Ubuntu DV7T

So far this isn't going so well....I installed on my second hard drive, but I think the grub went on my first...now the grub just errors. I can't get on either vista or ubuntu. I have no vista disc to fix my MBR and my laptop is my way of downloading things because my internet here is slooooooow. So now live cde is my only way to use this thing.

 

NOOO aewfionhfubesf

I even deleted my vista partition...I didn't really have anything on it, but I still can't even boot! Where the hell is the grub! I deleted everything. Now all I have is the ****ed hp recovery and that won't even boot

 

@#$#@$@#$@$#@$@#$@$!$!$#@%$^$

 

I'm dumb and also dumb too

 

Poor thing... Did you backup your data?

 

Yeah, luckily I backed everything up beforehand. Now I just don't know how to get a working OS. I still have my hp recovery partition, I just don't know what to do with it, because it won't boot to it. I get error 22 from the grub everytime I try. I thought hitting F11 to restore would...restore...why does it try to boot the grub

 

Wow. That sounds nasty. Use gparted to delete all the partitions (not the recovery partition if you haven't created a recovery disk) then try to install an OS again.

 

Well I installed Ubuntu on my first hard drive and grub loads now, but the vista recovery console errors. How can has fix? I'm not getting anywhere. The recovery console errors at finding windows partition. I think it's try to do something with the drive that has ubuntu. So what can I do...not having windows won't even let me boot the recovery and having ubuntu errors the recovery....

 

Did you burn the recovery onto a cd, though? If not, I hope you have a Vista cd somewhere...

At least your Ubuntu works now. What contest did you join, you lucky boy?

 

I didn't burn a copy...I have a copy of the whole thing on my external hard drive....is there a way I could burn a copy from my other computard?

p.s. google hp freshman 15

 

Copy the whole thing from your external to your computer again? Sure. Just create a partition and just copy it.

 

No, I mean can I create a recovery disc from another computer? There's 9GB of files, which obviously won't fit on 1 DVD. How would I go about doing this? HP just says use recovery manager. Can I download recpvery manager. My internet is super slow, the whole reason I wanted a laptop. I need this thing working by monday. gagagagagagaghwhefbbefebhbfe

So I have no idea what to do...uninstall ubuntu and try to manually create a grub....maybe I can find my copy of super grub....gah...

 

That I'm not too sure. But when you start up at the screen where it asks to press XX to enter Bios settings, does it have a prompt asking if you want to enter recovery?

Another thing you can do is call the customer service and they might send you a set of recovey discs. Ask the people on HP forums, I'm not sure if HP actually does this, as I've never owned one.

 

F11 is supposed to recover, but it must go through a bootloader before the recovery console will load. F11 just goes to the grub error.

 

that means it's corrupted. call the service people. They'll send you a copy.

 

Ok, so finally got it:

Put Ubuntu back on secondary Hard drive,

Found my super grub disc, so I fixed my grub.

Loaded recovery console via grub,

Recovery console...recovered. No error.

Still waiting for it to finish. I'm assuming it probably overwrote grub, so now to fix grub and have both vista and ubuntu...unless of course it repartitioned the second hard drive...which it probably did, because after all, that was factory default.

 

Ahh.. not bad, not bad. Everything in place?

 

Everything is doing exactly what I want it to.

Glad my "oh crap" moment is over.

 

Hehehe.. Have fun with your free computer! *envy*