Attempt one: SATA hard drive with windows vista: error mentioned in title.
160gb seagate

Attempt two: SATA hard drive with windows 7: Same
1TB seagate

Attempt three: Sata cd drive with windows 10 preview: same (also tried ubuntu)

Attempt 4 USB 16gb thumb drive: same

every time i used a hard drive it shows up in bios but none of the attempts anything showed up in boot order (select what hard drive boots first ect)


Specs: quad core 2.0ghz with 2gb ddr3. USB keyboard VGA output. nothing else plugged in other that boot-able devices. tried without keyboard installed.

as a note: Had to reset cmos to get it to boot to bios at all.

 

[tk175672]

You could even create a windows setup usb using a program called rufus and perform the above steps as long as you have the windows setup ISO file somewhere on your hard drive while logged into Ubuntu

Edit: In other words, run the windows setup file from a USB and see if you could install to a partition on your hard drive from there

i tried a windows usb made with rufus on my other win 7. would being in ubuntu make any change?

I can try that.

It is very possible to run the setup file from that usb. Being in Ubuntu shouldn't change how to run that setup file

tried installing it from the USB with ubuntu running from another usb. setup file is in .exe format and it tries to open (and fails) as an archive. tried installing ubuntu to a partition on a hard drive. yells at me it has no mount point during install. to set the mount point to / (or anything other than dos/windows) i had to format it in ext3. to my little surprise the computer wouldn't boot it.

 

[Reyaz123]

I found a question regarding mounting it first. Check this out and let me know what you thinkhttp://askubuntu.com/questions/6317/how-can-i-install-windows-after-ive-installed-ubuntu

 

[tk175672]

I found a question regarding mounting it first. Check this out and let me know what you thinkhttp://askubuntu.com/questions/6317/how-can-i-install-windows-after-ive-installed-ubuntu

"sudo grub-install /dev/sda # NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGIT"

Am i supposed to put my number in or leave it "sda"?

also when ubuntu starts from the usb it flashes something about not being able to find /boot and i am not sure where / is

 

[Reyaz123]

Try it with sda (no number at the end) and if this gives you trouble, scroll down to the second answer it says
"Installing Windows after Ubuntu is not the recommended process for a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system, but it is possible."

And follow those steps instead

 

[tk175672]

Try it with sda (no number at the end) and if this gives you trouble, scroll down to the second answer it says
"Installing Windows after Ubuntu is not the recommended process for a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system, but it is possible."

And follow those steps instead

To remove a possible cause of error i am backing up my hard drive. (13 repaired computers and i only have 2 sata hard drives...) and i am going to format it and start from scratch. once that is done i can try.