I wanted to try out Linux to see how it would work.
I didn't really like it that much so I uninstalled it.
I stuck in my Windows XP Reimage disc sent to me from HP.
When I got to the last step (creating user partition) an error message
came up stating "Error, Cannot Create User Partition, Setup Cannot
Continue".
After that I hit the OK button, the only button there, and my computer
shut down. When I started my computer up again, it just went back into
recovery mode.
What Should I do?
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Request for Question Clarification by
alienintelligence-ga
on
07 Apr 2005 17:13 PDT
Hi bap190,
To clarify the point that you are at,
You tried to install Linux, succeeded,
so Linux has rewritten your Hard drive
with Ext2fs or Ext3fs, type partitions.
After booting into Linux, discovering
that you aren't happy with it, you
decided to wipe the hard drive by using
an "image disc" provided by your computer's
manufacturer.
That procedure failed due to the alien
file system formatted to your hard drive.
If all the above is true, you're not stuck
in that hard of a position. We will have
to give you 2-3 options to try.
So let us know if that is the position
you are stuck at.
And in the meantime, it's a shame that
you were not happy with Linux... so
might I suggest a "flavor" of Linux that
doesn't require a formatting of the
hard drive? It eases the transition
when you do not have to 'commit'.
You will need a network connection
for the download, since it's an
entire CD that you download and
then burn. Do you have a place or
PC that you can do that? And a CD
burner?
The 'flavor' is called Knoppix
Linux, here is their page on it.
[ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html ]
"What is KNOPPIX®?
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can
be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and
used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not
necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly
decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software
installed on it. "
And here is the direct download link for the English version, 700M
so make sure you have room wherever you are downloading.
[ http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.6-2004-08-16-EN.iso ]
fyi? you probably can use Knoppix to
rescue/reformat your hard drive to Fat32
or NTFS, so you can use the image disc
without a problem.
It will require a little practical OS
understanding tho.
we?ll be waiting for your reply,
-AI
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Clarification of Question by
bap190-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 04:07 PDT
The problem with Linux was, I was running it from Live-CD, tried to
install it to my hard drive, and installation did not work. So then
after that when I inserted the Reimage CD-Roms the error message came
up at the end.
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Clarification of Question by
bap190-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 04:11 PDT
Also thank you for the "Knoppix Linux" idea, but the file is 698MB
when my CD-ROMS can only fit 659MB.
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Clarification of Question by
bap190-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 04:13 PDT
I'm sorry for posting again, but the problem with the Linux
Installation was that it completed but when I restarted my computer,
Nothing appeared and my computer just kept restarting.
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Request for Question Clarification by
alienintelligence-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 13:02 PDT
Sorry you are having such difficulties
bap... lets see if you can boot your
computer using an old-school boot disk.
Do you have 3.5" floppies available to you?
Maybe one of the 100,000,000 sent out by AOL.
=)
When you can get hold of a floppy, goto:
[ http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm ]
and select the Windows 98 SE OEM or click here
[ http://www.mirrors.org/archived_software/www.bootdisk.com/winfiles1/boot98se.exe
]
download that file, and then execute it.
It will prompt you for that AOL floppy
or whichever you may have.
After it creates the boot disk,
put it in the ailing computer.
See if you can boot with it.
Let us know how that goes.
-AI
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Clarification of Question by
bap190-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 19:04 PDT
I'm sorry to say that the boot disk idea did not work :(
Do you have any more ideas?
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Request for Question Clarification by
alienintelligence-ga
on
08 Apr 2005 20:20 PDT
Hmmm, well that makes the situation
a little bit worse if you cannot use
the bootdisk.
So, which part failed? Were you
successful in making the bootdisk?
Oh wait... maybe your computer's
BIOS isn't set up to floppy boot.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you
specifically the way to set boot
from floppy without knowing more
about your computer model, etc.
[ http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm ]
That webpage has "information ~ to access the BIOS from all
the major suppliers of BIOS chips and the Computer
Manufacturers that use them."
If you get into the BIOS, look
for a setting, that says boot order,
or something akin to that, set
floppy as first, and keep the
remaining items in order after
the floppy. It may say 3.5?
drive instead of floppy. Or
even ?removable media?. Gotta
love the lack of standards.
Let me know where the fail-point
was.
-AI
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Clarification of Question by
bap190-ga
on
09 Apr 2005 05:27 PDT
I stuck in the boot disk and it loaded up but it said no partition was found.
So then I used Fdisk like it said to create a partition.
Next I installed the reimage disks again and tried the boot disk.
This time the error message was "The C: Drive is not ready"
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