Thread: A serious mess of my hard drive!
i feel i've locked myself out of own computer. whole story long , boring, windows 7 has been bugging out , irritating me, decided switch ubuntu. in past i've done booting live cd; on laptop, cd drive works way should, more i've done booting live flash drive.
neither of these options worked time, though. in case of live cd, computer didn't recognize existence , breezed right on it. in case of live usb, gave me unhelpful "bootmgr missing, ctrl+alt+del restart" message , refused go further. yes, boot process correctly configured. yes, disc , usb both burned correctly (the former @ 2x speed through nero on separate computer working drive, , latter using unetbootin.)
despairing of chances, booted windows, found did indeed recognize live cd in drive (even though wouldn't boot it.) decided install ubuntu using wubi own little 10gb partition, thinking later format windows partition away , expand ubuntu partition fill whole hard drive.
no dice. oh, ubuntu installed, failed realize couldn't formatting within ubuntu because hard drive mounted. barely have megabyte spare on hard drive, , can't boot said hard drive. have live cds various versions of linux, gparted, dban, it's irrelevant because i can't load of them.
because i'm working on laptop, have no viable way of taking out hard drive , connecting computer formatting... i'm stuck, guys. i'm stuck.
try remaking bootable flash drive within ubuntu system -> administration -> startup disk creator. erase drive first.
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